skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who drifts in and out of PM roles, this. The very nature of Product Management is quite squishy in practice. I don't have a scientific number on this, but in my experience out of a group of 10 PM's, there are 1-2 great ones, 2-3 decent ones who will likely be great if they keep at it, and the balance are people who want to work in "tech" but only have soft skills.

The commonality in the best PM's I know is having more than a passing knowledge of the domain they work in.
To me the most important component is not having a large number of individuals. Which is to say there was not a large amount of physical artifacts of the tech left behind. That seems to me like there would not be enough demand to scale much tech. So it's kind of a circular problem.
Who writes cover letters or modifies their resume per role? It's all spray and pray.
Not really a great measure. If you remove the artificial from the world entirely, most people would be dead inside of a month.
You could also securely hash a username and password together with something like argon2ID, and then authenticate users by seeing if the base64'ed TXT record exists. No need to hit an overloaded database, just dig and you'll even have the benefits of local caching with per-record TTL's!

But should you do crazy things like this? Absolutely not!

DNS is notoriously prone to MITM, injection, cache poisoning, DoS, etc. DANE and DNSSEC are horrible bodges that don't actually do anything useful or in a secure way.

Even though it's the foundation of almost everything we try to do securely, including the basis for TLS DV certificate (totally fungible, regardless of a hundred or so certificate authorities, including many located in authoritarian regimes!) validation:

DNS is absolutely and irredeemably broken forever, from a security perspective, and can never be fixed. As tempting (and easy) as it is to hack on it or treat it as an ultra-fast and extensible UDP remotely-accessible lookup database, just don't. (It just needs to die in a fire, probably along with SMTP.)

Unfortunately, even if someone came up with some system that could credibly replace it, that system would inevitably have a LOT of privacy and censorship trade-offs, so DNS is what we're stuck with.

Just stay very aware of the risks of encoding anything security-related inside DNS and try to minimize your reliance on it as best you can.
>good quality DAC or audio interface (headphone jack), this is also something Apple tends to do a little better than competitors

No laptop has a decent DAC. If you want a good dac, just get something external. Don't need to spend a lot either, even a relatively cheap ~$70 product will vastly outperform anything in a laptop, desktop or phone.
Theoretical price decreases are not, in fact, convincing fossil fuel companies to get into renewables when they are making record-breaking profits from FF: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-clim...

The plan by RE people is 'Let's hope that a hundred different unlikely events all line up exactly right, and we'll be able to go fully RE'. This is not a realistic plan. If you did software engineering like this, you would be laughed out of the room (and then fired).
Have I been incredibly lucky my entire career? I don't think I've applied for more than 10 jobs at once. I have heard stories like this before - maybe the market has shifted drastically, or maybe spamming 2500 applications means each one is ... less good than one might think? Tailoring your application to each job has worked well for me at least.

46 Interviews is also a huge amount. I've done less than that my entire career combined. I agree with others, something else may be off here.
Maybe put in the title this is for Boston
A teenager probably would tell that ChatGPT helps her do homework and acts as a Pokémon. And she doesn’t understand why it’s compared to a bomb that was dropped onto Hiroshima (by the military) to stop the aggressor that had attacked the United States.
My, I get the impression that 'translations' are far more like a work of art in their own right, than, er, a translation!
your problem is not FF, it's the iphone, replace your phone and you'll have the browser you want with the extensions you want. Don't blame the innocents.
I once ran 2 miles in 40 minutes in 60F degree weather. It broke some muscle or another and took two months to recover, lol. Humans are so crazy adaptable. Some humans.
[dupe] of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758826
Yep. I was speaking from a netops/sysadmin standpoint.

My belief is that TXT and HINFO saw declining use within an org as Microsoft Windows DNS Server usage grew[1][2][3].

1. Windows DNS Server hides those records behind a sub-menu item.

2. Windows DNS Server attracted noobs (a good thing, I suppose). Heck, these days, we give low/middle-tier IT workers DNS server access (via DnsAdmins group), which is crazy in my mind, but nonetheless common.

3. Crusty, old admins were better at typing yy in vi and changing the record type when creating new records in BIND (old DNS software).
Serious question - at this point why not just use actual VM's?
Notably, in the recent CSIS wargame of a Taiwan invasion, the US lost 90% of their aircraft on the ground. Even dispersing to civilian airports in Japan doesn't help much (Japan has plenty of airports but PLARF has plenty more missiles) and of course hugely complicates logistics. https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publi...
The surviving veterans of the ship don’t think the attack was an accident. This does not compare with the Air Force’s accidental fire on friendlies.
How much of white Russia died in Ukraine in last 18 months comparing to non-white?
Couldn't a thief just observe the car's wipers/headlights/blinkers to obtain the secret combination that unlocks the starter ?
I thought I had the only 1980's-vintage Montero diesel. 4D55 4 cylinder engine, no turbo. That engine with a turbocharger was sold in Mitsubishi pick-ups, but as of 1985, the 4D55 was not imported. Had to import it myself, long story. I understand there are replacement engines in Chile.
IMO all LMS's are complicated with a lot of customization knobs and poor UX/workflows.

