skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d happily pay a good SWE 40 hours for 35 hours of work. Less coordination and a smaller comms network is a win. Good SWEs would happily take that deal as they’d be making 4x the median instead of 2.5x the median and could live better and save more.

I don’t believe in restricting freedom of employees to work. If that means the hardest working and most skilled live meaningfully better than the median or 10th percentile, then yes I’m totally ok with that.
Despite that it was written by Alexandrescu, I can say that without a doubt this 2001 article doesn't represent the current state of thought around MT programming and volatile. I'd think of it more as a historical artifact than anything.
He's kind of a closet indexer these days:

https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t...
Thanks for your comment. Perhaps the order matters. I asked before submitting. I'll try submitting to the same journal and see if their willingness to negotiate changes after the paper passes review.
Possibly. There's rougly two problems here:

- distributing research: blockchain is useless here. Things like SciHub already solve this problem on a practical level currently. I used SciHub regularly through my undergrad because it was so much easier to use.

- tracking the "notability" of research. A blockchain might be useful here, but I think you'll have a hard time unseating the existing journals.
This is a great natural wonder. Thank you.

It also invalidates my logic. Maybe there could be some vector with biannual periodicity.
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Doctors are not exactly known for having low (or falling) salaries, so maybe your logic is not that solid.

And there are many well-paid positions in hi-tech not involving working in surveillance part of Facebook or in Facebook at all.
Sure. I was responding to a comment saying the reason rooftop solar makes sense is the sunk cost in the land overwhich the roof lives. Rooftop Solar make a lot of sense, but probably the main reason is the electricity generated does not come with the cost of having to maintain a hugely expensive grid.
Yes thanks! It was at the tip of my tongue
Huh? What would that accomplish for you?
LED's are the modern blinkenlights. They can be useful if the OS supports them properly (Linux is slowly but surely getting there), so that failure states or heavy load can be conveniently signaled in a way that doesn't impact actual, on-screen work.
It's a tremendous piece of writing I've enjoyed many times over over the years but a troubling one.

As best I can tell, this is the actual shot described in the excerpt you quoted. It's great but perhaps DFW embellished a bit in the retelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDwG5rJVtdc

One writer reconsiders the piece: https://theoutline.com/post/7424/david-foster-wallace-roger-...
I believe it was called a Better Place, from what I recall Renault was big on it, as was the Danish government.

I wondered about this since you don't own the battery people won't be taking due care of it, it would be very capital intensive to have the battery replacement stations though.

I got the gist right:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)
That's what Tokyo is; increasing in population despite Japan as a whole falling. People in cities have smaller greenhouse gas emissions than people living rural or suburbs; they don't need cars because things are close and mass transit is affordable and convenient because there are enough people sharing it. The US can't get there until they enforce standards of conduct in the public sphere and stop exclusionary zoning.
Acknowledging someone has an intrinsic gift is not the same as telling them it's a replacement for work. (By all means, make sure they know it's not!)

It's also fairly silly to assume if you don't tell your kid it won't notice it has these gifts, rather it will notice that you never acknowledge this.
This reminds me of the time when all papers in some journals had this boilerplate at the end:

The publication costs of this article were defrayed in part by page charge payments. This article must hereby be marked “advertisement” in accordance with 18 U.S.C. §1734 solely to indicate this fact. [1]

[1] https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/01/09/history-as-ca...
To a first approximation, yes. But consider that the C++ grammar has ~100 more rules than Java (~170 vs. ~280), and parts of the C++ grammar are strongly context-dependent, which isn't true in Java.
For me it doesn't get more seamless than github.com/jmoiron/sqlx

No frills, just a little reflection to tie struct fields <=> SQL params.
sure, just prepend every address with some more bits to indicate which multiverse it's from. while you are at it you might as well add a lot of bits, say, 96 of them.
"Players’ speed matters more on clay than other courts, and Nadal is the fastest on tour"

That's an odd thing to say. I would think that Djokovic is the fastest of the major players.
Yes, I thought about that after posting. I don't think they should give the identity of a user to some random person. For what it's worth, I didn't ask for the Bird rider's identity, and I don't see a good reason why they couldn't have told me whether the rider was reprimanded. I suspect that the rider wasn't reprimanded and they didn't want to lie to me.
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NB: The Apollo Command Mudule operated at 5 PSI in spave, about 34% og atmospheric sea level pressure. Over 25,000 feet / 7600 meters elevation. The LM operated at 3.5 PSI.

