skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The chances of your having a manager of Indian descent are higher in tech compared to other professions. That's a function of the 'ingestion pipeline' that's built through the US education system (H1B through higher-education). In a high-expectations field (tech), coupled with a high-expectation company (Amazon), folks who manage to stay back, tend to be seen more, and will be rewarded by being managers (till Peter Principle kicks in). Most middle managers in exacting teams (for products like AWS) are likely to be demanding.

My hypothesis is that a part of what you're observing is just some form of 'survivorship bias' - changing jobs with visas isn't easy (been there done that) so folks are more willing to 'bend' to the culture being driven internally than just moving out (esp. with the long wait times).

At some point, its hard to distinguish the people from the culture, and what came first, but that's a different conversation.
None of my ATVs have the upgrade option yet; I’m a bit worried, as all the homepods and other devices are on 18, and historically version mismatches can wreak havoc on Homekit. I am pretty excited for Siri to start to stop sucking though!
jq's syntax is different, but well worth remembering.

i have some flash cards if you'd like. a teensy amount of effort pays huge dividends with swiss knife software like this (and things like matplotlib, tar CLI options, etc)
Sabbatai Sevi: The Lost Messiah
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That's good. Also, that doesn't work for a library where you're using one of six button styles.
Make sense for owners of the real estate.
You're correct that they're used a decent bit in the defense industry. I can't talk too much about it for obvious reasons, but it's an area where I would expect an uptick in their usage within the next decade in the defense field alone. Check out the DoD's modernization efforts regarding seL4 and L4Re. In-depth knowledge of these microkernels is going to be a skillset in very high demand as defense contractors are forced to adhere to the modernization efforts pushed forth by the DoD.
> This one's a silly conspiracy theory, most executives don't have heavy investments in commercial real estate, at least not directly... residential has been so much more profitable for decades now.

Amazon's main shareholders are Vanguard and the like, that for sure also have big commercial real estate investments.
If we open up a human skull, what would we find? A clump of grey matter, a wet piece of meat. As we dissect it further and zoomed in, what would we find? Neurons. Zoom in futher and we get a mess of chemicals. As we look at the pile of cells that make up the brain, we have the same fundamental question: where's the part that understands?

Yet somehow, from the connections of all of those cells, and neurotransmitters, there's consciousness and something there that does understand (and think and reason and love). If, instead of LLM architecture, on more powerful computers than we have now, we simulated all of those neurons and their connections, would we have a computer that understands? If we then did those computations on scratch paper, where would the piece that understands be on that piece of paper?

The sum of a thing's parts can be greater than the individual parts. Whether or not ChatGPT understands is a whole big question, but we'll have no more luck dissecting LLMs to find out if it does than if we dissected a human brain.
DJI has been building the best drones for many years now.
On supported devices (Samsung and OnePlus, off the top of my head), Phone Link can mirror apps to your PC and will open them up in this mode when you click a notification. There are some rough edges, like needing to manually unlock your phone—unless you do what I did and rig up a complicated Tasker flow to automate the process. This update makes jumping over to the Apple ecosystem surprisingly tempting, since Continuity with mirroring sounds like a more polished version of Phone Link. I can't imagine giving up my ThinkPad, though.
Strategic ambiguity.
I remember when Apple killed the Touch Arcade app because apparently apps that include reviews of other apps are verboten. I am sure that sucked for them but in retrospect was probably good for me because it weaned me off finding and playing games on my phone.
Remote work leads to less productivity, this isn't really doubted by anyone not working remotely. At-will employment means either party is free to walk away for reasons like this and that's exactly how it should be.

Surprised it's taken companies this long - I guess it's much harder to rollback than implement this so there will be a set of companies which just suffer on growth/performance and that'll be justification enough for the next cohort to go back to allowing remote work in edge cases only.
I think parent comment was referring to employees who are willing to dig in and sacrifice a few years of their lives for MrBeast productions, not to Jimmy Donaldson (though I could be interpreting it wrong).
> unbeatable grudge monster
.. with you up to that point.. but listen, unspeakable dread is just a few notches over "grudge" (!)
What do you mean EOL? I see nothing of the sort on their website.
I don't think this is true though.

I find the strongest differences are between early and later Pratchett, but there are big streaks of consistency across novels, especially within a "sub-series", e.g. all the Watch novels, all the Witches novels, all the "industry" novels, etc. Even they are often consistent across subseries.

That's why I think Discworld is surprisingly consistent, all things considered.
you clearly haven't played a modern game :P

cpu timings taken care around by developers is 10-15 years out of date. most of them these days dont even know what a dot product is, how to find the distance to a point or a straight line in-between two... and the people they rely on to do this for them make horrendous meals of it.

but yeah, sure, cpu instruction timings matter.
There's some belief that diet sodas, while not as bad as sugared sodas, are not that great either. I'm sure, though, a doctor would still tell me that he would rather have me drink diet mountain dew than the sugared stuff if it came to one or another.

