skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were to describe and prioritize issues I have with SD cards, "not handling power loss well" would not make my list. Silently dropping writes while fully powered is more like it.
> Our observations are consistent with Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
The sales "day", at least for the West, is a week (maybe two?) when everything is on sale but the transactions are held as pending until the sale day.

It is very annoying because the discounts are usually 1-2% (again as a westerner, may well be different for Asia) and it means you might have to wait a week or two for the product to ship.

I have asked stores if they can bill me full price and ship immediately and they say no.

So its really a marketing con to consolidate one or two weeks worth of sales into one day and then proclaim they had such a huge salsa day.

Imagine if Amazon billed two weeks of sales right on Black Friday. The numbers would be insane.
they might make loading and unloading solid cargo more difficult
UK Years of Experience vs. Earnings
From 1985 to 2008 the median tenure of a family in a home was 6 years. This figure only started going up in recent years, due to housing crisis. Americans have traditionally expected to move house 8-9 times in their adult life. It is certainly not true that "most" people have tenure of 15 years or more. That is the 90th percentile tenure.
> The researchers observed multiple species of tuna larvae throughout this protected expanse

Somehow I've gone over 40 years without realizing that fish have a larval stage.
In that case I'll take the cash.
Can someone justify MQTT over HTTP and WebSockets?

Before you jump down my throat, I've used all three protocols to a fair degree. MQTT was the most painful, and without strong justification, what's the point? I always read a bandwidth usage justification, but if that's the case, someone should be able to tell me the number of overhead bytes saved using MQTT over WebSockets.
Lama Al Rajih's questions to ask people (“Skip the small talk”)
Why paying less taxes is good and something everybody agree on?
Always wondered how they get away with it.

Every time I hear “Ask your doctor about ____” I cringe. How is this ok?
The only thing I'm discounting is the American tendency to talk like we are the center of the universe and always have been. I'm saying "WW2 wasn't a war with the US. There were multiple countries on both sides of that war."

That's it. That's all I'm saying. It doesn't actually translate to "America didn't count and made no difference whatsoever in the war effort."
Interesting writeup! I didn't realize there was an active attempt to generate BTF for the kernel.

Regarding macros...

Well, to start with, there's the brute-force approach of simply embedding textual macro definitions. That might be good enough for most use cases in practice: as far as I know, most BPF hooks are written in either C or the C-like bpftrace language, so expanding macros as text would probably give a sensible result for the majority of macros that aren't particularly complex. And macro definitions are already included in the DWARF info, so the DWARF-to-BTF approach from your link could be easily extended to embed them.

But it would be nice to describe macros in a more structured format, which could allow use from non-C-like languages and would probably save on file size. Some prior art I'm familiar with is rust-bindgen, which generates Rust bindings for C headers using libclang, and supports translating C macros that expand to constants. Basically it checks each macro that's defined without arguments and uses libclang to try to evaluate it as a C constant expression; this will fail for macros that expand to things other than constant expressions, but it just ignores those. If evaluation succeeds, it translates the macro to a typed Rust constant declaration.

It might be possible to do something similar for BTF. As output format, either add a new 'constant integer' node, or translate such macros as if they were enum definitions. For Linux it would probably be best to avoid a dependency on libclang, but a custom parser might work, or maybe a hackier approach based on feeding things to the C compiler like:

enum { value_of_SOME_MACRO = ((((((((( SOME_MACRO ))))))))) };

and sorting through the resulting morass of compiler errors :)

Edit: Forgot to mention – functional macros would be nice too, but of course they're much harder to translate. And heck, what about inline functions? Convert them to BPF?
”[...] if, as is common practice, the cargo is loaded with a conveyor belt from the quayside into the hold.”

So, no.
> That depends on how you define "manager". In our company, managers serve empowering function and don't have firing powers. They take full responsibility for growth and progress of the people they manage.

Who does have firing powers, and how does one get there without being in the management track?
Well, my personal take, based on experience, is this:

You have to have enough range of motion for the lift you are doing, if you lift and don't stretch, muscle tends to shorten, and eventually you are not going to have enough range. This leads to two problems:

1) Potential over-stretch under load and injury, which will require time to heal.

2) Pain in joins, like knees or shoulders. Goes away once you start stretching.

If you do some other additional activity which gets you through full range of motion, like yoga or some active sport, then there is really no need to do extra stretching, otherwise, for me, stretching is required.
I'm not an accountant, but I believe if the dividend comes from an American company, and you've held the stock for over 60 days, it's a qualified dividend and gets taxed at the long term capital gains rate.
I think that almost immediately ends up in a morass of private information web sites, none of which are as trustworthy as current FDA-regulated labeling.

Do you prefer Instagram "influencers" to have more control over what drugs people take than the current regulated advertising? I don't.
Yeah - the internet can hack RDP as well as SSH - they both expose a port and Microsoft recent had a global RDP bug (though not for recent versions) that enabled that very problem.

