skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked in semiconductor manufacturing. The hardest stuff is troubleshooting the state of the live system and performing root cause analysis. In my time at Samsung, we politely referred to the facility as "bootcamp for engineers". Indeed, I learned how to troubleshoot incredibly complex systems after just a few months of direct exposure. The #1 skill I learned was to not ever make an assumption about a thing. "Trust but verify" was burned into our souls.

Perhaps the best way to train the next generation is to create actual bootcamps on-site where young professionals get a chance to try and answer questions like "How did lot ABC123 end up with unexpected CU exposure while it was sitting inside a N2-purged storage area?" The only tools they get to use: historical logs of every event that occurred and a copy of grep.

In my experience, the deep PhD-style education was absolutely not essential for the day-to-day. Only a few people need to master the idea. Once the complex academia is converted into a physical reticle or CMP process recipe, you then need an army of people to reliably execute on that standardized vision.

I think someone coming into semiconductor manufacturing would have an easier time if they were dropped right into it on day one. The theory is nice but we found it to be mostly a waste of time when someone from manufacturing was calling us on the phone and complaining about a stuck lot.
https://archive.is/eaSRg
This completely ignores the elephant in the room that the supply way outstrips demand, and therefore the selection process naturally starts to incorporate many features additional to simply merit. If there are sufficient candidates in the well-off rubric why should we as a society artificially push anyone else into the arena? At least the well-off folks won't have their lives ruined if they fail to get tenure.
The designs for what the screen will look like have not been completed yet. I couldn't say exactly what the language will be. From what I've seen thus far it will be clear that there is a choice to be made, but the default selection will be to enable telemetry.

Here is a draft of what we're considering: https://bucket.agilebits.com/ben/telemetry-consent-draft.png

Does that help clarify what the experience will be?
That's a job well done, isn't it? Cutting 1 Million free riders from the platform will make the company more profitable as there are costs associated with each stream.
In what way? I ran one of those for a while.

It was just a low end, low power CPU. It ran standard X86 code, and I had Linux running on it. I'd say it was still not ideal, as the system I had had a CPU fan and the inside of the case got pretty hot. I recall the CPU supported crypto and RNG acceleration, which I think was a nice and fairly rare feature at the time.

Other than that, VIA's hardware sucked. The CPU is unimpressive and the board I got had an embedded NIC that corrupted network packets. That one was fun to figure out.
I think it comes from people operating on different definitions. The word own, at least as I learned it, means you alone have control of the thing, and it can't be taken from you unless you agree to give it away.

Other people seem to have a different definition, and I can't easily put it to words. Something like "you have some control of this thing and you can keep that control as long as you meet some list of conditions".

I find it hard to argue against calling that something closer to renting than owning.

I don't know. How would you define ownership?
Just a guess...maybe the 5V is supplied from a linear regulator with a maximum dropout of 1.2V, so the board is specified to require at least 6.2V from the wall wart.
What about the podcast space?

They already invested hundreds of millions on Joe Rogan and can't even develop a half-decent podcast interface.

Maybe they could improve on that front and diversify a bit?
> So no, these are not comparably paying jobs. And one does not "easily" earn more than a physician simply by enjoying learning.

To become a physician requires on the order of half a million dollars in tuition not to mention the lost opportunity cost of around 8-10 years.

It's tough to say but being a dev likely pays off all things considered.
When NVidia adopted Transmeta's technology to target ARM instructions with their Project Denver they added a facility to just run native code for bits that weren't hot spots.
There's no way to read a mastadon post without executing javascript. There's not even a proxy like "nitter" is for twitter to view posts as HTML. The "best" way is to read the entire feed of a user by requesting it as json and parsing that with your eyes. It's a terrible user experience. I mostly just ignore mastadon servers post version 3.
Which means you ate one of those mushrooms which are "edible more than once".

Some other mushrooms are edible, but will be the last thing you ever eat.

Get it yet? ;)
Certainly I would agree that letting go a lot of experience folks would have an effect on the product.

However, I think this comment could use some more justification:

> But unlike previous generations though (heh), many of them are not even slightly interested in learning from the previous (seasoned) writers, whom they view as inferior for some reason.

