skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a common problem in many large companies that have significant barriers to handing out promotions, like google's need to work on promotion packets, and passing past review processes. Often you will find that output and level have little to do with each other, including within a team.

Where I am working, my lowest level teammate is clearly among the most competent by most standards. The one person I'd delegate a task to and expect it to not just get marked as done, but actually get done. I have coworkers in the team multiple levels higher that might produce basically nothing in any 2 week sprint, and it's not because they are spending time in meetings and coordination: They just have minimal productivity. But getting rid of the worst is a major hassle, and the middling ones aren't worth getting a PIP. Other teams are in better positions to ask for uplevels, because they do more important things. Therefore, the only sensible approaches are to either take it very easy, lowering the performance curve, or changing teams/jobs to places where one can be upleveled properly.

It's not as if making it easy to fire and promote is a panacea: I've seen managers laying off their best workers because they were politically threatening, and teams getting little done that had everyone marked as a staff engineers. Ultimately performance is hard, and being bad at it, like keeping people underleveled for years, makes the organization degrade. Top paying companies like Google aren't immune.
Reminds me of code reviews, where sometimes a reviewer will go on a deep dive but usually they just scan it for obvious issues and typos. The thing is, even if my code is only getting a cursory review, I still prefer to have multiple people review it to increase the chances that obvious issues are caught. At least if it's important code.
Could easily make it free for all Americans for relative pennies compared to how much was allocated to foreign countries in the last year.
Misrepresentation of data and selective reporting to fit particular agendas of the last author are quite common. I have been involved in a couple of projects where I was asked to misrepresent or misreport findings.

Sadly, integrity offices will rarely conduct serious investigations, and won't conclude misconduct happened unless what was done was incredibly harmful. Professors are often too big to fail, they attract tons of grants and are politically entrenched.
Let's distinguish between papers and preprints, please. arXiv has contributed to a blurring of the distinction. The arXiv preprints are useful but should always be taken with a grain of salt. There is nearly no filtering done on things uploaded to arXiv.

Everyone accessing someone's uncritically reviewed work is a bittersweet gift.
Freedom to roam!
I've been in the process of planning a backyard observatory some and have been looking at all sky cameras to measure clouds, seeing and sky glow.

This project looks really promising, especially if it has an ascom driver
Did you read my comment? I literally addressed that in my 3rd paragraph. Okay, I called it “offline” instead of LAN.
It's simple enough, an Irish company called Apple licenses its very valuable IP to its entities in cheaper countries so they can do things like manufacturing, server farms, customer support.

(It also carries on these some of these functions in Ireland, as it happens, and pays a ton of tax at the relatively high income tax rates there.)

It's frankly curious to me when a multinational chooses to base itself anywhere less favourable.
Why are they able to offer internet connections profitably but wouldn’t be able to offer cell phone service?
VBScript helped me out of so many jams when I would have been otherwise hindered by government/military IT policies. Thanks for the memories.
Thank you! Thank you for explaining it in simpler terms. I get about 5% out of these papers but I got a lot more out of this break down.
This is doable only by Starlink because they're so low. They'll have very high gain antennas on the satellite - all satellite telephony needs that, these ones are presumably extra good.

I'm more interested in Doppler and timing advance. There's only limited Doppler correction in LTE - the satellites must be compensating for it. Although actually, I suppose they're mostly moving perpendicular to the direction of signal.
> It invalidates not just managers, but therapy, virtually any social function.

It doesn't, because it can't replace authenticity. That is, unless you never realize you're talking with an AI.

But if the human connection doesn't matter for you in a given context, then yes, GPT-4 can already compete with therapy, as well as with many social functions.
Individual parks often do contests like that, for example https://www.nps.gov/shen/youth-wildflower-art-contest.htm and https://www.nps.gov/long/learn/kidsyouth/student-poetry-cont....

