skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any good benchmarks which demonstrate the performance characteristics you’re talking about? Or case studies where an application moved from mutexes to lock free data structures, and compared the resulting performance?
Why even go the open source route if you're not going to accept code?
Yeah or, if both of the computers had modems, you could even upload a file to a BBS and download it with the other computer.

This was one area where some cross-microcomputer standards were actually coming together. You had:

1. RS-232

2. V.22 and V.22bis modems (higher speed wouldn't standardize for a number of years later)

3. Bell System Telephone lines

4. VT-100/ANSI escape sequences

5. XMODEM, then YMODEM and ZMODEM

6. ASCII character set and plain text files

All of which come together to allow a lot of interoperability on this level. This type of standardization didn't really exist for:

1. Floppy drives

2. Hard drives

3. Monitors

4. Keyboards

5. Mice

6. Printers (beyond plain text over a parallel port, and even that wasn't the standard interface on many printers)

Pretty much everything you could attach to a computer except a modem was nonstandard and different between different microcomputers.
Related: It drives me bananas when a mega-corp makes a small R&D team and the job req says “we are a small startup in a big company.” The benefits, bureaucracy, speed of innovation, and equity all fit the usual mega corporate shoes, so it’s probably still a traditional role.
I got API access to GPT-4 almost immediately too, but I know people who have been waiting weeks. On the other hand, I don't have plugin access on ChatGPT yet, even though I applied for that as soon as it came out. There's probably quite a lot of luck involved.
I completely agree. I'm a multiple year attendee, and couldn't be bothered with the announcements these days.
Allegedly they have some 2068 tons. For an economy of their size, this isn't that much. Italy claims 2452 tons.

https://www.gold.org/goldhub/gold-focus/2023/04/chinas-gold-....

I'm more in the Brent Johnson camp on the de-dollarization hype.
It's a separate library, but I'm pretty sure it's used by ~85% of julia users.
Rude tone. But that’s my thinking today going home. Animal farm everywhere I see. Full back to the office, bet somebody can still work from home. Bad economy, work time and salary decrease, but somebody is more important and can keep work time and salary. Lying and cheating for benefit is absolutely normal. Staff engineer forcing engineer to do impossible to keep him away from high visibility project. Lying and stabbing everywhere, it takes time to notice. But that’s how it works.
One can imagine AWS surviving longer than the marketplace in 10-20y
I think that screen resolution is the only significant hardware limitation left to use a headset for work, etc. Small details are too uncomfortable. I would love to try one of those headsets that have an extra high-density small display behind the center of each primary display.
Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft
Hadn't easy money dried up already ?
First Love?! Haha, jk.

I'm currently re-studying them just bc I'm interview prepping. I wonder if whiteboarding for DS/Algo is gonna be a thing of the past too though.

I would imagine there's certainly new DS/Algos in progress to aide ML training efficiency
some cheaters are actually good at what they cheat about and simply cheat to obtain additional advantage. the post seems pretty whiny to me. morally he's right but we happen to live in a "doggy-dog" world and moral codes are promoted by successful cheaters to keep the plebs under control. I don't want to justify cheating but it's game theoretic conclusion that you either play the game by the by the rules and most likely you will lose or you cheat a little and get a chance at winning. I hate that our society is like that but I can't change it.
On one hand, senior people who moved overseas have already established their life in the EU or US, have a family and children, etc.

Also, people who move away generally do so for reasons beyond money. Like you say, even a mid-senior role pays very well for Latam, but people end up moving for things like safety (most Latam cities are generally much less safe), education (quality education is difficult to come by in many countries), or career advancement (unfortunately most companies won't accept executive roles in Latam, or will do so at Latam salaries which are actually a step down).

In my personal experience, with a third of my friends having moved overseas, career advancement and getting away from difficult situations make up most of the reasons for not coming back. Friends who've experienced traumatic robberies or violent situations or who come from broken families generally want to get away from that and career advancement and money just end up being the excuse.
Typical I get flagged.

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> why shouldn't teenagers have access to pornography (which isn't even the case here)? Did the people who grew up with nude magazines, cable pornography... grow up to be dysfunctional members of society?

Teenagers nowadays are getting access to all types of pornography and some of which shouldn't really be viewed until you really are an adult.

BDSM, Fisting et cetera are not content genres that a 16 year old should be able to access. You didn't find those in magazines on the top shelf.

Soft and hard core genres have all been made accessible on the same shelf and that itself has some very detrimental psychological effects on the developing mind.

Porn doesn't show real life at all. The relationship, bonding, spiritually are never depicted. Pain is treated as pleasure, the list is endless.

All in all is that porn is just another type of movie genre; and like all movies, are fake.
Pornography addiction is real and warps the mind. It shifts reality, it objectifies. How do you know those models were not raped for someone to watch?