The Space Shuttle and ISS operate at 14.7 PSI -- normal sea level atmospheric pressure.
maybe the fact that he hold a computer science degree figures into his involvement on some level? regarding his terrible history, was that ever really proven or admitted to? and if it was, why is he not in jail (or dead, for that matter...)?? my not-very-informed take on that situation was more like he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, black friday came along, and the money dried up really fast making for some unpaid debts for the company... perhaps i don't know the full story but still, he didn't seem to ever be charged with any wrongdoing, which seems odd to say the least
Russia launches major new telescope into space
Maybe you won't, but other people do. Dropbox and similar services have eaten away at the practice, but a lot of people still walk around with flash drives, partition table untouched since they bought it, with all their personal and work files. Not merely just using it to transfer large photographs or pirated movies, but keeping their de facto 'home directory' in that flashdrive. For a few years in the mid to late 00s, it seemed like almost everybody was doing this.

Before that, I knew people who did it with zip drives. And I even once knew a guy who tried it with DVD-RAM, but gave up pretty quick.
Given the seniority of the author and committer in the networking world, I assume that they're operating under the knowledge that IANA's reservation is being reconsidered.
> Just like its better-known counterpart const, volatile is a type modifier. It's intended to be used in conjunction with variables that are accessed and modified in different threads.

Simply not true. It has limited use with memory mapped I/O (although even there it misses necessary guarantees), but is not intended to work with threads.

> So all you have to do to make Gadget's Wait/Wakeup combo work is to qualify flag_ appropriately:

class Gadget
{
public:
... as above ...
private:
volatile bool flag_;
};

Is not correct, and will not work reliably.

I spent some time working with Andrei at Facebook, and he's a smart guy, but this article is wrong.

Don't do what he says here.

Volatile needs to go away.
To gp's credit, their bio at least lists "Rants and over-reactions."
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This should be a reply to the post I replied to, which said, “people living in small, crappy places far from their work.”
Bad weather in northern Europe means that everything is covered in snow for a long time. I think that's slightly more than just reduced output. The snow also tends to cover am area that's hundreds of kilometers in every direction too.
I’m curious to what extent this is just innuendo and FUD, and how much there’s legitimate speculation (if there could be such a thing) as to Nadal and/or Federer doping. I’ve never heard even a whisper of doping suspicion with Roger, and this is the first I’ve heard of Rafa, but I don’t follow the sport super closely so maybe there are storylines I’ve missed. I know there have been other high profile tennis players to get caught doping, but my impression was that it was uncommon among today’s athletes. The way your comment is worded suggests that many in the know suspect either or both of doping — is this accurate?
The challenge that you will run into is the people problems.

Basically, doing new stuff and building an MVP is the fun work that many of your future client's employees would want to do. If you take on the fun work, then they may not be motivated to finish it.

Instead of building the MVP, it would be better to be a coaching service to help build up your client's employees ability to lead new projects. Provide marketing and complimentary support skills and teach the future leader what is possible and how to leverage others.

Independent of the actual results, a missing thing for many companies is the ability to build up leadership.
The fact that it doesn't doesn't mean it shouldn't be. It's a damn useful method, it just didn't become popular.
Batteryswap makes sense to me. More sense than attempting to retrofit charge onto streets
The primary would be a rod (zero turns). Or probably better a large circle of ribbons (current travels down surface of the circle because electrons repel each other). With independent current transformers around each ribbon.

I had also wondered about a multi-strand design with different lengths as a way to smear the initial step.

The real issue is that a strike is fast transient currents: I suspect that my normal calculations for voltage, current, transformers, inductance and capacitance don't hold. The amount of charge that travels through a lightning bolt is typically around 15 C, although for large bolts this can be up to 350 C.

The main problem with the whole idea is that the actual amount of kW is not that large. "a lightning bolt, which has over five billion Joules of energy, which could provide one household with all their energy needs for a month" which I presume is assuming 100% conversion and storage efficiency...

Edit: and this really screws with any possible design: "Occasionally a lightning stroke will travel from the positive charge region in the top of the thunderstorm cloud to ground. This type of lightning is called positive lightning and accounts for about 5% of all cloud-to-ground lightning strikes. Positive lightning is powerful and typically carries more current than normal cloud-to-ground lightning". The diagram showed normal lightning bolts at about 30kA, and the rarer positive lightning bolts (electrons go from ground to cloud) at 100 to 200kA.
I still am under the opinion of srv records were widely used the ipv4 shortage could be delayed a very long time.
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A large chunk of Europe sits north of that though.
On the other hand the Guitar Center POS system, which is accessible from the internet (as far as I understand, without DNS, just like, if you've got the IP address, you could hit it). But, it's so ancient that it appears to be totally immune to any of the late 90s viruses that are probably still floating around.
> You can still view your passwords after your membership is cancelled.

