skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you learned the most important lesson of any career: the customer is not your customer. The person/people who control your raise, bonus, and promotion are your real customers.

Think about it like this. A customer is the entity that exchanges money for something they value; like a good or service. That's usually your manager. Or in the case of OP the promotion committee. (Many times it's both your manager and the promotion committee). They are the ones who directly control your money (raise, bonus, promotion, etc).

With that perspective in mind it makes sense to manage your career as a business where you're doing things to increase the rate at which you deliver value to the entity which can trade money for that value.

Many of the setbacks you faced are very common when trying to run your own business. The customer changes their mind, the market shifts the goal posts, you realize you're focusing on the wrong things. Like a business you have to constantly change your strategy and adapt to the customer; not the other way around. Why? Because the customer can very easily get their goods or services from someone else if you can't deliver what they want.
Jacob Andreas is one of the smartest people I’ve ever met.
Any person that is serious about nutrition knows that sugar from fruits are toxic and a dessert, even if it is (a lot) better than refined sugar.
I have no idea what you meant by liver. Maybe it's a biology term I'm unaware of. Certainly you didn't mean the organ. lolz.

Anyway, an interesting point about evolution is that things had to have been eating other smaller things long before the brain had enough processing power for "Species Recognition". It would've initially been a simple brain and rod/cone eye neuron and motor neuron in a fish that executed primary the rule of "See movement then execute tail wag, open mouth, close mouth" in that order. It takes like 5 neurons wired in a specific way to accomplish that. The first neurons had to have been that simple. Indeed the chain reaction of "input photon and convert energy into motor neuron charge potential" had to have been the actual chemical process that eventually developed the first neuron to begin with.

It was only after MUCH more evolution that avoidance of eating one's own species would've been possible by visual inspection of the prey. However, it's true it could have been a 'taste' signal where the scales of your own species had a bad enough taste that you spit it out rather than eating it, and that can be accomplished also with a brain of only a few neurons.
Or they can just fake your signature.

Good luck proving it's not yours.

There will be witnesses. Maybe even video of you signing something.

And that's if the judge is even acting in good faith, which is not common.
My mistake - i used 46% out of 340M from the quick Google search. Actually it is

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2024/02/01/perc...

"The percentage of adults in the U. S. between the ages of 25 to 64 with college degrees, certificates or industry-recognized certifications has increased from 38.1% in 2009 to 54.3% in 2021"

so something like 100M.

And if we look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...
it is more like 70M.
FWIW, I'm using ro-api atm for that.
My belief is that while eng manager empire building was the easier path to get promoted before 2022, it's not anymore, for two main reasons:

1. HC doesn't accrue like that anymore.
2. Many organizations are looking to delayer; harder to promote up to director when your org went from 9 runs to 5.

I hear a lot of the focus going to Tech Lead Manager roles--fewer reports but more hand-on keyboard than EM roles of the past.
I follow a few popular travellers on YouTube and they had almost identical experiences.

Here's hoping their new oil wealth will improve their infrastructure and reduce crime.
A ban and a trade war is more likely to make China just toss these patents on fire. Espionage is still a thing and for the right amount of $$, they might be able to find engineers who will switch sides.
Ooh, let’s do this with the Busy Beaver function too. BB(5) is only 12,289 binary digits to say out loud. BB(6) and BB(7) can’t possibly take that much longer to say.
> Now it is our turn to pull up our socks and get back in the fight.

I’m going to go ahead and flag this.

Edit: I’m sorry. I was unaware that “pulling up your socks” before a fight is a sort of British idiom and I can’t help but imagine that after the socks are raised the hands are balled into fists 19th century style. Which is fitting because if it’s a fair criticism that you all desire, it sounds like she is advocating for the same hoary approach that got her and her posse housed in the last round innit?
I know this article is about Google's culture and the author is a strong developer, but it reminds me of conversations with junior developers at other companies. I've worked with a lot of junior folks that think they should be a "senior" 2 years out of their undergrad CS courses. After all, fixing some tests independently fullfills the "leads complex projects" box on the leveling chart.
I think because most people in the US tech sector, being upper middle class, tend to vote left, as it's a social status / virtue signalling thing. Plus silicon valley is in the most leftist state.
I want to like this having used regular `git diff` tool with colours, but this is just too busy.
I disagree with your example. That's a perfectly reasonable question that a good witness can have a perfectly valid answer to: "I know your client didn't use mouthwash because we tested this process and proved that mouthwash is only capable of getting up to a 0.05 (or whatever number)".

