skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stayed at my second job for nine years from 1999-2008. By 2008, I became an expert beginner. I asked myself for years why I stayed there so long. The current me, would have left April 2003 when I closed on the house I was having built.

If I do a retrospective, it is kind of clear:

I worked with most of the same people all nine years. My coworkers became my friends and they were the only constant in my life.

My managers were shady as hell though.

I was going through a horrible marriage (2002-2006) a horrible financial mess because by 2006 I had $500K worth of mortgages making $70K a year (because you could back then).

My skillset was outdated. I was maintaining VB6 code in 2008 - 7 years after it had been discontinued (and some old school C++/MFC/COM).

As bonuses got cut and raises were meager, I only made $8K more in 2008 than I did in 2001.

My head wouldn’t have been in the game enough for another job.

I learned my lesson with my next six jobs. I do resume driven development. I only worked at companies that were using in demand technologies. I jumped ship after two meager raises or when the bullshit/pay ratio got too high.

I kept my network strong.

But on the other hand, I’m going to “stay put” at my current job at $BigTech until at least my initial 4 year initial vest (and an interim refresher) is done and see what else is out there.
I don't think those people are the best data source for a lot of people.... they don't seem to spend much time researching what foods lower disease risks, seems like they are optimizing for strength instead of prevention.

Plus, they eat like, 1500 more calories than everyone else needs or something so I'd imagine they would plan things differently?
Sadly, not yet. Even when (Safe) Rust's type system guarantees the noalias annotations will be inserted correctly, the Rust compiler team has been very cautious of turning this on because of numerous LLVM miscompilation issues. It was turned on two years ago in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/82834 but was subsequently rolled back in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/86036 because of a miscompliation bug.
OS API for Web views and systems configured browsers are the only alternatives.
If growth is doing more with less, then I'll welcome it.
> 'when the auto-incrementing integer used in the bowels of the internet banking customer session management system overflows during a holiday period, what happens is none of the bank's customers can log to access their money any more, so they become very angry, and then a bunch of staff get paged and spend days firefighting to bring the system back up'

There are a lot of outcomes that are much worse than simple downtime, with a clear error message in the logs. I'd much rather downtime than quiet data corruption & mysterious downstream errors, especially in a banking system.

Also a 64 bit signed integer can store numbers up to 9223372036854775807. If you consume one integer every time someone logs in to your website, your system will be able to handle the entire population of the USA logging in every second continuously for 835 years. Its a pretty safe integer size for most tasks.
Can anyone reliably hail a car in California these days? We certainly can’t in the outskirts of Silicon Valley, and I’ve heard similar stories from people in downtown SF.

I wish there was a company that just paid the drivers a fair wage and healthcare, made them pass a basic driving test, and then docked their pay for ghosting customers.

(Yes, I’d pay more than I will for the current disaster.)

Edit: Also, I think at least half the problem is their pricing algorithm. We live in an area that is probably unprofitable vs. other spots. It wouldn’t surprise me if “other disadvantaged” communities are in the same boat.

It is incredibly expensive to avoid living inside traffic light ghettos that use malicious timings to add 10-20 minutes to get to the freeway.

So, if you are in a poor area, uber/lyft should charge you 2-3x more per mile than rich areas, or else the drivers have an economic incentive to avoid your neighborhood.

Knowing California politics, the politicians that set up the malicious light timings would then skewer the ride hailing companies for overcharging poor [minority] people.
ESL learners would probably appreciate the visual split between voiced ð & voiceless þ from the th digraph that isn’t a dental fricative (e.g. Thailand, Thomas, Thames). With such a reform we could replace “the” with standalone “ð” which would bring symmetry with the single-character indefinite article, “a”.
I just looked again and I didn't see that claim, can you verify? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.08997.pdf

If as per the linked critique, some of the questions in the test set were basically nonsense, then clearly they couldn't have manually verified all the answers or they would have noticed that.
It still works, until there are OCI updates that it can't handle, and there are a couple of occasional bugs, depending on the image.
An evolutionary pressure may indeed exist that encourages the synchronization of brain patterns in situations involving power dynamics between individuals with varying levels of authority. This could go beyond mere synchronization, potentially favoring the adaptability of individuals in subordinate roles whose brains can align with those in dominant positions. This capability could have enhanced survival within structured social systems throughout human history.

Moreover, if brain synchronization is a reality, it might suggest the possibility of memory linkage across spatial distances. This notion aligns with the principle that neurons which fire together wire together. Consequently, if individuals' brains are synchronizing, their neurons may be forming connections, or wiring together, across distinct locations.
Define the standard you're averaging.

Quality of code? Speed of development? CS knowledge? Ability to interpret arcane customer requirements correctly?

