skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Private enterprise was caught as unprepared as everyone else, and has subsequently struggled to produce a tenth of the innovative counter-virus workarounds their Chinese counterparts managed to dream up (and that under much greater time pressure).

It's absolutely mind-boggling that the first 3 countries hit hard by covid were China, Korea and Italy. China and Korea appeared to keep it contained and given everything we know about trusting these two countries, we chose to trust the Chinese model?

In Feb of 2020 the U.S. committee of foreign affairs was posting documents detailing some of the lies China has told[0], but we chose to trust their data in one of the biggest crisis of our lifetime?

Meanwhile, Korea was being pretty open with their approach and while I don't think it would've been effective in the U.S. it was certainly the more palatable approach and less damaging to the poor and most vulnerable population.

We also saw Italy using the Chinese model for containment and it failed miserably, yet the U.S. stood firm in following their failures. Insisting that we protect the middle and upper class while demanding the lower class keep the "important" jobs running and giving the poverty class nowhere to turn.

[0] https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/...
I've been hit up multiple times by Amazon to work at AWS. Every time I've responded to the recruiter by telling them I've heard that the way Amazon treats it's employees is not the kind of place I would want to work.

I've yet to hear anything about Amazon that makes me reconsider that.
What a small world. My wife is a MicroStation guru (civil engineer), but not a programmer. I've often wondered about how to make CAD work more productive.
Dear Video Game Industry, Please Name a Woman
Go ahead and correct it on Wikipedia, I double-checked my understanding against the entry there before posting my message, and re-reading it I think my description matched Wikipedia.

You'll also need to correct it in the time(2) man page, which says:

"number of seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC)." (ubuntu 22.04)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time
I've been really impressed at how much better weather forecasting has become already. I remember weather forecasts feeling like a total crapshoot as recently as 15 years ago or so.
Happy EV owner here (Nissan Leaf), but I can confirm the charging network is a disaster:

- Hard to use charging interfaces where you have to arrive to the station with an account already set up. Why can't you simply use your credit card like you do at a gas station?! (The article addresses this, but still…)

- Spotty density (sometimes near, sometimes far) of charging stations.

- Unreliable charging stations where you feel like it is a minor miracle when they actually work.

I almost never use the charging network opting to charge at home. For out of EV range trips, I use my hybrid.

Until EVs are cheaper than ICE vehicles, have the range of an ICE vehicle, and can be charged at the same rate as it takes to fill a tank of gas in a completely reliable manner, I don't really see widespread adoption of EVs in the US. On the other hand, sales of hybrid vehicles in the US are strong [0]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/electric-vehicle-buyer-in...
> he benefits disproportionately from controlling the public discourse around what is or isn’t “orthodox.”

I don't see any evidence this is true, not even that he controls public discourse in any significant way.
It has nothing to do with fine-tuning - like most of these startups using the openai api. It's basically all clever prompt engineering techniques that emerged over the last years finally combined into ChatGPT.
Meh, a lot of heavy industry is still running on machines from the 60s. Incentivising them to upgrade their old crap to modern times would cost them billions (which is why they've been dragging their arses so long), but it would bring a lot of consumption savings and flexibility to the grid.
Worse, “classical liberal arts” has been hijacked by more reactionary types as a way to whitewash stuff in school.
Thanks for sharing your talk and insights! bpftrace is a wonderful tool, and the talk is great!

In fact, bpftime can already run bpftrace in userspace for uprobes, without any modification: https://github.com/eunomia-bpf/bpftime/tree/master/example/b...

(There might still need some bug fixes in some cases, e.g. the signal handler to stop the bpf program…

Maybe we can integrate the bpftime agent and attach mechanism in bpftrace, so it can be released together?
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What's Behind the Increase in Homeschooling
Explained before under another comment ; )

...

Thanks for the complement,
I guess you would be a client (few comments)

I have hundreds of things I do and very few go to product or build phase.

Not my view for this one as it is a personal issue. I would not be comfortable claiming it could do anything for others like it does for me. Also I'm not basing it on anything scientific other than raw experimental data from 1.

I'm happy to share it here and FREE for everyone.

