skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're missing/misunderstanding the mechanism for the above. Boards willfully don't know much of anything at a large corp (especially with all the DEI nonsense putting even less competent people on the board). You have to remember that this is an infinitely repeating game and there's basically only two board member strategies at play and they depend on whether there is a single large and involved shareholding block or not. if there is a large shareholding block actively involved you can play the competent and possibly disagreeable board member strategy because your tenure on the board is based on keeping the involved shareholder happy and voting for you. If there is no large and involved shareholding block (i.e. many, many large companies today) then the winning board member strategy is getting management to keep recommending you because an overwhelming majority of the time the uninvolved smaller shareholders vote management recommendation.

You want a board to behave like the first scenario, but it's usually the second scenario you are in. As the game repeats that translates to higher comp to the ceo and to the board (since the ceo recommends his buddies deserve more comp) and the board basically tries to side with the ceo as far as it can without incurring personal legal liability and as long as that ceo doesn't underperform in a way that is publicly embarassing they can often hold on for several years and make out with millions while the board gets decent comp for almost no work.

I don't think you can easily fix this but I do notice that many of these companies are pretty clearly oligopolists under the pre-rehnquist definition so the solution could take the form of breaking these large companies up until the smaller companies do end up with a share holding block that both cares and is big enough to discipline the board and ceo.
I think Mumble's popularity in EVE scene is due to its support for talking to multiple channels simultaneously and ability to do hierarchical voice channels. This is require for large scale battle coordination. Battle group commanders can talk to each other and then command their ships without risk that any "lower level" can talk on top of them and so on.
> I don't think it has less meaning than the idea that the most sere and hostile environment for our species that we've yet been able to access - the deadliest imaginable desert, accessible only at vast effort and expense - has for our taking the boundless cornucopia of riches that space maximalists constantly promise, and with no more support than you complain I offer.

We've already benefited greatly from just the process of trying to get there. Even if there is no "riches" to be had in terms of extracting resources from alien planets, we still gain from our endeavors. This can be indirectly through technological advancements made in service to that mission (which we've seen plenty of already), or it can simply be in the pursuit of knowledge in the understanding of our universe.

> Meanwhile you blithely argue that some significant fraction of a trillion dollars, available in this happy counterfactual from what had been the war department's budget, should be devoted to this and nothing else, with no thought to the opportunity cost - and demand I justify myself in arguing we should better do otherwise!

Why do you assume that there is not thought to the opportunity cost? It's quite clear that we have different priorities on how humanity should allocate its resources but to say that it's not a consideration is just crass. The amount of human productivity we dedicate towards space exploration is a remarkably small percent of what's available, and a lot of that is driven by individual's interest in it.

The space program's budget is minuscale compared to what we spend elsewhere, maybe around 5% of a trillion dollars. That's a significant amount of money, but you seem to think that could be better spent on... what, exactly? Let's say we reallocate that budget to social security. That'd be adding less than 4% to its budget, which is already over a trillion dollars. Or the combined spend of medicaid and medicare, in which case it would be less than 3%.

> That opportunity cost would be measured in human lives, consigned to neglectful death in the service of your cause

A lot of things have indirect consequences, positive and negative. Many things that have dramatically improved the livelihoods of humanity have come at a great cost.

> but whether by neglect or murder, dead is dead. You'd be far from the first so to act; history is replete with examples, even ignoring the one we live among now. Such people are sometimes called to account. What would you say if you were?

The advancements made by curious people has made the world less impoverished and less "dead." Even if 100% of human productivity was allocated towards protecting human life, people will still die. That is life. At what point in your hypothetical world where you got to make these policies would it be acceptable for humanity to start exploring space again? When humans stop dying?

Humanity's driven by curious people willing to explore well beyond what seems rational to most people, not myopic luddites who would eschew entire avenues of exploration simply because they can't understand the utility in it.
I wonder if the cost can be cut by replacing computer part with ESP32 at the cost of losing .iso mount and video input quality, and at the same time take out SD card anxiety. The only problem is difficulty of getting framebuffer cheaply, I think.
They talk about 1000 books, what about 10,000?
Just that it does. You only get ads in music videos then.
> I will tell my computer to blank the screen and mute the audio when an ad is playing.

Indeed, but you'll still have to wait for the ad to play. YouTube can definitively win this race if they decide so.
Reading your comment, my first thought was "how entitled??", but I see that this meeting was set up by the DO founders? Aoutch.
But programmers are expected to get the semantics right. Sure, it happens to mismatch temperatures and dollars, but it’s called a bug and you will be expected to fix it
I think there's even greater utility in telling people about minor things that might annoy them, because those minor things aren't going to get a developer's application pulled from the app store, but have a meaningful impact on the user's experience.

