skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such a hasty generalization. It's not that we don't care about PHY, but expecting in depth PHY treatment in modern networking book is like expecting semiconductor physics in the The Art of Electronics book [1]. Personally PHY is my passion and trying to propose a new reliable PHY waveform to 5G and upcoming 6G standards.

Modern PHY is like bit twiddling in programming, 99% programmer don't do it and don't care unless you are doing HPC or device driver. In networking those who're doing PHY belong to communication engineering field. For modern networking the relevant PHY mostly dealing with digital I/Q signal for wired/wireless and there are many excellent books on the subject such as this [2].

[1]The Art of Electronics (2015):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38748370

[2] Digital Signal Processing in Modern Communication Systems

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Signal-Processing-Communicati...
Uh-oh. Will Portal for Apple II be next?

http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/portal/
I could understand the frustration if it was posted here first and they took their time reporting it but in this instance the op linked to their status page. You should subscribe to it to learn about it from the source.
They are actually in a trench unless it's super deep. You don't want a ship anchor to catch a submarine cable...
"I give deadlines to junior engineers who don't understand things."

Ding, ding, ding! You have won the toxic bingo.

If you work with 2 week deadlines you've lost control of your project. Like in Tetris.
Box fans have very low static pressure so airflow drops, very rapidly, as the filter starts to accumulate dust and its resistance to airflow goes up.

This is mitigated by using four filters - constructing a frame that holds them top and sides - and the box fan goes on the bottom, with legs to hold it off the floor.

Box fans are also very noisy. The box-fan design was intended mostly for people in wildfire areas who needed something to mitigate smoke inside their homes.
newsletters are irrelevant to this thread
People should find company cultures that match their work styles. That's the best way to allow people with similar work styles to work together.

There can never be one true corporate policy to rule them all. That said, I agree with most of the comments here. Hybrid is just bad. A company needs to pick on-site or remote.
This. I try to envision ChatGPT as an acquaintance that’s chatty, helpful but also guesses a lot and say things confidently even if they’re unsure. I.e. verify the info you receive from them, compare it to other sources. Which is usually a good idea for any information you receive. Good old Quellenkritik, if you will.
This article attempts to explain: https://www.nasa.gov/general/swarming-proxima-centauri/

"A swarm whose members are in known spatial positions relative to each other, having state-of-the-art microminiaturized clocks to keep synchrony, can utilize its entire population to communicate with Earth, periodically building up a single short but extremely bright contemporaneous laser pulse from all of them."
never seen it done at a large corp tbh. but maybe it's happened. i just haven't experienced it. my theory is that it would mean empowering the right leaders to make hard decisions and be more ruthless with everyone's time.
Why do you think that can't be right?

Solar and wind generation themselves are seasonal and don't match the seasonal patterns of demand. So you need to time shift across seasons if you don't have the instantaneous (base load) capacity available all the time.

You might say, well, just build more windmills or solar farms. Doesn't help when it is dark and calm. Your "overbuild" is useless in that situation. So you need storage (or other base load generation, fossil or nuclear).

In this study, it is estimated that Germany and California both need about 25TWh of storage to time shift energy supplied by intermittent sources to other parts of the year. The study claims $5 trillion to purchase batteries to store that much energy.

http://euanmearns.com/the-cost-of-wind-solar-power-batteries...
Whenever I read that a place is a "fast-paced environment", I take that as a red flag. I think it's usually code for "this is a difficult and unnecessarily stressful place where you're going to be a disposable cog in the machine."
I have considered:

1) Adding a credit card after sign up as part of the flow.

2) Adding a mobile number and verifying via SMS.

I don't particularly want to do either as it's more friction up front for everyone... but seems like it's where it will lead.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939668
Well, maybe not all - but you know what I mean (short term profits over long term sustainability)
Developing (and frequently revising) complicated schemes for things like pricing, discounts, and sales commissions (does the accounting system even track the data required to do these calculations? what would it take for it to do so, and how much training and effort to enter and clean the data... you know what who cares!)

