skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about advancing. You're working in a stack ranked world where 2/3+ of your peers are on H1B visas are at risk of being deported (plus that's the culture of their home country). You could do the same job but just live in the EU and you'd be less likely to experience these woes.
If you had industry nearby like a foundry or glassworks that throws off unimaginable waste heat, you can pump that heat into homes instead of the atmosphere.
Google says it's rolling out fix for stricken Chromecast kit
There is a concept I'd recommend you to get familiar with: Systemic risk.

Nobody really cares about you and your sandwich.

But whenever we introduce single point of risk into the society these needs to be managed.

Fair enough, you are personally responsible and don't eat the sandwich.

The rest of the US was not.

- at least you retain your right to claim "What did I say".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

>> This outcome is inevitable, given enough time and enough positions in the hierarchy to which competent employees may be promoted.

So if you accept this, you need to find a place where there is no hierarchy: explicit, shadow or implicit.
Go does this, as do most runtimes with stackful coroutines. Async Rust (kinda) does this where the async call stack is naturally segmented (although this doesn't get away from stack overflows in some cases because the polling call stack is not growable).

Growable stacks have been around for decades, it's far away from research language territory.

The real benefit is not to handle the worst case/OOM condition that a big enough callstack gives you. It's to make the default stack size much, much smaller for the common case where you don't need it at all (or want to shrink it later). Growable stacks use less memory on average than your typical embedded device because they can start in the dozens of bytes, instead of requiring kilo/mega bytes of stack space (allocated, not just reserved). It's kinda the only way you can make a runtime scale to millions of concurrent call stacks.
Yeah, making sure there's a standard of cleanliness or food safety in restaurants seems kind of pointless, right? If the consumer eats that food, it's their fault for sure.
The memory bandwidth bottleneck limits the speed of running local models, the fact that this model is parallelizable means that even with one batch inference it will be possible to balance memory bandwidth bottleneck and compute bottleneck (aka much more speed).
Could we apply a progressive tax to large corporations (like big tech monopolies) to force them to figure out what aspects of their own business should be split up and spun out to keep the size of companies roughly equal to "one layer of the stack".

Seems like a progressive corporation tax would be an easy way to allow "the market" to naturally limit the size of corporations and find the correct separation points for separate businesses.
Interest in stoicism seems to be cyclical on HN. I’ve been following HN regularly since 2010, and I noticed that a couple of times per year there were/are spikes in stoicism-related submissions and discussions over a few weekends. My unsubstantiated theory is that someone gives a presentation/s touching on stoicism to new YC batches, or something like that.
Mine's done - Chromecast 2, best product they ever made.
Because the browser interacts with my camera/mic through specific media APIs that don't allow it to flash the firmware.
Was there no functioning laser or radar altimeter for the final descent phase?
height isn't fungible

even if acquiring wealth is random, retaining wealth means choosing not to see and positively act on the state of the world
They serve different headlines to subscribers?
Leans might be an understatement. But thanks, some faith has been restored in humanity.
> purports to show that reproduction cannot be explained by natural selection and is irreducibly teleological

Anyone who's looked into creationist arguments, or argued with creationists, will immediately be put on guard by this sentence fragment.

First, reproduction is necessary for natural selection to take place. It's a precondition, not something to be explained.

Second, "irreducible" is one of those words that is somehow never given a definition that an observer can use to decide that a process or feature is "irreducibly complex", or "irreducibly" anything, really. When you peel off the layers, you end up having to rely on some authority to say, "Feature X is irreducibly complex".

Third, "teleological". A philosophical or theological term that invariably gets misused in discussions of biology as a kind of disguised circular argument.

I'm not saying that this paper is garbage disguised by a big vocabulary, but I would certainly be alert for rhetorical sleight of hand sneaking in creationism of one kind or another.
> Over a million other ways to use it [...] Turn your iPad into almost anything — from a math classroom or workstation to a professional recording studio

Sounds like a general purpose device to me.
I believe you mean Marcus Aurelius
I'm a bit jealous. I currently work with an exceptional engineer but he is very condescending and acts somewhat pissed off by "simple" questions or people asking for help. The product is fantastic thanks to his work and I am learning, I think, what it really means to attempt to write excellent code - he really nit picks the hell out of my PRs - but to be honest I wish I didn't have to work with him. He has really demotivated me.
> If you take the time to study the documentation from the 1950s & 1960s, the engineering culture of that era appears to be markedly different from the engineering culture prevalent today. And I think it's deeply rooted in the symbiotic relationship between computing, Baumol's cost disease and our obsession with precision, results-oriented, MBA-style-min-maxing, "good enough for government work" engineering.

