skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Whether or not children play CS:GO/CS:2 is irrelevant

My opinion is that it is relevant... but each to their own I guess.
Most large tech companies essentially give a pass to new hires on their first eval cycle. Depending on your start date, you might be either outright ineligible for a rating, or the rating defaults to "meeting expectations," because the expectations for the first 1-2 months are for you to just learn the stack and get to know the team. If you hit the ground running, good for you, but your manager might face an uphill battle to justify anything other than "meets."

For the next 1-2 months, you can probably keep making excuses. If your manager is paying close attention to new hires, they might object. But many managers are overstretched. Between office politics, planning, and all the ongoing "problem cases," they might simply not have enough cycles to watch your output real close.

Even after your manager is fed up, it takes time to fire you. In part to avoid legal risks, HR typically wants to see a written plan first, giving you about three months to prove yourself. If you do nothing, that's usually the end of the road. But if you lift a finger and earn a passing grade, the timer essentially restarts. In fact, you're now your manager's success story, and they might be reluctant to admit they were wrong.

And that's on average teams. If you end up on a dysfunctional team or on a project in turmoil, you might not even have to pretend. There's just no one who is close enough to your role and still cares about the result.
Because that is forced obsolence and damaging for the environment, the computer from today should be perfectly usable in 4-5 years.

The upgrade treadmill from the 20 century computers is no longer relevant for most users, besides storage.
Is it just me or is this very short on detail? It's looking at the high level productivity stats but with no insight into what the reality on the ground might be.
> The real problem driving genocide is a feeling of superiority of one group over another.

Real? Where's the overall evidence for that? The capitalist system is inarguably
superior to a command economy in terms of supplying what customers want.
Does this therefore drive some urge towards genocide on the part of one or the other side?

'It was very much an American invention (the first supermarket in the world was opened in New York’s Queens borough in 1930 – The King Kullen supermarket, invention of former grocery clerk Michael Cullen). By the late 50s, what the women (and surely, even if unacknowledged by the New York Times, men) of Zagreb saw was a clear signal of capitalist superiority in something that mattered much more to them than the conquering of space or new ways to facilitate human extinction: Cheap and plentiful food.'.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/cold-war-supermarket-yugosl...
You reminded me of this product from the German "Shark Tank": https://www.triggin.de/en

I have no experience with it nor affiliation but maybe it is interesting for you.
I also recall the name Colossal Cave from the mid-80s, although I also remember the name Advent. I think it was called both. One might be the file name and the other the formal name, or something.
Oh, sorry, corrected :)
No, I'm afraid not. Sorry.
It's easy to understand this when your matured, not so much when you are developing, or literally get excluded from activities because of that.
I'd treat it more as a linter. You deal with it before submitting review for a human.
> very different place demographically

Like the US, Europe is diverse and large parts of it not at all homogenous
This is exactly what Ireland did, creating a tax haven inside the EU.
Obviously, and this is something they should communicate clearly.

But if they were to provide such a "service" I'd expect them to minimize exposure, including the steps I mentioned.
> Earth's carrying capacity is a problem to be solved

It's not getting solved though, it's getting worse day by day because of climate change making increasingly large amounts of space uninhabitable, soil erosion, the aftereffects of pollution with all kinds of crap (PFAS, microplastics, nitrates from fertilizer runoff, ...) and over-exploitation below replacement levels (e.g. in fish).

> there are many viable solutions that can be executed in parallel, and it doesn't really sound like a big challenge relative to getting life extension working in the first place.

We barely understand how our body works in detail. We know a bit on how to do genetic manipulation, but at the moment no one seriously works on manipulating germ cells out of ethical reason - even something as "simple" as cloning a human is widely seen as unethical, and completely forget about using something like CRISPR to manipulate the genetics of a live human outside of people for whom this is the only chance at getting a few years out of some fatal disease.

> Really, it's just bewildering to me that having a death wish is considered common-sense, normal viewpoint.

Memento mori.
Is it really a death wish? Immortality being a curse is a common trope. Hell, even surviving to 90 or 100 can be its own kind of hell for those whose life is being unnaturally preserved for the sake of those who can't or won't let go.
I guess I know what the capitalist answer dealing with employees as disposable work force would be.
Indeed, The incredible amount of engineering expertise and contribution that Elon gives is one of the biggest things that I learned from the new biography from Walter Isaacson. Elon solves real problems in many difficult and specific engineering fields. I would consider him a jack of all trades, Master of none, but understands enough that he can bring his unique solving style to the table and think outside of the box and devise wild experiments. He has strokes of genius at times that most people cannot have because they are too familiar with the rules. Musk also frequently takes lessons learned from one field of engineering and applies them to others in clever ways that few people are able to do simply because the breadth of engineering work that Elon contributes is so staggeringly wide.