Not noticing the steady stream of accounting people traipsing to and from your IT manager's office to ask *accounting* questions, rather than ask the controller...and then when the IT manager brings it up, still refusing to notice it...

They ask for a web-based configure-to-order tool, so you mock up a quick-and-dirty but very fake interactive demo as a discussion piece to get them to answer questions and make decisions about how the thing should work. When you show it to them and talk about what it will take to develop the real thing, baffled looks followed by “wait, isn't this the real thing? It’s working fine already!”

I could go on...all stuff from past lives
No, that meaning is absolutely not clear in any of what you've written.

In my experience, "free speech absolutism" is more of a siboleth than an actually meaningful label. I've yet to encounter anyone who actually believes that there should never be any limits on speech.
> France famously experience negative learning by doing in their nuclear program. [2]

This article is flawed ; it mixes reactors from different generations.

> Our results suggest that neither the scale-up nor cumulative experience induced cost reductions, but we have found a positive learning effect within similar types of reactors

[1]: https://minesparis-psl.hal.science/hal-00780566/document
sounds sensible
How could it be used to force information out of people? Sounds like it can be used to eavesdrop on the part of the brain that decodes hearing. At best.
The SWH FAQ[1] seems to suggest that you can download a bare git clone with the "revision" download option, but I can't seem to find that option on the portal64 repo.

[1]: https://www.softwareheritage.org/faq/#42_Can_I_clone_a_repos...
> CEO was very and frequently open about their past bad behavior and how it was no longer relevant in today's market.

Sounds like:

Not “open about how the past bad behavior was bad and regretted and not how business should proceed going forwards.”

But “open about how bad behavior was useful until it succeeded utterly and thus other bad behavior could be useful in future and would be welcomed.”

Sounds like the Intuit we all know!
I don’t think you quite understand. One ounce of gold or one bitcoin is indistinguishable from any other, i.e. fungible.

Also, limited in number and scarcity only partly define value. In addition to these properties, other people must agree with you.

If your flat rocks are scarce and people want to invest in them, by all means…
> and private discussions.

I joined a company that went from in-person to remote and the number of private discussions and politics exploded.

Something about going remote and exchanging faces for screen names was like pouring gasoline on the fire for company politics. The number of private Slack channels exploded and one group even moved to their own private (unofficial) Slack because they wanted a private space where other people couldn't accidentally be invited to their discussions. It was wild.
> Sure enough, The Software Alliance—a Washington, D.C. anti-piracy organization—claimed digital piracy declined by 37 percent in 2017.

Since The Software Aliance only estimates piracy of PC software, this seems like a weird source to quote in an article about media piracy.

I also wonder, now that people get scary notices from their ISP whenever they torrent anything, if more people are turning to less-easy-to-track alternatives?
>Have you ever heard Arabic speakers at a demonstration chant “فلسطين عربية” or “فلسطين إسلامية”?

Yes, during the current wave of violence and demonstrations.
I will second this, at my previous role, we had one day a week in the office. Which, unsurprisingly meant that my team would hoof it to the office, and sit around in dead silence at our computers, or sit through zoom meetings with the rest of the teams who were either in different offices or had a "permanent remote status" as management...

As you can imagine, being forced into an hour+ commute to sit in a zoom call with management who weren't even there was the opposite of motivating
Unfortunately many subreddits are already being targeted with astroturfing. It still works for niche things but be careful and review the account age and posting history of those who praise a product.
ChatGPT is the ultimate non-human bullshit artist so far developed. It's scary to think LLMs will improve and will be used by used unethically by students, professionals, state actor boiler rooms, and targeted harassment and manipulation of individuals. For the case of proving original work, it's worth considering recording chain-of-custody with an "anti-cheat" app for data capture and written works will be necessary to prove it was generated by or directed by a human being by recording specific data of creation to establish zero-knowledge, zero-reputation provenance.