I started drinking black coffee and flavored sparkling waters, and frankly both are delicious now. Aspartame tastes odd. Sucralose tastes less odd. And stevia is just terrible.
I guess https://github.com/seL4/l4v/tree/rt is the ongoing verification work for that
non-news.

signed. gamedev.
> Different x86 micro-architectures benefit from writing the machine code in slightly different ways. Games are highly optimized to the specific micro-architecture of the console, so keeping that stable helps game developers optimize for the console.

While that can be true, very few gamedev companies these days optimize to that degree. They almost all use off-the-shelf middleware and game engines that are built to support all of the platforms. The companies that do go through that effort tend to have very notable releases.

Nobody is hand-tuning Assembler code these days to fit into tight instruction windows. At least, not outside of some very specific logic fragments. Instead they're all writing generic interrupt-based logic. Which is fine, as that's what the newer CPUs expect and optimize for internally.

In addition, the difference in the Zen generation gap is as different as switching to Intel. We're talking fairly different cache coherency, memory hierarchies, CCX methodologies, micro-op and instruction timings, iGPU configurations, etc.

That all being said, AMD was going to beat Intel regardless because of established business relationships and their current internal struggles (both business-wise and R&D) making it fairly difficult for them to provide an equivalent alternative.
This is actually why I’m skeptical about the complaints about Amazon

I’ve never worked there but I feel like I could? The complaints sound like a baseline level of toxicity seen in many places, I have the discipline for and others dont

Amazon would still be the last of the big tech’s I would choose for those reasons, the worst vesting schedule, and RTO, but it definitely sounds relatable
"Enough" is a lot more than a casual bike ride. I used to have a bike commute that totaled 30 miles. Yes, I was in good shape. But it took 4 times longer than driving and required having a shower at the office.
> People waste inordinate amounts of time writing docs for things that could be discussed in 10 minutes

I’m very much a writing kind of person when it comes to organizing my thoughts and I worked at a place where we did a ton of written documentation kind of like this. Then I left there and worked remote with a different company whose CEO, when I sent him an email, would pick up the phone and call me. We would then have the 10 minute conversation you’re talking about here. I came to love it because it’s true, a short focused conversation can be a huge timesaver. Since then, I’m often really frustrated by vendors and partners who steadfastly refuse to get on a call, when it’s very obvious to me that a quick call would be a far better use of time than endlessly going back and forth on email.
Wow, negative score on my comment. People seem to feel so strongly about this. I was punished.

I feel like a Troubleshooter that mouthed off to Friend Computer!
> If you weren't hired into a remote job then you don't have much a right to expect or demand this.

To put it another way: "Look for a remote position elsewhere and quit"

That has been the return to office dynamic since the COVID emergency stopped.
Out of the Software Crisis
Easy to run locally for geeks means easy to package up and sell to non-geeks.
> Many non-valley/low-stress jobs just don't pay the same as crap jobs like Amazon.

Clarify. Your current 3x salary job is better than Amazon, but it's in-valley/high-stress?
Well, I'm curious how this management life improvement will manifest as they're also kicking out managers or at least forcing them to have quite a few more reports. At about 10 reports teams can't really be managed well.
Literally 'self-selfs' in some languages.
'Automobile' is a clue.
Could it possible be that.... you're not doing it right. lol

It is another great point. But it is another great point about how the process in your organization could be improved. Nothing says you have to have two parental figures.

And why on earth would you have a dedicated scrum master?! It's just not a job that should be requiring that much labor. Just have one part-time scrum master in the entire company who periodically audits and coaches teams who aren't doing the process right. Or coaches teams through the initial learning curve, as required.

In scrum and non-scrum processes that I have worked with, the PO comes from the marketing/sales team. On the theory that, if anyone has the pulse of what customers in aggregate actually want, it's going to be them. Also a part time job. But essential for injecting some realistic sense of "value" into the development planning equation. The direct contribution of a good PO is to make sure that the team is contributing work output to features that customers actually want. A good PO contributes enormously to team productivity.
Fireproof is taking the lessons of cloujure and Ipfs and applying them to the browser, to create a realtime database that runs anywhere.

As cofounder of Couchbase I got to meet Rich Hickey, whose work was a big inspiration to Fireproof.

Content addressing makes causal consistency easy to implement. We are fast approaching readiness for consistency checks and ACID characterization.
Firefox no longer works after upgrading to macOS Sequoia
Don't Windows do the same? I feel like every single program I run, signed or unsigned, a dialogue pops up where I have to give permission.
> considering home chargers cost a couple thousand to install

Home chargers, unless your neighborhood and/or home has special infrastructure to deliver more power, are limited to 120V. You have to remember that these are huge trucks with huge batteries and it’s not immediately obvious they can deal with trickle charging. And you’re not charging just 1 vehicle at a time but basically charging your entire fleet and you need this to be reliable 24/7. The logistics and costs of that are entirely different from a home charger.