There are also free passes specifically for 4th graders (and their families) for some reason: https://everykidoutdoors.gov/index.htm
No odea if true, but I had heard for Newfoundland it was to do with the salt in the air. Traditional paint wouldn't last long.
Do Apple next!
I can simply switch my password manager, import and export of passkeys isn't quite as easy if even possible with some password managers.
Sweden does not allow them to do that.

See https://visitsweden.com/what-to-do/nature-outdoors/nature/su... for more.
There isn't much the compiler can optimize on such a simple CPU as the m68k when the source is simple C or hand-optimized assembler code to begin with.
> The NPS does a fine job at providing the visitor services that AREN'T totally commercialized (rangers, upkeep, lotteries, etc.)

Some of those aspects of park operations have already been contracted out to a significant extent

https://www.wsj.com/articles/national-park-fees-booz-allen-6...

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-is-booz-allen-renting...
The support we want vs the support we need.

Some supervisors are good at determining what resources you need, most are not.
Nasty bug discovered in widely used Linux utility curl but patches are out
The US has deserts that lack any eco-systems that can be destroyed?

How exceptional.
Phone batteries are fine down to -20C and usually are functional to about -30C.

You should have no problem with that anywhere in the world as long as you keep it in an inner pocket. Perhaps pack wired earphones just in case you need to make a long call while keeping the phone itself warm.

Notably the battery should not be charged below about 5C. If you do, it will be permanently damaged.
I wonder if being deaf or hard of hearing is considered a disability in this context?
Aren't both weak with quantum computing just around the corner?
> there's not a single point there that affected me as an individual user

lol. all of these affected you. these changes alter the whole ecosystem and eventually yourself.
No need, farmers can repair. What they can't to is change emissions or steel parts. So long as you are doing the regular repair work farmers do there is no problem. When you do things beyond that things get hard.
I'm interested in your thoughts on this:

>The experience changed my perspective about pet ownership/stewardship in general: unless I really need an animal companion or a working animal (e.g. herding), I will never own another pet. I find it a luxury I can do without. I've had three dogs die in my lap now, and that's enough.

I understand not wanting to put yourself through the pain of loss, and have felt that too. Sometimes I don't want a pet because I feel the good times aren't worth the pain of parting. However, you went on to call it a luxury, which confused me. Is that because you will have to pay for the luxury, or because the animal will?

I've never had a pet I thought had a bad life, and it sounds like you were a good owner, so I don't get what the downside is.
Hmm.

Just my own opinion, but that doesn't sound like "everyone who abides to simple courtesy rules".

Pretty sure you wouldn't be able to do that in Sweden or the US.
So why don't we fine the people with 4,000 lbs vehicles if they're acting irresponsibly? It'd be great for these places to be free to those who respect the maintenance of them and just recoup the cost for people who are destructive.
Strange, if you unlock my phone you still can't access my password manager.
This is exactly how you end up with yet another a golf course or ski resort. The average American does not need or desire that.
I would definitely consider ADHD as a debilitating disability.
This is more like 1G wireless everywhere. That is what the experience will be like, texting, voice, and tiny amount of data.
ChatGPT4 and Codeium are all I need
When are you going to quit? When your manager starts using ChatGPT to summarize your review? When they start using it to automatically flag your async standup messages for signs of frustration? When they use it to prioritize tasks?

It's going to be a very slow burn (if you aren't just replaced with an AI), and no point will seem worth quitting over, until you're managed by the AI.
PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER was added in linux 3.4 (2012) and does your points 1..3, you got to kill stuff manually.

Workes well, needs bo superuser or special filesystems, always composable. Not sure why people don't use it much.
Imagine if vet care was twice as expensive.
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Reminds me of https://github.com/dexidp/dex
I don’t find it boring at all, haha. I have a feeling I chose the wrong career path.
Azure seems like a nightmare, regardless of whether GCP or AWS is better.
Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce[0]

[0] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/
In Branston Pickle, the third word, "Relish", is silent. So silent that it is omitted from the label.
It's quite normal to stay in pubs and B&Bs doing the Coast to Coast - that's how my wife and I did it for our honeymoon. Wild camping is not lawful on any(?) part of the route, and organised camp sites are relatively scarce for most of it.