If the officer doesn't have a good answer to the question, then there exists reasonable doubt, whether or not the defense attorney knows that their client was, in fact, drunk.
It represents states according to their population sizes and allocates representation to those constituents, not some amorphous "majority" (which is subject to manipulation). It is also not sensitive to voter turnout. The potential gap between the popular vote and the electoral college numbers is narrow and only of theoretical interest. If the race is that tight, it's very sensitive to turnout and cheating, so the popular vote does not mean what you think it means anyway.
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I do love how all the comments on the top comment of every HN post just consists of deeper and deeper levels of inane bickering ahaha. It's like a template.
https://thehustle.co/newsletters/%F0%9F%92%B3-how-paypal-fra...
In Apple Math Notes, why can't you type a simple list of numbers, either in a table or in columnar format, like:

239.12

+242.33

+673.34

-------

=

And get an answer after the equals sign? (a la Soulver) Isn't this an obvious use case? Was Apple trying really hard not to copy Soulver's implementation?

You can type them one after another on the same line and get an answer, but that's bad for readability. I want to add up numbers in a column like Soulver and a spreadsheet lets you do, and do that inside Notes.
> Go initially lacked generics

And even though it has them now, the generics syntax is pretty clunky IMO.
Never seen the "operational overhead elimination" really happen in the wild. Sure, you lose the N Sysadmins, you gain at least N+1 SREs/Cloud/DevOps Engineers.
+1, great definition, not sure why cynical
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On a completely different note, why did you put the umlaut on cooperation?
If you're talking about the same statement I think you are, he was saying he wanted to use the military to stop violence by radical leftists on election day. Yea, that's actually a good thing to ensure you have peaceful elections.

Why are so many people so clearly misinterpreting him? Do your own homework instead of trusting what activists on the internet tell you to believe.
> I came in with a some fancy Austin lawyer to Brownwood, TX and they all but laughed us out of the courtroom.

Can you expand on this?
I thought it was share:

Anon something bad you've done (15d) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41933337

startup idea (38d) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41705810
This website has been around forever and I appreciate it now as much as I did back when I first stumbled across it as I was learning about Mac emulation.
My trick when pulled over is to play not speaking the local language very well (in the US, that would be English). Worked 4 times out of 5, they just don't want to deal with this shit (didn't work in Israel, got a fine).
Even in the family business, there should be limits. What if the family business becomesand empire worth >20% of a contries GDP - e.g. Samsung. It is absolutely not reasonable to pass this amount of wealth to children of the founder.
Nice project, yeah this looks like a hobbled (in true MS fashion) version of TinyKVM!

Were you inspired by includeOS, Mirage, or similar?
Lying is wrong, but murder is wronger.
It isn't inherently.

Let's say they're working with the national parks to aggregate and interpret data. Or education to do the same. This is not a problem, I would think.

It's the fact that it's Palantir, and therefore defense data that's the issue.
Wth does 8th grade mean?! Maybe their campaign would just be more effective if they specified an age.
Do you have any evidence that police are better behaved or that oversight has improved?

There is plenty of evidence to the contrary. For example, police use civil forfeiture to steal more stuff than all criminals combined.

That wasn’t true in the 1990s.
It’s not just power users either. Regular Windows users howled with outrage when they had to enter their password to permit software to do a privileged task.
Also, users who actually want to get shit done.
Interesting take, thanks. I worked for very different companies (FAANG vs. startup) pre- vs. post-2022, so I don't have continuity to compare.
Can anyone using Palantir explain what it does? I've never heard or seen anything concrete - I had one redditor tell me his company looked into it and they just put data into a database and make "connections".
>academic industry

How do you mean?
Where's Nextel PTT when you need it?
You probably don't have time. Especially if there is a gun pointed at you.
It's always a decade away because the progress promised shows up, and it improves quality of life a bit, but isn't enough and is very expensive.

We've gotten a variety of synthetic insulins with different rates that help control the disease. We've gotten pumps and meters and very cautious closed-loop feedback.

Now, an insulin itself that adjusts its potency based on blood sugar. We'll get that in the next decade or a bit more. But it'll be very expensive and it will be a relatively ineffective control mechanism-- making control a little bit easier for diabetics and blunting worst case episodes a bit.
Maybe you saw this paper about that idea - The Genomic Code: The genome instantiates a generative model of the organism.

"Here, we propose a new analogy, inspired by recent work in machine learning and neuroscience: that the genome encodes a generative model of the organism. In this scheme, by analogy with variational autoencoders, the genome does not encode either organismal form or developmental processes directly, but comprises a compressed space of latent variables."