These days I like Brightspace (aka D2L) the best, but that could be just because the way I interact with it.

(I write LMS integrations for a living).
Why? State lines are arbitrary. I've lived in 3 different states over my life so far, and many people have lived in more. I'd rather not have the laws change radically as I cross the border.

Moreover, leaving things to the states is how slavery was allowed before the Civil War, and how black people continued to be oppressed even after they were technically freed. (Remember that poll taxes for example were not prohibited until 1964.) So no, I'm not particularly interested in leaving things to the states. To take a much more recent example, why should a woman's right to get an abortion depend on where she stands relative to some arbitrary state line?

I think it's silly and counterproductive to behave as if we have 50 separate countries, united only by "national" defense, or whatever one thinks the minimal requirements are. And we can see how the UK shot itself in the foot by stupidly leaving the EU. Local rule is not necessarily better rule.
> Many great cities become museums of themselves, their lack of new development an homage to their glory days.

This is sometimes how I feel about Athens. It’s such a cool city, and the Acropolis is a marvelous site to see from a rooftop across the city. Yet I have this desire for the city to properly restore the Parthenon, paint it again, and turn the Acropolis into a public space of gathering. Many would object to that idea for legitimate reasons, but it makes the city look like a has-been, long past its peak. Ancient Greece was an area full of beautiful colors[0] rather than white and brown marble. I would love to see a return to that.

I need to give Tokyo a visit. I’m interested in cities that keep their character while also maintaining themselves and driving forwards.

[0] https://theacropolismuseum.gr/en/exhibition-programs/archaic...
It's a travesty that's legal.
Depends on the model. The MBAs and Mac Mini ship with 256GB by default and getting 1TB (768GB more) is an extra $400 USD. The MBPs and Studio/Pro start at 512GB so 1TB is "only" $200.
The 12.x" models occasionally make it in to other APAC markets with US ANSI keyboards: https://ap.connect.panasonic.com/sg/en/products/toughbook/to...

Shame that they are not more widely available.
I take back what I said. I'm especially blown away by the image features!

Maybe I have a slightly personal - and unwarranted - dislike for auto-generated texts because of a (perceived) loss in creativity, but the AI takes away the annoying schlepp work for image editing and even video generating. Useful functions!
Like NSA did not controlled CA:s? Or are you one of those conspiracy nuts that think NSA cracked it?
My not broken P16s needs 1.50 Minutes to get out of firmware boot. And this is after the firmware update that shaved of 1 minute.

This will be my last Lenovo...
Sure. Because Universities are all about "bringing in the money" rather than education, research, and similar yeah?
There was a news story a while ago that detailed a paper that coined a term, something like “time battery”. It detailed how data centers could save money and power by processing intensive tasks during off hours.

It seemed like a simple crib job would cover the entire premise. Let alone all the other strategies out there.

It wasn’t clear to me if the paper in question recognized that people already do that with computers. I tried reading it but it was pretty hard to get through.
> Bush planes in Alaska can use active highways.

That's probably not a useful data point, as bush planes are massively different from warplanes. A Pilatus PC6 is one of the
largest "bush planes" and at max weight, is 1/3 the weight of an empty F-18 and needs 1/5 as much runway to takeoff with no jet blast concerns
From Wikipedia for .com:

> The domain was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense, but is today operated by Verisign, and remains under ultimate jurisdiction of U.S. law.

.edu holds US-centric requirements today. Not sure about .org, .net, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu
I personally don't have anything against the license you've chosen, and I respect your right to protect your efforts against usage you don't desire. I just think it's better to avoid using "open source" if going down the ELv2 path, and using something like "source available" or "fair code" instead to prevent confusion in misrepresenting this as, what is commonly considered, open source.

If you'd like further detail in regards to why I (and others) think this matters, I've previously written my thoughts up here: https://danb.me/blog/posts/why-open-source-term-is-important...
Ontario's Crypto King says video of him beaten was recorded during kidnapping
>I agree with others, something else may be off here.

IMO Blind is generally full of shit
Not at all. Suppose you believe corporations are out of control, and it's on, what the best way to hurt them? Work for a charity and live in poverty? Become a hermit and live in a forest? no!

Find the corporation tou hate most and get a job there. Do damage from the inside, sleep with the boss, work your way up, drive it bancrupt. Cause it to loose all talent.

Work in two places at once, and do nothing in both jobs. Something like that
That seems extravagant. By my calculations it should fund approximately 6 or so years.
> Oracle or not, sticking closer to the upstream kernel is not a bad way to manage an “enterprise” kernel.