You can now. But for how long? How long it would be until you need to reimage your computer or install it on other platform and new version would demand membership?

The problem here is not that it won't work right now. It's that once this mode is not supported, even if it still works you're on your own. Like using out-of-support software version - maybe it works now, but you better to have a migration plan, or one day in the future you'd be in a big trouble with nobody to help you. And passwords to every site you have login on is not exactly the type of information you want to take risks with. You need to trust the provider they have your back here, and if they are not interested in supporting users that paid their licenses but are not providing recurrent revenue, then you better have plan B.
That's because it is undefined behavior to cast a const object to a non-const object. Instead, you must tell the compiler via the mutable keyword or else it will make optimizations based on the assumption it can't change.
CafePress data breach impacts 23M users
Visual Studio Code, Atom and Vim also have great Clojure support. (edit: might be worth to add editors and IDEs to the Clojure landing page to illustrate that there are many solid options by now)

With ClojureScript you can leverage JavaScript runtimes like browsers.

The ClojureScript testsuite also passes using the recently released hermes runtime (https://twitter.com/mfikes/status/1149360258994847745)

edit: Just wanted to add that being familiar with Java or the JVM isn't necessary to get into Clojure. It definitely is not a prerequisite :)
> They increasingly own the upstream manufacturing and production businesses that companies use to produce their products

I hadn't heard about this. Where can i read more?
If you liked that piece, you will like David Foster Wallace's other piece on tennis as well [1]. It discusses how difficult it is to make it as a tennis pro.

[1] https://www.esquire.com/sports/a5151/the-string-theory-david...
>> The number of people who derive meaningful income from their copyrighted work is and has been very small

Depends on how you define it. For instance more than 500k people make on average around $8k/month. I'm not saying it's a mind blowing number, but it's also not little.

>> only a small fraction of that (e.g. Disney) derives a fortune by enforcing draconian copyright laws, so it's not clear if this will change in the future.

It's true that only handful of creators, mostly large companies, earn outsized returns. That however doesn't mean that small creators don't matter nor it means that copyright can't be used for their benefits.

>> Also jobs like janitors and nannies won't be automated for a very long time, and it's not clear if the society benefits more from having yet another person writing a novel or making a movie rather than having the same person clean or take care of children.

The challenge with applying automation on today's world is that we are having hard times to see the "ripple" effect of the change. For instance, if most people don't have to "work" in the traditional sense, then they don't need nannies. Janitors' jobs is becoming fairly automated even today (autonomous vacuums, ...) and the progress will only continue.
Hackernews hates Bitcoin and loves Wall Street. Complaining about Goldman Saches is literally a bannable offence. There was a whole thread about it last week.

It's probably from ycombinator's dependence on Wall Street for VC money and the general trusting attitude of nerds towards authority figures.
Seems reasonable. If I put on my ad-hoc explanation hat, since geoosmin is produced when Streptomyces die, tasting it in water might indicate that the ecosystem is under stress. Conversely, smelling it in the air suggests that the soil ecology is healthy -> good place to plant crops.
In the UK we too have actually more housing stock than households. This amazed me - but it is the age old problem of aggregating national statistics to look at regional problems.

The problem is the houses are not in places people want to live anymore. The jobs aren't there. The communities aren't there.

So yes there is a housing crisis where the jobs are or there is a lack of jobs and community crisis where the houses are.

Once way or another it's a problem
Simply state it's a startup.

It implies there's a runway.

It's normal for startups to run out of capital.

Focus on technical aspects and cultural stuff that was functional. Like slack / github reviews / trips / etc.