It's nature to explore and be curious as a teen but if you're not educated correctly on the topic, porn can very well turn folk in to dysfunctional members of society.

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Are you really promoting the notion that teens should have access to disturbing content to the likes of scat, watersports, beastality, vore, snuff to name a few?

Because all of those are all very disturbing and with how it is today, all very easy to get ahold of.

Are you really going to tell me theres nothing wrong with viewing any of those as a kid?
This is why you would use the Ring Buffer or Bipartite Buffer to place 1000 elements at a time, not the queue. Check the documentation for more info.
Matt Levine is right again: it seems everything is securities fraud.
In a couple of weeks, going outside where I am located means it will be 100°+ with a high humidity level, so no, I won't be going outside and doing something.
The benefits of using a single configuration file
Ah, good idea! I'll add those in a bit and will remark that the answer/proof are specific for the special case where r_0 = b_0 = 1.
LeetCode Question.
A reputable leaker said the Pixel Fold will be priced identically to the Samsung Fold 4: https://twitter.com/jon_prosser/status/1648009519878774799

Factoring in all the discounts and incentives that Samsung tends to do, the Pixel may be more expensive in practice. That's bold considering it has pretty middle-of-the-road specs, it's using the Tensor G2 SOC that launched last year and wasn't the best Android SOC even then, nevermind now that it's up against the Snapdragon 8 gen 2.
"...et in pulverem reverteri", a short story by Janusz Zajdel (up there with Lem of Solaris fame) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Zajdel

TLDR: Someone invents catalyst able to encode any material with programmable expiry date. Every country adopts it to ensure steady employment across planet. Pants? 3 months and revert back to dust, wrist watch? 1 year, car? 2 years, etc.

Can only find Polish copy https://web.archive.org/web/20170722210628/http://zajdel.dza... google translate doesnt like this particular web.archive link so you would have to manually copy text to translate
Same, that was one slick device.
> ... had automated up to the minute stats

This sounds like a SRE's absolute nightmare.
The kolkhozes were not owned by the state in the Soviet Union. State-owned enterprises represent about 20% of total employment in China. Ownership is simply contingent and limited according to determinate social ends (as opposed to the total anarchy of the market in classical capitalism), but the same is true of every modern economy in the world.

As you say, the difference is whose interests dictate these ends: those of ordinary citizens or those of the monopolies and international finance.
Unfortunately for you my favorite recent algorithms result uses AI as part of improving a very traditional algorithm. The paper is "Learned Index Structures" https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/08/the-case-for-learned-ind...
Meta Open Sources Another AI Model, Moats and Open Source, Apple and Meta
Waste heat: the dominating root cause of current global warming (2020)
But the bar for firing is below the bar for hiring.

This is true not only because of status quo bias, sunk cost etc., but also because employers will often try really hard and be very patient, in the hope that an employee's performance will improve.
School shooters (let's be precise, as that is what people are talking about when talking about mass shootings, not gang violence or other stuff) want to look cool, and ARs are cool looking and everyone markets them up on both sides.

Which is why my simple modification to solve it all is mandate that all firearms be hot pink with a hello kitty logo.
>Being controllable by one guy who does dumb stuff on a whim?

The entire twitterverse has been complaining loudly about how terrible twitter is for years before Musk considered buying it. The problems are inherent to the product-space, not the owner.

Musk simply came in and screwed with the brand. His ownership didn't really affect the toxicity of the platform as far as I can tell (although he has definitely contributed to it with his personal usage, e.g. dogecoin shilling). If anything, he actually took heat off the overall toxicity by shifting attention to his own actions.
> There was a time around 2010 when building a Twitter API client was the standard demo for a new UI framework — the data model was simple enough that a basic client was the next step up from "Hello world" complexity.

It's fascinating the Twitter we have today and the Twitter from that era are even considered the same app. I wrote a simple Twitter client in Cocoa and Python and even NodeJS. It was such a simple way to get a working, functional, usable demo going that you could immediately show to friends.

Then they realized it's impossible to make money advertising this way and shut it down.
>If you are in such position, have you considered it?

Yes. I actually broke into software development while living in Mexico.

Prior to that, in a tent. I realized the cost of living would be cheaper in Mexico while I worked on a full stack app (the app's ultimate purpose was simply to demo my skill during interviews). Once the app was almost done, I moved back to the US, and a couple months later landed my first 100% programming job.

>If so, what is stopping you right now?

I've spent 1.5 years now, living in Mexico-- Playa Rosarito, Bucerias, Tepic, CDMX, Tulum.

I am strongly considering moving back to the Bucerias area to explore more of the West Coast-- Mazatlan to Huatulco, for example, by scooter, since I was recently laid off.

I'm on the fence about committing to Mexico or any of Latin America for the rest of my life.