Plus it's a pretty unusual through hike. It goes through three national parks, but it's nowhere wilderness and you're never more than about 10 route miles from a village. Resupply en route is fairly trivial.
It's not much of a caricature to say American courts discovered numbers circa the 1940s (cf Learned Hand's introduction of the concept in antritrust and negligence cases); before that they did just fine.
No we haven't, and ADHD is disabling for many people in a meaningful way. The criteria here is that a doctor says it is permanent and it "limits one or more aspects of their daily life".

It is also supposed to be a "severe" limitation, but I doubt someone with ADHD would be interrogated about this, everyone involved just wants more people to visit the parks.
> for some reason

Edit: I was sort of right, but I found this on the website:

“We chose fourth graders because research shows that kids ages 9 to 11 are beginning to learn about the world around them. They're open to new ideas, and they are likely to connect to nature and our history,”

Original answer:

5th grade is the year that students learn about US History. I think the theory is that they get a chance to see the national parks before they learn about them in 5th grade.
It isn’t? The blood meal is lower yield because it is less nitrogen.
Starlink has Aviation product for planes already. That gives internet in flight.

The Direct to Cell gives tiny bandwidth, kilobytes per second. Not enough for normal Internet. Should be enough to text or call somebody.
You can do this with PHP, too, but it’s on the rare side except in some templating niches.

The reverse-reserved-word convention like ‘fi’ to end an if block in shell (and other?) languages seems like it functions this way too.

And I guess significant indentation also does this job, albeit with some of its own hazards.
> IDK about ML part, but equivalent performing Ryzen mini pc cost me 3x less over m1 macbook

When running an ML workload, the Nvidea A100 has massive GPU compute resources, and a large amount of GPU local high bandwidth memory, so it's ideal, but is nowhere near low cost.

A consumer Ryzen chip is inexpensive, but lacks in both memory bandwidth and GPU resources.

The M2 Ultra has access to way more RAM than consumer GPUs, many times the memory bandwidth of a Ryzen (800GB/s vs Ryzen 7 1800X at 40 GB/s) with a large amount of local GPU resources.

Even stepping up to a Threadripper Pro would only get you a quarter of the memory bandwidth, and those aren't exactly cheap either.
Apple and others are working to explain how the majority of app and hardware sales have a nexus in Ireland.

But wait til you hear of Ugland House (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugland_House) in the Caymans - 10,000 sq ft, 5 stories...

... and registered offices of 42,000 companies.
I'm curious then what the physical ceiling is to this global floor, in terms of latency and bandwidth.
Aren't you talking about cgroups? They "allow processes to be organized into hierarchical groups whose usage of various types of resources can then be limited and monitored." `man cgroups` and `man unshare`.
It'd be wonderful if we just made it free for everyone - it's not like the dues that parks collect come even close to covering their maintenance. Make it free, increase their budget by like 5% and you won't even need to worry about purchasing expensive PoS terminals that will work three hundred miles from the nearest cell towers.
I'm very much not a C programmer, but I've never understood why it seems far more common to write `float *foo` instead of `float* foo`. The "pointerness" is part of the type and to me the latter expresses that far more clearly.
> I always saw the problem as: only one company or limited companies can manufacture them.

That is a really odd assumption. There are multiple companies making electrophoretic displays and multiple different technologies, of which only one is really commercially effective so far in a very limited niche space. Why don't you think physics is the limitation? I mean, don't you think above would be the equivalent of me saying that the reason we don't have daily flights to Mars is because SpaceX is the only manufacturer of Falcon Heavy.
Have you tried switching your password manager for passkeys?

Maybe because you had an iPhone and your new Phone is an Android, or you don't like the prices of 1password etc.

