skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expecting your senior engineers to be producing like exponentially or even linearly more work is not utilizing those engineers' expertise correctly, especially at a startup, in my opinion.

Seniors and especially higher should be expected to be spending some amount of their time on mentorship, helping others, creating/advancing product initiatives by planning or coordinating. If your product managers are flying solo with no input or even having non-technical managers dictate, that's worse than pulling seniors into some planning.

I've never had someone lay this out for me but my experience is there is a large chasm between senior and higher. Bridging that chasm generally doesn't come with increased individual technical output, it comes with utilizing others to advance projects with you.

That isn't to say senior+ can have no technical output all the time but I wouldn't be demo-ing an engineering RFC or new engineering initiatives at a demo day which will be consumed by other teams. Demo days aren't for the engineers or even product team; they already know what they did that week, I can go into version control or listen at standup.
Almost every human population is under strong selection pressure towards having more people. This dip in fertility cannot and will not last.
By definition communism has no ruling class. You must be thinking of Marxism, a.k.a. State Capitalism. It is capitalism because the state simply takes over the role of capitalist. I recommend looking into libertarian forms of communism like anarcho-communism. The "classic" introduction to anarchist communism is The Conquest of Bread [1], but that's a whole book. If you're looking for a quick introduction, I suggest Life Without Law [2].

- [1]: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/strangers-in-a-tangl...

- [2]: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/strangers-in-a-tangl...
You may love the movie "the night agent"

Basically one of these secret numbers and how used, fictional but still a good movie

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I just recalled a memory from when I was nine years old:

My dad was friends with the Secretary of energy, and I recall we had some pen or stationary or such...

And (1983) [EDIT: it was 83 because war games] these had the phone number to the white house on them...

So, as a typical latch-key 80s kid with nothing to do in the summer while parents are working and I'm home alone, I called the White House several times asking to speak to the President.

I didnt get through... and that summer I went to see the release of WAR GAMES.

Man Phreaking had never been sexier... hello 2600!
Yes, but you need to consider purchasing power parity and cost of living, as well as out-of-pocket expenses which in other countries might be included in taxes or paid by the employer.
In stories like this, I think that sort of thing is less about mental gymnastics, and more about picking a less controversial target to make their point with.
Much simpler than that. Price controls cause supply shortages.
1/100 UK properties is an (Airbnb) short let of some sort. But I don't buy that a few highly-leveraged people panic-selling their portfolios is going to bring down house prices at all.

Even if that caused some _local_ downward pressure on house prices, why would that affect the demand for short lets? It might reduce the supply, so local room rates would go up. The remaining owners would have a lower-valued asset producing higher returns - a better return on a percentage basis, and in cash.

Few people holding cash-generating property will be pushed into selling by a dip; lots of them will have held through 2007-14. Property value as investment is (still) a bit of a religion here.

Councils and national regs have far more potential to dent Airbnb numbers (e.g. I'd guess we'll see sales tax added on nationally by the next government). But I don't see the political will anywhere yet, even in places like Edinburgh and London that have unusual regulation.
The top answer is very good, it's a shame it's entombed in the eternally dank and odorous depths of Quora.
> We know our ancestors would have had Vit D concentrations around these levels so there's no good reason to think it would be unhealthy either.

Yeah, I certainly don't think it's unhealthy, I just haven't seen any studies demonstrate really any effect at all over the lowest normal value. If you have some studies I'd love to see them so I can cite them in the future.

I think we're basically in agreement.
Exactly, and we frequently see Federal Aid in lots of big disasters. Eventually, the government will be the only insurance organization that covers the catastrophic events where we really need insurance the most, and then we can stop pretending that private for-profit insurance is something that our society wants. The government is already the "insurance" for so many different types of things that we should just lean into it 100%.
You don't need a university education to do those things, just some curiosity.

The function of the university in the near future will probably just be to have like-minded curious people to discuss ideas with, and to get a better grasp of what problems need to be solved (specifically scientific ideas, rather than just applying engineering).

The prestige element (specifically of certain universities over others, perhaps not university over high school) is dwindling, and hopefully will be abolished with this new generation.
Let me nitpick: The headline alone is right: Tidal energy cannot be renewed. But that is true for all renewables like wind and solar, because "renewable" is a misnomer. Real renewal would violate thermodynamic's 2nd law.
What the author actually seems to doubt is the ABUNDANCE of tidal energy (but supports that with questionable assumptions (cf. other comments here))
Can you share a few of the most personally impactful?
The Most Famous Photos in the World and the Cameras That Captured Them
I'd say all of them but YMMV.
what's not being said: unless you're rich, it's much better to aim for a small, profitable business within the first 3 months and a low 7 figure exit. If you can't figure out how to do this, work for someone else until you do.

