skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a chasm of difference between the two skills - it is time.

We have limited time in life - I do like to spend time fooling around with computers, other people like to spend time fooling around with other people.

I am never going to be as good in small talk as someone hanging out with people all the time. The same the other way someone dealing with technical issues all the time will just be so much better at fixing them.

I am also not that much interested in other people, well I have my close friends and family, but if I am in group with strangers I cannot crack a joke - even though I know the structure of a good joke and I can make my friends or coworkers laugh (it is much easier to get correct timing to drop a joke with people you meet on daily basis). Then there are those people who just own the room after 5 minutes mostly because they practiced it.

Yes taking it down to some steps looks like there is no difference - but there is difference on what I am spending my time on.

There is also this gap where you can learn and train javelin throwing for all your life but still you might not even get close to starting in the Olympics - even if you have all the steps of "how to throw a javelin" worked out. So I don't agree you can break something into steps and say "well that's the same thing just do XYZ and it works".
What parties had policies for startups?
Octarine (https://octarine.app)

Desktop only (Mac currently) though, with windows on the way. Most likely will never have a web version.

Source: Me who built it
Keir Starmer hails 'sunlight of hope' as Britain wakes up to Labour landslide
It feels like FOMO but I don't work under the same rules you do.

The disks would be hard to find, but the high resolution content wouldn't; piracy. The disks would probably last for as long as you'd remember them, same for the player.

The player could almost surely be adapted to whatever display when the time comes. Will it? Dunno.

Finding a player wouldn't be too hard. We're not in niche format eras any more. There are standalone devices and consoles that can both make due
> The older cars didn't fail spectacularly. The used car market is made mostly of these repairable cars.

Well, we need to specify which ages of car we are talking about.

The used car market is probably mostly made of cars built in the last twenty years. I also had even older times in mind, all the way from Model T to today.
The new paper does a more detailed statistical analysis and comes up with tighter bounds for the hole count, reinforcing the case for a lunar calendar.
The author complains about the bloated web and then proceeds to do the exact same thing with his landing page
To me, the two ideas are slightly orthogonal. Conceptual skills are cross-domain applicable and is a good measure of your ability to gain new technical skills whereas "technical" in the context I'm using it refers purely to your ability to pierce abstractions in the domain you're working in.

eg: I would be confident stepping in as a technical manager in a software team but if I were to work in eg, aerospace, I'd still have strong conceptual skills but I'd be distinctly non-technical. There's a pretty shallow set of abstraction layers beyond which, I just don't have the education. If I were to go back to school for aerospace engineering, I'm sure my strong conceptual foundation would mean I could master the material 4x faster than anyone else but it would still be a lot of grinding work doing the math and using the software and building prototypes and testing so I could learn. And like, at this stage in my life, the ROI simply cannot pencil out, which is why it's so important to build the foundation when you're young.

I'd say almost every strong non-technical manager is strong on the basis of their strong conceptual skills but that still makes them a non-technical manager and there is a distinct difference.
I proposed this at firefox when I was there, was deemed as too niche a feature...I'm still sad that I can't have this feature
> mouthpiece of the government/conservatives

Statements with a shorter self-life than a Lettice.
Bit biased, but I'd say this is an non-technical article about overthinking terminologies. As others already mentioned, we use techie /non-techie to quickly categorize people into coders and non-coders, but techie also works for the embedded-guy or the kick ass devop or Linux neckbeard.

"Tech" has also become an allegory of topics that we can discuss where there is a clearer right and wrong. It's still subjective and opinionated of course but at the moment when your mind is really soaked into tech, everything feels so simple and ultimatively true. It's probably part of the God-complex/imposter-syndrome that so many coders experience, but that's another topic...
> I do not recall the EA actually being used anywhere by new code though, quite shocked by the mention of WSL.

This explains it: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/archive/blogs/wsl/wsl-file...

uid, gid, mode, and POSIX format timestamps are stored in an EA. It also mentions file capabilities being stored in an ADS. On Linux, capabilities and ACLs are stored in xattrs, so that seems to imply that xattrs are stored in ADS not EA.

> Old POSIX subsystem originated before ADSes I think, and might have decided to avoid creating more data types.

I'm not sure about that, I think support for ADS has been in NTFS from its very beginnings, it was designed to support it from the very start.

Actually, from what I understand, the original design for NTFS – which was never actually implemented, at least not in any version that ever shipped to customers – was to let users define their own attribute types. The reason why their names all start with $, is that was supposed to reserve the attribute type as "system", user attribute types were supposed to start with other characters (likely alphabetic). And that's the reason why they are defined in a file on the filesystem, $AttrDef, and why the records in that file contain some (very basic) metadata on validating them (minimum/maximum sizes, etc). If they were never planning to support user-defined attribute types, they wouldn't have needed $AttrDef, they could have just hardcoded it all in the code.
At least that's the meaning in a generic software company context, yes.