What does Google's recruitment process optimise for? The ability to whiteboard an algorithm and complete difficult HackerRank puzzles from what I've heard. Is this a good set of criteria for recruiting "the best"?

Once in Google, are they learning more than their peers outside Google? Or are they learning how to survive the internal politics? Which helps them not get made redundant more?

I would expect "the best engineers" to be in small tech companies where they can make a huge difference and really contribute to the company and see the things they build get used by customers every day. Not in a vast organisation drowning in bureaucracy and politics.

As the article says, Googlers tend to think of themselves as special without any real justification.
> If a company still has to hire a warm body to do that job, those employees are automatically not useless.

If a company doesn't hire that warm body to breakdown cardboard boxes or drag around dust mops, then it is useless. Remember the donut hole welfare talking point in the 90s? That is what this is.

> Every person who puts in 40 hours, no matter what their purpose, is entitled to a living wage.

Says you, about an arrangement that doesn't involve you. You should be careful what you wish for, because you could easily get exactly what you are demanding - and be very unhappy for it. Here is how that could happen: massive coordinated campaign to shift the consensus position for an acceptable standard of living, with a catchy hook - "You'll own nothing, and be happy"; resulting in people eating bugs, sleeping in concrete tube "pods", getting paid a dollar an hour, and dying alone.
> I recently discovered that I am actually able to "maximize" by double-clicking the top bar

Long time Mac Os user, never knew that, thanks
I think the phrasing is confusing because on first parsing, it reads like the market is responding to the article
At crazy as it might seem, I do miss a lot.

Then again, too busy reading papers.
> it was too bad people settled for that.

Power users / tech steeped people like us will care a lot about the original cell phones’ antennas, tactile keypads. But 90% of the public don’t care. And the 10% who are people like us cannot continue using our niche products with no interoperability with iOS/Android, if we expect to keep up with the rest of the society that has now been accustomed to a sealed slab.

Basically, I disagree with the premise that people “settled” for it - the majority a car when they were accustomed to riding horses.
> I strongly recommend using Ubuntu 18.04 to perform QEMU emulation. Not everyone will agree on this but I simply find it much to manage interfaces on this Linux distribution

Does apt-get still work on 18.04 without a subscription? It went EOL last month and there are 5 more years of Ubuntu Pro.

https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
So this seems to actually be available in China (https://app6hodqg6k9861.h5.xiaoeknow.com/p/decorate/homepage) if not elsewhere.

If my conversions are correct, the price (￥35) is more like US$5.

There's some documentation (https://milkv.io/docs/duo). It's a pity there isn't more explanation in some parts. The sales page says "Support Asymmetric multiprocessing" with mention of a RTOS, but unclear what that is exactly.

The docs include this: https://milkv.io/docs/duo/resources/mmf which appears to be some kind of media co-processor.
The irony is that many people might say that an anarchist anthropologist is a “bullshit job”.
> I think that the author implicitly relies on the unstated assumption that for business related databases the vast majority of non-integer data is money

That would certainly result in a much shorter article. "Hey, databases deal with money all the time. They should have a fixedpoint integer type for money values. Floats are a bad choice".

If thats all they wanted to say, I wish they just said that.
This is true, but the page itself compares it in the (somewhat weird!) graph comparing clock speed of "vector acceleration" (?)
In general, reconciliation is done asynchronously. You send a payment out. The processor some number of days later sends out a file containing information about that payment. You validate that the payment the processor recognized is the same as the one you sent out. That's a high level summary.

Also regarding dual write consistency problems: they mention Google cloud. If they're using NoSQL such as Data store/firestore, they have distributed transactions. Another possibility is they must trust their payment clients to use idempotency keys correctly. If you get two requests with the same idempotency keys, then the requests are considered to be the same and therefore it wouldn't matter which one is processed first. If they're different requests with the same idempotency keys, they may have some validations.

I believe DynamoDB also has conditional writes that can essentially be "if entity X does not exist: write entity X". Then there is a race condition for different requests with identical idempotency keys, but if that does happen, it'd result in an error and someone would need to look into it and figure out why that was allowed to happen.
The visualization of the paths of the vortex rings looks mimetically like electron orbitals
What's the selling point of 64MB of RAM with a 1GHz CPU?
I don't want to make any judgements about you specifically, so this is more of a general observation. It's not meant to be personal or pejoritive.

When the Web exploded onto us the first time (late 90s) html and css were limited, and JavaScript mostly unused, so the door opened to lots of "untrained" [1] people to make a living building Web sites.

Explosion number 2 comes the the aughts, and is characterised by the split of "front end" and "back end". FrontPage, WordPress, and other site builders lower the barrier to entry, and make Web design accessible to the common man.

If one comes up through these ranks then the train of new css, new javascript, even new html can seem daunting.