I wonder how much of that is because of public attitudes to government spend. Like if a SpaceX rocket blows up, they're taking innovative, risk-taking approaches to rocket development. If a NASA rocket blows up they're wasting tax payer funding.

Similarly the pressure on NASA to have fewer programs for cost saving is similar. If NASA has two rocket programs, one of which is at a "good enough" level for launching satellites economically into space and one of them is a "safety conscious" rocket for manned launches at a higher per-mission cost, then people look at this and think why is NASA duplicating work and spending. So now they get only one program, so then even launching a GPS satellite is the expensive, human-safe rocket.
Sad example of out rural kansas: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/21/cryptocurrency-shan-hanes-pi...
does H-1B transfer need valid passport?
Would pending asylum documents would suffice?
Defense contractors most likely do not share the same sentiment.
Spaceship - Starship who do hell cares, it will never get to the Moon anyway.
Because you're a social animal in a social world, whose social action creates and modifies that world.

Since you are a body, in an environment, with a psychology -- your actions have an effect upon the world.

The invitation to dissociate and mute your social emotions is an invitation to keep everything as-it-is.
AWS was never commodity hardware. Perhaps you're thinking Google in the very early days.
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Whats monstrous about it?

These look very nice and livable. https://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/liu-jiakun#laureate-...

The first one looks very homely. Good greenery, good sense of shades, cool gray concrete textures. ( https://www.pritzkerprize.com/sites/default/files/styles/max... )

This one doesn't look Maoist to me, looks very like a traditional hut. https://www.pritzkerprize.com/sites/default/files/styles/max...
The regulations stop more people from being able to do this than competition does. "because they decided to make the world that way" Who is "they"? Participants in the free market? I don't think inept politicians should supersede them.
Depending on what you want to use it for, the device and the ROM is one aspect, but secondary to that is the online services and apps accepting your device. I think android ROMs are a dead-end now because of aspects like safetynet/play integrity, unless you put the work into countering/spoofing them a lot of the tasks people use phones for now such as online/accounts/payments require the device to appear untampered/modified for security purposes. I have my old 2018 phone on android 14 via an unofficial lineage build because there was the freedom to do that, but I expect a bunch of apps will also make use of their freedom to deny me entry.

If you're only using it for on-device tasks then you're probably fine, although at that point the benefits of updating a ROM are probably marginal
Also, is avoiding international sanctions something to be proud of?
The market doesn't protect all those kids who were maimed or died trying out your regulation-free skateboard.

A basic level of safety might mean that your skateboards sell faster, now that parents don't have to risk the health of their offspring.
> Any foreigner can be denied entry to a country for any and no reason whatsoever

That's a completely different thing than what happened here. Those are the rules, everyone knows that, and acts accordingly. The biggest problem in the US right now, is that the government isn't being ruled by it's own laws (sort-of). That's what's meant by a "constitutional crisis".

If the US government changed the rules to allow non-citizens to be arrested & held without warrants, then that would a different kind of thing. It would be a little totalitarian, but not a breakdown of the rule of law.

Note, I said sort-of above because the laws are written in such away as to be somewhat vague so that some people claim the government is acting legally.
> People don't die from flooding because of dams, people die from flooding despite dams. Deaths from flooding would not vanish (or even decrease) if we stopped using hydroelectricity/building dams.

The floods are significantly worse because of the dams.

Water may naturally pool in areas but it doesn't pool to the degree necessary for hydropower which is why the dam is built. This causes 2 problems.

1) The construction of the dam will flood a ton of land upstream of the dam. If you've been to the beach you'll notice that the water doesn't need to go up or down very much for a ton of area to be flooded so in order to get that extra space.

2) You've now stored a ton of water upstream that will make any dam failure worse than a natural flood because you have all the rain from the rainstorm and the water stored before the rainstorm that's in the flood.

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However, I'm still pro-hydro because uh, electricity is nice and you can mitigate flood issues better than cancer.
That’s exactly what they are, it says as much on the box.
Older wiser developer has less tolerance for bullshit and wants higher pay. Older wiser developer is less likely to be on a visa because they've probably been working in the country for a while. They're less likely to be foreign as well because the giant surge of foreigners (Indian/Chinese) coming to US is something that has happened in the last 15 years. If you have 20+ years of experience in the US, you're much more likely to be American or at least a citizen or have a greencard.

In all senses, older developers want more and have a better positioning to negotiate from. For capitalists, this is exactly what they don't want.