More generally, I would declare anyone who does anything with engineering or numbers in it to be 'technical' in this vague sense. But details depend on context. Eg if you work in a bank, some quants might be very technical (and be seen as such) without necessarily programming.
Yeah Tailscale is great. I assumed VPN as in tunneling the whole network external traffic through the machine. I haven't searched for something like that. Might even need a full blown router service/VM.
Ripping is a tort in the UK.
I am thinking Apple would not want to cannibalize some lower end notebook sales ...
> P.S. I've never heard of sparky being used as slang for an electrician, sounds very aussie.

I'm surprised to find out it's aussie slang; I always thought it was slang local to South Africa :-/
It's not just the interlacing, the main problem is the terrible resolution. Upscaling can only do so much; it's not going to make 480p video look decent on a 75" 4k screen.

As for HD redos, for movies this isn't an issue: they were all made on 35mm (or 70mm) film. Yeah, for some old 80s-90s show that was tragically shot on videotape, it's going to look like shit no matter what, so you're just stuck with that unfortunately.
> The more experienced engineers spend less time on code, and this is justified because they want people to be a "force multiplier" by becoming managers, essentially.

I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the higher level roles are (or ought to be).

Experienced engineers spend less time on code because the code doesn't live in a vacuum. Changes require planning. Requests for features usually come from people who either don't understand what they're asking for, or don't realize there's a different and better way to achieve the same outcome with less effort. Junior developers need mentorship and review to grow.

If those things don't appeal, that's fine. They still need doing, and the people doing them need a good amount of technical skill- usually the more the better, though the phrase architecture astronaut comes to mind.

There are some organizations that revolve around pure technical competency, but none of the ones I can think of are businesses- mostly, it's open source projects run by their BDFL founders like Linux, that sort of thing.
That is why I am using a beamer. I may lose in outright resolution, but not in viewing experience.
I meant that modern cars last longer even without repairs.

You are right that lots of those components will be hard to find as replacement in the future.
Don't hold back, tell 'em what you really think . . .
"I personally did not get addicted when I went to a casino, and therefore we should encourage all children to go to casinos!"

—Your viewpoint, paraphrased
There are people that even if you would try to force them to learn how to operate computer properly they would straight out refuse.

I don't think they have a place in SaaS/IT/Tech or any other thing like engineering or finance - but they are there.
I disagree. Unmoderated HN would have become 4chan at this point.
I think it was more about the community than the curation. I remember on one quite large BBS there was a guy who was a complete troll and ass - his username was Nihilist. It turned out he was a young adult with some sort of a degenerative, and terminal, muscular disorder. Modern times would definitely call him "toxic" or whatever, but he was just another part of the community, and when he passed, it was a somber day. It felt much more like a family. And in your family, even your crazy uncle is still always a part of the family.

The first internet based BBSs, which now enabled people to login via telnet and could host magnitudes greater number of users, really started to lose alot of that community aspect of the local systems.
Yes, though my current phone is a red magic 8 pro, so no DeX (or other things, good and bad). I wasn't really impressed like another comment, but admittedly I didn't spend too much time trying it since it wasn't my phone that had DeX. Though I still think I got enough data. On android, the biggest issue for me is probably the android apps themselves, what's effectively a glorified launcher that's still not quite there is a side issue. I know some people have managed to root their phones and get some sort of real linux on there (emulated?) but the actual experiences when you dig into it don't sound that great (i.e. very bad performance).
Re the talk: it's unfortunately one of the Haskell Exchange talks that got pulled from the internet when the organizer, SkillsMatter, imploded. The Haskell Foundation is trying to revive and reupload those recordings, but my particular one isn't back on YouTube yet. But here's at least the slide deck: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DjfhdeFW-qCCSlJUv_Xw...

I agree using applicatives helps somewhat, it basically minimizes your usage of bind.

Hypothesis works around this (and gets a bind that shrinks nicely) by recording those choices into (in principle) a flat list, and shrinking that. So your shrinker can work on both "before the bound fn" and "after it" at the same time, but the result might be something that the generator can't parse back into a value.
Today, we have nuclear powered cars on Mars.

And with their amazingly powerful (checks notes) 0.13hp engine, you'll have plenty of time to admire the view.
Are you suggesting using a DC Optimizer from your solar panels to charge 48V batteries directly? This would be interesting. It's the first I've heard of optimizers being used for anything other than prior to an inverter.
My surprises: Generate weekly flash reports because self deception is a force as strong as gravity. Good sales people are game changers, but there are very few about, most seem to string you along and deliver hot air. Marketing is not fonts and colours, it’s a key partner to product (analytics and insights) and sales (B2B means trade events and lining up the right meetings by hook or by crook)
Thanks, this is something that I read under one of MixRank's hiring posts on HN, and I thought might be true since I always see the same positions listed as well.

