skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then you are fine if google, Facebooks, Microsoft also put checks in their commits and limit features only if the code runs in their OS,browser,site

In my experience some FB features (notes, maybe video) refuse to work on Firefox on *BSD. I tell it to lie about my UA and say that it's linux, everything works.
So why did my comment get deleted? Does anyone here wanna deny that Brave is easier to fingerprint than stock Google Chrome ?
I propose to measure this by writing down the results on a piece of paper, and then counting them.

The hope of MWI is to produce a simpler theory by eliminating an axiom. If this forces us to axiomatize "conscious observers" then it has already failed. Though I admit it may be fun to think about.
They had 200,000,000 users?
Taking Apart a Tesla Battery
If you want to buy a physical medium then CDs are the obvious option because objectively they are superior to vinyls in every aspects and they can also come with nice booklets.

I think that the hip-value of vinyls is extremely important.

I write that as someone who had no choice but use vinyls and tapes until I got a CD player...
I feel the exact same thing about the promotion process from investment banking industries to the big tech firm where I am working now. Normally, you are expected to perform higher than the current level and at least make the contribution at the next level to be promoted. Worst, I feel like to get promoted, I would need to be assigned to work on a high visible project affecting cross teams/organizations like you mentioned. Sometimes, it seems like waiting for the stars to align in eternity.
Yes, and because you can atomically update an internally breaking API change across all consumer projects in the same commit as the change itself, the monorepo setup is touted as reducing complexity where this change would otherwise be non-atomic across many repos.

https://danluu.com/monorepo/
If universities are profit maximizing entities why do they get preferential tax treatment?
I've not worked for Google (though have had a few opportunities) and you're on the money.

It's such an uphill battle to instill these values in young organizations when leadership has no strong engineering background.
This seems kind of counterproductive for the (I think) vinyl target group. If I listen to vinyl, I want the kinda retro feeling "real" analog audio signal, else I'd just get a CD or online download. A mid-range stylus is completly sufficient for a great experience without any noticable noise and next to no real wear on the records.
That's only OK if you do actually plan to overtake the guy in front of you. If not you should leave enough room for the guy behind you to overtake you. It's really annoying when people sit with no space but don't overtake.
I think your comment points out “context matters”. Cockpits aren’t consumer goods.
They didn’t at the tome of selling it to Microsoft.
Congrats on the promotion, did you join Google as an L5?

Also, can you share more advice on the technical side, like what do you are the abstractions, mind models and technologies that you think are applicable outside of Google and would be worthy of studying?
I can't quite understand why someone would think it made sense to major in classical music, unless they had family money to support them for the rest of their lives. Same goes for majoring in oil painting after the arrival of Photoshop (or for that matter, after the arrival of photography), or majoring in horsemanship after the invention of the internal combustion engine.

Basically, these are nostalgia careers. There is nothing wrong with loving old things, but they make sense as a hobby, not as a career you need to make a living.

I say this as someone who was (for a time) married to someone who "followed her dream" at the advice of her dad, and majored in operatic singing. Good as she was, all she was able to get as a job was in an opera chorus, while teaching music in elementary schools. The opera she was in was eventually closed, the music program in that school district was canceled, but neither paid much anyway. Eventually she took on more loans (while I paid rent and groceries etc) to get a degree in speech pathology.

The economics of this was driven home once when we were together, when we went to see an opera in San Francisco. There was no amplification, but an actual orchestra. The ratio of audience members to performers was ridiculously low. The house was mostly full, but it wasn't that big a house (how big can it really be with no amplification?).

Meanwhile, the same evening, a young coworker of mine was attending an EDM show right across the plaza at the Bill Graham center, so we walked over together. That show was basically a couple guys on stage with laptops. Apparently not much on stage resembling musical instruments. And the crowd lined up outside was so enormous it made it hard for me to find my wife and to get to the opera house.