Mainly due to:

- Inconveniences: Not having drinking water available in houses-- every few days, I'd estimate 90% of people in Mexico take water jugs to fill up at a public tap-- Much as you'd see in a textbook documentary about a refugee village in rural Africa. Though perhaps with a good filtration system it's possible to purify water at home.

- The culture around Noise: People advertise in the street by shouting or playing annoying loud announcements from loudspeakers

- The culture around Pollution: using chemicals without protection or with disregard about potential impact on human health. Examples: airbnb host using pesticide (RAID brand) indoors. construction worker friends applying pesticide outside without any protective gear and without warning anyone to close their windows for 15-30 mins to avoid inhaling the airborne pesticide mist. Plus lack of waste system infrastructure means you find a lot of trash in the urban and even rural environment (people dump trash into holes in the ground along rural roads, for example, due to no landfills or trash-pickup service existing in many areas).

- Low interest in education & industriousness (though I am sure this is changing). Especially if compared to the culture around achievement in South Asia & East Asia. It makes it a bit challenging to make friends with people at similar education & career attainment levels that I'd have if I stayed in the US.

- Crime & lack of justice: the vast majority of crime goes unpunished. Vigilante justice happens. There's a general sense of lawlessness, especially when police officers & judges can be bribed.

That said, I'm still on the fence.

I prefer a society which is quiet, industrious, conscientious and well educated.

Mexico isn't quite there yet, but hopefully it'll be significantly closer to the US levels of those things in the next 2-5 decades.

It does offer: A friendly culture. Great food. Adventures.
Yup, thanks man!
Google and Microsoft, the beginning of the end of so many products and services. Both just implement whatever will currently make them the most profit, they suck at it and don't care because they're still raking in money. It's sad. At some point both were actually decent companies (setting aside "evil" they did) but now adays both are just shells of that capitalizing on their names still.
How about the lack of personal ethics correlating with success in what we know to be highly unethical companies…
Why didn't they told them so, what a shitty professors
A Codebase That Makes Codebases
And then Bill Gates ripped off Xerox and beat Apple to the punch on desktop GUIs ;p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmMqMYgswsA&t=609s
Why not just literally take the job?
You can totally define division by zero.

"There are mathematical structures in which [dividing by zero] is defined. [...] However, such structures do not satisfy every ordinary rule of arithmetic (the field axioms)." https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero

You're familiar with the ordinary rules of arithmetic (ORA!) applied to the real numbers. However, there are many number systems that follow different rules.

The rules of arithmetic for floats, wraparound ints, elliptic curves, and asymptotic analysis are all different from ORA! (and each other) but they are useful in their own ways.
I meant it in response to your comment.

> As a Staff Eng who leads and mentors engineers who live in a world where they have no choice but to use Google SDKs and services, I find many of the developer-focused talks invaluable for getting others in my team up to speed on what's new and what's coming soon.

This sounds identical to IBM developer outreach. Or Ballmer-era Microsoft. Similar straightjackets, captive audience.

We'll see if Google can excite people about AI here, but I'm doubtful.
TL;DR: Microsoft is using proven techniques developed by TV-series makers -- e.g., hire the best available writers, hire relatable, good-looking actors, invest on decent production values, finish every episode on a cliffhanger -- to make training videos that are in fact good TV series. Employees are binge-watching training materials. The actors have become stars within the company. Other companies are starting to copy Microsoft.

I say: fabulous!
I'm curious who is engaging in the gamesmanship in this scenario. This has been an issue long in the making with our deficit ballooning, even after significant increases in federal revenue. The bill signed by Republicans is hardly extreme, and when we considering the amount of expenses being paid to interest alone, it's clear the federal government needs to do something at this point.

Legislators across both aisles have demonstrated they have no interest in decreasing spending. This bill forces their hand while there's still leverage.
You did - you used the capital-g version of god, which suggests you had a particular one in mind, and you mentioned the unproven virgin birth of Jesus, who according to that particular mythology was the son of / the actual christian deity.

Thanks for the suggestion on the book - looks like it was written by a couple of christians, is that right? I'll see if I can find a copy at the local library.

Hopefully you get a chance to read some deep-science, non-partisan, non-orthodox books on the subject, like the one I cited.
"Constantly" is doing some work here, it's still up and doing the same git hosting it's done for 15 years over 99% of the time
It’s too bad that artificial light is shining in the third picture. It would be so much better with just the crater and the Milky Way.
These costs seem absurd!

> Media block: $7,000-$40,000 "helps convert the digital cinema package provided by a studio into data that can be projected with picture and sound"

So, a laptop that can take a file in one format and convert it to another format? Why even have a different format for a projector?

> Digital library server: $12,000-$27,000 "These provide storage to hold multiple movies"

So, a movie on a hard drive right next to the projector is too complicated?