> As for infrastructure: can the building run a clothes dryer? Then it can probably charge an EV.

again - your mental model is wrong. As you scale up your challenges are different and charging a fleet of vehicles. It’s not a laundry service so it may not have been provisioned for that many clothes dryers running at once and need substantial renovations. And you may want chargers that pull a heck of a lot more than a dryer because you need this to charge more quickly. Think about a fast charging station - it’s energy requirements are not at all the same and that’s why often at places you only see one or two (partially cost / demand for them but also being able to supply that energy is a real thing). Think of it this way - normal outlet is at 1.4 KW which is slow for a car and who knows how long for a truck battery. Faster chargers range from 3.7 kWh to 350kw and multiple that by the number of vehicles you need to charge simultaneously. It’s not necessarily the straightforward problem you think it is

> For repairs I'm sure the current LLVs have their own challenges. There's a good chance you can't find LLV parts in rural areas either.

The supply chain and knowledge base for ICE vehicles is far more established in rural areas. And usually you’re trying not to ship vehicles around for repairs but repair them locally instead. In theory BEV requires less maintenance and lasts longer so things could balance out but who knows since BEV trucks are pretty rare and this is the first of its kind design from a company not necessarily known for their BEV expertise.
How is the pitch determined? It would make sense if it was based on line length, but that doesn't seem to be it.
It doesn't need to have a picture on it. Orthopedic pillows exist, as do plain covers for dakimakuras, lol.
I want to believe! But I think your vision goes a little too heavy on audio only side. By that I mean, the biggest problem with voice control is the lack of detailed feed back. This is why people will usually use it to check the weather, but the rest of the time it becomes a 'trust but verify' mode. That why many are happy to place appointments, dial calls and set the GPS but only so long as they can visually check it is correct.

That is the largest hurdle to over come and it is something that will in part come from sizable R&D but also be driven by a few inspired folks that can intuitively resolves some key issues.

Apple is trying, like how they had the Voice only version of Apple Music, but it still isn't there. The problem is with anything, others rush in to get to market first but not doing it right and ruin it for those trying to make it great.
BYD EVs of are high quality (bought a Seagull outside the US, attempting to import).
Agreed. And not only the spells: magicians in Dying Earth (Vance) behave pretty much like the psychopathic murder-hobo trope of the D&D player stereotype.

Vance's magicians are childish, petty, reckless, vindictive and power hungry.
In other words, the commenters suggestion would not make the video better fit that need.
You are stating as fact what is in fact your (naive) opinion.
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Note that Blackmoor existed as a game setting before D&D was ever published. Arguably it's where the role playing aspect of it came from, as Dave Arneson was heavily influenced by, and participated in, Braunstein games.
Great. We need more innovation in the world. Hopefully, India isn't too far behind.

China has 28,000 miles of high-speed rail. United States? Close to zero. Low-speed maglevs look interesting: https://crrczelc-europe.com/medium-low-speed-maglev-changsha...

For some reason, we just want to drill more oil and make our highways wider.

Who's getting to Mars first?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/china/china-mars-mission-tian...
What capability? The fundamental thing about this seems to require that there's not any direct way to play notes. So what would the keyboard be used for?
Wealthfront's former CEO gave this advice. Ironically, even though he was a long term investor at one of the Valley's most storied VC firms, he himself did not run a breakout company. Instead, Wealthfront flamed out after 14 years with a mediocre acquisition at the peak of COVID startup mania.
Best 3D printers: Bambu Lab.

I'm sure if we keep going there's hundreds of examples like this.
I like that it mimics SQL queries/filtering which is straightforward.

Typically I use something like JSONPath [1] (basically XPath for JSON) [2] or jq for this but having more options with other syntax and style is helpful.

For streamed JSON like NDJSON [3] there are some nice filtering options [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONPath

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9535

[3] https://github.com/ndjson/ndjson-spec

[4] https://github.com/mbostock/ndjson-cli?tab=readme-ov-file#fi...
The Russian soldiers occupying Chernobyl apparently ignored the warnings and dug trenches in the contaminated soil. And unsurprisingly came down with radiation sickness.
It was one swift attack that managed to push the Gondorians out of the eastern half of the town, that also marked the beginning of the war, and one surprise attack with boats 9 months later to take the western half that a few weeks before the end of the war.

I don't know if it's mentioned anywhere what happened in the meantime, but Denethor says he's expecting an enemy strike against Osgiliath shortly before the second attack happens, so it can't have been an active frontline at the time.
Consider this: Why not write fantasies about non-anthropomorphized dogs or jellyfish?