That is, in fact, exactly what reviews are for.
It's possible, and that's why I wouldn't broadly recommend it. It's been a while since I heard anyone use browser 0days through ads, but it's still rather annoying to have to keep in mind.

I ran AdNauseam for a while but in combination with a PiHole the result wasn't interesting. Every clicked link ended up blocked by PiHole anyway. Perhaps it's for the best.

I wonder if one could set up an isolated VM that can click these links for you in a Firecracker style 5 second VM isolated from anything important. It could probably run in the cloud, all you'd need to do is forward the GET/POST request the Google Ads redirect causes and let a virtual browser do its thing.
This entire principle is very believable and makes me uncomfortable
These people aren't talking about sports that require skill. They just mean physical activity anyone can do, like hiking.

The actual meaning of the advice is to find a physical activity you can tolerate in order to find a mate who isn't fat. It is a way to make their completely reasonable and relatable position on fat people seem like something noble. "My mate and I enjoy hiking. It is our shared interest." The reason I know what I'm saying is true is because every time this discussion comes up, people peddle the shared interest bullshit and inevitably bring up 'physical activity.' And sorry for getting a hair up my ass about it, I just find it crazy when people can't just say what they mean: If you are an average man who prefers a woman with a nice body and you dislike or are unsuccessful on dating apps, try going to a group activity that will filter out fat chicks. The end. Nothing pretending this is anything but another attempt at finding a mate.
I had the Photos metadata on Apple Photos, so I intended to delete and free up space on Google Photos. We are no longer using it as a backup but have kept it for other friends and families who are still on Google.

I went through the process, and Google didn’t make it easy. I wrote about it at https://brajeshwar.com/2021/how-to-delete-all-photos-and-get...
Yes. We all get spam. Even the best of us.
What I’m also present to is the additional risk of post-rejection awkwardness while sharing the same community long term.

My communities are very valuable to me which makes such an endeavor high stakes.

So I thread lightly.
I can't ever debug anything on Istio, it is like playing around with configurations hoping to finally sort it out, usually takes a couple of hours to sort every issue.
Well since you are not cheap you can just buy premium for all of us. Thanks in advance.
I'm that guy.

After getting laid off, I did legitimately fail some basic programming tests. Some combo of nerves and rustiness, I expect.

I've found that practicing leetcode-like problems was necessary and sufficient for fixing that.
England's King is a perfectly legitimate thing to say.
In fairness, all they were looking out for was themselves, as most companies do in most interviews. If it was someone with say 5 years of experience, rather than yourself, it'd be the same deal so don't take it personally. Waste of your time definitely, and they should be clear on what the role is up front, but it's typical of some recruitment process where the folks doing the actual leg-work to hire new staff don't have much of a clue what's required beyond maybe a half-page job spec.
The lack of MST support caught me by surprise. Six years ago, I intentionally bought an expensive monitor with USB-C and daisy-chaining support as the second screen so that the monitor itself would be able to function as my dock. Lo and behold, it worked fine on Windows but not on MacOS. Had to buy a dock separately and now have one more thing cluttering my desk.

I spent so long troubleshooting and trying to figure out why it didn't work before I stumbled on this article[1].

[1]: https://sebvance.medium.com/everything-you-need-to-know-abou...
Since it makes no mention of ipv4 or ipv6 I'm going to hope it's underlying ip protocol agnostic and works in the UDP/TCP level only, which would encompass all TLS and QUIC behaviours too.

Past experience with k8s suggests this hope is prone to being wishful thinking.
The difference with newspapers and magazines is that publishers cannot add more advertising to something that has already been published. But with electronic hardware that’s exactly what’s happening. A smart TV you purchased yesterday might suddenly start showing additional advertisements tomorrow. Or next month. Etc.

The fact that we’ve lost the ability to own the stuff we buy is pretty infuriating for people like myself who grew up owning stuff.
Some of us remember our 2008 MacBook pros GPUs dying and apple refusing to fix it. Their electronics have, however never let me down.
Imagine Samsung battery incident on another level!
> It’s like 15 years behind
Did you expect 4090 performance on a system you can pick up for less than $300?

Finished TOTK last week and had a lot of fun with it. I'm not blind and can clearly see jaggies, frame drops and resolution drops, but nowhere in the game did that really interfere with the core gameplay or make it impossible to enjoy it.

While newer systems have more detail, most of the time it's imperceptible since you don't have time to look at the scenery anyway and when it matters (e.g. when rendering faces) it still doesn't look realistic to me. Burning a kilowatt just to get a bit more detail or framerate for the same old gameplay just sounds insane to me.
It is not entitled in any case! Interview bait/switch can be frustrating and a waste of precious time.
Most engineers don’t learn linear algebra, they learn a bit of matrix and vector math in real Euclidean spaces. They don’t learn anything about vector spaces or the algebra behind all of it. What they learn would only be considered “advanced mathematics” 200 years ago, when Gauss first developed matrices.
As in most cases, "HTML5" has little to do with this and it's all javascript.
I'm also a heavy user of ad blockers, but there is something to be said in defense of YouTube.