I think the genz are very aware of this.
The original Porter-Duff compositing operators don’t cover Photoshop-style blending. Here’s a link with pictures:

http://ssp.impulsetrain.com/porterduff.html

The Porter-Duff operators are appealingly rigorous and easy to implement because they’re simply the possible combinations of a simple formula. But many of these operators are not very useful either.

The Photoshop blending modes are practically the opposite: they are not derived from anything mathematically appealing, it’s really just a collection of algorithms that Photoshop’s designers originally found useful. They reflect the limitations of their early 1990s desktop computer implementations (for example, no attempt is made to account for gamma correction when combining the layers, which makes many of these operations behave very differently from actual light that they mean to emulate).
Your original assertion that I took issue with was that "self driving cars are not important other than for a few exec egos."

I'll happily admit there are problems with autonomous vehicles today, and that is not what I dispute. What I dispute is that autonomous vehicles are not important. And of course they are. They would free up more human time than any other invention on the horizon.

However, to the non sequitur point about safety, we are not designing a system from scratch. The existing system has two million crashes per year in the US alone. If the new system has one million crashes, that's a massive improvement.

> There is basically no meaningful difference between a self driving Tesla and a train. The only explanation for why you don’t hear people discussing the myriad times that commuter trains veer into traffic or otherwise behave in dangerous and unpredictable ways must be collective ignorance and hypocrisy.

Once again, you've quickly switched the point to something different. The question was if an astronomically expensive train that carries a mere 3,000 riders a day is also worthy of derision, since few people use it, and all it does is replace walking, freeing them up to play Wordle during their commute.
My impression from HN was that people were not very happy with the quality of the teachers in SF. But maybe I am wrong.
That's fascinating!

In the thread of this thought, to search for intelligent life off-planet sort of misses the point, doesn't it? Here we have an intelligent species with a common ancestor, which we may assume to be easier to communicate with than an extra-terrestrial being. And we have hardly begun to attempt to communicate with our earthly neighbor in a meaningful way, but we have projects probing the cosmos for signals from space.
Trusting "open source" is also how we get tons of other kinds of vulnerabilities, but that doesn't mean open source is unworthy of trust.

The reason why organizations turn to other companies to deliver this is because there's a "throat to choke" for when things go wrong and a financial incentive to fix the inevitable issues when they come up.
Than you for the update. I will be keeping an eye on this for further developments.
Probably most TBH. Thin to the puzzle game players and ranked competitive ppl it's mostly about the mechanics.
In 1989, I worked on a software upgrade to a nuclear power plant. We were adding digital displays to the control room. I needed a place to work and they stuck me in the disaster response room. Definitely amongst the weirdest place I've been placed to work. Besides the rack of level a hazmat suits, there was also a shelf with phones that directly dialed first responders and government officials. They did pointedly ask me not to pick up any of those phones. I did always wonder how they worked technically.
The problem with your supposed argument is that just because companies don't want to insure against eventd of type Y because they think they're likely or costly does not mean that they're caused by reason X.

Your argument is, on logical merits, not good enough to create a causation between, what I presume is "human influenced global warming increase" and "natural disaster increase".

Now I realize this being a politically charged topic that people look at in an absolutist way, a response that looks only at the logical proposition of your comment, might not be well received.
Imagine someone tells you about how someone committed a crime and asks you to summarise. Now imagine the same question is asked to a lawyer. Even if you both knew the same facts, the response would be very different in style, highlighted points, mentioned references, etc. The domain specific fine tuning does exactly that. Sure, sometimes you can get very close by changing the prompt to include "respond like a lawyer in situation X with following extra rules", but not always and the fine-tuning gives better results and shorter prompt.
They didn't say the language was the issue. It doesn't support the full C spec. But if you want a reason why language might be an issue for a compiler, it could make compilation time slower. But I think the point of this project is not real world use but fun demonstration of skill
I think it is worth mentioning here that Microsoft does not care about user privacy.

I don't know if this is because Microsoft took down the blog posts and press releases or because Google web search sucks now (different conversation) but I had trouble finding the source for Microsoft statement. I'm talking about the incident when Microsoft spied into a user's hotmail email contents.

> However, to determine the identity of the leaker, CNET reveals, Microsoft actually looked through the Hotmail email of a French blogger who was in contact with the leaker, and make available online early copies of Windows 7 and Windows 8, as well as means that allowed users to circumvent activations protection for Microsoft and Windows.

https://bgr.com/general/microsoft-hotmail-and-outlook-privac...