At the moment you are stuck.
Primer on GenAI and Privacy Regulation
Gardening, crafting, 3D printing.

I also organize Women in 3D Printing meetups.

My hobby energy fizzled out in my late 20s, but I've spent my 30s trying to cultivate deep and joyful interests.

I think what set me on this path was talking to a man in Germany who meticulously noted timings at a train station. He kept a little notebook and went into a great deal of depth about the local trends he noticed. Example: a certain train tended to run 2 minutes behind due to long boarding times at the previous stop, which was due to a wheelchair sports group. I think he tried to advocate for extra attendants on that particular day/route.
The Smithsonian's chart is one part stunning in its various bigotries and one part just tiresome in how predictable and accepted things like that are in the modern day.
Off road driving is not legal here. Not through the right that parent mentions, nor can you even do it on our own land. Only certain vehicles for certain purposes are allowed to drive in terrain. Offroading for fun, not allowed.

I was lazy and auto-translated the first paragraphs of the law in question:

"Off-road driving with a motorized vehicle for purposes other than agriculture or forestry is prohibited throughout the country
1. on bare ground,
2. on snow-covered forest land with sapling or young forest, if it is not obvious that driving can take place without risk of damage to the forest,
3. on snow-covered agricultural land, if it is not obvious that driving can take place without risk of damage to the land.

Within the parts of the mountain area determined by the government, off-road driving with a motorized vehicle is prohibited, even on ground other than that specified in the first paragraph."
I find your strange glee about this rather off-putting. It’s like you’re actively interested in harming this really valuable new type of service in any way possible.

Given that, I find it hard to take at face value anything you’re saying and that it’s much more likely that you’re trying to mislead people.

Also space is even less of a “limited resource” than completely unpopulated areas of the Earth is or the entire ocean’s surface is. It’s three dimensional rather than two dimensional. Any single orbital altitude has more surface area than the entire earth.
Cloud services rely a ton on marketing, B2B relations, and customer support. Google has never exactly been about that stuff, and GCP was suffering. So they pulled in Oracle, MSFT, etc execs, which lame as that sounds was probably the right move for GCP in particular.

And I guess this is the kind of marketing that attracts the customers they want.
"resolve conflicts when one person's decisions affect another person"

Your silly little metaphor would make sense if it was actually about how it "affected others". It's clearly not for the reasons I explained above.
> Comparing a major world power taking more land for itself by force

No, I was Comparing a Major world power (British Empire) taking more land for "other people from all over the world"

Good day for you too.
Who said anything about enemies. I just don't think someone that consciously bought into a exclusionary walled garden deserves any sympathy... because some external software doesn't work for them.
Twitter.com Is Down
https://downdetector.ca/status/twitter/

annnd back

edit: on coming back my browser is now asking me to install the Twitter/X.com app
To prove a permanent disability, one option is a statement by a licensed physician, which must include:

- that the individual has a PERMANENT disability
- that it limits one or more aspects of their daily life
- and the nature of those limitations.

Unless there's something about the nature of the limitations deafness seems like it would apply. (The other acceptable forms of proof are federal or state government-issued documents.)
Would it be possible to estimate viscosity using a calibrated pump and some kind of “time to spray” test (in which a specific amount of force is used to express the fluid through a nozzle), then use that viscosity measurement to set the pressure for the spray to get more consistent results?

Or does that make absolutely no sense? I’m not sure how you can reliably measure fluid properties in order to get consistent spray patterns. It seems like it would be useful here, though.

You can tell I’m not an engineer :)
I think the implication of the parent poster is that it's difficult to imagine why ADHD could put you at increased COVID risk to the point of needing Paxlovid. That makes no sense to me but I'm all ears as to the logic here.
I am philosophically opposed to ever using Zelle.