Art, inclucing fantasy, always has been a mirror to reality (not 100%, of course). Otherwise, nobody would understand it, it wouldn't move them, and they wouldn't care.

Also, it would be very hard to write well. People write well about what they know. Hemingway famously advised that you need to know the entire iceberg to write convincingly about the tip.
Seems like the capitalists have found the way to make office workers be constantly on the edge about their job security. Pack/unpack stuff every day is hilarious.
Hah yeah. I like to say that D&D has the soul of Vance with a coating of Tolkein. It's not 100% true as there's lots of influences, but as a DM reading that series made me think "this explains so much".
The best is when the top issues the committee finds outlast the committee.
AMD also has a track record for Sony and consoles in general dating back to the game cube and delivering success. Maybe not the fastest thing but one that works and is reliable. Nvidia, IBM and Intel don't exactly deliver on the full suite either.
I have sleep apnea and I have an implant to stop my apnea / snoring.

1. if your watch tells you that you might have apnea go get a sleep study!
2. apnea and snoring do tend to happen together but not necessarily. you can have apnea without snoring(sometimes the other way but not as common)
3. apnea is like high blood pressure it's slowly killing you.
4. there are a lot of options now to help you. one might be losing weight. one might be sleeping on a side or stomach.. you won't know until you do a sleep study! get it done.

After I got my apnea fixed I feel like a new person. I did not even know how tired I was or what being "awake" was like anymore. My body adjusted to a new normal. Please look into treatment!
They'll respond by having their politicians (both sides) ban or add 100%+ tariffs on superior Chinese goods.

The whole new Cold War narrative the natsec state in the US has adopted about China is not moored in reality.

The realpolitik is that neither side of the strait wants a significant disruption in commerce. Both sides should figure out a way to practice detente and reduce militarism. The US should do this in good faith.
Fireproof (new local first database) is hiring.
Can’t say I’ve done this recently, but I think if I were doing this today I’d probably install it on the current machine and then boot into recovery mode and reinstall from there.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/erase-and-reinstall...
I would say to hell with useful, being useful is for tools, focus on happy/excited and that will eventually lead to the right place.

Feeling that you have a role to play, a unique contribution to society that is appreciated, is not really the same thing as useful. But it's where you want to aim. And that includes figuring out what you are supposed to do, which is where joy/excitement plays an important role as a guide.

Letting other people's expectations define your life will never work, enough people have tried and failed by now.
It went great for AMD and this is not a good comparison.
Robot Motion Diffusion Model: Motion Generation for Robotic Characters [video]
Funny enough,
can I add it to my collection of little web gems?: https://sharkle.com
You mean to tell me actors make more money than SWEs and are in a union?

Whats next? You're going to be telling me Patrick Mahomes is in a union too!
> Curious as to why this contract agreement needs to be secret.

Information asymmetry.

Because if Dr. X could see what Dr. Y is being reimbursed for procedure Z, and they learn that Y receives more, then in the next contract negotiation round, Dr. X will try to get more (or at least Dr. Y's amount) for procedure Z from the insurance company.

If none of the insurance counter-parties are aware of what the others are paying, they don't know if they are agreeing to less than they could have received.
But on the other hand, capitalism is not resilient to the kind of psychopaths who end up becoming billionaires for life. So there is that.
Even when they do copy, they excel. I remember reading an article in Wired 15-20 years ago about counterfeit cloth. Not regular cloth, but the kind that is highly sought after by premier designers. They took a copy to the original manufacturer, and they were blown away by the quality, saying it was better than their original.

It takes tremendous capability to accomplish this, and I thought to myself, What happens when they realize that they can lead?
kill Jones Act
http://www.boatinglaw.com/maritimearticles/jonesactusbuild.h...
> There's a lot of network infrastructure that could be improved by them.

One killer feature was multicast streaming of data. The streaming could do an extra 5% of broadcasting packets instead of several round trips and retransmissions.

Now that I think about it, I wish we actually used multicast.
I mean, the PS4 didn't play PS3 games and that didn't hurt it any. Backwards compatibility is nice but it isn't the only factor.
You're right, there's plenty to be grateful for, and even folks working for the same tech companies have it worse in non-U.S. offices than their U.S. counterparts.
Yep, happens to me the instant I get bored or - do nothing.
Not everyone reaches that limit.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who opened this thinking there'd be some interesting discussion about the book or author. Threw me for a loop.
Amazing. What is OS?
I think the other factor to consider is that once you try to sell $200B worth of Bitcoin, the value of Bitcoin suddenly drops to near zero (due to supply/demand).
US Colleges = the enemy. They have become bloated cash cows.
The US is being defeated by itself. Regulator capture and businesses in bed with politicians for their own self interest.

It has always happened to some extent. But technology has enabled it to grow out of hand.
Yes, but the theme parks are younger.