skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> further shame people into following better practices

"Better" as prescribed by who? At this point, I'm under the impression that if you're not implementing AMP for content, Google is going to rank you lower and now publicly shame you to users. They _say_ this is not the case, but it's impossible to ignore now that they're introducing naming and shaming. It just seems like features way outside the scope of what a web browser should be providing to users.

Editing to add my other thought:

I've built websites that routinely score horribly on Google's proprietary PageSpeed Insights despite fixing everything within my power (usually Google's own analytics scripts score badly), but also score very high on every other reasonable industry test of similar nature. It's hard to convince me that they alone should be an arbiter for this type of feedback given to users.
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Real world efficiency for modern gasoline engines is closer to 20%. In hybrid applications they can get up to 35%.
> Macs are a mass market product

PCs and the WWW are massively bigger mass markets , not walled, and it's not like PC users are geniuses. Unless you mean that apple specifically caters to even less technical people.
> Maksymilian Piskorowski found that if you happen to have a spare eight 9s, you can compute 𝑒 = (9/9 + 9^(-9^9))^(9^(9^9)), which is accurate to a little over 369 million decimal places.

Sure, because 9/9 = 1 and if you take x = 9^9^9, you get back (1 + x^(-1))^x, i.e. the first formula. It's cute, but I don't know if you could call it a "discovery".
NSA's core competence is signals, largely making and breaking ciphers.

Intel analysis is more CIA/DIA.

My understanding is that this was generally true in the 1960s-70s as well. E.g., MINARET:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MINARET
A lot of this is the paradox of choice at work. [1]

The options are better than they ever have been.

The issue is that people feel anxiety of choice between serverless, containers, VMs, cloud, bare-metal, even though all of those approaches are fine and have good solutions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice
I've seen pictures of this restaurant multiple times on the web. What I haven't seen, is a person in the picture. I wonder if having a person in it ruins the illusion?
Ford, Apple, Sharp, Adobe, National, Amazon, Sun, Oracle, etc. all are generic terms.
Parts was my number one issue - and epc.tesla.com does not solve this (yet) as there is no pricing and contacting tesla was recently a total pain with lots of dropped balls.

Anyone with current info? If they got a parts catalog with Amazon style fulfillment they'd be in business.
Thanks for the info! Didn't know that.
I find perspectives on writing workflows are very subjective and hard to generalize. I know some people who outline to the sentence. Others who gestalt write and let the structure evolve from writing. I reread/edit as I craft the next section. Others get driven crazy by such open endeness.

All perspectives have been successful tech book authors.

The more difficult thing is how you collaborate with coauthors with different writing style that might conflict with yours.
Unless your family members starts seeing personalized ads about funeral services and flowers quick enough, they will never suspect you are in urgent need of medical attention.
Alternatively, we can use electricity and heat from renewable power sources to synthesize kerosene from CO2 and water.
I read the article, but I'm a little confused. Health data is generally freely for sale in the USA, as long as you store it securely.

Is there some reason to suspect they are lying when they say the data is stored according to federal laws?

I mean, other than it being available to 150 people (a lot perhaps, but not exactly wide open), I didn't really see anything that sounded out of place in terms of the data side?

Maybe I just can't get on board with the panic about the "data is the new oil" this time. Or is it just the worry that eventually the data pipeline could spring a leak?
>>Sitting at your desk == not busy in their mind

Maddeningly, these are the same people who feel like you have to be in the office 100% of the time so they feel like you are working.
If this becomes really common, do any of the materials on the satellites present a health or environmental concern?
I've asked before without luck: How are flamegraphs preferable to the well-established sorts of visualizations in the common HPC performance tools, like CUBE, Paraver, and TAU, say? They typically provide at least inclusive or exclusive function/region views with choices of metrics for profiling and/or tracing over serial, threaded, or distributed execution.
Reminds me a bit of Disney's Animators Palate dining room:

https://youtu.be/ofwEF2yBR8Y?t=6
IC = ?

edit: IC = individual contributor (just found that answered somewhat deeper in another subthread)
If I recall correctly, Ubiquity had a network around this concept for broadband connections in the late 2000's. I don't think it ever caught steam, but I could be wrong.
When dealing with complicated systems (PARTICULARLY fragile, over-complicated ones) the engineers are often (unfairly) seen as "brilliant" because they're the only ones that understand the mess.

