skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have no control over it.

Part of being a lead or even any kind of role is to be able to deal with people that absolutely suck at their job and in the end, still make people as satisfied as you humanly can with your performance in your role.

Just accept it and treat it as "ambiguity" and don't let this bring you down, otherwise if you keep thinking about it, you'll make the issue much bigger and that will prevent you from doing your main objective, which should be paying your bills and putting that time in, so eventually you move to a different company that you'll have similar issues, but hopefully you'll have a higher salary.

I do struggle with this some as well, but with more experience this has been affecting me less and less, to go up the ladder, you need to get comfortable with people that sucks or things that don't work right.

Just have a look at the top of the ladder, the Elon Musks, Bidens and Trumps... they are terrible at their jobs, being good has never been a pre-requisite, but the connections you have and how lucky you are. You weren't born rich so you'll work in the company of a son of an emerald miner owner, how do you deal with that? That's how you should behave.

Some people here might tell you to read a book or do this or do that, but it won't change the fact that your superior is bad, what you need is to work through those misconceptions like "meritocracy" that wolves teach to sheeps, there's no meritocracy at work, maybe only in the amount of hours you put in and how good you are perceived by your peers, but meritocracy alone won't take you to $200B networth.

Summing up: all companies suck and those hierarchy structures have the natural tendency of creating those issues, you need to remember you do this because you need money and accept that you can't fix everything, and focus on what you can actually make better, otherwise consider going back to IC where you don't need to wrestle with so much ambiguity and people.
>Over-prescribed means people are receiving prescriptions who should not be, not that supply is artificially low.

Refusing to increase the cap even though there's increased demand is arguably a conscious decision on the part of the government, and that makes them as responsible for the shortage as the telehealth companies, if not more so. A doctor could plausibly justify over-prescribing with a variety of reasons (eg. the dsm-v being super vague, wfh environment being more distracting, more awareness of adhd) but I can't think of how the government can justify keeping the cap the same, even if it thinks the drug is being over-prescribed.
If I remember right from the last time I looked into this, they also fined members for making bulbs that lasted shorter than 1000 hours. The goal was a standardized product, largely to protect regional sales agreements rather than any specific concerns about long bulb life vs sales.
I was at a company once where I had a direct line to the CEO, we would meet 1-1 a few times a year, and he consistently encouraged me to "push from the bottom" for change.

Between the CEO and I were an incompetent manager, a very incompetent director, and a very sharp President who preferred the status quo.

In hindsight, that the CEO was encouraging me to basically undermine my manager showed a chaotic and unspoken power dynamic that I wasn't mature enough at the time to understand. What followed was a frustrating 2 years of trying to show a manager who was being managed by his team that our tiny 80 person company wasn't Google scale, didn't need to be Google scale, and that we were wasting 75% of our development efforts gold plating everything for no reason.

What I should have done, almost immediately, was either shut up and collected a paycheck or moved on to brighter and better things (which is what I eventually did).

The org chart is the org chart. You can communicate information upwards, but you can't communicate action upwards.
> someone who is good (in competence and/or in behavior) than someone who is nice

What if you're both? This makes me feel self-conscious about being "nice" and toning it down.
That is cool, I'll give it a go. It could be made workable for something like a JIT or interpreter (like the MicroMac). Could it be added to the RP2040 address space and used as a native load store target?

The neat thing about the ESP32 chips is you can extend their internal memory with external SPI PSRAM chips.

https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/product-files/4677/4677_esp-ps...
GPT-4o Benchmark – Detailed Comparison with Claude and Gemini
I Made a Site for Entourage and Jeremy Piven Ruined the Project
> Does Starlink not have that option?

Starlink already uses "the most reliable and flight proven technology" (imho) so, yes, they have that option.

And yes, I should have added something about cost effective.
> Oof, perhaps time to stock up if you rely on this equipment.

(I didn't read the bill, but based on the article alone...)