Some people see that as sad, I guess, and in some ways I can agree. (although I tend to prefer electronic music more than classical, I don't see the point of attending a live show if the music is pre-sequenced, that's just weird)

Regardless, this is reality today.
Yep, this is advisable by at least one actual scientist, too: https://medium.com/otherlab-news/decarbonization-and-gnd-b8d...

Also eating less or no meat helps on an individual level.
My point was that the times you refer to were so underdocumented and the reporting is so unreliable that using them in an argument amounts for confirmation bias. You wrote:

"The Mongols created a single unified empire than stretched from western europe to eastern asia [...] one that was also extremely tolerant of foreign cultures"

Was there a gigantic Mongol empire? Sure. Was it unified and extremely tolerant of foreign cultures in the sense that we use these words today? Not bloody likely. What kind of tolerance leads to what you also note:

"(1 in 200 men, around the world, are direct descendants of Genghis Khan)"
> I am sad that top tier software engineering environments have lost sight of the value of simplicity.

I agree, but a more charitable reading is that they want you to demonstrate that you can deliver a complex solution if that's the only way to get things done.

Complexity is highly subjective, of course.

Suppose I need a distributed atomic counter service. After doing a lot of research, I come to the conclusion that the best solution is to write a wrapper around something in AWS or GCP but structure things in a way that other teams can use it.

Other teams are now less likely to need to do that research and can just get stuff done.

But the actual implementation is very simple.

Is that complex?

Maybe, maybe not.

This does provide a perverse incentive to continuously reinvent the wheel, though, which is the worst part of it.

Why not re-implement the low level goodies in DynamoDB if that'll increase the odds of promotion? Many engineers think along those lines.
Microsoft, the Musical
Check out the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators [0]! They're credit card sized electronic instruments. They've managed to fit a full fledged sampler in the PO-33 and a voice synthesizer in PO-35. The others aren't as processing intense but still have really powerful patterning and sounds. All running off of 2 AAA batteries, with months of battery life.

[0] https://teenage.engineering/products/po
I saw your comment before being deleted and the line about people only using Brave if they are 'homophobic...' might have been part of it.
While we are at it, pay the grad student more as well. Otherwise, don't be surprised that your good students end up all being foreign-born, motivated by immigration benefits, and local ones would [often wisely] be totally disinterested in the grind.
Maybe earn some money by running ads on it? Big mistake / many make / rely on horn / instead of brake. Burma Shave
People inspect chrome diffs for weird changes too. Closed source software does not prevent people from noticing malware, especially in some of the most heavily scrutinized software in the world.
I'm glad someone gets it.
> Carpel tunnel and tendonitis? How'd she do that?

She wrote it in the article: she was trained by to hold in a particular way.

You come across as very intelligent, but I think they telling others that you know how to do things better is not very smart.
Also the 50 years factor. Digital camera that we use today started to sell in the market at around year 2000. And then those were only VGA resolution 640x480 pixel.
Most of the best advice is simply telling people what is already obvious to everyone but them. There's not a lot of evidence needed, and adding more won't help if the person isn't ready to hear it. In "reasons why people misallocate practice time", akrasia ranks above the lack of research studies by about a mile.
Fortunately I got a merit scholarship for my undergrad and I was a TA in grad school. Between those two things my six years of education cost just around $60k, and my parents were able to foot that bill, so I didn't have any loans to deal with (again, another privilege).

While I do regret getting my masters because I didn't enjoy it much, I can't even imagine the level of regret I'd have if this all came with a giant loan to pay off as well.
I think he is quite focused on Pitch at the moment to start from scratch.
There is a tick that renders people allergic to meat. The villain could start with that and let the market work out the details.
Electric Fields
How easy is it to transition into a manager if you're an IC?
Thats an interesting take... I have a mix of original and new pressings, and typically any re-release version Ive had has numerous flaws. Even those "180 gram audiophile pressings".