It's ironic, right?

The more fragile and over-complicated the system, the more the engineers who created the mess in the first are considered "brilliant."

I've seen this countless times.

(In defense of such engineers, it's often not their fault. They built one thing, and then management and business needs dictated a plethora of changes and technical debt against their wishes. I have been one of these engineers on occasion)
I want to ditch Gmail/Google as well but I am so entrenched into Android that I'm torn. I don't want to rely on third party ROMs that I need to root and install on my phone. I want the latest AOSP security updates, that's why I choose to buy the Pixel line of phones (looking into Android One phones as well). Also how do I keep my contacts synced between devices. What's a good replacement for Google Photos that gives me the same features. I'm sure people have figured this out already somewhere
Thanks! I do think that a columnar on-disk representation would likely help with large analytical queries. But I would imagine they would negatively affect performance of point transactions in an OLTP workload. Note that this vectorized engine we built will only be used on a given query if our SQL planner estimates that a large number of rows will be read.
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I scored 7/22.

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FYI, OpenTracing is being replaced/subsumed by OpenTelemetry. https://opentelemetry.io/
Do they produce/create anything? or do they simply trade finacial assets in a way such that they accumulate profit?

and by "simply trade" I really mean "trade in an incredibly sophisticated and clever way"
For those unaware, Uniswap is a decentralized exchange without an order book. Rather than matching orders to buy and sell, it has a liquidity pool. As users buy/sell from the pool, the price to buy/sell automatically adjust to maintain a certain ratio.

The lack of an order book makes it extremely simple (and transaction cost efficient).

The down side is that to "bootstrap" a market, you need a liquidity provider willing to put up twice the value of the asset. There's also slippage costs and front running concerns.
The money quote imo, I haven't read this explicitly stated before:

Shotwell said the company’s board of directors in 2012 realized the profit margins from the commercial satellites it was launching for customers were “much higher” than SpaceX’s launch business. Musk estimates Starlink could generate more than $30 billion per year – at least 10 times what SpaceX could bring in at best from its launch business.

What other customers businesses will they seek to cannibalize next?
This is true, but it’s also a lot harder to accumulate that amount of messy state with pure functions. Besides, most of the power is in a few functions, and I’m mostly talking about curried and composed forms of fold and map which are very useful.
If Google didn't have a long history of this sort of thing (interpret that as you may) the open web would have lost the battle for mainstream users to the proprietary platforms long ago.
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Would you consider applicants that started off with a bad GPA in math and computer science courses but then made significant improvements as they progressed?
It wasn't so bad when you were writing something that was going to get retyped anyway (like for a newspaper). But a lot of the time something like a paper just basically got submitted as essentially a rough draft because you weren't going to edit and retype it.
For me, the experience of operating an electric vehicle is so much better than biofuels: refueling at home, simplicity of the drivetrain, and quietness/smoothness all are huge improvements over ICE vehicles.

For your comparison between ICE and electric vehicles, are you counting the fuel processing and delivery infrastructure? Electric delivery infrastructure has very low emissions once it's in place, and production continues to get better (especially with distributed models like rooftop solar). Also, do you have a citation for "...lower energy requirements for building ICE cars versus batteries"? Yes, battery production is fairly intensive (economically and resource use), but (like I said above) the drivetrain is vastly simpler.

I can't see how electric general aviation will become widespread without a monumental breakthrough. But it's hard to beat electric for ground-based transportation, IMHO.
Perl 5 will continue to be the official "Perl". Development on that continues, and it has an extensive community, though not nearly as large as Python, which was once its peer.

What was Perl 6 will, moving forward, be known as "Raku".
Shrug. You can only fine what’s actually illegal, and tax avoidance currently isn’t. If corporate behaviours are deemed problematic then generally laws are updated to cover that.
Because the criteria will inevitably be biased towards technology and techniques that favor Google, Chrome, AMP, etc. If you trust Google to be an unbiased arbiter of objective measurements of website efficiency, you are giving them a lot more credit than I would at this point.
To contextualize this:

A big problem with current cryptocurrency exchanges is that they're centralized. In order to trade on them, you have to take coins out of your own wallet and send them to the exchange's wallet, which you don't have control over. In the event that the exchange decides to take the money and run, you have no recourse.