This is probably a lot better than expecting it to be possible to maintain a secure release with a level of compatibility guarantee for 10+ years.
Gift link to Emily Wilson's NYT Article "Exit Hector, Again and Again: How Different Translators Reveal the ‘Iliad’ Anew"

Worth a read.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/books/review/iliad-transl...
I’ve noticed 10-15 years of almost no innovation, but a ton of wealth transfer… but the FED still says ZIRP was a good idea.
I use Firefox on my desktop PC, FF on my linux laptop and FF on my android phone. Works like a charm but pople like to give their data to Google so...
In my experience, when you’re applying to hundreds or thousands of jobs, odds are you aren’t clear on what your strengths are and what you want from your career.

And, unfortunately, that often comes across in a résumé and application.

Much better, I think, to spend time better conveying your strengths and interests as they relate to a specific job (or type of job). You’re much more likely to get the interest of relevant recruiters and hiring managers in this way.
The latter depends very strongly on how much computation is needed to compute those embedding vectors.

If you run a GPT-3.5-sized mode to compute that embedding (which would be a bit absurd, but if you really want GPT-3.5-quality classification, you may well be doing something like this), you're looking through quite a few tens of billions of parameters and doing a correspondingly large number of FLOPs, which could be just as expensive as running gzip over your whole (small, private) training set.
Separately, the US has a problem in that activism has largely become its own industry, existing for the sake of itself more than for its founding causes.

When an industry depends on problems to exist, problems will be always be found.

When goals and reasons-to-be are accomplished, very few seem willing to 'admit' their victory - and give up their self-important justification for whatever selfimage they've built on top their cause. So the cause is extended or a new one is invented.

"In conclusion, further study - and more research funds - is needed."
That's what this is. "Containers" implemented as actual VMs.
Everything is subjective, there's no bad opinions, but this comes close. To cast so wide a brush as to paint Lattimore, Fitzgerald, Fagles, Wilson, Mandelbaum, and other renowned modern translators as lukewarm and boring...

If you have some particular fondness for Victorian English, sure, read what you enjoy; but antiquated language doesn't make anything intrinsically better, and it takes the average modern reader further away from the work itself. These works weren't composed in a language that was, for their audience, hundreds of years out-of-date.

Moreover - particularly with ancient texts - older translators were typically writers first, scholars second. As pointed out elsewhere on this thread, Pope didn't even speak Greek when he "translated" the Iliad. The Butler translation here is prose. An approach to translation that takes fidelity seriously is a more modern invention.
Did you ever have performance issues with quizzes especially for courses/installation with large users? How did you deal with performances issues especially if you had resource constraints?
The same company that just two weeks ago was sending out unsolicited emails asking companies about Java licensing - a friendly shakedown for using the official JRE...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36599118

Frankly, I don't get it Oracle. I would say the priorities are backwards - JRE free, Oracle Linux paid would make more objective sense (especially because the JRE used to be free... and there's a lot of free JREs out there.)

Also, don't be stupid enough to download the VirtualBox Extensions package at work; or your work will probably get an email from a licensing agent.
General aviation is a pretty small market. I doubt the development costs can be justified. For reference Lycoming only switched away from carburetors around 2009, plus there’s the installed base of old engines being serviced.

I do think some European engines have looked at diesel though
I live in a US metropolitan area with 2-3 million people, at a Fortune 500 company.

Junior/associate devs, hired out of the internship program usually, can make less than $100k TC (some even make less than $80k). Most of them say it is hard to live on that salary with an apartment, car, student loans and wanting to have a life.

Most of the standard SWEs make more than $100k TC. I've been told the TC for standard SWEs maxes out at under $170k at our company.

Seniors TC starts around $140k, and goes up above $180k.

Leads/Principals I'm not as sure of. Maybe for every 20 associate/SWE/senior we have one lead. I believe their TC is north of $200k.

As the standard dev is either an SWE or senior SWE, that band is probably $100k-190k. With some associates/juniors making less, and some leads/principals making more.

The H1Bs make about 10-15% less than the non H1Bs.

In India, if our programmers make the equivalent of $30k that is a lot. The company wants to hire more Indian programmers but there are timezone problems, language problems, skill level problems and other problems.
Wikileaks on zero retractions, and most anti-war news sources: red / black.

Lest anyone think the problem is that Wikileaks is 'left biased'.
People disagree with you when it comes to modern Apple hardware: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/2021-macbook-pro-14s-dac-sou...

They actually put a really good audio subsystem in these things.
I'm Brazilian and that doesn't work in our reality if you want to get more people from poorer backgrounds into university so they have a chance at a better life.

In the poorer sections of society, most people have to work since their early teens if not younger.

It's hard to cram for standardised tests when you have a full time job, food insecurity, and lack a proper place to study.