I wouldn't give Microsoft any benefit of the doubt. While I have utmost respect for the people (who I know and) who work there, the senior leadership has always been poopy at best. I would never trust a word they say.
Hah. I came here to post the same thing. He's definitely a permabear. I like some of his insights, but in the past he and his circle of friends have rarely been right. (Of course when they were, they were really right.)
Maybe you already have an old MacBook Pro?
The problem is that a lot of wealth is tied up in the real estate markets of these areas. If the government were to declare them uninhabitable, it would have to pay out at least some compensation to the owners, and that would be a huge amount of money, politically completely unviable.
You can have this rant as you please but that doesn't change the fact that Microsoft is following the what the license requires and did nothing wrong.
WASM: Big deal or little deal?
Maybe the "terrible" part you are referring to is rxjs. If so, signals should make things easier.
Do you run your own Steam content caching server, or do weekly Steam Backups to have local kinda-recent images of the bigger games (or do you just download it fresh post-wipes)?
I used to like Burger King burgers better than McDonald’s burgers but then my preference changed. I just read that in 2013 they changed the machine they use to cook burgers and that is why they went downhill.

Remember how subway got sued because the footlong was less than a foot long? In the last few years they changed their ingredients and it just doesn’t taste as good as it used to.
Well thank you.

Your comments are really encouraging
I think the code is fairly readable! It's formatted with Black (and therefore limited to reasonable line lengths) and well-commented.

IMO, being under X lines of code is part of the readability—10,000 lines of code is hard to approach no matter how readable it otherwise is.
It requires you to have a Microsoft/Facebook/Google account in the first place.
There's certainly less effort to fight wild fires this season. I know several helicopter pilots who say they have to get approval for each bucket drop where before they just flew agreed on hours. They say it's a joke, completely budget driven. They'd have several fires they worked on out sooner if they were not subject to this. On the ground it's the same, extreme focus on safety, not working over time, not using quads, heli attack crews cancelled. Only getting intense when it gets close to structures.

So you get record fires here in Canada. Lowest area burned in USA in decades.

Politicians save budget, don't get called to account because of course it's climate change.

Bringing in the insurance angle, they are suffering more losses, the areas are built up more in fire prone forested land, houses are more expensive and there is less labour to fight fire. Poor history of fuel management too. So they are raising rates and I don't blame them. It's easy to just say climate change. Maybe it's a way to appropriate the land back to the elites.
I agree. For some things yaml is good enough. XML, JSON and s-exprs are also good enough. Everything is good enough until it isn’t. At that point your configuration becomes code becomes configuration becomes code you know the drill.

My point is that the more complex use cases like GitHub actions conditions invent their own DSLs in yaml string values anyway because nobody wants to write in a half broken lisp but in yaml instead of s-exprs, so suddenly you’re writing yaml but with JavaScript. Might as well start out with JavaScript and not pretend it’s a simple declarative language when it clearly isn’t. CDK people clearly saw that, not sure if execution is optimal, but at least the general purpose tooling works (libraries, types, tests, IDEs, etc).
This is a bit rich. I read my Apache httpd log files. Facebook at least selectively reads my web site files. Said web site is a goofy little personal blog, plus some experiments with faking out WordPress login brute-forcers.

I imagine that if you had good content, Facebook would be all over it.

My answer to this is: "You first".
For us it varies dramatically by team, but the problem is a WFH policy needs to be company wide for the most part. All it takes is for a few teams to cause a problem for everyone.

>>people in the office often aren't particularly productive either.

Some of that depends on how you define "productive", having non-work related conversations while in the work place may not be "productive" but it is team building

Watching netflix, or doing your laundry when you should be working on a report is neither team building or "productive"

Further lots of informal conversations are how many many many many business decisions are made, and how lots of information flows through a company.

So many times I have been made aware of new projects, changes, or other things happening in the company simply because I happened to see someone in the hall and they happen to mention it... That would never happen on a formal call. meeting, etc in a fully remote environment.
I've breed for years, and have tasted brews from plenty of small breweries. Off-tastes that take 6 months to clear?

Seems to me that there are two choices: (a) either this guy is totally full of himself - you know, like the wine snob who tastes blueberries from the south side of the Alps in Spring after a rainfall. Or else (b) he has hygiene problems in his brewing and bottling.

Since he sounds professional, I'll go with option (a).
> No, you just have a portfolio that consists of a bunch of random assets.

No, I have a diversified portfolio that consists of 5 asset classes divided into percentages that match my risk appetite.

While I am regularly in derivatives too, currently I am not for some specific reasons.
Performance review feels broken. Big tech companies nearly stop all the work for two months.

People whose value for the company is not for the next level get promoted due to luck or their ability to hack the system. Those who perform for the next level are not promoted.