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15908
2. discussion with the authors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QaMnUBkmz4
Location: Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam (UTC+7 timezone)
Remote: yes

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Technologies: Golang & React.js (most recent), Java, Node.js, AWS, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, EFK stack, Prometheus, Grafana

Resume/CV: https://files.hungcq.xyz/Hung%20Chu%2020245.pdf

Email: hungcqrt@gmail.com

I'm Hung, a software engineer with 5 years of experience from Vietnam. I have worked in different types of environments: from small, start-up-like, to medium-sized (~100-200 engineers), to big-corporation (~2000 engineers). As a result, I have both the practicality and adaptivity of a start-up developer, and the awareness of scale, reliability and process of a software engineer.

I read extensively and learn systematically, not only software engineering but also a wide range of other subjects. (I think) I'm up for any challenge. I'm ambitious, I'm confident in myself. But I'm also humble enough to learn quickly from my mistake, and to work well with others.

I value environment with autonomy and lean process. I would love to have control over the infrastructure so that I can learn more about cloud and devops (coz my previous companies all have dedicated infra team).
If the police encounter starts with a gun to your head, this makes it harder.
They are using Binary Ninja.
I bet it would be a lot less common if evidence that it happened meant the end of the officer’s career, loss of pension, and 10 years in prison (general population, preferably with a public announcement of why they are serving time).

On top of that, they could add some sort of chain of custody for the accused. For instance gaps in the recording between arrest and trial (solo bathroom breaks and conferring with defense attorneys excepted) could mean the charges are dropped.
Then ASML stops selling machines to TSMC. Japan is also responsible for a lot of wafer and resist stuff afaik.
Indeed. Imagine Ajit Pai but now 3 steps further to the right, and emboldened to punish media and communication companies who don't do enough to promote "conservative speech". It's all in Project 2025 and beyond Orwellian. They are planning to take pages right out of Putin and Xe's media control playbook. We've already seen the likes of Besos pre-emotively complying before Trump was even elected.
The SE was just small enough that I could cart it in the bag that was available to/from my campus office. I recall being fond of the IIcx but couldn’t afford one even once I graduated.
He also said “just get me a lawyer”. What grammatical pedantry can be contorted from that to somehow be not a request for a lawyer?

This is just deliberate obtuseness.
I think they monitor the world through satellites and AI. Intelligence software for NATO I guess.
Boiling is enough, saltwater sold in pharmacies is $5 a bottle where I am, a rip off. Not that I can't afford $5, but I don't like to be a sucker.
i understood it as unpopular because of being associated with biden and inflation/border-issues... she couldnt chart a new course and was stuck with defending bidens record.

the gaza issue also probably didnt win any points in pennsylvania etc
Yes. There is a steep discovery curve for the wasm target. However, it makes it easier for development because once your code compile, it’ll probably run fine. There are some gotchas related to the platforms but once you learn them, you’ll be fine. Still, none of this is documented and the worker crate is practically unmaintained.
Perhaps maliciously compliant, why not just go down the street on the company dime (probably salary exempt) to go get your overpriced but likely better coffee. Effectively it’s still free cause this is just a dumb cut.
The equivalent of “jury duty” for every lawyer who passed the bar in the state where they have to serve as defense counsel for whomever needs it.
I’d say it’s not possible, but that depends on your definition of “visualize” (I guess maybe 4d as 3d+time would also count)
First of all, I'm not that young and naive to appeal to authority any more after having met too many so-called experts why have only succeeded by the "fake it til you make it" technique. So checking someones bio is unnecessary.

"The Mozilla Foundation will ultimately control the activities of the Mozilla Corporation and will retain its 100 percent ownership of the new subsidiary. Any profits made by the Mozilla Corporation will be invested back into the Mozilla project. There will be no shareholders, no stock options will be issued and no dividends will be paid. The Mozilla Corporation will not be floating on the stock market and it will be impossible for any company to take over or buy a stake in the subsidiary. The Mozilla Foundation will continue to own the Mozilla trademarks and other intellectual property and will license them to the Mozilla Corporation. The Foundation will also continue to govern the source code repository and control who is allowed to check in."

https://web.archive.org/web/20060907025204/http://www.mozill...

If this is wrong, please remove it from Wikipedia too, or add an explanation why this plan failed.

Also, if this is wrong, we cannot trust what anyone from Mozilla has to say, including you since they can say one thing and do another.