Claiming that a particular generation is really different from another in this sort of way is something I'd need to see a lot of evidence to be convinced of. Kids trying to do their own thing and middle aged folks lamenting "kids these days" is a tale as old as time.
It does seem like I've read a couple studies that suggest it's not one or the other. Diet can influence the microbiome/mood and mood can influence the microbiome. Reducing my anxiety has definitely helped my ibs/mild crohn's.
When I consider that this turnaround seems to have happened right after they were acquired by Activision, it becomes less of a mystery. I suspect many of those original few hundred employees didn't stick around after their employer suddenly changed and those who left would have primarily been the most influential Blizzard people. There really is no "Blizzard" anymore except as it's tacked on to "Activision-".
She literally says it was a political act for her, but the most problematic is this:

> I have asked Egyptians to see themselves as Africans, and they are furious at me for that

if you try to lump all the cultures of africa in a single word 'black' that is synonym 'african-american' then yes it s very woke and insulting to egyptians (who are more culturally arab than sub-saharan). Asking egyptians to see themselves as african-american is profoundly american myopia, but netflix doesn't even see that.
> there's not compiled machine code that does a jump

It's more of an implementation detail, but the Ruby VM actually does a jump if all the cases are "keyable"(typically integers, strings, symbols, etc). It does a hash lookup and jump to the returning address.

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/92466e440d459cd21e89f8bfbe...
It was: https://www.realworldtech.com/crusoe-exposed/
First Republic Plunges on Report of Buyers for New Shares
>Of course I updated the robots.txt and yelled at leadership for the gaping security hole

I've curious how there was a security hole when a client opted out of requiring auth? If the client wants them publically available then there was no security hole.

Secondly, I am wondering why you are yelling at leadership for something that seems like it was your responsibility.
Comcast has thousands of movies on demand. But the list of them they show me is always the most popular, so I just see a handful of them. Other services do this, too, like Netflix.

For crying out loud, Comcast showed me The Lost City as the first one for about 6 months.

Clue: If I don't watch the popular shows you show me month after month after month, show me something from deeper in the catalog! Or even just throw up random ones.
Schools would be more efficient if students didn’t get in the way of new processes.
do you mean "cliques"? - normally wouldn't care about making a distinction but in regards to computer/programming stuff it could be confusing
You're misrepresenting what people were actually upset about with the Xbox One's original plans leading up to launch. If they wanted to add that Kinect functionality, whatever, but they announced it in a state where the Kinect was REQUIRED and had to always be plugged in. And it wasn't just always-on motion-tracking sensors, but an always-on microphone. In addition to that, your Xbox had to do a call to home every 24 hours to make sure you were still allowed to play physical games you purchased. You couldn't buy or sell used games, or lend them to a friend.

The DVR stuff wasn't a big issue for anyone, but it was emblematic of the fact that Microsoft didn't give a shit about gaming. Sony was already pulling ahead with exclusives people wanted by the end of the previous generation, and all Microsoft had to show for the next generation was a home entertainment system that had too much DRM and focused on their motion control gimmick at the point where everyone knew it was a fad that came and went in 2006 with the Wii. And on top of all this it was an extra $100 on top of the PS4's price.

Saying gamers were mad because the system could be useful to their parents is incredibly disingenuous.
Perhaps in the long run everything will be automated, but in the meantime there will be a progression of what AI can do, and software engineering might be "lower-hanging fruit"

Any career with strong regulation is going to take longer to automate. Hands-on work as well.

For example, there is strong regulation preventing computers from practicing driving/trucking/delivery, law, medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, and certified engineering

Also, build me a robot that can do the following. I'll wait: construction, woodworking, metalworking, glassblowing, painting (painting houses), electricking, plumbing, delivery, service industry, cooking.
There is nothing in the JD tractors that cannot be accomplished with open source. Nothing.

Most recently I saw it as retrofit in a Workmaster 60. It had not only engine control, but lane tracking, soil sampling, and more. Al kinds of cameras, relays, and stuff. It was a Frankenstein's dream, but it worked.

The cost offset justification is horse lemons. Much of JD's smarts come from off the shelf code and material, including open source.
> They could have let her live there a until she passed.

She wasn't living there.

> Or they could have worked it out with here SOME OTHER WAY. What asshole decided THIS was the way???

She ignored attempts to notify her about several OTHER WAYs. For years.
Your job sucks. I'm genuinely sorry.

> 3) Any general life advice? I'm absolutely dredging along day by day and very discouraged. I haven't applied to a single job this year, I just keep looking and saying "they wouldn't hire me".

Talk to people at these businesses. Network, even minimally. You say you've had other jobs in this industry, did you leave those jobs on good terms? Talk to the people you worked with/for at those companies. Let them know how good you felt about your jobs with them, and how you feel about your current job and prospects. Complaining about a current employer is okay if it's in the context of praising a past employer.

> My industry specific recruiters don't have any positions available better than my existing.

In terms of salary, or also in terms of workload? Because it sounds as if workload is a bit more than half your problem. If you jumped ship for similar pay but a lower (or at least more structured) workload you'd have more time for your business, self-improvement, or at minimum to destress.

> I've worked at several companies doing national chain store re-brands and researching code, translating that to how it affects allowable store presence within image guidelines, and how it affects general product manufacturing and installation, logistics, project schedules, coordination with construction phasing etc.