A VPN is a good suggestion, and I would probably position it as an industry best practice whether you are using RDP or other network protocols to access their resources.
Perhaps the authors of the paper made the assumption that the reader would already be familiar with the effects of ionizing radiation on humans?

For example, this presentation by NASA (https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/RoR_WWW/SWREDI/2013/Evans-SWREDIB...) on Solar Energetic Particles (or SEPs) relates how one can translate from pfu (proton flux units which are used in the article linked) and biological effects as part of the solar storm intensity scale (slide 15).

Perhaps if someone was already familiar with the NASA research into SEPs, they would read this paper/article and say "Hmm, here is some evidence that Cosmic rays are not something that can be assumed to be negligible when evaluating radiation exposure risk."
This might be a stupid question - but could ships tug or tow their cargo, and let it roll around?
Because consumers aren't stupid and that doesn't work, probably? Because your competitor will gladly advertise their more innovative and better product, and yours will look inferior?
How to Add Flexbox Fallback to CSS Grid
How much money was spent in the 2016 election cycle? It was at least $1 billion. $400k/month, even for 24 months, is $9600k, or about $10 million, or 1% of the total spend. It is not by tipping the spending balance that the Russians had however much effect they had.
If you buy palm oil, you're complicit.
OK, they can fire me. There are other coding jobs. They move up the chain and have to sit in meetings taking on greater responsibilities while I sit back and code for years, increasing in position and compensation without really having to be more accountable for the success or failure of the business. They probably make more than me, but I just shut down at the end of the day and run around with my kids.

There are far more ways to measure success in life than your paycheck or where you fall in an org chart.
In the classical black hole model anything that crosses the event horizon only has a limited time before they hit the singularity. Even for particularly big black holes this wouldn't take all that long.

I find it a bit tricky to say if you wouldn't encounter all the stuff that fell in before you though. I've always had trouble reconciling the fact that you won't see stuff enter the event horizon until you're close to it and the fact that black holes can spring into existence. I'm still not all that sure a true black hole isn't merely an approximation that breaks down as you get close.
Domino's wants the Supreme Court to say websites don’t have to be accessible
I was taught ( in the US - Pennsylvania) that the US lost just about everything - in fact, the only victory was the Battle of New Orleans (?) that was actually fought AFTER the war was over but before word had reached the Americas. Plus there's that whole burning of the capital.

That said, it wasn't taught as a loss that we should learn any lesson from. Much like the Revolutionary War, it was just "oh heck, those crazy Brits vs the indomitable American spirit again!" If we weren't good allies of the British today, I wonder what the teaching would be like...
Sure, “all” is a powerful word. It was simplistic enough to support my point, which still stands though. Perhaps it is more useful to discuss the central point on debate, instead of being picky on points that are not central to the debate?
I would say it is the rise of digital media. Newspapers had a captive audience, now in the digital world everyone has to compete for attention.

Google rise happened at the same time as digital media - both coinciding with rise of internet.
> And privacy alone, which is what they are pushing is not enough.

Absolutely, it is. Of course, it's not the only point of competition, but if it were, I would still pay the additional amount to not be the product.
From even the small scale that I use to work at - routing field service workers (cable installers, propane deliveries, alarm company installers, etc) efficiently is a “hard problem”. On the scale that UPS operates it takes a lot f technology.
There's one thing stopping them, not enough Canadian programmers are willing to vote with their feet. So the supply is too high in the labor market.

I do my part, whenever a recruiter contacts me on linked-in for a domestic position, I reply thanks but I don't work for Canadian companies.
How can eliminating "punctures, flats, and blowouts" "promise to improve tire longevity significantly" if the fraction of ordinary tires that are prematurely destroyed is small?

The article says airless tires will allow the elimination of spares, but that's already been happening, on the basis that flats are in fact rare.

And the thickness of the tread can't be greatly increased without greatly increasing the weight and decreasing the compliance. So the time to wear out can't be much longer.

So I don't understand how it makes any sense to say these will improve longevity significantly.

Edit:

And another thing - they say that being able to replace the tread would have "huge sustainability ramifications". But "retreads" are a thing with conventional tires.

I'm not arguing that there is no point to airless tires, really - who knows. But it annoys me that the reasons given for them don't seem like reasons.
The interior of black holes is one of the situations in which we need a theory that incorporates both gravity and quantum mechanics.

We actually do have a couple such theories and can't verify them because the situations where they differ from GR are unobservable. It's a shame (but not surprising) this research didn't find any observable differences from GR.
> From what I've read, it's thought that inside the event horizon, black holes are almost totally empty until you get to the singularity (or torus if it's spinning) at the center.