It's not really ageism as much as it is the associations that come with older age. If you were as naive, desperate, and cheap as a new grad - you'd get more easily hired too. Oh and a lot of older devs don't like the grindy leetcode nature of interviews because it takes a lot of time outside of work to study for and they prefer to do other things with their time. (In half of my FAANG interviews, I get asked LC Hard problems regularly. The bar to pass is very high.)
Romance scams are pretty wild. A few years ago someone attempted to catfish me on hinge by impersonating WWE wrestler Mandy Rose. I think the irony or impersonating a professional wrestler (whose job is to act within an artificially constructed kayfabe universe) was lost on them.

I ended up turning the exchange into an interactive website: https://0ms.co/sexydating
Genuinely appreciate this response.

I too have been nothing short of perpetually shocked at how dysfunctional a large part of the software industry is. This is why I'm never able to take the "engineering" moniker seriously when people talk about programming.

The hiring process is so maddening and I'm glad you said that.

I get that resume scanning and what not is fully automated and makes no allusion to being a useful nor functioning process, but I'm perpetually amazed as I submit resumes (where I meet or exceed every "requirement") to companies I know are not well-functioning organizations only to be rewarded with an automated rejection email minutes later.
To a point. Landing a solid brick of aluminum isn't much good, unless the entire goal of the exercise is to get a successful landing of something.
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You are seriously mistaking your personal preference for a universal human trait. Many of these buildings are very homely feeling.

You probably might also come from a country where houses are built of wood. Wood isn't a common building material outside Europe and North America. Concrete and brick are most common.
You posted a similar problem one month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43024221 (1624 points | 30 days ago | 471 comments) IIUC this is a different way, or am I wrong?
Yeah, so a decade-old now-dead trend isn't a "law" or we could be talk about the "Iron Law of jQuery: All sites will expand until they include at least three incompatible versions of jQuery".
[NSA with their multiple quantum computers has entered chat] /s
FAA issues permanent restrictions on Washington helicopter traffic
Even if you believe the government is inefficient - which is just that, a belief - you can’t support DOGE.

Again, they’ve fired people at the office of government accountability, which are the inspectors who literally ensure tax dollars aren’t wasted.

That’s not me “hating musk”. That’s the reality of what’s happening. Following that, we must admit DOGE has no plans to save anyone any money.

Their goal is LESS accountability, not more. Government spending will only go UP.

If you read Project 2025 you would know the explicit goal of this is to cripple bureaucracy so that that power can be concentrated in the president. Not “save money”. Come on now.
Interesting, can you provide more sources, about the dictators and stoicism, also Marcus Aurelius was he a tyrant, mass murderer, and courtier?
Mass. Each kilogram costs what, millions? Hundreds of millions?

There's a small chance that navigation or landing fails in a way that would make those legs useful, and an even smaller chance that they'll save the mission.

Given tight budgets, this is almost certainly not a gamble worth taking
"stoicism’s Providential claim that everything in the universe is already perfect and that things which seem bad or unjust are secretly good underneath (a claim Christianity borrowed from Stoicism) can be used to justify the idea that the rich and powerful are meant to be rich and powerful"

What did I miss? Does Stoicism claim everything in the universe is already perfect? That seems like a bold (counter-intuitive) claim.
I have read his diaries, though carelessly writing Mark Antony over Marcus Aurelius does undermine the point. -- Thanks, edited. I guess one shouldnt write HN comments while listening to corporate policy announcements.
> In addition to it all, Zuck's taste in board games is basic.

FWIW, Ticket to Ride and Catan are decent, worth playing, euro games. That's miles better than Monopoly or Risk which the casual folk immediately think of in the context of board games.
They introduced levels 2.5 years ago. Almost all existing engineers were converted to L5 at that time (I was told ~90% during a recent job interview there). A very small number of L6s were created when they introduced levels (something like 20 according to my interviewer). L4s are post-9/2022 hires.

All of which is to say, the fact that most people are L5s, including people who've been there for a long time, is due entirely to the very recent introduction of leveling and the high bar for L6. It tells you nothing on its own about whether L5 is perceived as a terminal level.

You'd know better than us if you work there, and reading between the lines of your comment it sounds like maybe it is?
The issue is that the value for all land in all cases trends towards zero. If you start making a profit you have to give the government all or most of it, if you lose money you just abandon the plot since the debt isn't attached to you. There's zero reason to ever do anything.
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We should also apply the same logic to game consoles. Why should Sony get a cut of every game I buy? It's not like they even have hosting costs associated with it--I'm buying a physical game from a store. Why should I need to get Nintendo's blessing in order to make a game for Switch? Why can't I download games directly from the game developer's web site for any of these console platforms?
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> If 1x is the absolute rock-bottom lowest possible productivity

You understand the original meaning of the term. This is not how most people use it nowadays.
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Most of it doesn't look brutalist to me. See this for example: https://www.pritzkerprize.com/sites/default/files/styles/max...