The next question becomes: When automation and AI are used in drug discovery and STEM ever more autonomously (they are mostly narrow AI initiated by a human with specific goals today), what's the protocol for distributing credit? It seems plausible in the near future with large piles of computing power to train LLMs against journals, give it access to data, drug/protein/ligand databases, and let it find and screen beneficial candidate molecules for critical need medications such as new classes of antibiotics and antimycotics, and rare degenerative diseases, perhaps including gene edits. Efficient, progressive layers of screening methodology seem important. IIRC, 15 years ago (c. 2007) biomedical informatics people at Stanford (SAIL -> SMI -> BMIR) were using NLP heuristics against the literature for meta-analyses. I assume things progressed by several lightyears hence.
I don't think it's _that_ generous. icefrog nominally owned the "dota" title (nobody challenged it at least), and the game mechanics & controls are too generic (and also configured by icefrog in a transformative way) to count as copying WC3. They already made the characters different enough (they even tweaked some over the years when they were too close to Blizzard properties, like Leoric and Windrunner).

You could probably have a game have game engine parity with WC3 with original IP and get away with it.
>Yeah, but for almost everyone on this forum who makes enough to even file taxes...

That number is $12,950, FWIW.
Source? First search result says otherwise:

"Currently, Fidelity Crypto does not support borrowing against assets, leverage, or margin trading. You can only transfer, and use collected and settled available cash, as well as processed EFT deposits, to trade within your Fidelity Crypto account"

https://www.reddit.com/r/FidelityCrypto/comments/17lr3ro/com...
They have good humor, always want to have coffee and lunch, and are your best friends forever. Until you change jobs and you never hear from them again.
Agreed, this has been a really fun experience to follow. I know these last couple will continue to be engaging, but I hope there's something else in the future from the author!
I'll add a few more signs to the list.

- When the person who hired you leaves and you don't get an incentive for sticking around and keeping the lights on.

- When the CEO changes and they bring in consultants.

- When you haven't received a raise at least match "wage inflation".

- If you're hoping for a promotion but haven't received one in two to three years. If you still choose to stay, know that this is a big red flag for executive recruiters. They'll think of you as not ambitious enough.

- Your boss hires someone to be in between you and them - someone who you didn't get to interview. Because, nepotism.

- Your boss lacks people skills, and just wants people to do what they're told to do.
You’re probably right in general. But I was lucky enough to have some great middle managers during COVID who definitely had their fingers on the pulse of what was going on, clearly communicated goals and strategy, actually understood how the sausage got made. I had some poor managers/middle managers too, but they tended to get managed out and their damage was minimized by communication routing around them.

Maybe I’m just personally unlucky to have had some especially weak ones that didn’t get managed out and that happened to coincide with hybrid work.
Because it is. You are not communicating very well if you need to use multiple exclamation points. "...after a word group or sentence in order to emphasize a point or to express strong emotion or surprise"
Just how many points are you trying to emphasize? Unless it is an ad, multiple exclamation points look awkward and amateurish.
>From first hand experience, let me explain why I need this. It's because when the growth stagnates, management starts to attack their own reports.

from my looong experience (I'm retired), perhaps more second hand than first depending on your definitions, of all the people I have known, who got rich rich are primarily people who stayed at one company a long time, and their career/responsibilities grew through promotions, eventually c-suite. I've known plenty of successful startup lottery winners, but a greater number of "unlikely" successes were people who delivered daily reliability, not fireworks. People who don't get caught up in corporate politics, whether they are attacked or not, just remained reliable.
Already https://nitter.net/maximelabonne/status/1744867841436700850
So, this was announced on Twitter by a hacker, denounced by the head of the SEC, then by the official Twitter account.

Then on the _same day_ they published a press release on their site actually approving them, then deleted it, then republished it?