It makes sense that you're continuously hiring. It may be hard for me or others to differentiate that when the listed roles + post content are the same.
For all practical purposes it is a dead project, sadly.
Hah, totally fair. On a long enough timeline... survival drops to zero. I was pretty firmly in that past 20-30 years era indeed.

Anything older is legally defined as a classic, to my knowledge. Most of those are either proper junk or collectibles. Not what I'm talking about.
It means that the outcome is shown immediately on the next rendered frame instead of waiting for the command to complete, then reading the index and updating the UI from that. You knowing the outcome is exactly the point; the UI needs to be responsive immediately because you're not waiting to find out what happens.

As an example: Lets say it takes 200ms to run `git add` and then another 100ms to read the index; you want to stage 3 files. You click the first stage button, nothing happens and you move to click the next stage button, now the UI updates and removes that first file shifting what you're about to click on. This behavior was extremely annoying when it came up in testing.

With prediction here's what happens instead: You click the first stage button, immediately the UI updates removing that file, you move to click the 2nd which again is immediately removed. Transparently in the background `git add` is run and we confirm the end the result is as predicted.
Especially if your EV could be smart enough to do that by itself.
getting closer the the mecha dream day by day
I have a blu-ray writer, and blu-ray disks, from Verbatim. The article implies Sony is ending humanity's ability to do archiving on blu-ray

Is Sony affecting Verbatim's ability to produce these?
I think they are called projectors in English?
No, TOTP implementations don’t compensate for clock drift, but they do compensate for moderate inaccuracy and races at the edges of the 30 second slots by typically allowing two or three codes around the current time +/- 1 minute or so.
Unfortunately DIY is limited to what is certified in France, Victron MultiPlus are certified all, Quattro so far are not, the sole battery from this shop allowed for a grid-connected system are the Pylontech. Still MUCH cheaper than what I've found from French shops anyway so a big thanks :-)
Hey, if you are interested in integrating GitHub with Jira, for better security or any other reason. You can take a look at this article:
https://gitprotect.io/blog/github-advanced-security-features...
The most extensive comparison of rejection methods I've seen is on the PCG blog:

https://www.pcg-random.org/posts/bounded-rands.html
It’s not even a tech thing, there has always been a distinction between a leader who climbed the ranks and someone who jumped directly into leadership (whether from education, nepotism, whatever).

It is important to know which kind you are working under.
> so even theoretically this is hard to imagine.

Possibly a strech, but transistors are basically current amplifiers, so their optical equivalent should be... lasers. Indeed lasers are optical amplifiers. Whether or not they can be turned into logic gates as transistors can, I don't know.
This is why at https://gouach.com we've built the first easy-to-repair, easy-to-swap-cell battery! We're launching a Kickstarter soon, stay tuned (on our newsletter!)
Yes, but OP is using a word and phrase taken directly from the introduction to the article. I expect better from Stanford.edu.
No, you’re talking about building structures.

I’m talking about assembling a bomb.

A 5kwh battery contains about 18MJ of energy, equivalent to 4.3KG of TNT. Short that out or puncture on of its component pouches, and it’s going to be very dramatic.

One of them requires a different degree of care than the other.
Seems like a long overdue road safety measure that will hopefully save a great number of lives.

I'm generally not in favor of increasing tracking of people (which is not necessary for this feature, but realistically, will be implemented anyways). However, avoiding a lot of injury and death is at least a very good counterbalance.
It's all very neoliberal social democracy stuff you don't have to worry. The true left got pushed out with Corbyn a few years ago, sadly.
Depends on where you live I guess! Maybe you could plug it in the feed the grid.
Embassy-rs/embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
The article is not about not bothering to save endangered species.
> Some random oven usage (for not-meal things)

Curious: aside from running a cleaning cycle or seasoning a cast iron pan (both of which are at least meal-adjacent), what other non-meal things happen in an oven?
> They seemingly want to make sure you have a main Mac desktop always.

At some point it might even become a "licensing" proposition: If you are registered (or once-connected) or some such as having a desktop, you will get Desktop features on your other devices ...

(Of course once you buy the very expensive Apple brand docks, and keyboards and dongles and cables and adapters and (perhaps) extra monthly fees that you will need ...

Maybe they might couple this with their AI efforts, in making their whole "AI product" into a hardware "box" that you need (even if the box is "dumb" and "Amazon-echo like" ...

... I am guessing Apple will be the first to "commoditize" AI. Perhaps via hardware. Expensive hardware. Apple hardware ...)
If this is meant sarcastically, I'm happy to report that most places I worked at valued "soft skills" much more than "hard skills" during hiring.