Does this qualify you for any jobs in local or state government, such as code enforcement?
All the time to the people who don't understand what a git submodule is...
And most of them are not a commercial reality or viable option for at least a decade or so...
Obviously, this isn't a one-size fits all solution. But even per your numbers, the vast majority (80%) of American's don't live in rural areas. The solutions I mentioned are the biggest bang for the buck because they are the most broadly applicable.

Even for those that do live in rural communities, this isn't an intractable situation with no possibility of improving. First of all, many rural communities existed before the invention of the automobile. They began as compact towns centered around the train station. Nearly all of them have lost passenger rail access, but places like Germany, Austria, and Switzerland show that this need not be the case. Traditional community planning would allow many people to accomplish daily tasks within town without a car, even if one was used to travel outside of town.

Second, fewer people should be living an hour away from their job in an urban center, and nobody should be forced to. It must be affordable and convenient for everyone to live close enough to their job so as to enable them to easily get there without a car, but this is not a problem that can be solved overnight.

Third, we must invest in an effort to install fiber optic internet access in these communities, in a 21st century repeat of the Rural Electrification program of the 20th century. Remote work is a vital lifeline to stave off the steady decline of population in rural areas.

Rural communities face several existential threats, climate change is just one of them. Hopefully there can be some synergy among solutions that will make these communities more resilient in every dimension, not just climate.
Yeah, but only certified humans can legally practice law. And they're also the group of people with the best ability to prevent changes in that legislation
Common Core was as much about the "common" as it was about the "core." It's not the previous standards were bad (or even different from current standards) but that there were 50 of them instead of one nationwide.
Who Buries Massachusetts' Poor?
A different take in the same way an astrologist's blog gives us a different take on the planet Saturn.

If anything Ray Peat, a quack, says is true, then why do things like PUFAs improve human health outcomes in the literature? He says PUFAs cause atherosclerosis and SFA protects against it, so why does human outcome data show the opposite? And how many animal studies is he going to bring up?

Ray Peat is a good example of how far contrarianism will take you in the nutrition celeb space. Probably because we like to decide on what we want to eat first and then shop for claims that support it which is 10000x easier than deciding on what to eat based on the greatest evidence.

Here's a good post that summarizes some PUFA literature in response to the social media "seed oil" scare: https://www.the-nutrivore.com/post/a-comprehensive-rebuttal-...
Legacy reasons. The idea was that you wouldn't need a WAL because the table itself is the log. And then you could support time-travel queries if you never cleaned up the expired tuples.
>Since implicit biases can manifest in countless ways, chatbots need to be trained to suppress each of them.

This is borderline tyrannical and unreasonable. "Biases" can range from institutional discrimination to acceptable assumptions to literal facts. For example it isn't wrong to assume the strongest humans are men and the oldest people are women. But those are by definition "biases". Suppressing these are just outright denial of facts.

These "equality" pushes are getting dumb and dumber.
Seems silly to translate short stories into German, rather than just using German short stories. Even if translation got incredibly good, the "real" German stories would have the extra benefit of teaching you about the culture.

On that note, do you have a recommendation for a collection of actual German short stories?
Charlie Lieber avoids additional prison time for China ties
You're not going to have to hunt around in the settings to consent to telemetry, no, but we're also not going to collect without consent. We're in the early stages, so this is subject to change. Still, our design team shared this mockup that may help visualize the direction we plan on taking if we move forward with a customer-facing rollout of telemetry.

https://bucket.agilebits.com/ben/telemetry-consent-draft.png
Netflix really messed this up.

They shouldn't have tried to tackle password sharing. Instead they should have enforced concurrent streams and let people pay for more concurrent streams.

Psychologically it's very different and people paying for the premium plan of 4 streams would probably not be affected.
what if they made fedeverse protocols a standard, i.e. via NIST, ethernet, TCP/IP? or even like TSMC chip design tools/protocols?
Friends and family work at the Intel fabs near Portland. They have worse work conditions than software engineers (on-call means you must drive to the fab) but they seem overall happy. They all have Ph.D.s in optics.
> If you want to message a friend, the friend is most likely on Messenger/WhatsApp.

So your friend might be on either, or both. But everyone has an email address.
Burning anything releases carcinogens as far as I'm aware.
Cartels and rackets usually make money yes.
Look up e.g. Karl Martin Sandberg, Shellback, Cheiron Studios, Dsign Music, The Kennel, EKKO, Cosmos, Merlin, ... the composers themselves are often contractors working with many of these, and in turn it gets sold to big labels often via e.g. Warner or Universal. Sweden, Norway and Denmark are the pop songwriting hotbed, and pop music is a very systemized industry.