The banks behind Zelle openly stated in Zelle's planning that one of the motivations behind it was liability shifting, away from the banks, on to consumers. Other benefits to the consumer are just to make the platform more appealing.
I've been curious about using LLMs for large-scale refactoring. Prompts like

anywhere you find `FooBarBaz(blip, kap)` replace it with `new newThing(blip).bump(kap)`

I don't know how reliable it is, but it seems like if you can easily run this on commodity hardware it could totally replace most IDE refactoring tools, although obviously the IDE refactoring is more reliable, it seems like this could be made simple and flexible, and possibly just as reliable as IDEs.

But also it could enable some interesting things that you could never do with an IDE refactoring tool.
LOL. Sure, so you'll be removing your AC, heat, and refrigeration because it's LITERALLY KILLING ME AND FUTURE GENERATIONS.

I can do it too bud and I can't wait till they come after something you want and take it forcefully from you to "save the children".

It's just plain gross incompetence at this point to think any of this about creating a safer society. How laughable.
Oooooooookay, so I'm not about to do this down, because I think it's awesome, but I do think it's time for a little more up-front transparency here.

When I clicked through and hit play on the first video I braced myself for the worst framerate in human history and/or a tiny viewport, and so my jaw briefly dropped when I was greeted with neither of those. The game is basically fullscreen and runs great: a perfectly respectable (for the time - I know a lot of you will moan about games that don't run at a constant 60fps but, man, maybe you don't know what it was like back then) 25 - 30fps, and a frankly amazing framerate for the Amiga. Plenty of 2D games couldn't have reliably held that and just forget it for any kind of 3D.

Then my rational mind kicked in with, "There's no effin way that's running on an A500 with a stock 68k CPU running at 7.16/7.09MHz."

And, sadly, I'm right: there is no effin way. The footage was recorded from an A1200 with a stock 68020 running at 14MHz. The graphics are OCS compatible, and I've no doubt the engine is caning the OCS blitter to within an inch of its life, so it looks exactly the same as it would on an A500, but you ain't getting that kind of framerate without more horsies than the A500's 68k can supply.

With that being said, the game runs at 10 - 12 fps on a stock A500 with 1MB RAM (512K chip + 512K fast, so you need the 1.3 ROMs and the Fatter Agnus), which is still incredibly impressive. For a lot of solid polygon 3D games back in the day - think F/A-18 Interceptor, F-19 Stealth Fighter, and even games like Starglider 2 - drops to single digit framerates if not exactly the norm, were certainly commonplace (I remember F-19 being particularly bad for this). I seem to remember the Amiga version of Elite held a pretty decent framerate but, to be fair, the polygon count was very low, and it had a pretty small viewport. By comparison with these games, the Grind visuals, at 10 - 12 fps, on a bog standard A500 with an absolutely era appropriate amount of memory are nothing short of extraordinary.

If, in 1990 - 1993, or even after I'd first played DOOM on a mate's dad's 486SX in summer 1994, you'd shown me Grind running on my Amiga 500 at 10 - 12 FPS I would probably have fainted or jizzed myself or something equally ridiculous. It would have literally blown my mind.

Incredible work.

EDIT: Is it me or is the shotgun sound effect a slightly edited version of the DOOM shotgun sound effect? Not complaining, because it's an awesome sound, but just wondering if others are hearing the same thing I am.
Why would someone's education be relevant, the point of the interview is to determine if they're actually educated on the relevant topics.
> Have we as a society come to define disabilities so broadly that the term has basically become meaningless?

We’re getting close, but it’s okay. Expansion of the term has helped people and we’ll eventually come up with new common language to distinguish more and less catastrophic forms of disability.
Passkeys makes your phone the only target, without your phone you can't access anything but with your phone you can access everything.
That's not true at all but nice try. (see EV sales)

Creating excuses for totalitarianism is fun.
I don’t understand the distinction. Doesn’t artificiality imply both ‘fakeness’ as well as ‘being man made’?

Artificial flavorings are both. Artificial limbs are both. Artificial turf is both. Artificial intelligence is faked, manufactured intelligence.
Hate to see it...