What does that actually mean? i.e. How would a black hole that's mostly empty inside differ from one that isn't?
Speaking of the painted ladies, a clear example of how completely dysfunctional the market is, there's been a vacant lot ON Alamo Square, less than a block for the painted ladies for years.

https://goo.gl/maps/7iW3oiqN3FcPhVXq6

Who owns it? Why is this still not housing or at least something? Who knows! There's a vacant boarded up mansion/victorian multiunit building on Grove as well that has been that way forever as well.

Also years ago there was a natural grocery store that closed on Divisadero. There was some controversy but the council decided to let it become a Core Power Yoga. That was almost a year ago. Zero progress has been made on building that studio, still an empty shop front.

http://www.sfweekly.com/news/with-corepower-divisadero-loses...

I don't have a strong opinion on that fight, but it's insane that these things take so long. I don't understand it, I've been meaning to go to a neighborhood meeting to ask, but I've been busy the rare nights they happen.
Seems to coincide with the thread a few days back about engineers valuing "growth" when considering jobs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20508465
I think this is the second part: http://minesafetydisclosures.com/blog/2019/7/23/part-ll-an-o...
> They'll sit in on senior meetings, work on strategic decisions, and you'll watch them rise further and futher in the company hierarchy while you're enjoying your "parallel track".

If there actually is a parallel track, this doesn't happen. Directors sit on meetings with sr. staff engs and principles - directors think about the resource allocation, principles think about the technology direction. The technical track is just management of and responsibility for larger and larger technical areas.
Add rice to the hold. Problem solved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Midshipman_Hornblower

"Hornblower and the Cargo of Rice"
Stock buybacks versus capital gains makes all the difference for Belgian residents. No capital gains here. Foreign dividends get taxed at >= 40.5%, local dividends at 30%.

Which is why accumulating funds are getting rather popular in Belgium...
Cadillac Desert figures prominently in the plot of Bacigalupi's novel.
I just do stretches for the muscles I'm training.

This is good book:

https://www.amazon.com/Stretching-Pocket-Book-Bob-Anderson/d...

This strap is really helpful:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00065X222/
I agree completely. If that's the choice you made in life and it makes you happy and fulfilled, I'm genuinely happy for you. But you can only make that choice if you walk into the situation with your eyes open. I don't like being bullshitted.
You seem very sure about how humanity will look like in 500 years and how much energy it would use.

Obviously you consider the concept of Type II and Type III civilizations impossible and ridiculous, since they would use more than 20 orders of magnitude more energy than we do.
The madness of gun culture (2014)
I think a lot of responses to you are missing the point. Managers have more autonomy and more control.

You may get paid the same while working as an individual contributor, at least for a while, but over time your power in the org suffers a slow decay.

For example, you may not be able to direct your work towards that which generates the most revenue, people you passed on in the interview process suddenly appear next to you and you're required to mentor them, projects that seem dumb get assigned to you from on high without your input, compute resources appear or disappear from under your control, etc.

It's like death by a thousand cuts. And in my experience, the only way to actually get paid on this track over the long term is to create something so valuable that you are the single point of failure.

At least for programming, the only real 'Individual Contributor' career track that makes any sense to consider is one where you're a lead developer, that is you still code, but you manage a team of other people as well.
Are the really theories if they're known to be unfalsifiable? Or do you mean they might differ in situations we don't know about?
Currently only the C executives, mostly because we are so small and this is a very solemnly an issues. We have not let go a person for more than 2.5 years. As we grow more, we will change it too, but will try to keep it very friction heavy so our employees are not worried about someone frivolously firing them.
Yeah, in that case, just compare the relative security events between rdp and ssh and you'll probably convince them they should not be running rdp on the open internet...
Modern American Works Longer with Less Vacation Than Medieval Peasants
French Canadian here...

My impression on the 1812 war is that if the French had won the 1759 Battle of Quebec ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Plains_of_Abraha... ) then they would likely have lost to the Americans in 1812 ... There would be no Canada today.

But of course, this is just speculation.
Advertising can in general involve misleading. It’s not even close to education.
The US barely won the revolution.

Luckily during the war, a volcano (Laki, Iceland) threw Europe & much of the British empire (including India & Africa) into a multiyear drought, causing one of the coldest/longest winters in the USA.

About 3 months after the eruption formal negotiations to end the war began.

No eruption, possibly no USA but historical accounts I've seen rarely mention the role of mother nature.
Is this spam on HN?
> I think society would benefit immensely from banning the advertising of drugs.

This is already the case in many places outside the USA (Canada, Europe, Brazil, Hong Kong).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-consumer_advertising
Is this just a joke? If not, do you have a better source to back up the suggestion?

I'm asking because it's a fictional story and the sink ships because of the wet rice expanding. It doesn't actually save the ship, though it does likely delay its demise.
I am also American and I also learned it was a stalemate. The most significant battle of the war was was fought two weeks after the war ended!