What a mess.
I've used TurboTax, H&R Block, and TaxAct software in the past, before switching to freetaxusa a few years ago. The major difference is that Freetaxusa isn't constantly trying to upsell you into different products, or starting you out on a "free" tier and then 80% of the way through saying actually, you need the paid version, or you need to pay extra to efile, or something like that.

Free Federal, $15 state, that's it.
>I doubt the majority of English speakers are even familiar with the original Arabic, but it's also irrelevant because it's not what it being repeated.

Yes it is. Lots of people in the current wave of demonstrations have been using the Arabic version.
Biggest package on npm? 5.96 GB

Longest npm package name? 214 characters

Package with the most maintainers? 554 maintainers
I want to challenge you from the other side on this. Americans should not be self-satisfied with the rudimentary level of free speech they have from the first amendment. In practice people are afraid to express good faith disagreement with the ruling ideology in fear of being socially ostracized and losing their job.

Free speech is an interesting topic, it's not an absolute good and the full version is not actually desirable.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I made the same mistakes :S Been so far always using TurboTax, and I distinctly remember the backdoor Roth IRA gave me so much headache.
I am a (fairly) close relative of an employee and a happy user.

Feel free to ask me questions, and I'll pass them onto her!

Also, FreeTaxUSA is not only great for users, but they are fantastic to employees. My relative got to go on a cruise this summer, and she claims their pay has more than kept up with inflation.
> That said, I have absolutely seen people be excessively polite in a way that comes off as non-genuine, but they are always ESLs. I assume they just have a hard time seeing the line, so they try to play it safe.

I wonder if on a subconscious level people give me the too-aggressive feedback for the same reason women get that feedback: I’m an immigrant and acting too much like an equal.
dang, could you fix the title? This isn't NASA's plan, it's a collaboration between Space Initiatives and the Initiative for Interstellar Studies.

The article's title is 'NASA Selects a Wild Plan to "Swarm" Proxima Centauri With Thousands of Tiny Probes'
The 2023 data seems ambiguous, some states still have climbing crash rates, some have declining crash rates. If the cause was a reaction to lockdowns shouldn't it have tapered off by now? If the cause was the virus itself affecting behavior then infections are high now so I'd expect the behavior to still be here. But it varies by state in 2023, so what is the explanation for the widespread change in behavior in the places it is continuing?
That is the subtext, yup. They bought us at the height of the pandemic, and I did not leave for another year or so (due to societal instability). They seemed fine to work for but the writing was on the wall.
> Xbox One S/X doesn't have a disc drive, Xbox Series X doesn't have a disc drive, PS5 needs the disc drive bought separately and paired over the internet.
Only the original Xbox One had a disc drive integrated.

It’s always fascinating that people say things that are verifiably untrue. Like, really?
Agreed. In fact, the better that engineers understand the customers and end-users the better-off the company probably is. That is a good, healthy practice.

But having engineers actually trying to do sales to make up for revenue shortfall . . . not so much :-)
A lot of tech companies have figured out pushing ICs into management is counter-productive and have IC tracks with very high ceilings. Until you're a principal/fellow pulling down $500k+ you haven't hit the IC asymptote yet. And yes this exists outside of just FAANG.

The corollary is that you often will have to stick around more than a year or two to get promoted into the senior+ ranks due to the scope of work and actually seeing large initiatives through.

Or you can bounce around every 18 months from senior dev role to senior dev role and hit a ceiling with small marginal gains a lot sooner.
Yeah, at this point $127k for a SDE in Seattle MSA is... high-junior through low/mid-mid level salary. A senior title in Seattle MSA should easily be clearing $160k base cash. Maybe drop those numbers slightly in the startup scene, particularly very-early-stage, but honestly, post-2021 salaries need to match post-2021 COL, which skyrocketed already-bad numbers (I remember laughing at Zillow listings here in 2017, even) well into the stratosphere.