Heres a short list:
1) skips in the track/mastered too loudly
2) uses the CD master and not Vinyl master(anything current may just be that way because the original wasn't released on vinyl, so it sorta gets a pass) Probably the most disappointing re-issue Ive purchased was Led Zeppelin IV. sounded bloody awful, and...
3) the center hole is either
a) too small
b) too large
4) not so much the pressings fault but since people forget how to store and keep vinyl they usually sit horizontal in a hot warehouse so they are convex/concave depending on what side you play. Does not bode well for tracking even on nice turntables.
5) are usually released on "fancy" clear/colored vinyl which is for lack of a better word, dogshit. It wears more quickly and sounds bad.
I said “mainstream”
We don't have reliable data that an advanced civilization of our level (yes, we're advanced comparing to many our ancestors) goes extinct. Particularly for reasons like this. So we naturally not sure. On the other hand, we see some examples of wonderful inventiveness - say, in time of a war, but also in time of great geographical discoveries, technology and science achievements etc. So for many it feels like an open question.

As for validity time scale, I'd like to see research myself.
Those of us who grew up with albums aren’t buying them now

I grew up with albums. I even played vinyl on the radio for years. I still buy vinyl now.
It won't stop it either, unfortunately.
I think your parent poster's point is that SSO, audit logs, and RBAC aren't core product features. We could have a development team spend weeks on all of these, without implementing one feature that solves the core customer problem, that would get another business to use our product.
> But classical music can be other things, too: transcendental, lush, heartbreakingly emotional.

The thing that makes so-called classical music stand out in a crowd is the long duration over which musical ideas may be worked out. Even in the 1700s we're talking multiple hours for something like Don Pedro's/Commandatore's themes over the course of Mozart's Don Giovanni. And the assumption behind a CD being able to hold Beethoven's 9th in its entirety is that a modern audience is able and willing to concentrate on the relationship among related musical ideas over the course of 70 minutes.

But "transcendental, lush, and heartbreakingly emotional" can only be marketed atop those long forms if listeners have sufficient leisure time, money, and attention to devote to it. The modern world doesn't give, say, the average American much leisure time nor money. And most HN devs here seem busy writing apps that capture any attention left in the cracks.

That means classical music must compete as one of many sources of "transcendental, lush, and heartbreakingly emotional" experiences. In that light its time requirements make it a detriment. So it's no surprise that a skilled violinist is struggling just to pay off the debt it took to be able to proficiently perform large-scale classical works.
>What makes organic farming different, then? It's not the use of pesticides, it's the origin of the pesticides used.

This is not exactly truthful, at least in the United States. Organic farmers are required to manage competitor organisms with non-chemical methods as a matter of practice. They are only permitted to use approved organic pesticides when the other means are insufficient, and it has to be documented. If an ostensibly organic farm relies on chemical management routinely, that violates the letter and the spirit of the organic program regulations and should cause certification to be withdrawn.

>b) Pest problems may be controlled through mechanical or physical methods including but not limited to:

(1) Augmentation or introduction of predators or parasites of the pest species;

(2) Development of habitat for natural enemies of pests;

(3) Nonsynthetic controls such as lures, traps, and repellents.

(c) Weed problems may be controlled through:

(1) Mulching with fully biodegradable materials;

(2) Mowing;

(3) Livestock grazing;

(4) Hand weeding and mechanical cultivation;

(5) Flame, heat, or electrical means; or

(6) Plastic or other synthetic mulches: Provided, That, they are removed from the field at the end of the growing or harvest season.

(d) Disease problems may be controlled through:

(1) Management practices which suppress the spread of disease organisms; or

(2) Application of nonsynthetic biological, botanical, or mineral inputs.

(e) When the practices provided for in paragraphs (a) through (d) of this section are insufficient to prevent or control crop pests, weeds, and diseases, a biological or botanical substance or a substance included on the National List of synthetic substances allowed for use in organic crop production may be applied to prevent, suppress, or control pests, weeds, or diseases: Provided, That, the conditions for using the substance are documented in the organic system plan.