Creators have the final decision on the ads shown. I have a YouTube channel, and I always disable monetization on all my videos, so no ads are ever shown on my channel.

If you see an ad, it's because the creator decided to include one. YouTube is simply the platform that enables this choice.
I was hoping the Twitter link would go somewhere else etc. for a few hops
> mitigations for newly discovered spectre-like attacks have to be done software side, but successive processor generations will bake those mitigations into the silicon to reduce the performance penalties associated with software fixes.

This is not correct. Spectre-like bug in the same privilege domain (as to the CPU) is just unfixable. Meltdown, L1TF etc were fixed in hardware because they leak data across hardware enforced privilege domains (i.e. userspace/kernel/enclave), in this sense it is a hardware bug.

In case of browser, the CPU feature is "CPU is eager to leak arbitrary data in the same address space even if on the face the code does not seem to do it". This can't be fixed in the hardware because it's not a hardware bug: there's no hardware implemented security boundary, it's purely software defined.
Your second sentence is correct and invalidates your first sentence. We don't need any "radical changes," we only need to implement existing solutions at the right scale. Once we have enough solar panels, wind turbines and battery cells, a tipping point is reached where the cost of renewable energy plummets so hard that fossil fuel energy becomes catastrophically uneconomical. Economics will take care of the "radical change."

These existing solutions are already on an exponential growth curve and cost decline. They have been for ages. We're on the right path right now; sadly most people find it difficult to see ahead beyond linear growth.

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[To be clear, here I am responding to the challenge of bringing greenhouse gases emissions to a level which ends the rise of global CO2. It's a solved problem with lag time. The collapse of biodiversity is the political and sociological problem I referred to in a previous post.]
Epic is basically enterprise-grade software. And every hospital, forget health care systems, is an enterprise. Which makes it very difficult to break that moat.
As Python 2, Java 8 and .NET Framework have proven, that never works out that painlessly, plenty of people are still stuck on those versions to this day, with no end in sight, regardless how much the modern versions get pushed.

Regarding C, it isn't also not standing still and WG14 is quite clearly turning it into "C++ without classes" kind of language, look forward to more _Generic improvements and upcoming lambdas in C29.
The time and money I save by using ad blockers, I use for helping other people, the world, the environment. I don't feel morally guilty for blocking adds.
Oh he keeps a diary then :-)
Couldn't you run Windows 95 or 98 on DOSBox on your phone just for fun? (never tried myself, maybe there is something better than DOSBox for that)
I've just spent the past week refactoring code that was too slow because joins were being performed by a loop in the code rather than just doing a join in the first place.

Replacing 3 classes, and numerous methods with two 6 line queries that does the same task in a thousandth of the time is quite satisfying.
If you study mathematics at a rigorous level then you learn by writing proofs. Then you will rack your brain for hours or even days trying to figure out how to prove some simple things. It is not at all “going through the motions” at that point!
How about "I want to get something for the price previously agreed"? I didn't start out blocking ads because there was a reasonable amount for them. There no longer is. Youtube broke their implicit agreement with me, so I really don't feel bad for doing the same in return.

If youtube ever manages to actually block adblockers I'll simply stop using youtube.
Boards are often composed of failed or failing CEOs, celebrities, and others with questionable management skills.

Let's say you are on the board of Apple and you are looking at Tim Cook's retirement. Would you look at a Senior VP from Microsoft? An Associate COO of Intel? The former CTO of Ford Motors? A department head at Via? Ryan Reynolds? The CFO of Apple? The person who was Jim Keller's coworker at Harris and DEC, and worked two levels below Jim Keller at AMD and SiByte?

Can you or anybody put in writing what qualities a prospective CEO of Apple should possess that would differentiate one of these candidates above the others? Let's say you are Al Gore or Al Gorsky. How do you decide who to hire?
> every time some neurologist tried to compare brains to neural networks

Value of this comment aside, it kind of makes me chuckle how casually it (and other comments in this thread) just drops the word "artificial" from neural networks here, specifically when comparing with neurology. The irony is funny. Like, somehow we've forgotten why we call them that in the first place, exactly when talking about the thing that inspired the approach.
(I don’t know how to quote, sorry.)

1. I guess blaming the government is one alternative to blaming DNA, but what happens if the government changes and the problem remains? Over and over again?

2. You are the right, I can’t be sure that racist conclusions are inevitable, but that’s what I have experienced from people who fail to analyze the context with the numbers and to accept that a) you can’t explain everything and b) the numbers very often lie, are biased, manipulated, and/or simply incomplete.