The system feels broken. But! It is the best working process in big tech. And, on average, this bureaucracy helps to limit politics.

Basically perf review process feels horrible, till you work in a company that does not have it.

Limitations discussed in the text like manager could not explain why XXX exceeds on her role feels strange.

In every big company there is a career path document that shows what types of tasks person is expected to do at each level. You perform well on your level - (ME) meets expectations, you perform on the higher level - (EE) exceeds or strongly exceeds (SE).

You perform for 1 year+ on the higher level (typically EE + SE) + apply for promo => you get promo.

It is more or less standard across big tech.

Again, the system could be hacked, but on average it works.

P.S. Part about "you deserve" in the title and across the text talks about unhealthy entitlement. I would imagine that if engineer come to me and instead of showing evidence of how they consistently perform for the next level will talk about what they deserve it would not end with a promotion.

P.P.S. Read the text only till "This post is for paying subscribers only"
Yeah, I remember the copying. At some parties we spent a lot of time doing that.

Some CDNs use HTTP with post-download verification (I hope). I suppose local caching is the reason for that decision; think big LAN parties with a "only" a few gigabit/s of connectivity (if at all).

A nice solution is what Steam does: The client checks a magic DNS entry (lancache.steamcontent.com), which you're intended to override [0]. It then just works.

For Riot, Blizzard, Epic and Windows Update I've set 36 overrides in dnsmasq (they supply a script for that); those are branded akamai hosts and such.
It supports more launchers and platforms/consoles, but from the big list [1] that's all we needed.

Now GOG uses HTTPS, so for the reason you stated that can't really be cached for random 3rd party machines. Subsequently, if LanCache gets an HTTPS connection, it simply proxies the encrypted connection to the correct server using SNI sniffing.

Regarding bandwidth: Two games on our list were CS:GO and LoL. IIRC four people had to install CS:GO and six people had to install LoL. We could have setup file shares, copied the data (as usual, with multiple people saturating the first share to come online, and nobody using the second or third share), hope laymen know where their steam library lives and to put the correct folder there... or just let them download the games directly from the client, except on a virtual 10 Gb/s pipe ;-)

Though to be fair: In Steam you can configure the client to allow others to download their games from you on the local network. If enabled, you can configure to share with "only me", "steam friends" and "everyone". They added the feature earlier this year[2]; probably for the Steam Deck?
One of the attendees installed Baldurs Gate 3 (>100GB) from a friend that way.
However, the local download feature wins over the lancache, which messed things up a bit when everyone installed CS:GO and pulled that from a single PC instead the server; so we had everyone disable that.

I'm now running a smaller cache on my home server. Additionally, I have a spare server sitting here that's collecting dust. I think I'll permanently designate that my LanCache server for future LAN parties.

[0] https://lancache.net/news/2020/01/14/steam-client-now-suppor...
[1] https://github.com/uklans/cache-domains
[2] https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46BD-6BA8-B012-CE...
> It's not uncommon to visit tourist-magnet cities and see entire buildings with only a few lights

Maybe they're just not home?
If they have to ask it questions like this to argue that it can't reason, then to me that looks like some cope and that it can reason just fine it's just kind of dumb from its limited model size, data size, and cpu amount.
Configuring emacs isn't a test of intelligence, it's a test of investment. I wish the mindset that conflates intelligence and investment would go away.

Software is going to continue to play a bigger influence on everyones life. The majority of this software is going to be written by engineers of average intelligence. Having tools that are easier for everyone to use will make your life better down the line too.
Insurance firms are one of the few capitalistic entities that have a financial incentive to invest deep budgets finding and highlighting unpleasant empirical facts, rather than burying them.

This is secondhand. I have been told property insurance experts lean semi-conservative politically but almost all of them firmly believe not only climate change is real, but incoming catastrophe.
You should perhaps consider an iPad with mouse & keyboard + Jump Desktop app.

I haven’t used it myself but have seen a lot of praise for how well it works. On a LAN, it should be even better
Sure, but if the lenders find themselves out of pocket because insurers repeatedly refuse to pay, they will change behaviour too - such as by no longer lending.

Also, no such requirement in the U.K. - 3rd party vehicle insurance is mandatory, but home insurance is up to you - no lender I’ve ever had has mandated it.
>>> Problem: Programmers with negative productivity cannot be represented on the same log scale.

This is similar to the problem of price-to-earnings ratio. The ratio goes asymptotic as earnings goes through zero. It would be better to quote earnings-to-price ratio. Another screwy reciprocal unit is miles per gallon for cars.
LibreOffice can open and edit PDFs. Last time I tried it was really good. Not sure what limitations are there.