It also happens every year that the same pop song is licensed multiple times into different markets where it's given localized lyrics and sung by locally popular pop artists. I'm too scatter-brained to immediately think of a recent example, but check out e.g. "Hot Summer" existing in German and Korean girl band versions.
I’d agree, however it feels less preachy for whatever reason, which helps the “medicine” go down.

Often I point to “Brokeback Mountain” as an example of progressive Western media made by grownups.
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Because the data comes from surveys, not NFLX. As noted in my original excerpt:

> according to Kantar’s research, which is based on surveys of household streaming habits
> The bulk of the episodes would be freelance scripts, with the staff writers editing for consistency and adding an extra scene or two to hint at continuing plot threads

Can you name a few shows that were written that way? I'd never heard of this but I don't watch much TV from before the 2000's.
Engineering a Two-Component Hemostat for Treatment of Internal Bleeding
Amazon Starts Round of Layoffs in AWS Today
How is it better than Wix?
This is something that doesn't get enough attention. Youth in North America grow up being bombarded with the idea that becoming a celebrity is the pinnacle of success. Education is often seen as something for conformists. Meanwhile in Asia, children learn from a young age that studying hard and working hard leads to success. Being the smartest in your class is not something to be ashamed of, and not everybody grows up wanting to be a famous singer or athlete.
The Chinese ramp up in nuclear power is fairly decent. Give them time. Unfortunately I don't think they will have more luck in terms of safety, rather the opposite...

The Fukushima incident was a result of regulations being too weak or ignored and the government not keeping good enough tabs on the operator. I really don't think the Chinese government does a better job. They suck at regulating and enforcing plenty of things they care about.
I was in Japan in 2005 and saw these tiny laptops running Transmeta's processor in the wild. The university I was studying in had them in their library. They ran windows and everything worked well. I've never seen laptops that small and tiny in the US, even during the netbook phase.
I was not trying to claim otherwise. But unless you are intending to make self-driving cars mandatory, N*average is meaningless. The median driver is who you actually need to convince, and they are not going to choose a self-driving car that is less safe than they are.
I'm the same. I assume it's spiking my glucose levels too much when I don't include protein. She may have a bit of reactive hypoglycemia going on. Wonky sugar spikes can really mess with people mentally.
Rocket launches are a religious experience for me, regardless of who’s launching them. So it’s disappointing to see so much selective reporting being done in service of a negative perspective on the most exciting launch ever.

SpaceX operates four launch sites, so only 25% of their facilities are out of commission.

All of the no-fly-restrictions being talked about are completely standard procedure after a rocket explodes; every other major corporate player in rocketry has had their rocket classes grounded at one point or another. I would bet the FAA has even grounded NASA before, although it doesn’t seem like this has been publicly reported.

Damage to the launch site is not unusual for rocket launches, even when they’re completely successful. NASA has damaged and repaired many launch sites, most recently with the successful SLS launch of Artemis I.

We don’t know how much damage, since NASA prohibited media from photographing the site and discouraged reporting on the scale of damage, meaning most news sites simply ran NASA’s press package of “blew off the elevator doors” - but it’s telling that there hasn’t been a launch at that pad since that SLS launch in November 2022… …is what I would say if I was also trying to use selective reporting to make you think NASA destroyed their pads too. In reality, this doesn’t tell us anything about potential damage - the last launch before that one was the successful Ares 1 launch in 2009 (which also damaged the pad).

So it’s all business as usual, damage within tolerance of expectations, etc. And yet there’s a subset of news media giving themselves what I can only describe as an unsightly collective intellectual hernia, as they strain so intensely to describe launch pad damage as an unmitigated disaster.

I mean, for God’s sake, stop and think for a second. Why didn’t SpaceX rip up their launchpad and do a multi-million-dollar full rebuild with diverters, trenches, water deluge apparatus, and noise/debris suppression systems? Because they were testing a superseded Starship model and they were legitimately worried it would blow up on the ground and completely obliterate the whole pad, of course! (Another moment’s thought should make it clear that the concrete that Starship vaporized is, in fact, exactly the concrete that would have to be dug up to install diverters and a flame trench. Come on!)
CMS was written in C and translated with a custom P95/P2000 backend for good ol' GCC. However, your question is of course about a publicly available compiler. Well, it would be a bit tricky as the ISA was never public and the firmware tried very hard to keep the innards secret.

An interesting fact was that CMS could occasionally (not always, but not rarely either) do a better job than the ahead-of-time compiler as CMS benefits from: statistics collected at runtime and can generate code under assumption without compensation code. When the assumptions are found to be violated, it can just recompile the code again.

The challenge is always having the compilation overhead be [more than] paid off by the runtime gain. Sometimes it worked, others it didn't. Unfortunately, people really notice when it doesn't work which added to a negative perception of Crusoe. The conventional processors (even out-of-order) have far more predictable performance.