It looks like a normal house just without paint.
It's always the same three downvotes a few hours after any post that dares to question the industrial-scientific complex.
We all do what must to keep sane.
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>All labour is exploited - the degree to which it is is limited by law in each country.

That's very reductionist to say that ALL labor is exploited, least of all privileged well paid white collar jobs in rich western countries, and undermines the actual labor exploitation going on out there.

Sure, you might consider yourself exploited with a measly 100k+/year wage because your CEO makes over 200x that, but the majority of the population will disagree and have no sympathy on that being remotely resembling exploitation.
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I could rave on a lot about when this bit of news first started to gain traction here in Australia was in reality a zombie sheep grooming effort by a certain crowd here in Australia.

But instead:
(a) Spy satellites exist, the US in fact has (I suppose it's not been defunded ...) a branch of intelligence that pours over their live satellite images all day long for defence and security purposes
(b) There has been an agreement to share intelligence data (obviously limited in some cases) in place between the US and Australia
(c) It's a fair bet those monitoring the satellite data have a good idea where a large fleet of naval ships are at any given moment.
(d) Data would have been shared with Australian Intelligence community in a timely fashion.

I was saddened to hear the meowing by one particular Australian tv media outlet, once most people here would have understood the govt can't say much until they've been officially advised, this instance it was an airline pilot prior to any communication from China.

By and large it was a non event, just some people have an interest to sabre rattle, groom the susceptible part of the population to their own ends (indirect prod ensure people should elect a new govt that would prostrate themselves and hail King Trump,) as well as trying to convince the greater population that their govt should be spending their budget on better - eh expensive weapons as that is more important. Better biosecurity, food security, more small naval ships makes a heck of a lot more sense than a few very very expensive submarines that (sitting still) at the moment can sort of hide from spy satellites.

P.S. Almost the first thing the PM here when asked about it was to downplay the histrionic questions, was to point out the fact Australian Navy had just participated in war games close to China.
Okay but successfully landing an inanimate carbon rod is easy, but why?
My guess why Aurelius is considered as the face of stoicism is due to the fact he was an emperor/powerful man. I doubt that the twisted way in which stoicism is viewed today would benefit from selling it as a philosophy of Zeno, who was a foreigner.

What I mean by that is that stoicism in its modern iteration seems a brosphere/manosphere thing that will help you to become rich/powerful/successful/buy a lambo, while in reality, the stoics rejected material possessions and the entire philosophy was created by Zeno who lived an ascetic life, despite being wealthy.
Hard core meditators in Hindu traditions were ascetic beggars and still are.

We just don’t see them writing books or posting on YouTube.
Fortunately, I found that the original notepad without most of the garbage they've added to it is still available in Win 11. I followed the instructions here to get Windows to use it instead of the new one, and am happy I did.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/gettin...
There is no specific purpose for an iPad.
I wonder how sliding window would work over blocks.
> retaining wealth means choosing not to see and positively act on the state of the world

This is just silly. Just because you retain wealth doesn't mean you aren't positively acting to improve the current state of the world.
> Marginally, in some models only, and only in token generation, if I read the tables correctly.

Which is exactly the point. If the benefits are so marginal, why not get a used M2 Ultra instead?
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Stoicism does not claim that at all. Not sure what the author means…
OTOH, if you're barely able to afford food, if they're the same cost, high protein might be a good thing.
Really random thought: the tax you pay on profit is proportional (or even 1:1) to your market share. Become a monopoly? 100% of your profit is now taxed.

Nicer to stay at eg. 25% and have competition. Maybe ramp it exponentially

(yes, I know there are loopholes in this pie-in-the-sky)
"However, the lander's altimeter had failed."
What does “international” mean? That’s just US and EU right? Isn’t every country free to do whatever it likes?
> I don't see why you should feel guilt.

You should feel guilty because you can do something about other people's suffering, instead of being a greedy hoarder who has far more than he could possibly use in multiple lifetimes while other people starve and live miserable lives due to the system you benefit from.

I think Peter Singer makes the argument very well [1] but many others in the history of philosophy have done just as good a job. Even Rawls is an option.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVl5kMXz1vA&pp=ygUMcGV0ZXIgc...
Because "where am I" and "how high am I over that position" are very different things.

Visual demonstration of being at the wrong altitude in the right spot: https://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-article968.html
Have fun with that.
They shut down 18f, laying off the entire team.
do staff engineers really have increased responsibility & workload at your company? The distinction between staff and sr is kind of fake at most places I think. If anything, its just staff have more leeway to choose what to work on.
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I'd say that they are more uncertain than industry jobs at this point, unless you're talking about companies that have recently been taken over by private equity where the new owners intend to gut the place and sell off the parts.