In short, the dude is a serious individual contributor. He may be the CEO, but he does a lot of groundwork that you would not expect, and has some serious expertise.
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I was tired and forgot to add they should first check if the IMAP server supports XOAUTH2, and in that case require that to be used.

Still not a great solution but at least not passing the password around.
Just want to say, I love your writing -- it's rare to find someone with such a distinctive voice. I've read a bunch of your articles and posts, keep going!
I only use Knock-OutLook for Microsoft accounts. They have my password already, so no lost security there. Synchronizing email accounts is useful, but I never thought worth the hassle before or after Outlook.
It is so generic it means nothing to me.
Very likely due to you using Cloudflare DNS ?

arcvhive.xxx and cloudflare famously don't play nice with each other.
Does the complex block in the diagram refer to complex numbers? That doesn't sound typical, does it? What type of work load that typically run on the GPU that would require complex numbers?
> The capitalist system is inarguably superior to a command economy in terms of supplying what customers want. Does this therefore drive some urge towards genocide on the part of one or the other side?

When it sees them as resources to be exploited or wasted, as competitors holding resources you want, or as unproductive. Colonialism is probably the biggest driver of genocide in history. Look at the millions dead in Congo to urge them to produce more rubber. Look at the Native American genocide in the US to take their land.
What's left now, for Windows users? I think the only solution is Thunderbird
Would be a nobel prize if this was solved. I assume they transplanted the eye(s) for cosmetical and research purposes.
Very true.

Tho, we also have to acknowledge that "moving to the other side of the continent, because of jobs and housing" is much more common in the us than in Europe.

Edit: My child comments make some very good points which me, living in a rich country, didn't fully consider. I think it's still very different, but not as different as my comment makes it out to be.
Could the implementation of the lock perhaps take the thread priority into account?
Sorry, but this sounds the same as the cheap “you just got lucky” to someone who worked day and night through sweat and blood to achieve something.
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> correlation between MRI imagery and pain is very weak

It is not just some fringe opinion from a single doctor e.g., here's recommendations from Barbell Medicine https://youtu.be/mdwj5ORPmX0?si=DOVVJCGgLe_U0GDT
So in short, the answer to my question is that the scale is way way larger than I imagined.
I think it's great, having known good, easy to use tools for common tech is great.

But the ChatGPT button seems highly unnecessary. It doesn't seem to do anything a madlibs style fill in the blank template couldn't do in milliseconds.
Few people write blog posts to say "I worked at Foo Corp and it was okay." There's a strong bias toward horror stories. There's also a HN selection bias: a story about FAANG is a lot more likely to be upvoted than a story about some small startup.

I have friends in all the big tech companies and I don't think any of them is fundamentally better. They all have their idiosyncrasies, they all have good teams and terrible ones, they all have a ton of red tape.

I think the main problem is that they built their reputation by claiming they invented a new way of doing business and a new way of treating their employees. They were supposed to be the antidote to the corporate culture at Microsoft, IBM, Sun, and whatnot. But ultimately, they converged on pretty much the same.
This public shaming is very useful. It's all about the money: as long as they are able to charge ridiculous amounts for RAM upgrades, they will do it.
I suspect you are being ironic, but it doesn't come across in your writing. You sound like a run-off-the-mill Laisser-faire market fanatic, un-ironically.
Sweden's schools minister declares charter school 'system failure'
There are also more games on Metal than DirectX. And when I say DirectX, I meant the latest versions of DirectX. No idea what the count is for all games released for DirectX total. It's not relevant for the topic I was replying to.

The OP said Apple should switch to DirectX. They can't because it's closed source. The reason given was that devs won't support 2 APIs. They already do. They support DirectX and Vulcan (PS5 version) almost always. And devs already support Metal - with more games than the latest DirectX.
I've seen tons of very active projects under Google's GitHub org[1] that have the disclaimer "This is not an officially supported Google product" so I would take a guess that they have a much better policy on employees participating in OSS than Apple does.

[1] https://github.com/google
Working alone for 12 months seems kind of rough to me. It being whatever you want to work on is nice, but I don't think I would find it as fulfilling as just finding a new job where I can actually work with a team.

I also haven't worked on open source, not really, I could imagine there being communities that would make it significantly nicer to work on.
> Very hard for little Timmy to ask a quick question via email these days.