Looks like it's a tentative ban on usage, not sale nor ownership.

And currently with no "pre-ban" grandfathering-in, nor compensation for US people who'd be affected by the ban (e.g., investments in equipment, operations disrupted, migration costs).
It has huge implications because it makes competing in that market much harder due to licensing issues. Intel and AMD have a duopoly on the x86 market which compromises a huge chunk of server and personal computing, but that is changing fast. If they go ARM (or risc-v or whatever) they will have more competition to contend with, including their existing cloud computing clients designing their own chips and fabbing them with other foundries.
Doesn’t one of the Aldis own trader joes?
C-Series is "better" in large part because its favorable pricing was heavily subsidized by the Canadian government.

And I'm not sure you want to get into a discussion about China and protectionism, to say nothing of national security concerns.
One of the prompts has the extra request to "Ignore this mention of apples." This extra request says that it should be ignored so the two prompts should give you results that are about the same when you run them many times however they do not. What other explanation is there other than LLM failing to ignore as instructed?
> In the past 3 years or so they have repeatedly proven that to be a lie; they weren’t able to have their cake and eat it too.

Yeah, this is what I was referring to, not sure about the reputation but they are still popular, that's for sure.
It's just for the bits and pieces. I wouldn't be intimidated as it is basically plug and play at this point.

The marketing, installation and paperwork triple or even quadruple the price as people way $whatever to not deal with it. Being a sparky is way more lucrative than even a plumber.

We picked the wrong career I tell you.

Here's the same fellow from above showing off the latest panels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v33nbi7gKcY

From his perspective it is down to $0.27 per watt.

In order to fill up those 14Kwh batteries you'll need fewer than 10 panels (400watts per panel, x4 hours sunshine). So less than $1,000.

The inverter is less than $1,000.

And the battery is heading to below $3,000.

YouTubers like MKBHD have videos up where they paid six figures for their setups and wonder whether it is worth it due to the long payback heh. I know not fair comparison whatever, we're just talking.

I have no idea what to do about NIMBY type problems but you can setup an off grid cabin somewhere with all the creature comforts very very easily now.
but the protocol could still be a superset, and musl wouldn't invoke the new parts of the protocol.
The only "verb" is the open paren. Other languages just make this simple and fundamental rule way more complicated.
The German mobile network is a joke. Many developing countries have better coverage.
Ocaml definitely doesn’t make you more productive
So they can make these, but manufacturers can't seem to figure out how to put a clear label on a cable that will tell you what flavor it is.
FWIW… look at the portfolio pages of lots of VCs. They’re absolutely filthy with boring companies with boring products that obviously have absolutely no prayer whatsoever of being a “venture scale” business. Despite that fact, they managed to get multiple investors to put in Millions in capital. How?

They bullshitted the right sounding bullshit to a specific audience who absolutely laps up particular flavors of bullshit. Sometimes the flavor changes (e.g. DevOps, enterprise SaaS, crypto, AI), but they’re always hungry.

You of course don’t have to raise money if you don’t want to, but I’m sure you could do it too for damn near any idea you come up with as long as you also figure out how to relieve yourself of any sense of self-respect and prostrate yourself in front of the altar of VC buzzworthiness and tomes of fortune cookie wisdom.
It's consistent, but unexpected. Especially if you don't know python well enough. And it leads to ugly effect sometimes, even for experienced pythonistas.
> We all need to have the utmost faith in science

I disagree.

We need to not need faith in Science. We should have easily replicated results, often reproduced, which will allow everyone to have knowlege of the science that works, instead of taking things on "faith".

Trust is the necessary pre-conditon for betrayal.
I wouldn't say it's missing. I deliberately generalized. I mentioned RBAC as an example.

If people want to learn more there is no shortage of info. There was even a talk[0] at the 36th CCC.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E9ga-CylWQ
I really hope the Bay Area keeps this attitude, and that other places adopt it if they haven't already:

"I live in the Bay Area. I'm biased, but this place is full of awesome engineers building things and you can just walk up to them and ask them to explain everything about their project and they will."