3. The facts are not racist; your answer is exactly what I mean. You can’t get a causal conclusion from a post hoc analysis. Have you heard of eugenics?

By the way, thanks for the engaging conversation.
Is it an on-off switch, or a slider for how many and when?
Not in the same league as this CTO, but as a (somewhat) senior hire interviewing for a well known business messaging company, the team I was supposed to be interviewing for never showed up in the interview itself. A completely different Snr. Director showed up from another team, basically saying, and I'm paraphrasing, "I've no idea why they set up this interview since my team has already filled any open roles". Got stonewalled then by the recruiters after that, which seemed like either a setup or a massive mix up.
What's a unicorn in this context. I'm assuming it doesn't mean a horse with a horn.
Linear assignment with non-perfect matching
I'm out of date by a couple of years, but the last I knew, the ARM Architecture Reference Manual (amusingly, also called the ARM ARM) is around 8000 pages. Though, it carries similar corpus from the ARMv7 manual, now bottled as AArch32.
Although this is informative article, I felt a little bad while reading the advertisement being shoved on.

The sad part is the website doesn't work on mobile properly. And each link redirects to their internal website instead of original patent url.

There is a patent ID and it is cool!
SiFive: The road ahead (post layoffs)
What do you mean by implicit agreement? Why can’t companies change how many ads they run over time? It seems entitled to use a product you’re in no way paying for. Like if this were water or food, and corporations made it impossible for people to be able to afford it, I could see an argument for stealing it. But this is YouTube. No one _needs_ YouTube.
There is also the J language [1], which I understand to be a GPL reimplementation of APL. Since they went with pure ASCII, you presumably have to hold down modifier keys less.

I never used either language, so can’t comment on how useful they are. But I’ve always been fascinated with APL as an idea, especially after watching this [2] person implement Game of Life as a compact one-liner in APL! (With that compact code, maybe you press modifiers less overall than when writing more traditional/verbose languages?)

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)

[2]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
Bjarne Stroustrup's major problem, that people keep forgeting about him is that he isn't a BDFL of C++, rather a very important WG21 member with the vote of one person.

So while his opinion is highly regarded by some of the ISO WG21 300+ voters, like in politics, if he doesn't manage to win the majority of the voters, and then the compiler writers (which can always ignore part of ISO, and they sometimes do), it hardly matters.

As for the three years, while it may seem a long time, keeping up with six week releases on Rust is also not a panacea, and when Rust eventually gets more than just a reference implementation, like required by law in some industries, it will also slow down.

As example in some of those industries, being able to use certified C++14 or C11 toolchains is already a luxury.
This KFC cyberattack, which lasted for a span of two hours, has been attributed to one of the most notorious hacker groups participating in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
> Those people outright refuse to pay or to simply not use the service if they don't like ads. And it enrages so many people when this is pointed out.

YouTube used to offer “Premium Lite” which was reasonably priced and only offered ad-free YouTube.

But now Google has shut down that subscription and only offer is one more than twice the price which includes lots of things people don’t want. I can see why some people refuse to pay for that.
> it's working

The cat and mouse game is not instantaneous. Give it a little time.
It’s kinda funny how, as an IC anyways, recruiters are supposedly only supposed to be a sign of good things (or at worst neutral) yet everyone around me has such an aversion to interacting with them in practice. Real “defeat from the jaws of victory” vibes with most interactions
It's tough. I've also seen what you describe, and it's kind of mind-boggling. The only red-ish flag seems to be overly long tenure at a single place. But at some point in the career progression, it doesn't matter.

I think the difference is this. Some people I've worked with were excellent coders but have now moved on to e.g. director roles. If you asked them to write code, they'll flat out say that they haven't coded in years. They know it isn't important for their role, and it isn't the value they provide. The bullshitters will never admit they can't do something.
Having experience isn't an indicator of knowing how to do basic things, because companies hire just about anyone.
Check out Mark Spitznagel.
Physical intuition isn’t going to help when you’re dealing with infinite-dimensional vector spaces, abstract groups and rings, topological spaces, mathematical logic, or countless other topics you learn in mathematics.
I'm also kinda amazed that in order to avoid YT's anti-adblocker you just have to logout from Google's account and you're golden. Basically, Google is indirectly destroying their own userbase that way. "Oh Google, you're blocking me now? lol what am I needin ya for anyway?"
What genius came up with the idea anti-adblock flagging Google accounts?
Are they all in front of you? They sound like they are. Do you find that the positions are comfortable? I cannot see a single article that claims mutiple monitors are ergonomic beyond 2, and most only try to suggest one. https://ergo.human.cornell.edu/ergoguide.html this article might not like the positions you use, but they're just suggestions that I read and found useful.
Teachers are not mathematician.