(f) The producer must not use lumber treated with arsenate or other prohibited materials for new installations or replacement purposes in contact with soil or livestock.

Tl;dr, you’re only permitted to use pesticides in organic farming when nothing else works to control the organisms, and you have to stop using them as soon as the organisms are controlled. Organic farmers are not permitted to routinely spray their fields.

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https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=94361624bc8858349d...
Coming soon: a device that harvests water in a desert
Whichever dns provider I choose to trust. So definitely not any DNS server operated by O2 (my provider). Aside from being slow; they hijack the dns erros for ads. Also, I simply don't trust them to do the right thing.
That disastrous Amundsen-Nobile-everyone else collective Arctic rescue failure was a perfect illustration of how the human urge to do something to fix a bad situation often is worse than the seeming callousness of accepting that a bad thing had happened and we can't make it better. It happens in the Arctic, it happens in swamps, and it happens in economies.
Ignoring obvious ethical and 'yuck' factors, this may reintroduce many forgotten diseases. For many parasites human body is a dead-end - they can't complete their complex life-cycle because nobody usually eats humans.
Well, until now ;)

Also see Kuru disease [1].

Maybe this Swedish scientist should join forces with the Norwegian scientist, Dr. Jørgen Asbjørnsen, who has perfected a procedure that “downsizes” people, shrinking them down to five inches tall, in order to combat climate change.

One normal-sized human corpse can feed an entire village of miniaturized people ;)

In "The 100" SciFi series, eating humans serves dual purpose: population reduction and source of protein required for survival (they found out that plant-based protein wasn't sufficient).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
Why do people make such a hypocritically huge fuzz out of some pimp, like Epstein? Look at poor neighborhoods - there are literally millions pimps prostituting millions of women in the world. I doubt any of you want to pay for their education, so they could stop prostituting and do useful jobs, and I doubt any of these prostitutes want to work at a sweatshop or a factory, or even in office, doing heavy and unhealthy work in disciplined environment.
I've often thought that it would be nice to have a chording keyboard on my steering wheel or shifter so that I could type while driving. Sending those messages to a screen, or to the car directly via radio transmission would be an interesting advancement.
Hundreds of sceptics to mount campaign to stop net-zero targets being made law
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'Human of the Forest'
Although you probably overestimate a bit the impact of uarch diff between haswell and zen, there is some truth in theory in what you said. In practice, zen is quite close to Skylake in terms of general uarch principles and main figures, and zenv2 even more so (or even better). IIRC for ZenV1 AVX2 should yield no gain compared to AVX, though.

glibc is not Intel's project and is expected to have a minimum amount of neutrality in own it is maintained -- that also includes how patches are accepted or modifications are asked before they are integrated.

The dispatching is probably to implement things like memset & memcpy etc, which are easy to benchmark, and it is probable that the haswell version will at least be better than whatever is used right now with an amd zen (and even more probable for zenv2). Optimizing further can come later, if anybody wants to do it.

Therefore, I think this ticket is justified (but I also think that this is not a drama that is has not be taken care of sooner)
then again I doubt that the microsoft empire stands or falls with a to-do list app and it might just be good PR to sell it back instead of letting a well-liked product rot given that they're on an alleged "we love the community" campaign now.
US is one of the very few places in the world where most people live in their own house, even if it's in "hellish" suburbs. Outside of US, even in first world countries, most people live in flats. Also, majority of world population live in flat out third world countries, and for them, moving to a "boring" (safe, clean, reasonably well designed, consisting of polite/civilized people, having working, high-quality infrastructure etc. etc.) US suburb would be a huge improvement.
What do you think are the best abstractions, mind models and technologies you learned at Google? I read somewhere about SSTables and several other topics related to writing distributed systems, can you share your take on this?
Ok but you can totally do what he's doing. There's some price that would get Microsoft to sell Wunderlist, and if he's willing to pay that much then he will get Wunderlist back. If that's "backsies" then you can absolutely backsies as much as you want.
Fastest growing is a synonym for smallest
It isn't the chat app, it's the perpetual access to the contacts list on the phones of all its users that is worth billions.
A pure functional isomorphic router based on streams
Maesh: Simpler Service Mesh
> what if we actively cook the earth?