To me, it sounds like both of these can be replaced with a $2,000 laptop.

Is the whole thing just so that the file is DRM-ed to hard that nothing else except expensive equipment can play it?
You make good points, I will try to rephrase that part of the README to be more accurate and explain benefits not mentioned yet like determinism.
A lot of 'on sites' were remote during the pandemic, and a lot of roles now are remote, so may not have an 'on site' at all.
"The Wave project retired on 2018-01-15."
No dialogue, it just works.

The only way I even know a page is using WebGPU is because my GPU usage spikes when the tab is open.
Almost sounds like wine or similar then, but you only need to simulate what's not directly available.
If you come from a decent Latam metropolis like Buenos Aires or Santiago and make use of the urban facilities (ie you like going out, being close to universities and airports and various activities), anything beyond top-tier US cities is a real step down in quality of life.
My friend who got me my current job once told me about how he got into the Games industry. Back in the university days of applying to Coop positions he had a day with 2 interviews back to back. While he bombed the first interview, he had some excellent interviewers who were happy to show him where he did poorly and guide him through the problems to the correct answers. On the second interview, they used the same questions and he got the job.

Now? He runs his own studio. After spending ~10 years in various positions at AAA and Indie studios he's out doing it on his own, and best as I can tell he's doing a damn good job of it. I won't doxx him, but he's got his name under several highly regarded releases.

Am I conflicted with the idea of cheating interviews? Perhaps a bit. But knowing a brilliant mind like him just needed the guidance to get through a terrible practice to show his true talent? I'm happy he was fortunate to be able to ""cheat"" in the way he did. I wish him all the best.
You're unlucky enough to live in a town with a good baseball team I guess. My city's team is so awful you can basically just roll up and get a sub $20 ticket for like any game
Ah, so I'm not crazy! Yes, refreshing a page mid load is often faster than waiting for it to finish naturally.
I believe this is it: https://spectrum.ieee.org/finger-haptics

>This method depends on what’s called “referred sensation,” where stimulation of your body in one place gets felt in another place—it’s like when you accidentally bash your elbow against something but can feel tingling up through your fingers, because the signal has traveled along your nerves up through your hand. In some places, including in the fingers, referred sensation can be targeted with a reasonable amount of precision. With a signal electrode on the top of a finger and a ground electrode closer to the wrist, it’s possible to stimulate individual parts of each finger, creating 11 separately controllable tactile zones across five fingers and the palm.

>However, just zapping fingers doesn’t provide a way of getting those signals to show up just on the bottom (palmar) side of the fingers, rather than the top (dorsal) side, which is where the signal is originating. Fortunately, the asymmetrical way that the nerves in our hands are set up makes this possible. The backhanded stimulation technique works because your palm and finger pads are way, way more sensitive than the backs of your hands, thanks to about 60 times more mechanoreceptors on the palmar side. So, if you use an electrode to stimulate the back of one of your fingers, the sensitivity on the front is so much higher that you’re going to feel it there much more strongly, even though the electrode is in direct contact with the back side. The researchers were able to find a stimulation intensity that was enough to trigger nerves on the finger pads, while staying below the detection threshold on the back side of the fingers, neatly solving the problem.
If the outcome is successful with less effort how is that bad? I was just in a joint presentation with a new grad. We both had our parts. They spent hours preparing their parts of a technical demonstration. I just walked through my part of the demo and had an “open discussion”.

They put 4x more effort to achieve what I would say was a 20% better result. That’s not meant to be an insult to them, I have much more experience.
So the intent here is clearly to blame all these problems on ending the gold standard. But on a lot of these graphs they really fudge it. The dual income trend began in 1965, as did the home value vs. income one. It's unclear to me why they view the words 'peer review' as a negative, but if you zoom in on ngram you'll find that spike also occurred before 1971. Some of the 'positive' trends also continued well after the end of the gold standard, like debt to GDP. The income inequality graph only diverges in 1980. And this is just from looking at their own graphs that they've cherrypicked. Needless to say, a questionable source at best.
> as long as there is a boss or a general, it's not communism.

I believe you may be confusing communism with anarchy.
A period (full point) is a dot within the sentence, while a full stop is a dot at the end of a sentence. In the 19th-century [1], this terminology was used on both sides of the pond.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop#Medieval_Latin_and_m...
The javascript annoys the hell out of me. It tries to 'mimic' a browser but it comes awefully short. For example, if you go to the PR page and click issues, then quickly click the PR tab (say you missed the filters dropdown) it doesn't cancel the request. Works fine with JS disabled. Same if you click across all the tabs in quick succession, if any one of the requests complete before you click the next one, all clicks get disabled for a few hundred ms or so. Super annoying.

I basically have js disabled on GitHub except for certain pages.