I run a tiny tiny tech incubator in the UK, so hands full : )
Ask HN: Switching from Software Engineer to Data Engineer Because of Leetcode
SDE of 2+YoE here. The question says it all. I have been interviewing couple of months only to be rejected in the coding round because of these leetcode questions. (I am based in India where the coding rounds are brutal). I have solved some 200 problems but when it comes to interview setting, I am failing because I generally take long time to solve problems. That time constraint pressure is the reason why I am not getting any offers. I am stuck in a really terrible role. So I am quite desperate now. But my PoV is that even if I am able to grind Leetcode now, I cannot keep doing that until 10 years down the line. I love to build OSS projects, build architectures, do side projects instead of grinding trick problems.

Has any one ever made the switch from SDE to DE for the same reason?
You can provide "actions" by exposing an API to a GPT via an OpenAPI spec. The interfaces are almost identical to function calling.
Also see previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38209680

Doctors complete first successful face and whole-eye transplant (scientificamerican.com) 5 days ago | 70 comments
> Germany has replaced what it lost on the nuclear shutdown with renewables years ago.

Funny how today they were burning 20GW of coal because they replaced 20GW of nuclear power with renewables.

> The fact that Germany imported nuclear power doesn't say anything about the fact that they HAD to import it.

Of course they had to. Because they don't have enough energy generation of their own when the day is like today: cloudy and quiet.
That means that they have their very own definition of pre-seed. Maybe a bit better overall, although it raises new questions.
They do allow you to do custom function calling via Configure -> Add Actions
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Who administers the test does not change the point I was making.
Totally depends on the partner.

Good partner -> better chance of a good outcome.

Bad partner -> good luck with staying sane from being surrounded in stress 24/7
Do we consider macros compilers now? :)
Show me a general solar or wind solution that works just about anywhere that is guaranteed to have at least 1 week of back up power when the power takes a nose dive during extreme weather or even just when the wind/solar dips, even 1 day would be a great improvement over what we have now. I would be onboard with solar/wind all day if this was true.
Why does VSCode keep uninstalling the Go extension?
Amen. Being inside all day is the other big factor, it seems.
> If remote work truly is equal to or superior to in office work then you should be able to out compete in the long term using this competitive advantage.

Only if the competitive advantage of remote work is large enough to overcome all the other moats a company of Amazon's age and size has built. Which seems wildly unlikely (but this says very little about the competitive advantage of remote work one way or the other).
Breeders are also not operated because they cost more to build and operate than conventional light water reactors. Conventional light water reactors already cost too much to attract robust private sector investment. There are only two breeder power reactors operating currently: the BN-600 and BN-800, both in Russia. The successor BN-1200 design that was supposed to be commercially competitive is now extremely delayed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-1200_reactor

In early 2012, Rosatom's Science and Technology Council approved the construction of a BN-1200 reactor at the Beloyarsk Nuclear Power Station. Technical design was scheduled for completion by 2013, and manufacture of equipment would start in 2014. Construction would begin in 2015 with first fuel loads in 2017 and full commercial operation as early as 2020.

...

In 2015, after several minor delays, problems at the recently completed BN-800 indicated a redesign of the fuel was needed. Construction of the BN-1200 was put on "indefinite hold", and Rosenergoatom stated that no decision to continue would be made before 2019. In January 2022, Rosatom announced that a pilot BN-1200M would be built by 2035.
sure, but even if that's true when they sell their PHEV in a few years the next buyer will be able to plug it in and save a bunch of gas (and money). The cars we are making now will be around for another 20 years, so making vehicles that can plug in will mean that 10 years from now (as charging proliferates) they will use less and less gasoline.
Hi Esteban. What's your business model?
> A big difference I think is that religious truths by and large don't really change.

Current religious beliefs of religious groups change all the time; its a common conceit that the underlying truth is eternal, and sone groups also work hard to rationalize the changes as not really being changes if you squint just right because they have beliefs about the immutability of doctrine that are confounded by them changing their doctrines, but...
Apple does publish some stuff. But anyway it's a balance between publishing and shipping products. The researcher wants to get some credit for his/her work. If you ship a lot of products he can put his/her name on then publishing research isn't quite as important and vice versa.
Hmm, I rarely name my cars but I might start calling my Chevy (Volt) the Ford.
Yeah, in the long term, all else being equal. I don't think either is such an advantage/disadvantage that it moves the needle either way, especially against a company like Amazon.
> At the very least, having to explain and justify every choice and setback to a non-involved yet judgmental person sounds miserable.