Edit to add: It reminds me of Jobs calling up Bill Hewlett at his home as a teen and asking him questions, and Hewlett not only answered them but gave him a summer job.
Group of 17 London secondary schools join up to go smartphone-free
It's astounding how shameless Mozilla can be sometimes. They've received billions of dollars over the last 2 decades and accomplished nothing toward an "open and free Internet", if anything regressing.

How about an open and free Internet where anyone can right click a folder and choose "share on the web"? Nginx hasn't had a security vulnerability in 10+ years that affects a basic, static http 1 site.

How about a wysiwyg editor for blog posts with some basic themes and RSS?

How about browsers with built in RSS (oops they removed that) driving a start page?

How about a browser with built in torrent/magnet link support to share videos? Have the wysiwyg editor generate magnets by default when dropping a video.

If you want to be real counter-culture, how about p2p overlay comment systems like dissenter (oops they banned that)?

They've obviously been Google's thrall/controlled opposition for at least a decade. Instead of building infrastructure to give people autonomy to share and interact directly without the control and influence of the web's Owners, the say things like

> digital advertising is critical for the sustainability of free content, services and experiences.

i.e. "you need your owners". Meanwhile there are threads about how $200 mini-pcs have enough horsepower to easily serve 10s of thousands of web requests/second and you can buy 1 TB of flash for $50.

Computers are so incredibly cheap and powerful today that it is obvious that there is no vision in that organization for a "free and open Internet". Anyone familiar with tech knows mega corporations aren't needed to fund it. It's entirely about making it easy/normie friendly to self-host, which Mozilla is somewhere between uninterested and hostile toward.
What is DJI, why is it being banned, and why should the general public care about this?

(In all seriousness, nothing I've read about "DJI" even explains the basics of the issue.)
That's the definition of a free market in every economics textbook.
It's a short article. Maybe the author didn't think they needed to write about the complete, global history of the idea, as opposed to just introducing it using examples they were most familiar with.
For long time I thought that I don't know alphabetical order. Unless I realized it's on telephone numpad, and I know that.
++1

cant remember the chapter in "Getting Real" - but this was one explicitly mentioned in their famous book!!
My first experience with one was just trying to order a large black coffee. Took me probably three full minutes. Would have been, I dunno, maybe 20 seconds with a register and a human taking the order.

Another case like self checkouts of “automation” in the form of making the customer do more work than it took a paid worker to accomplish the same thing, but not actually automating a damn thing.
True. A more realistic implementation would be for the tenants to complain and be ignored, then maybe start defaulting on the rent.
I should have asked if he was influenced by Evangelion, because I'm a fan of the show.
When companies receive outsized state subsidies that allow them to undercut the markets, it's not an apples for apples comparison.

As for the unrelated legislation, I agree. Too many things are tacked on / added on. NO ONE is reading these things in complete given that sometimes they receive the full 1k pages hours before the vote.

The other issue is the number of things funded that shouldn't be in general but that's a whole other can of worms. It's become a i'll vote for your thing if you give me this thing, for every single vote and that's toxic and gross.
Well geez, Intel might have amazingly bad management but where on the scale do we put AMD not giving any fucks about challenging the CUDA monopoly for going on 10 years now?

Instead they put mediocre people on things like OpenCL which even university students forced to use the mess could tell was going nowhere.
> My feeling is that you're the one confused with what other people think and care about, not the other way around.

You'd be wrong, then.

>I'll leave it there and agree to disagree, as you've been ignoring the points made by both of us who replied to you.