We're already doing that. ;)
Betteridge's Law of Headlines strikes again!
I (soon to be non-undergrad) got the impression around 2016 that the admiration was wearing off of our classmates who did co-op terms at FAANG. One of our peers had done a term at a Cambridge Analytica subsidiary in town, AggregateIQ, so when the news came out, it was especially prominent in (at least) my mind. I can't comment on whether any romantic efforts were impeded or not.
Can anyone tell whether this is a solid state electrolyte? I’m still hooked on what I saw in that Netflix documentary where the guy was able to cut and puncture the battery without combustion. Also seemed capable of being much more dense.
You can also support artists by going to concerts and buying merch. If you're buying a lower quality audio option that degrades with usage, then you are buying into the hype at least a little bit.
Digital formats (FLAC) are not only technically superior, but digital distribution is also greener.
Individual decisions are not going to affect economic signals meaningfully.

How many Brazillian ranchers stop clear-cutting if you or I go vegan? The impact on their market is essentially immeasurable.

In contrast, a state level policy can move the needle. If the rest of the world slaps a $10/kg tariff on Amazonian beef, their business collapses rapidly. Of course, then we get into unknown consequences where we don't know what they'll try next to salvage the wreckage of the industry.
The interesting thing is that it literally translates to “why not?”, which I find quite amusing, considering the mission
I'm referring to solar as a distributed energy source. Imagine
homes and buildings having their own energy sources.
I actually find the Brave model bizarre. You get paid for viewing ads but you can't cash it out. So you have this model of virtual (useless) money moving between publishers and consumers at all times. And then you have centralization in both on-boarding publishers and also handling payments (Uphold) that provides single point of failure.

I wish Google Contributor[1] was more popular and covered more websites. I would gladly pay $15-$20 per month to not see ads and also not get tracked throughout the internet.

1. https://contributor.google.com/v/beta
Planet PostgreSQL
The title is not correct. It would be more accurate to say that Brave is the most downloaded web browser in Japan over the past 30 days, on Android.

As an aside: It seems that all of the OP's submissions are from usethebitcoin.com. Why not link directly to the reddit post which the article cites? Or perhaps the Google Play rankings themselves? https://www.appbrain.com/stats/google-play-rankings/top_free...
Besides Spark, is there still a niche that Scala fills? Why wouldn’t you just use Kotlin or Java 11? I guess I should ask the inverse question too: why wouldn’t you just use Scala for everything?
A Tech Pioneer’s Final, Unexpected Act (2017)
Maybe the micro-management is not micro-managing what you think they should be micro-managing?

I mean, thats the problem with vertical schemes and bureocracy.. the guy who is micro-managing is also micro-managed by some sort of results that actually ends not being very pragmatic, end give him good points in this blind objective system who ranks him and the people he manage according to some parameters that in the end they 'game' to look good.
I think that we may be defining "opportunity" differently. It sounds like you're defining it more like a "windfall". To me, an opportunity is when you see a path to enhancing your success. It is not automatically success, and does not imply that no effort is required on your part.

An opportunity is when you find a way of advancing your goals that has a reasonably good chance of success.

> It takes 5-10 years to properly validate a business model,

Except that it doesn't. And you should never go into business with a business model that is so fixed that the only thing you can do is to validate it or not. Your business model is something that you are continually adjusting (sometimes radically) as you learn more about what you're doing or as your situation changes.