Sounds like the accountability every founder could only dream of having. Good founders generally seek out others that will hold them accountable (accelerators, investors, peer groups). With a spouse you get one for free!
Very cool! I never knew the Voyager missions went 'up' and 'down' out of the solar plane.
Querying every file in every release on the Python Package Index
> If remote work truly is equal to or superior to in office work then you should be able to out compete in the long term using this competitive advantage.

Or they'll just buy you out. Competitive advantage doesn't work too well when your competitors have large moats of cash that you don't have access to.

Honestly, people just need to organize unions. That's the only effective counter to policy like this.
Crossed with a thousand monkeys and a thousand typewriters.
i see. when you are investigating a crime and you break or bypass the law I would say that the investigation should not happen in the first place. Everything has to be done within the legal framework that our society is allegedly built on or we descend into anarchy.
Standing blood pressure test found to be more accurate in detecting hypertension
Are there companies in India that don't focus on leetcode style problems during the interview process? Maybe you can target those if they exist.
Well, due to the massive gravitational lensing from the intermediate galaxy a few billion years away, I guess it's not actually a perfect 13½ billion light year sphere right... It's a fair chunk of the photons in the 10 billion light year sphere swept up and focused over a vast area and pointed in our direction.

Still amazing to think about though.
“Microsoft gave few technical details that would allow gauging the chips' competitiveness versus those of traditional chipmakers”

Clearly. All I got was “using ARM IP” and “TSMC N5”
JWST detects water vapor, sulfur dioxide and sand clouds in nearby exoplanet
Is there a chance that it just made something up and got lucky like ChatGPT?
I keep telling my kids that they should wrap me in linen and dump me into a silty lake so that I have the best chance to fossilize, but they go on and on about "respect for the dead" and "police" and whatnot so I'll probably just end up in a box.
Of course they are.. going on a date, dinner, spending money, reflecting or arguing, basically anything…..

It will impact you as a founder, and you, in the startup and scaleup phase, ARE the company
At least in my circles, I only know people who have left Amazon. I've never met someone who went to Amazon mid career.
Technically that unnamed dog accusing you of wrongdoing is all it takes for a search of your car and person.
I tried the tag thing- same organizational pitfalls. I also disliked the lack of a solid mobile applications on logseq's part.
I dont fucking get this RTO. I am working from home and working more than I should because I feel obliged to deliver and show visibility.
Companies get more from us employees working fully remote.

Saying that as I just finished 3h of unpaid work. I really dont get this.

(am an EU employee)
This is definitely a stressor in my current job. Fortunately I have a couple coworkers from before acquisition knocking around so there's at least some folks knocking around the office providing some social benefit, if not actual productivity boosts.
B-trees in Factorio
I fly on airplanes and drive in cars and work in a skyscraper even though I cannot explain Bernoulli's principle or exothermic redox chemical reactions, or the chemistry of concrete hydration and curing.

Even though I don't understand any of the science very well, I know enough not to attribute these mysteries to magic or gods.
I scanned for the amount of money that comes with this award and I don't see any. Is it a diploma or badge they are so happy about or am I missing something.
I'm sure the installers/maintainers are not the blame here though. Of course they'd like to get paid for doing it. It's the owners of the equipment that don't want to pay for the maintenance. Let's place the blame at the appropriate feet here.
if you asked the voters in federal elections to describe what a warrant is, why they exist & the historical significance of them most would fail to articulate it any meaningful matter.
You are absolutely right that the VBA prototype should be seen as a blessing. But no matter how you approach an IT development request - upfront or after the VBA prototype is created - the problem is always the same. IT wants a very, very long time to create something, or allow for the slightest change once created. And lots and lots of emails and meetings before any functionality even might become available (of course, complete failure is a very real possibility).

There is no way for the IT customer to negotiate this "correctly". It always leads to the same result.

The problem is IT exists to administer computer systems, not to help business people create or maintain software. This brings the wrong mentality and skillset.
I think the analogy to water use just doesn’t work well.

If we had to make some sort of water use analogy, I’d go with something like; the corporate network is a somewhat protected environment that needs to be maintained to be useful. So it it is more like a reservoir than a faucet.