For those who came in "easy" it just seems like things are getting more and more complex. Whereas to those who are used to "programming is hard", these are fantastic additions which make so much more possible.

The good news is that you dont actually have to keep up. A flex based site is perfectly fine. A marketing company, staffed with creatives, think WordPress is perfect, and discussions about CSS are pretty shallow. They find a theme and move on. The theme-makers however love this progress in css.

So yeah, whether you're writing css or c or whatever the language-of-the-month is this week, stuff moves quickly.

[1] by untrained here, I mean people without programming training. The language of that time was c++ or c, both of which required a deep understanding of programing.
No it's not, and yes it does. This trend on HN that has consisted in wanting to kill the meaning of "open source" as most people understand it is very weird and surprising. I don't understand what is at stake. I have noticed this since one month or so.

The vast majority of projects that call themselves open source mean the open source definition as defined by the open source initiative, or something equivalent.

You might not like or recognize the OSI and that's fine, but you can't decide what people mean when they say open source.

You are the one starting the battle and I don't understand your motives.

I just searched for "open source" in a search engine, I'm getting [1,2,3] and lists of "the best open source software". And they are all using the OSD. You are at odds with Wikipedia, IBM, RedHat and with Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple [4,5,6,7,8], and with everyone else, really.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

[2] https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/open-source/what-is-open-so...

[3] https://www.ibm.com/en-en/topics/open-source

[4] https://opensource.microsoft.com/

[5] https://opensource.google/

[6] https://aws.amazon.com/fr/opensource/

[7] https://opensource.fb.com/

[8] https://opensource.apple.com/
Very interesting article. Thanks for posting it.

This is kind of like quantum gravity in a way, as it's the shrinking of ideas about ecosystems to the organismal level.

> “This notion [of holobionts] challenges and seeks to replace the concept of a monogenomic individual whose essential identity arises during development, is maintained by the immune system, and which is selected through evolution.”

This is fundamentally a "conflict" between two particular ways (out of six that I am aware of) of seeing the word. It is my view that these two ways belong to particular personalities. So basically neither way can fully replace the other, as each way is not satisfactorily explanative to those who prefer the other way of thinking about the world.

It's great to have more ideas bouncing around though. These allow the formation and testing of hypotheses that other conceptual frameworks do not. More frameworks lead to more knowledge.

> Mixotricha paradoxa, one of those fibre-digesting components, is itself a composite of a protist (a single-celled eukaryote) and four types of bacteria.

The wikipedia article for this entity shows it's a really interesting assembly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixotricha_paradoxa

> Mitochondria generate energy by metabolising glucose, and are found in all eukaryotes.

One eukaryote was found in 2016 that lost its mitochondria and made up for the loss by horizontal gene transmission of a pathway from bacteria: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)...

> Pursuing that thought, the firm has found—and now markets—rhizospheric bugs which confer drought-tolerance on cotton, maize, soyabeans and wheat

Wow. The other stuff mentioned in this paragraph wasn't a surprise to me, but drought-tolerance is.
Since when have government agencies been trustworthy anyway?
This is the most cliched startup pitch in the world. “There is a $HugeMarket if we only captured $ASmallPercentage we will be successful”.

I was guilty of it too as one of the tech leads when the company I was working for was working to get acquired.
Once it’s supported everywhere: https://caniuse.com/?search=nested%20css

That’s a lot of red in usage-relative mode. I heard iOS updates are common even for older devices, but I do know macs can’t always update. So Safari Explorer might be a blocker for some time, once again.
This is probably a dumb question but what is stopping us from just making bigger CPUs?
Yes, I have similar concerns. These models regurgitate previously seen strings, previous benchmarks included. When you try to evaluate their sheer ability to reason on the text, however, they perform poorly.
(Our experiments with GPT-3 are here: https://doi.org/10.5220/0012007500003470)
> I don't want to help those people. I want them gone.

I'm sorry you have this attitude towards people. I wish you the best.
I wouldn't feel weird about being deeply skeptical of the market. It's nothing more than a casino for oligarchs and wealth management funds.
Falcon doesn't work in llama.cpp yet: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/1602
> or gamers, which are generally power users

Lol? knowing how to install Steam doesn't ascend to a 'power user' status.
And btw, 99% of games are running fullscreen.
Yes. Many years ago I had the time to devote to keeping up with changes to CSS, JS, and all the other languages and technologies I use, but now I have increased responsibilities at work, a family that needs my time, a home that needs maintenance, etc. I simply do not have a minute to spare with updating. Maybe after I retire.
As usual it is not said how it is guaranteed. Who decides if a company is good or bad? These will not be stakeholders. It will be some kind of board of policemen. It will be ESG judges. It will be Larry Fink from blackrock. They have the money. Now they want control.
Yes, we actually always travelled, the biggest difference was naturally the time it took, and the high probability not to reach destination due to road assaults.