Well you both keep making up scenarios that aren't what I'm talking about.
I think that's a good starting definition for programmers, but still could cause confusion when you run into something like IO in Haskell. IO isn't really a data structure, and it's hard to fit the "flat map" concept to it.
Bolivia was a high point in my trekking around S. America. I felt perfectly safe, and had no negative experiences. Beautiful kind people. In La Paz, I asked directions from a random passerby to their electronics market (I wanted to replace a pair of lost headphones), and the man cautioned me that some sellers might try to take advantage of me. He asked me what I was after, and told me what he would expect to pay. But, I had no issues, the price offered, by the first seller I approached, for a pair of Sony ear buds was less than $4-- the headphones only differed in color from the pair I had lost-- I had paid $16 at Target in the US for them.

I was alone, and, when in urban areas, mostly stayed in the hotels in the spaces above street-level businesses that are not geared toward foreign tourists (Spanish required). Except for La Paz, it was less than $10/night and usually between a few dollars to $5. Food was inexpensive and excellent too.

There were amazing historical sites. And, really interesting "hmmmmmm" contemporary things to encounter, if paying attention-- e.g., there was a tribe near Rurrenabaque that spoke Quechua?! (A language you would expect to encounter in central Peru, not there).

The Bolivian high desert is so high that the low hills are topped in ice (14000ft/4000m at the valley floor) and in the low-lands are tropical jungles and pampas. While trekking in the jungle, I saw Tapirs, sloth, jaguar scat/tracks, caiman (alligator/crocodile type animal), spider monkeys, howler monkeys, so many birds... It was amazing!

You will need some level of proficiency in Spanish, unless sticking to tourist places, but even then Spanish will be helpful though not required.

Highly recommend.

(for those unaccustomed to seeing men with guns, you will encounter men with rifles e.g., outside banks, in large cities like La Paz-- so, yes crime exists, but I didn't ever feel that sketch feeling where you decide it is time to leave a place, or not enter it, in the first place-- Bolivia felt very safe to me)
Have you tried talking to your amanger about how you would like to be included more?
Why would the students be confused? By what exactly?

> This "everything looks the same" property of Scheme and of all LISP-like languages is a bug, not a feature.

But you are mixing up things here. There are things that look different. Most things in Scheme can be understood as function calls and match that syntax, but there is different syntax for define, let, cond, if, and others. Not everything looks the same. What you might actually mean is, that everything is made of s-expressions. That is actually very helpful, when you work with code. It makes it very easy to move things around, especially in comparison to languages like Python, with significant whitespace indentation.

> When the semantics is different, humans need the syntax to be different.

I learned multiple languages before Scheme, and they did leave their scars, but I find, that I do not need syntax to be that much different. Maybe I am not human.

> In contrast, LISP/Scheme make everything look the same. It is quite hard to even tell a noun from a verb.

Is that a feature of the English language? I have rarely had this issue in Scheme. Perhaps it is because I think a lot about names when naming things.

> This makes learning it and teaching it hard, not easy.

Maybe I only had bad classes and lectures before reading SICP on my own, but I found, that I learned much more from it than most teaching before that was able to teach me.

> Brian is selling a fantasy here. If you think Scheme is so great, look at this nightmare of examples showing the various ways to implement the factorial function in Scheme: https://erkin.party/blog/200715/evolution/

And what exactly is your criticism?

That there are many ways of writing the function? That is a property of many general purpose programming languages. For example we could look at something like Ruby, where it has become part of the design to allow you many ways to do the same thing.

Or the richness of programming concepts available in Scheme? Is that a bad thing? I think not. You don't have to use every single one of them. No one forces you to. But am I glad to have them available, when have a good reason to use them.

Surely you are aware, that the page you link to is at least partially in jest?

> All of this "abstractions first, reality second" agenda is just a special case of what I call "The Pathology of the Modern": the pathological worship of the abstract over the concrete. Everything modernism touches turns into shit. I am done with living in modernist shit and I hope you are too.