There was a time in HS when I had several to-fro with DMR about Unix philosophy without fully realizing what a giant he was in our CS galaxy. I truly miss him.
I have two of them with the Kids accounts on them for my concern. Dozens of apps that they love. Maybe over a hundred.
You could kind-of say the same thing about the Anglo-Saxons, it's interesting where we choose to draw the line sometimes
I knew you'd understand these nuances a lot faster once presented with an American imperfect analogue. The truth as I gather is somewhere in between -- deportation extremely rare but possible especially in case of serious crime.
The process of making a camera lens. The best optical equipment factory in Japan [video]
Elon will buy them, because this is his long-term plan
I find the most beneficial thing about being able to touch type as a programmer is that you don't need to concentrate on the task of typing. That way you don't lose your train of thought so easily while working on something.
I turned 30 this year and had a bout with RSI. My elbows hurt, there was pain in the back of my hand, and my little finger even started going numb if I use the phone too much. What helped:

- I got the logitech MX vertical mouse. This removed the pain in the back of my hand

- After being skeptical for a while, I got myself the logitech k860 ergonomic keyboard. It helped.

This is of course not a long term solution, but it might help you relieve pain almost immediately. Thought I'd leave this here in case someone was one the fence about buying an ergonomic mouse/keyboard.
I think parent comment is being ironic. Not sure tho.
Premature doom-ism from the Economist here, but perhaps not surprising seeing that they are historically a magazine for the capitalist class.

US state intervention into the free market - a.k.a 'Bidenomics' - is in its early stages and will require multi-decadal commitment to seed and train an entire generation of skilled workers in the new / old manufacturing industries. Redirecting excess capital from the services to as-yet unprofitable de facto state enterprises will only bear fruit when those enterprises start producing products which become competitive in the global market. The timeline is measured in decades, US can see it through, though will need an 'economic deep state' to see the policies through the oscillations of the democratic political system
A huge number of Poles and Latvians moved to UK for better opportunities. It is less distance as crow flies but way more cultural difference distance.
You have to find it, first. I have a PHP codebase where symfony and doctrine are using strings to connect distant parts of the code. Just trying to find what calls what is hard. I am in the process of replacing as much strings with real calls and adding as much typing as possible, and have thrown away 1/3, but the code base fights back.
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(for authentic LinkedIn vibes)
They are trying to find whatever they can extract enough money without a significant uptick in customer attrition.

This isn't only Stripe but all companies since interest rates started increasing and companies had to maximize their profits.

Stripe is a particular case because they want to IPO and look good for investors. And everybody knows that in 10 years, payments will be significantly simplified by the central bank's free instant transfer software being deployed around the world.

They are in a strange situation where they don't want to IPO now (not such a good economic time), but if they wait too long, they might not be as valuable.

Payment companies will still exist after that, but they'll likely have even more razor-thin margins, and you'll probably only pay for their value add. I doubt they'll manage to get around charging you a % instead of a fixed subscription fee.

I believe only services on top of your sales that involve credit, installments, and Buy-now-pay-later will manage to extract a % fee. This will be hugely deflationary for payment companies on their revenues but will make it cheaper for customers and merchants.
When working on a WebAuthn / passkey implementation and also testing with real-life users, I encountered many issues (technically and also from the user understand) when it comes to how passkey cross-platform authentication works with QR codes and Bluetooth.

In my opinion, I think this is a huge change for many non-technical users and as a website / app implementing passkeys, I would avoid the QR code to be displayed (even if it's technically not 100% possible). What's your experience with it?
I wonder if it's a function of company size.

This sort of thing seems to happen in all large companies - and to be very hard to avoid, if you do grow to that level.
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I'm not the creator of this; it was built by someone in the Laravel community whom I follow on Twitter, Andrew Schmelyun.

Nice, clean, straightforward product. Completely free to use
> I really don't like not knowing what format data is in.

Which is orthogonal to what the type is

The shape of the data is much simpler to handle in Elixir than in, to name one, Java.

> a vast number of possible errors caught at compile time

if it's a vast number, usually it's because either:

- you're not familiar with the code base (and you'll make a vast number of other kinds of errors)

- you're making a huge refactory and you're used to rely on a compile-driven workflow, but there are so many alternative ways to handle them

> things go wrong in production

the usual wisdom applies here: static typing does not replace input validation, be it user provided data or function parameters
It was designed to get you to dial up daily, wasn't it? A very early ancestor of today's attention-sapping mobile games, maybe.
I'd love to know particularly what 2011 worker safety initiatives you'd point to that ended the infamous american worker limb amputation crisis of the late 1990s, and also if you have any insight into why Britain and the EU haven't done the same for their own poor workers, who are still rolling a d5 on major disfigurement sometime in their working life to this day to maintain their own productivity growth.
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quaternions? for rotations
I worked as a contractor in NZ for several years, and everybody I worked for there classified me as part of their “contingent workforce”.