American historians think that the British complied with the meager settlement of Ghent because of the battle of New Orleans.

We did get a nifty song out of it.
Point taken.
I haven't thought about managers that way, but you are absolutely correct - tracks can not be parallel by definition.

Next question is - is manager the only logical progression for a dev at some point?
Advertising is not immune from market corrections. The whole "pivot to video" trend was a market corrections to ad rates, _and_ has died off in a response to another market correction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_to_video
I'm surprised there's no guidance for IC9. Are there just not any of those yet? At my last company (300-500 engineers) level guidance only went up to IC7, and there was a single IC8 who was sort of "pioneering" new level direction.
I agree with almost all of this, but in a city as crime-riddled as San Francisco, there is a huge difference between parking on the street and in a garage. I get that the way the garages are built and arranged is beyond suboptimal, but lets not act as if having those same cars parked on the street would be equally as good.
So everyone with bad or no credit is locked out of the rental market? That....doesn't make a lot of sense. Where are they living?
I've been reading about tunneling but don't think it'll work because I can't make any changes to the RDP gateway box. The gateway acts as a proxy (bastion?) which then directs traffic. Is my thinking correct?
An MMO Minesweeper Royale.... Not a bad idea actually! This definitely inspires me to make my own!
It rose after cable deregulation, which gave us 500 channels and dozens of 24/7 outrage outlets.

There was plenty of outrage going around on Fox and Rush Limbaugh talk radio before Google. Remember, Roger Ailes pretty much planned for a lot of this.
Should we just hate everything because there are poor people? Should we all live in perpetual state of guilt? A perfect world doesn’t exist, that doesn’t mean we should tear down everything and degrade everyone’s quality of life just so it’s equally bad for everyone. If 20% are happy and everyone else is miserable, it seems ridiculous to aspire to making 100% miserable out of some virtue-signaling desire for pure equality. If I avoid pineapple, it will make zero difference because whatever the next bad thing is will also be bad. Eventually we all live in caves and die at age 30, but at least nobody was unequal right?
Americans do call it a World War, don't they? I think you're being a bit too cynical.
I can attest it's taught as a victory in Canada. Actually we're pretty proud of it, it was really the first time all of Canada, both French and English and native fought as one. The US was the aggressor, albiet not unprovoked, so we can also rightly be proud of defending our country successfully. Had it happened after the civil war with the much larger battle hardened union army - the outcome would have been very different (and pretty much anytime since.)
But it does matter. This A321neo issue is identified during internal simulated tests, never happened or reported on any commercial or test flight.

The issue consists of the anti-stall protection not being aggressive enough under SPECIFIC circumstances:

- Airplane is in Flare mode
- Pilot applies sudden and excessive pitch up
- Keeps the pitch during pre stall and stall period

Source: https://leehamnews.com/2019/07/19/bjorns-corner-airbus-a321n...
how do you know it links back to JND?
> Are the really theories if they're known to be unfalsifiable?

They're not unfalsifiable. (Not all of them.) Gravity is weak. Quantum mechanics are small. Measuring such small weak things is not presently possible.
Oh thanks, I'll check it out. That sounds very interesting, and might be just what I need.
No. What you're describing sounds like the 'visited' style for links in titles. Is it possible that you've just clicked on more stories today?
> near ubiquitous distrust for consultants among almost everyone who has worked with them

Perhaps this empirical observation doesn’t have enough unbiased samples. Consulting in general, more in particular management consulting, and even more in particular strategy consulting (where MMB, McKinsey, Boston, Bain are leaders; and the kind that sparkled this discussion), are 3 different, huge, mature, global industries. So there are empirical odds enough to say that people trust them enough to pay them, which is at odds with that universal distrust you state.

Perhaps that “ubiquitous distrust” is just more prevalent in HN or in the IT industry.
The audience and purpose of this article is unclear.

Is this meant for engineers who don't work at Square, for the purpose of recruiting? Or for engineers who already work at Square, for the purpose of justification, i.e. an internal newsletter?

The headline matches the former, but the content seems bent towards the latter.

For one, the overly-long preamble reads like a page in a corporate handbook, laced with insecurity.

> Our levels don’t line up perfectly with those of other companies ... You likely can’t accurately compare level numbers or titles directly between companies, even with tools that provide mappings between companies.

Similarly, most of the "principles" presented are either common-place:

> Levels build on each other: Each level implicitly includes all criteria and responsibilities of prior levels.

Or deceptive:

> Promotions don’t unlock new responsibilities; the new responsibilities and increased scope come first and then we recognize it with a promotion.

Or are a lot of nice-sounding words, too incoherent to disagree with.

As someone who's had to suffer through career frameworks championed by company-lifers straight from college, I don't think this article won’t quite attract the best and brightest.
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