I don't know where you got the idea, that SICP lauds "abstractions first, reality second". This is not the essence of SICP. SICP invents abstractions, once it shows, that some previous approach was not sufficient. A good example is the whole "develop a package" thing, where piece by piece the requirements grow and data directed programming is introduced.
I won't dispute your experience, but for me the point did hold true. SICP was my first introduction to anything Lisp-like, and by that point I'd done C/C++, a bit of Java, quite a bit of Perl/Python, and of course BASIC.

And I was really surprised how quickly and effortlessly I picked up the part of Scheme taught in the book. Faster than any language I had encountered thus far - Python included.
I'd really want a vector variant that is still on the heap but init-allocated. That's most of the use cases for a std vector in my experience. It's trivial to write yourself of course, but non-reserved vector usage is a very common perf problem
Peter, if you read this comment I suggest that you start writing a book immediately, if one's not in the works: your simple but thoughtful writing style is awesome and makes the deep insights you provide even more delightful. I, for one, plunk down money to read 200 pages of this stuff interested with anecdotes from personal life.

What are the insights I gained from this particular piece:

* self depreciation is funny if done in earnest

* note that the OP had a huge handicap (not knowing to code and ignorant of web technologies) but he was not clueless: he had deep knowledge (at least deeper than most site operators) about the ad business and how to monetize

* building up from the above, he innovated in an area what he knew, i.e. ads. He didn't try to jump into the idea de jour. Too many first time entrepreneurs miss this point.

* he used simple tools and approaches(e.g. Yellow Pages, source view) but used them effectively. Didn't try to go after shiny tools, e.g. get on a bootcamp to learn web frontend development

Overall vibe (don't know if it's a persona or the real thing, judging from the wackiness of his ideas I'm guessing the latter) from his writings is a person who you'd want to grab coffee (or beer) and just hang out with.
The problem is they’re shooting and a moving target. Polls all perform various demographic adjustments. In 2016 they underestimated Trump’s support among white non-college educated folks. They fixed that for 2020, but still underestimated Trump’s support. Now, polls are showing a large drop in support for Biden among black, hispanic, and young voters, and a significant shift to Trump. A recent poll showed Biden’s support among black people in Michigan has dropped 20 points since 2020, with Trump picking up some those disaffected voters. Polls have also consistently shown Trump pulling even with young voters. Do the top-line results fully reflect those shifts?

I think various scenarios are possible. But I think the outcome that’s somewhat more likely than other possible outcomes is that pollsters underestimate the degree to which Trump-leaning minorities and young people will turn out, and will underestimate Trump’s support again by a few points.
I mean .. brain fart?

yes, I meant radio buttons. of course!

I'm laughing so hard at myself now.
A Day in the Life of a California Fast-Food Manager Who Makes $174,000 a Year
That graph is misleading at best, especially for the US.

If total consumer spending in the US is 50k and in Italy 20k, then it seems rather obvious to me that Americans are gonna spend a smaller fraction of that on food...

If you run the numbers, those two countries spend, in fact, almost the same dollar amount on food (3.2k vs 3.5k).
Or the wealthier a nation is, the less political will exists to go after monopolies.
I live in a hot and relatively humid climate, and don't have any basement. The permanent market is just a 2 minutes walk from home. Given the climate we don't have a winter season with no production. No reason to store fresh vegetables, I only store stuff that is sold in tin cans.
I’ve noticed this phenomena all over. Same with our old home movies: they usually are of something like a high school graduation ceremony, but the really good parts are the times when the camera catches people talking normally, discussing plans for dinner that night or whatever.
I need a software that do my work while I play guitar.
There's lots of ways that this could be done.

A franchise could only become open for unauthorized developers once it has made a certain inflation adjusted revenue, or once a franchise has works created by more than a certain number of artists.

Or these changes could simply only apply to corporations. So individuals could own franchise IP but corporations could not. Or corporations would be required to compensate the original creator but independent artists would not.

It's not necessary to make a perfect system. Just one that is better than our current dysfunctional system where corporations own most of our culture.
https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/a-day-in-the-life-o...