I do think the asymptotic curve analogy still holds despite the numbers being higher in these areas (in vast majority part, IMO, because of housing purchase costs out here (or landlord greed, whichever you want to attribute to)). The jump from senior to staff bands, especially in take-home/post-tax dollars, is way, way less than the jump from mid-senior bands.
Flags don't come from moderators but from users with enough karma.

I suspect your were downvoted and flagged because you aren't really engaging with the content of the article and dismissing claims made in the article without evidence in a way that doesn't contribute to productive discussion.
Ok, seeing your point now. I was absolutely not trying to say their motor plane was just a glider. Reading it again that sentence was badly worded. 100% with you there!

The comment was strictly about their first plane, their supposed invention. When they flew their first glider, Lilienthal was already dead. His first flights had been 20 years before those of the Wrights! And yes, the Wrights obviously started with the glider just like him (which I was talking about) and only added the motor in later versions. It's known that they studied documents from Lilienthal and others and designed their flying machine based on that. So the idea that they invented it is ridiculous, that's all I was trying to communicate. Adding the engine does not mean they invented the whole thing, but sadly the general public has no idea about this and thinks they were the sole inventors.

They were still extremely skilled engineers, not to take away from that. They were pioneers in their own right. Their glider was superior to Lilienthal's, but that's partly because it was based on the superior biplane design by Chanute and Herring.
No, but you can enter a few numbers off your 1099-B and mail your trade history to the IRS. It took me about 30 minutes to enter a W-2, a few 1099-INTs, and 3 brokerage statements (plus 1099-DIV, futures, and 1256 contracts).

Super simple and quick.
Why would they do that? They already actively took away any ability to hide things you've already watched or don't want to see.
Oppenheimer's Letter of Recommendation for Richard Feynman (1943)
On the internet nobody knows you're a dog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_know...
> Breakthrough Starshot is a scam and I can't believe that NASA is falling for it.

I know some of the folks involved and they are working on 50 years to launch. It's a long term (multiprong) research project.

I wouldn't call it a scam, I would call it "blue sky" (if it weren't a space project!)
... and the dot com boom. One office I worked at had jager taps and a rotating cast of nose blowers into and out of the single toilet restroom.
I am not a physicist. Does beam divergence decrease in a vacuum? Could we put the lasers in space at L5 to power the swarm? Or L5 for Venus for the increased solar flux?
What is the proper cleanup when a tritium-powered exit sign has been broken?
Right, they only support section A, which means you can donate publicly traded securities but not other assets over $5,000.
Franz Morat KG TV-computersystem 6800
This is what drives me nuts. I don't mind coming to work if we are doing in person meetings or something. I like seeing my coworkers. If I am gonna be alone in an office the whole time might as well be at home where my already purchased food is.
Agreed, having recently gone from a startup job to a government/university one it's like a large boulder of stress is suddenly gone. Being in that original mindset it's genuinely alien to see a workspace without a slack and kanban board, but also unimaginably freeing. There's more trust and people still get things done on time regardless, emails and impromptu in person chat works just fine. People genuinely living life instead of being on a capitalistic ass grindset. I've lost count the number of times I've seen the startup founder neglect family stuff to make the latest deal or sale or whatever that inevitably fell through anyway lmao, and naturally dragging the rest of the team into the mess at weird hours.

As you say the downside is indeed pay, but as long as it's livable it's still an acceptable tradeoff.
Which is why I asked if the weather conditions changed the calculus in Hawaii. Great for Hawaii, but doesn't help in other locations.
Hawaii is located thousands of miles away from the US with no coal deposits.

I suppose this wouldn't be the first time the mainland introduced onerous requirements onto its territories (see: Jones Act)
> I refuse to teach students who lack basic critical thinking skills

Like the skills it would take to make you realize criticism of a theocratic apartheid ethnostate isn't the same thing as condemning an ethnic group? Like the skills it would take to notice all the jews involved in these protests?
This debacle is so emblematically painful and representative of everything many critics have been saying about US industry for decades.