This isn’t an example of localised language. It’s just management jargon.
Judging by the output/GUI of their GPU profiler, "complex" there is more like "complex instructions", think f32 (floating point) ops that aren't additions and multiplications (and FMAs), but trigonometry, square roots, that sort of thing.
To be fair, ligatures are optional. I don’t like them either, but as long as I can turn it off I‘m ok
For the money we pump into it, it's not much of an achievement. We didn't even launch it.
Those statements have to be made carefully. A lot of the time the GPU is memory-bandwidth bound, so a increase in FLOPS does nothing. Doesn't mean they're worthless.
>x86 laptops do something similar but it's not true UMA AFAIU mostly due to software / graphics API limitations.

They don't. They pre-allocate a portion of the memory to the iGPU and the CPU can't access that memory. It's not nearly the same unified memory we're talking about.

>Good interplay between CPU and GPU, the major advantage of UMA, does nothing for raw CPU performance. What I find attractive about Apple silicon is that it has very high performance, high efficiency CPU cores. Nothing to do with UMA.

I didn't imply that unified memory is the only thing that makes Apple Silicon good. Of course everything else has to be good too. But unified memory is a big part of Apple Silicon. Furthermore, going forward, UMA has real advantages over non-UMA architectures for LLMs.
> how is Google that way, generally speaking?

Haven't worked at Google so this is entirely my speculation, but:

From the amount [1] of GitHub repos, with some things tangential to any current Google project [2], I think it's not too hard to get approval to do a project on company time. Maybe even contribute to a third-party one, totally unrelated to whatever you're supposed to do at Google.

[1]: https://github.com/orgs/google/repositories – 2.6k!

[2]: e. g. https://github.com/google/sonic-midi, and I've seen a couple outright silly ones, though I can't remember the names right now
Nope, the B was not a typo. It has 128 bytes of RAM.

The specific model is an MSP430G2231 [1] with 128 Bytes of RAM and 2kB of flash.

1: https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/msp430g2231.pdf
FFT plus some game stuff requires complex numbers to do partial rendering (e.g. do some now and then do more next frame - I've lost the link to the talk but IIRC EA did a talk on how they made a shader that emulates lights in the background that are out of focus (not Guassian but the actual cool effect as if it was a real camera))
Psychopathy is mostly genetic and has little to do with “bad experiences”. It can be diagnosed in kids as early as a few weeks of age. These kids will always lack empathy but most are able to avoid being detected as psychopaths by becoming good at pretending to be normal people.
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Hilariously, I have worked as a contingent worker in New Zealand.
Thank you for trying out and sending your wishes! Best wishes to you as well.
Does M3 still outputs garbage which make external displays flicker?

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m1-m2-flickering-ghosti...

https://www.benq.com/en-us/knowledge-center/knowledge/how-to...

https://www.howtogeek.com/805459/mac-flickering-external-scr...
Two startups I know are rising at the moment, both are doing well, but they are not based in the US and they do not aim to rise billions, their tech teams are lean and they are scaling on sales and marketing.
If by "philosophy" you mean work that not only lacks a rigorous proof, but isn't even a step in the direction of a rigorous proof, you'll be happy to hear that many philosophers - sorry, mathematicians who mistakenly consider themselves philosophers - share your opinion of it. When I said "philosophy" I was referring to the academic field, which includes a lot of work that you consider math. While I think complete non-mathematician philosophers like Deleuze have value in their own way, I certainly wouldn't call them rigorous or useful to modern science.

I'm not clear on whether you think The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages falls into the "actually just mathematics" category or the "making up random equations" category. If the latter, I assure you that Tarski's proofs are sound. Here's a simple explanation of the most famous result from the paper in case you found the original proof inaccessible: https://qubd.github.io/files/TarskiUndefinability.pdf. A more general discussion of Tarski's work and other axiomatic theories of truth can be found at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Mathematics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth-axiomatic/
bokeh?

edit: Found the article: https://www.ea.com/frostbite/news/circular-separable-convolu...
I've found a happy medium, where I use sql-migrate to build the database, and go-jet to generate the table/model structures for use in go, and go-jet's syntax is reasonably close to SQL that it's easy enough for expression.

caveat: I'm an ex-DBA so I'm comfortable with building complex tables, relationships and queries. Less familiar folks might struggle building the tables, relationships, and doing joins, ctes etc.
It was me, and on the topic of english, I think you may confuse "perpetrated" and "supported". I am not arguing that Einstein perpetrated a genocide and I think even some automatic translation wouldn't distord my sentence that badly.
with your head up ur ass, you just didn't notice