The rationale was: there is no use in your hard skills in our environment if you can't communicate and collaborate.
This might have been true in the past but from anecdotal evidence a lot more people seem to actually shop on their mobile phones nowadays where switching between tabs is less convenient. They build their item shortlist using shops' wishlist features or just add them to the cart.
the issue is turning everything into a literal battlefield as opposed to market competition with transnational regulatory bodies to align rules. Recent generations have forgotten what the UN was for and seem to valorise violence and militarism in every aspect of life. The generation that fought to avoid that happening again are no longer with us, and it shows.

I’m not sure picking a bad guy and defining a position as “in a fox hole” is anything close to objective discussion but like other comments, the path that’s being charted benefits from accepting its inevitability and there being no alternative
I found out another fellow soul, that is exactly one of my complaints with Web 3D, the failure to 15 years later to provide the same experience as Infinity Blade, used by Apple to show off iPhone's OpenGL ES 3.0 capabilities.

Or Unreal Engine Citadel demo, originally done in Flash / C++.
The only reason I ever would want to work for Google was when Kurzweil joined, if I could work with him.

What are the odds, it just wasn't in the cards by a long shot.

Even though my grandmother was a fortune teller, I could see that much of the future my own self.
Japan's government says goodbye to floppy disks
And before recycling, reusing! This is why at https://gouach.com we've built the first easy-to-repair, easy-to-swap-cell battery! We're launching a Kickstarter soon, stay tuned (on our newsletter!)
The entropy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) ) of the uniform distribution is −log2(0.000001) ≈ 19.9315685693 bits.

The entropy of the TOTP distribution is −log2(2148/2147483648)×483648×2148/2147483648−log2(2147/2147483648)×516352×2147/2147483648 ≈ 19.9315685303 bits.

So yes, the difference in entropy is negligible. The TOTP distribution is worse by 39 nanobits (3.906e-8) per code.
The great drawback of TUI app is that are quite unusable from touch devices, or generally devices without a keyboard). If you find a way to make them usable on mobile I think they can get a great comeback
> Now, implementation in ntfs.sys is another thing and I have no idea if it's just an unused code path or if something would explode,

ntfs.sys has validation checks in it which prevent you from directly creating anything other than named or unnamed $DATA attributes on a regular file, and named $DATA attributes on a directory, and (indirectly) creating other stuff (directories, file names, standard attributes, EAs) through the appropriate APIs. If you try to do anything funky, you'll get an "Access Denied" error code returned by ntfs.sys
A good manager is at the service of the team, not the boss of the team. The main reason is that the expertise is at the bottom layer, not the top. Any good manager realizes this and know (s)he will have to trust the team.
Importantly for RP2040 users, RTIC 2.0.0 is currently single-core only.

I’m using RTIC for the firmware on my STM32H7 based product (https://umi.engineering) and it has been a joy.
Have you tried it? They use a proprietary integration with Authy that prevents you from using anything else. No QR code is ever provided.
Openness in Internet Standards: Necessary, but Insufficient
ArchiveTeam often save academic sites to archive.org:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/
Eco-friendly, possibly, buy cheaper? Maybe not. It depends on when you arrive home. If you arrive home during peak hours when your utility prices are higher, it can be cheaper to run the a/c earlier, while you're not home, to at least get the temperature down into the rough ballpark of where you want it, and then maintain that temperature into the peak hours.

Even the eco-friendly bit isn't always clear, depending on your equipment. It might use less energy overall to maintain your desired temperature 24/7, even when you aren't there. Your particular equipment may run less efficiently if it has to go on full blast for an extended period of time to do a large temperature change when you first get home.
browsers stagnate by their monoculture, this feature should've been part of a browser (and local to the machine) 20 years ago and here we are adding WebMIDI and webUSB support when we cant even find shit we looked at 3 days ago.
This is bad. With no immutable media, society is very vulnerable.

We will regret this.
I don’t think anyone actually listens to anything said in a standup. 99% just does not affect you in any way. If we have an issue we need help with we just send a message on teams or get on a call. The standup is pure ritual
At first I wanted to suggest: 'will he or she understand the technical details of our work?' instead of 'is he or she technical?'

But then I realized it doesn't make a lick of a difference. Those who find the distinction meaningful will have already internalized the point of the author's article.

Those who feel superior when they themselves are 'technical', while someone else isn't, think that the ability to understand the technical details of their work is proof that they are smarter, more passionate, and more interesting than the other person.

That person will not be enlightened by your word choice.

In other words, a monad is not a burrito [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40556699
Anyone know how to use GraphRAG to build the knowledge graph on a large collection of private documents, where some might have complex structure (tables, links to other docs), and the content or terms in one document could be related to other documents as well?