Also, if this is wrong, why are there consolidated financial statements of "MOZILLA FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES (Mozilla)" https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-202... According to the report, Mozilla foundation (and its subsidiaries) had a revenue of $600M in 2021. If the foundation has no control over the corporation, how can it include the revenue of the corp in its financial report? Is something fraudulent going on in Mozilla?
Has Trump ever done anything to "appear untrustworthy?"
Not to be a cynic, but perhaps you have nothing interesting to say? Who gauges what's worthy of being said anyway? At the end of the day at the bottom of the chain it's you (when it comes to your thoughts). Some people don't have a filter and just say whatever. Others are more conscious/aware/ashamed and even if they voice their opinion they feel some sort of resistance/shame etc. (for one reason or another) OR they never voice their ideas, or share their opinion. You should ask yourself and reflect on why do you even ask that question in the first place.
Clear and simple rules help a lot.

If you say “I want to talk to a lawyer” - anything after that is not admissible. Full stop. This is generally enforced.

Same with Miranda warnings.

The problem is clear rules tend to be a bit arbitrary.

Can you change the wording on a Miranda warning a bit? Why that specific wording?

So instead we have very unclear, but more constitutionally rigorous rules.
Wow - very cool.
Greedy medical industry executives stick him with the bill* suit and tie parasites
I also love the Quadras, but they wouldn't count as pre-System-7 since they shipped with 7.0.1. Though I'm honestly more nostalgic for System 7 than '80s Macs because 7's what I grew up on. Mine's a Quadra 700, and I love how much computer it fits into what little footprint: https://i.imgur.com/snIBxeF.jpeg
I've just looked at this snippet, which the blog used back in 2017 to illustrate that Algol 68 was "utter madness": https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2017/03/06/a-brief-look-...

COMMENT
Algol 68 program to calculate the Sieve of Eratosthenes
for some upper limit N
COMMENT

PROC eratosthenes = (INT n) []INT:
(
[n]INT sieve;

FOR i TO UPB sieve DO
sieve[i] := i
OD;
INT k = ENTIER sqrt(n);
sieve[1] := 0;
FOR i FROM 2 TO k DO
IF sieve[i] NE 0 THEN
FOR j FROM i*i BY i TO n DO
sieve[j] := 0
OD
FI
OD;
sieve
);

INT n;
print("Upper limit to calculate sieve? ");
read(n);
print((eratosthenes(n), newline))

A few things: This code is very readable. The blogger didn't understand it because he didn't understand what the "Sieve of Eratosthenes" did: It's a means of calculating lists of prime numbers. He incorrectly stated that it was used for calculating Fibonacci numbers.

Syntax-wise, it looks like some mix of Go, C and Python. Nothing at all unusual. It would be pretty easy to learn to program in this, and comfortable too.

[Edit: The blogger later demonstrated a good understanding of the Sieve of Eratosthenes, but still expressed criticism of Algol68: https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2021/04/06/algorithm-35-...]
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The charges don't have to be serious for the police to use illegal violence. They do it regularly for minor cases.

If they are threatening violence, you can be sure your demands for a lawyer are going to go unheard.
I thought he would play with the mod... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0SIIjnNe_I
This generation will be even worse, the 9800X3D is shaping up to be utterly dominant and Intel hasn't been relevant in HEDT in what feels forever now.
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VP in my group had only 8 people under him. It's just a glorified manager although you do get a desk at the end of the row backed against the wall.
Harassment seems universal for anyone outside the norm tho. I've (gay) been pressed by colleagues about having children before, when they find out I'm gay they've still pressed (just you wait, you'll realise you want them eventually).

I personally didn't care myself but I would still class it as harassment. Or like being told I had "man flu" by a female member of staff, to which I said nothing of course. Because what do you say?

Along with many more instances of what I would call harassment. Women definitely experience a higher degree of it for sure, but I think many men also brush being harassed off, the same as they do for a lot of things that would make one seem unmanly.
Staff or Principal is generally equivalent grade to Senior Manager.
LOL. I can't remember my reaction at the time. I'd only played through the first few "normal" levels before I got frustrated with the difficulty. I'm sure I was very confused :D
I was playing from iPad on iOS 17 and when I've reached level 16 and went to the stairs to the next level, the page crashed and reloaded. Is that something of a bug? It didn't look like it was an ending (if there is one) and my high score didn't get saved :/
Amazon has huge Pentagon contracts so it's in the same circle
How do you educate yourself from a jail cell?
Maybe they could run it through Whisper on Groq? It should be able to process individual clips in about a second.
How long ago? The resource fork was limited to 16 MB (it used 24-bit pointers in some places), so you can't have been swapping that much data out.
US Congressman accuses SMIC of making 7nm chips for China violating US sanctions