The Ethereum blockchain's smart contract system has enabled the rise of decentralized exchanges, like Uniswap. What this means is that trades between users' wallets are mediated by the contract's code, never requiring you to relinquish control of your coins.

Unlike the traditional order book of most exchanges (centralized or decentralized), Uniswap has developed a way of trading centered around the concept of liquidity pools (see this [1] post for more information). Traders have wondered if this system provides comparable or better pricing compared to conventional order book exchanges, and this paper makes the case that it works well as a pricing system.

[1] https://defiprime.com/uniswap-liquidity-pools
This reminded me of a graph I thought was really interesting from a thesis on a solar powered UAV that shows energy density and power per weight for different sources of energy, I've highlighted the 500wh/kg line which is being claimed in the article:

https://i.imgur.com/nZSWpW1.png

Should be very interesting if they can deliver that level of performance.

The source document for that graph is here: https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/mavt/robot...

And described here: https://spie.org/news/1649-designing-solar-airplanes-for-con...
> Hunters may have used torches to scare the mammals into the area with the traps, which are about 6ft (1.70m) deep and 25 yards in diameter, but one of the skulls found also had marks of a spear wound on the front.

I find humans amazing. An adult mammoth is something even the more largest predators would not attempt to hunt. And yet, here is a band of puny 2 legged mammals armed with sticks with a flint at the end, hunting and killing masses of these mighty beasts.

Our most amazing ancestors were not kings and emperors, but rather these pre-historic hunters and gatherers who carved out a niche as alpha predators using brains, language, and primitive tech.
It requires access to hardware counters you don't normally have in EC2, and at a privilege level I wouldn't want to enable in a multi-user compute system.
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Unusual to have no occurrence of the word "stream" anywhere in the article... given that's the usual term for algorithms which require a constant or almost-constant space regardless of the amount of data they process.

A semi-common beginning programmer's exercise is to write a program that numbers the lines in a text file. The naive solution will use O(n) space, while a bit more thought reveals that this can be done in constant (to be really precise, O(log n) where n is the number of lines in the file) space.
Like AR, the future of VR mainstream adoption is in self-contained standalone independent devices. John Carmack of Oculus mentioned that user retention for the mobile snapon Gear VR was only one or two uses before never using again. There's too much friction for the common masses to get into VR that way. Hence the Note 10 dropping support for Gear VR and Carmack giving a "eulogy" for the device and Oculus focusing on the Go and Quest (with the Rift remaining for enthusiasts). The Quest has been far more successful than the Rift ever was due to its standalone nature for compelling VR experiences. (game developers could have made up to 3-4x more sales on Quest compared to the Rift)

Apple has to make AR standalone. Smartwatches faced flack for not initially being standalone for being so expensive. While it did become more and more standalone, it still isn't a compelling use scenario for the masses to go out and spend that money.

AR could have more promise than what Google Glass had, but it would have to be far more compelling than what the masses can already get from their iPhones. As a point of comparison, VR right now is within 1% of the entire Steam population, which is then a fraction of the world's masses. There's interest but people at large aren't biting yet for various reasons. Apple's AR could end up in a similar situation where it would be nice to have but remains out of reach.
I have never worked in a 2-4 office and certainly not a 1-office, but I find about 10 in an office is manageable if they are all quiet non-phone-calling people.

I worked a place with 400 people in open plan close proximity, where your workspace doubles up as a corridor, and no meeting spaces, so it also doubles up as a meeting room for any teams meetings. It was impossible to concentrate. That drove me to some Howard Leight earplugs, beefy headphones with "the ocean machine set to 9". The impomptu meetings now sounded like a squeek, but it was still distracting.

I had to leave that job because of this and other negative effects of a cattle-like approach to handling software talent.
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Writing and editing for me is like sculpting with clay. Constant tweaks, revisiting something that I wrote the other day, referencing material from earlier in the piece, moving stuff around, etc.

FWIW I learned to write longhand and then using an early electronic typewriter with only three lines of text retained in memory. Modern word processors have been great. Sometimes, though, when planning something out, I'll use a paper notebook.
David Lynch also made a little known TV series called On the Air.[1]

At its best it was full of black humor and characteristic Lynchian weirdness.