Still people would do it.
I really like Pandoc codebase [0]. It is a document converter written in Haskell.

Reading it’s source code a decade ago was a turning point for me. Prior to that, I always felt an insurmountable gap between my toy codebases and real projects. All those open source software written in C++ etc. looked so unapproachable that I felt like I could not write production ready software.

Pandoc however, was written in a language I didn’t know and did something very complicated very thoroughly, yet remained accessible. It was very nicely laid out and I could easily follow how it constructs it’s internal representation of documents and converts between them. I think this made me catch the functional programming bug for the next decade that let me build way bigger things than I had any right to, without getting crushed underneath all the complexity.

Putting together something in Java or even contributing to OOP Python codebases was still like an exercise in frustration, no matter how much better I thought I’m getting at programming I would feel stupid trying to wrap my head around those abstractions and hierarchies. Somehow FP just clicked for me and made me see how I could start from a simple library call and little by little build the complete program.

Today I am comfortable with all kinds of paradigms and levels of abstraction, but I definitely owe a lot to Pandoc for showing me I was smart enough to understand and modify real world software I did not build myself.

[0] https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
Relevant cases: Berghuis v. Thompkins (2010), Salinas v. Texas (2013)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berghuis_v._Thompkins
how significant is the share of those?..
> On another topic, there are rumors circulating that we are fascists or supported genocide.

Nope, theyre communists that supported genocide.

> Regarding development, we are happy to collaborate with anyone who is willing to put in the work, regardless of politics.

That's new. I guess they've grown as people.

Anyway, I'm very happy to see use of Lemmy exploding at the expense of Reddit, and am personally a very satisfied Lemmy user. I'm glad to see it exist, like I've said before, we all have our own reasons to want to see this thing become reality. I wish those two the best and hope to see them complete this difficult project and create something truly compelling.
I thought this was going to be about the sex toy shop in SF...

https://www.google.com/search?q=good+vibrations+san+francisc...
Doesn't even mention autism. You'd think that would be a topic, in such a context.
Govs should not use Twitter to conduct business. Not everyone uses Twitter, and by your own example can disappear anytime.

Also I’m sure Reddit has already made deliberation and determined losing some friends is worth it.
Falcon was intially release under a weird modified license. It looks like they changed it to Apache May 31st: https://www.tii.ae/news/uaes-falcon-40b-now-royalty-free
Everything that oscillates at roughly the same frequency and has some coupling synchronizes.[1] No surprise here.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaxw4zbULMs
What is this conspiracy theory now?

The requirement to allow selling is also true for free software, and RMS had user rights in mind, not commercial interests.
Would you download a subreddit?
> already states that RSS is solely for people who only consume, not contribute

He doesn't, he's opposing users to contributors to the software in a response to the forking comment. Users do like/comment

> That's how I'm now able to reply to your comment.

No, you're able to reply using a separate app
Increasing Frequency Counter Precision with Linear Regression
From GSM Arena

Galaxy Note 4

Dimensions 153.5 x 78.6 x 8.5 mm (6.04 x 3.09 x 0.33 in)
Weight 176 g (6.21 oz)

iPhone 14 Pro

Dimensions 146.7 x 71.5 x 7.8 mm (5.78 x 2.81 x 0.31 in)
Weight 172 g (6.07 oz)

iPhone 14 Pro Max

Dimensions 160.7 x 77.6 x 7.9 mm (6.33 x 3.06 x 0.31 in)
Weight 240 g (8.47 oz)

240 g? What did they put into that phone?
I think "The Lean Startup" is kind of outdated novadays.

I'm not sure the author himself still adheres to it.
Dropbox accidentally billing two extra digits
An interesting accident involving currency with no minor units (cents). The customer has been reimbursed and the issue was resolved.
> So much discussion online paints moderators as some sort of a connected cabal

significant group indeed became well organized in aggressively pushing one sided narrative, it is possible you are not a member of that group.
A lot of really smart people are going to propose really intelligent, market-focused solutions, all or most of which are evidence-based. Without exception these proposed solutions will fail to address regulatory capture. Given one flavor or another of feudalism has been the norm for the majority of recorded human history, evidence suggests the only way to prevent the ultra-wealthy from owning everything (with ruinous results) is to delete wealth accumulation on this scale from society. How to best accomplish this feat is left as an exercise.
What the west doing? We really can't compete?
Even this is not answer to your question (others did it well), I love this hack for simple moving windows by clicking anywhere: https://mmazzarolo.com/blog/2022-04-16-drag-window-by-clicki...
And, while atmosphere CO2 is 400-800ppm, while a bedroom goes up to 1800ppm in the morning (keep your doors open, it gives you headaches), submariners work at 3000ppm permanently.