People like myself that come from a middle class family can afford private schools and prep schools to get into university and obviously that puts poorer people at a disadvantage.

A long term solution would actually fix the crap public education system, help families keep their children in school so they can get a degree and later a higher paying job, etc.

In this scenario, I see the need for affirmative action to mitigate the problem in the short term. The problem is that the government hasn't done enough to address the root of the problem.

But the idea that it should be based on race is BS. In Brazil, affirmative action should be based on family income.
Yeah, you can't - but you're also not supposed to be snarky ;)

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

That being said, usually repost happen with substantially new information, perhaps OP should post what's new or what warrants the repost.
Since the Earth is finite every use of raw materials is unsustainable eventually. That's not something I worry about because costs will shift around and new ways to meet needs will be found.
It is insane how much actual land is used for ground-floor parking. You could house every homeless person in the USA with like 1/1000th of the available parking space, and park all the moved cars in vertical parking structures. But, geez, that costs money, and political clout, and homeless people don't exactly have a lobbying group.
You should start asking why ALL of your former roommates seem to join the anti-pessimizer league. Russian sympathetics like to say "what if Russia puts bases in Mexico" but that's actually a great unintentional example. We treat Mexico like GARBAGE, we had a president suggest that most of the Mexicans crossing the border are murderers and rapists. Yet they still consider themselves a strong ally of ours. They don't WANT to stab us in the back.
In late 2021 / early 2022 I got scared about the incoming consequences of LLMs and downloaded all the "Kiwix" archives I could find, including Wikipedia, a bunch of other Wikimedia sites, Stack Overflow, etc.

I'm pretty glad that I did. I'm going to hold onto them indefinitely. They have become the "low background steel" of text.
Strongly agree. Good C developers pretty much instinctively do structured programming[1]. While it's superficially dated, the core concepts are still all very much applicable to the working programmer today and even largely paradigm independent.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/1243380 (lousy interface, but PDF download available)
I'm doing this with css to do syntax highlighting & formatting for [my editor](https://coil-editor.netlify.app/). I also wrote some linters like using undefined variable names in like 5 lines of code using query selectors, this was before I learned more about xpath, so I imagine it'll only be more powerful
I don't see how this could possibly reduce the battery lifespan. Flashing the lights takes a few watts. The vehicle will then be started and charged and never reach any lower level of discharge where damage would occur.

Yes, if you flashed your lights everytime 500+ times and got your battery to a meaningful low voltage where it barely started every time, sure. But not in the use case presented here.
There is another problem that wasn't covered in the article. The 10+ years of stability leads to behaviors and outcomes that remind me of the long-lived SSL certificate problem. Updating is done so infrequently that the "how?" is forgotten. As the 10 year support limit approaches, most of the old team members who did it last time are gone, tech debt is through the roof, few people know where everything is or how to build it, and so on. Enterprise Linux "stability" enables all sorts of bad behavior if your company is inclined that way.

LetsEncrypt did us a huge favor by forcing automation vs having the guy who knows how to update the SSL certs every 4.9 years and left 6 months ago. I'd like to see the RHEL stability model go away too and force people to complete their automation and solve the problems of being able to rebuilding on demand - and actually doing it.

(I know, most HN folk are well disciplined but there are a lot of corporate cultures that are not.)
Slightly off topic, but regarding the larger memory footprint of Kata containers, what is your opinion on KSM effectiveness in general for VMs?
In Cyprus, rental cars also have them (of course these are aftermarket).
I came here to say something similar, I didn't realize that the direction of the first and second loops was important, so about half of the time my shoe laces would come undone... I've not done the "Ian Knot", but now my shoes stay tied, and life is much, much better... 55 years too late!
> What better way

Open up all federal grants -- especially NSF grants -- to anyone with credentials or experience necessary to PI (so, a PhD or equivalent industry experience). Broaden the reviewer pool so that each panel is at least 51% non-Professor expert citizens.

I can do a LOT of advising and conduct a LOT of research with close to 0% overhead. But most NSF grants are only possible to get if you attach yourself to a university, and at that point it's just not worth the effort. Everyone loses, except for the academic industry, which gets heinously immoral labor laws exceptions so that TT professors and admins can retire-in-place on the taxpayer's dime in their mid 30s.

What possible actual reason does the NSF have for requiring research work to be done at universities?
The thing I would find hard is finding 2.5k job listings that I thought were compelling and would interest me, maybe I'm just picky?
What's not clear to me is that newer software is safer or just less tested.

Although it's possible that newer versions are more secure, I couldn't find evidence of it yet. (Links are welcome).
It's more like a researcher getting a $1M grant to study whether putting salt on a steak makes it taste better, and a chef saying "Wtf, we've been doing this forever"
I was instantly transported back to playing Kings Quest!
Trash approach, let the birds be, must you control everything?