It's okay to say if there were snacks / coffee machines you didn't like / local restaurants in delivery range weren't good. Those are fair game. Snacks imply you stay around and code :)

If interviewing for an employer not familiar with startups roles lasting <three years, let them know the experimental nature of the space. Founders move on/vc capital dries up because the market gets saturated (Imagine raising for a rideshare / delivery up in 2010 vs 2019)
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What's the URL for your website?
Basically, what you're saying is that the FDA likes keeping their jobs, because the only thing that can threaten them is them screwing up. It doesn't matter if approval is expensive or takes a long time, because they have no competition or incentive to do better.
He's describing the current state of affairs in that statement and providing background context, which was that volatile was seen as a solution to the memory barrier issue at that time, which we know to be incorrect now, but which was the closest approximation the C++ standard had to a half-solution at the time. That's NOT the point of the aricle, it's just background context for 2001 readers. There's a whole article after that which does not tell you to use volatile that way, and the entire reason I posted it was that part. Did you read past that paragraph at all, till the end? Did you understand what the article was actually trying to tell you, or did you just try to find a code snippet that didn't look right without bothering to read the full article? Did you see he literally advises you in the end: "DON'T use volatile directly with primitive types"? The entire point of the article is to tell you about a use case that is explicitly not the one you're imagining.
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c. 2004 there wasn't as much of a chase of fashionable languages or the rapid churn of frameworks that is seen today in some technology stacks.
The paragraph where he claims that volatile works?
Fucking terrible. Bad ideas multiplied by bad writing.
Many evidence-based practitioners disagree:
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http://plantpositive.com/blog/2012/3/26/tpns-52-54-the-best-...
Isn't that pretty much what we're already doing, since almost every device exists behind some kind of NAT?
If you get excited about puma 4 (like we did) and run on non-Heroku just be careful of other lingering issues. https://github.com/puma/puma/issues/1842 has the latest, make sure you’re on 4.0.1 at least.
seems passive to me unless they are actually going after students etc or encouraging the schools to. what i was trying to say was that there is little personal risk to sharing files with SH, or was until this IP blocking was added to the mix
> "The problem is that almost all of it comes during the summer. In the winter months when demand peaks, solar produces practically nothing."

In the UK, this turns out to be seasonally complementary with our wind turbines. In the winter months, wind speeds are stronger and more consistent (especially off shore). In the summer, there is less wind, but the gap is made up by solar. The net result is pretty consistent renewables production year-round.

> "it's not a solution to decarbonizing."

Every kWh of energy produced by a solar panel in the UK (or wind turbine, for that matter) offsets a kWh that would otherwise be produced from fossil fuels, typically from imported natural gas.
Except we do it intelligently and the glass doesn't.

The parent is not saying the glass is useless, just that it isn't intelligent
The paragraph where he says "DON'T use volatile directly with primitive types".
I'll have to check out the Atom and VSCode options. Thanks for the heads up. Basically all I need is paredit, some basic intellisense, and be able to see the project heirachy.

I like the idea of Clojurescript, but don't currently have any reason to do web development.
Most of it is useless (I also prefer minimalist hardware). However the new x570 chipset for AMD motherboards requires active cooling as the TDP has increased from 5-7W to 11W in order to support PCIe 4.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14161/the-amd-x570-motherboar...
The reasonable complaint is that attendees are hauling their trash off the playa but the infrastructure to deal with the trash after that still needs to be improved.

Personal anecdote: I attended lightning in a bottle years ago and they had a similar "pack it out" rule. Well that doesn't help when you're not aware of that prior to attending and need to dispose of plates from food you purchased at the event. I guess the expectation is that a day visitor carry around a trash bag full of waste with them all day. It came across as lazy by the event organizers.
Copyright as a legal concept is fairly old and the perception on it changed a lot within the history. For instance SACEM [0] was established 170 years ago in France. The general idea was to allow creators and rights holders to control their distribution but recent changes, in US MMA [1] and in EU the Copyright Directive [2] are now moving from focusing on distribution to getting creators paid.

If we look far enough in the future, copyright will mean something very different that what it means today. But I'm biased, considering that I built company in this space.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Société_des_auteurs,_composite...

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_...
Why would you ever use or see the latter? Fabricated examples aren't helpful.
By "this", I assume that you mean if people start using the 0.x.x.x block. My first read of your comment interpreted "this" to mean the new patch, which in fact makes Linux accept and work with this previously unusable block.
Ansible is written in Python, and all the core modules are written in Python. Using YAML you are passing arguments to the Python modules. This is also why Jinja is used.

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/index.html
PGP definitely has a problem with verifying identity behind keys, but I think that problem is overblown for a lot of purposes. Most of the emails people send out are to people they already know, and for those it is usually immediately obvious whether the person behind the key is the person you know in real life.

For other cases, it's often sufficient to follow the 'trust on first use' model, keeping in mind you need to build up trust by initial interactions whose contents are not highly sensitive. In both these cases, PGP works fine, and I suspect if people just didn't worry about web of trust and followed that simple guideline, the resulting state of sending encrypted emails would already be much better than it is now.