It would actually be OK for a couple people to go swimming and even pee in the reservoir. Some people could even boat in the reservoir, if they went out of their way to make sure that their boats are clean, safe, no pollution, etc. But lots of places just have a general “don’t go in the reservoir” rule. Not because a person would damage it, but because everybody doing it would.

It is hard as a residential user to use enough water to damage the reservoir, but hypothetically if you managed to, somebody would check in. Even if you are paying, the town doesn’t want to run dry. If there is a drought, residential users might be asked to use less water.

Price doesn’t work as a signal in corporate IT for individual workers, because it is expected that the company will “subsidize” the worker to the extent needed to do their job. If we want to make the analogy work—at least in some areas, landlords are required to provide water to their customers. In that case, you can use as much water as you want for free, but your landlord will get curious and might find some way to get you on the hook if you pass some reasonable threshold.

You can also do some things as a user like dump toxic waste down your toilet. This would be sort of like running a publicly visible unpatched XP system on the network. It would damage the system, and why do you have that in the first place?

Anyway, that was fun to write, but I don’t know that it is particularly useful. In order to make the analogy fit, we need to bring in as much complexity from the water management system as the IT system has.
Do you mean people like telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants?
We are posting on a website that he created, and that he defined the original (and primary) scope of discourse for.

But more directly: at least two people have called my comment an ad hominem; 'pg is arguably the single person most responsible for popularizing the dismissal of critiques as "ad hominem" among technical people[1]. Note that even he doesn't make the ridiculous claim that personal observations are inherently irrelevant.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Even cremation, common though it is, weirds me out. I won't make any claims to it being a rational thought process, either. Dead is dead. But there's something about eliminating the form of the body that just makes me feel unwell. I didn't even know I would feel that way until years ago when my little brother passed away and was then cremated. The moment I found out he had been cremated was more emotional than I'd have thought. It wasn't quite as bad when my mom recently died and was also cremated, I knew what to expect, but still. I occasionally go to my father's grave (not cremated) and feel as if I can talk to him. No such delusion is possible when I go to my mom's grave site.

I'm weird. No denying that.
Agreed. Chase your startup dream or be a supportive spouse, doubt there's time for both.
But the idea behind ham radio is that everything is open for everyone to learn, try and experiment, and not that you can have private conversations without paying your phone bills.

This is like having an open public square, and then someone decides to "privatize" an area, cordon it off, put temporary walls around and not-let anyone else look at (well.. listen) to what's happening there.
Even this one isn’t clear. Do you mean “trust me” as in “trust the science” and “try it yourself” as in “trust Jesus and see for yourself”. Or “trust me” as in the Catholic Church “don’t read the Bible I’ll tell you what it says” and “try it yourself” as in “verify my results”.
Managers at Amazon were already able to fire employees not complying with the RTO policy. So I am not sure the ability to block promotions will have much impact.

Those non-compliant employees with enough leverage not to get fired might get that VP approval for promotion anyway.
Its kind of wild how people equate having a startup to having money.

I guess I take it for granted knowing the dirtier underside to startups, the fact that the investment money isn't a slushfund (unless you commit multiple felonies). That the marketing and projection of the company is ludicrously overblown. And that the community is optimistic to a fault - going as far as to cargo-cult objectively bad solutions.

And finally of course that most startups fall on their face. That even many acquisitions can be a net-negative to both the team and product.

You'd have thought the Theranos/FTX stuff would cool the ideation but I guess not.
Messed my earlier response...

YES, it can be the placebo effect, but still placebo can works wonders ; )

I detailed better aspects on questions above, also not doing it commercially or claiming it can be helpful for anyone other than me.

In placebo, one needs to trust it will work (or see a figure of authority to believe it does), in my case I wasn't expecting much and got not far from it on v.1 (software), but by v.3 (hardware) I was surprised and used to it.

So, I'm happy to share it here FREE ; )
When I attempted a few times to found startups, my wife was willing to support me financially if any of them were to become profitable enough over a certain agreed-upon threshold that we felt justified in quitting my job and taking the plunge to go full time.

Not sure if that was the best strategy, but it seemed like a decent one at the time. I suppose if I were single, maybe the decision to just quit and go full time would have been easier despite not having such a safety net.

It's tough when more than my own life is being affected by such decisions. I feel for the author and her husband. Who knows if my own marriage would have ended up in similar struggles if I had gone all in. I do feel like I'm probably making more money in the long run by just remaining an employee.