Here are a couple of my favorite episodes: [2], [3]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Air_%28TV_series%29

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtCMq1IKYTs

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueL4ebNq6mU
Or maybe because this supermassive company with its playful logo is up to no good.
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Okta; it's an external service.
Because Google is the decider of what constitutes "slow"? You have a single organization deciding what the threshold is between slow and fast. And, they also have a Google-approved solution (amp) that I'm sure they will tie into the recommended actions for "slow" pages.

I'm not saying it's a walled garden (that's a more extreme situation on the continuum between open and closed), I was just using the phrase to illustrate my point that the end-user experience isn't the only factor to consider.
>Apartments will NOT have electrified parking lots, outside of a select few spaces

Why not? Are you sure that won't happen as demand increases? Is it too expensive? How much does it cost?

I was in London recently and they had electrified lamp posts. None of the houses had garages so this enabled the residents to buy electric.
Generally, I can tell when a website is loading slowly because it, well, takes a long time to load.

Am I misunderstanding what Google is trying to do? I'm not seeing the use case.
The average user doesn't have the level of visibility into the system to know that the middlebox is the one causing the problem. Instead whatever changed last gets the blame, regardless of what's actually at fault. So if a user's existing applications set the spin bit "correctly" and a new application does not, the new application will be judged as buggy, not the middlebox which has been working fine until now.
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> Due to the lower energy requirements for building ICE cars versus batteries, a biofuel powered car will be much better for CO2 emissions than an electric one

What's the GHG emissions for the different types of biofuels ? What's the land use needed ? How abundant ? Etc.
I used to hate AMP with my guts. But to be honest, usually when I tried to avoid or loaded the site instead of AMP, I get presented with a worse experience in a bloated web-site, whereas when I click on the AMP version, it loads immediately. So now I don't care anymore. But google is not my main search engine, so I less very little of it.
Iridium isn't really a direct competitor to Starlink. The Iridium ground station can be much smaller (like a cell phone) and it's intended for a different set of customers with much lower data bandwidth requirements.
Dumb question, but wouldn't memory mapping or lazy/streaming processing (e.g. SAX for parsing large XML documents, Java Streams for handling large amounts of "things", memory mapped files for anything you don't need intermediate representations for) resolve this problem as well?
“Individual Contributor”, as opposed to “Manager”.

The term is often used in reference to the engineer career track where you don’t become a manager but instead focus on technical leadership, but more generally it refers to being a leaf on the org tree.
> there are many reasons to criticize pharma companies but they don't take suppliers' word for any materials

There's reason to doubt that (from 3 days ago):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/a-tiny-pharmacy-is-id...
Personally I don't think it's irrelevant to try to cut off an unhelpful analogy, those things sometimes act like black holes. But point taken.
Yes.

Hydrogenate CO2 to methanol with electrolytic hydrogen produced from clean electricity [1]. Reform methanol to hydrocarbons [2] that can burn in existing engines. (Or burn methanol itself in slightly modified engines. This offers somewhat lower energy density per tankful of fuel, higher total efficiency from electricity-to-motion.)

Synthetic fuel makes sense for fueling aircraft, rockets, long distance shipping, collectible historic cars, and other niches. It doesn't make sense for fueling everyday ground transportation. Too much of the original energy is lost in the chain of chemical transformations and the chemical processing requires facilities on the scale of conventional oil refineries. The total cost is lower to electrify ground transportation and supply it with clean electricity than to transform clean electricity into liquid fuels for equivalent legacy vehicles.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2018.0044...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_to_liquids
Yeah, calling that video a "deepfake" sounds like someone has no idea what they are talking about.
Phew, thought I was the only one who went through these cycles. The maker > maintenance > manager/planning cycle always feels unsettling during the maintenance phase.
Individual contributor.

In contrast to a lead, manager, or pm.

The IC is usually the person who actually writes software/code. (The bulk of employees at a software company are ICs)
Good luck! Glad it had a positive effect.
The park here is pretty nice, it has a band shell, the city band and other groups use it lots during the nice weather. They also setup a portable stage in another area of the park and have some performances by the yacht club.

There's no space for a farmer's market in the park, but there is a dedicated space on main street.

It is a very nice park, and is quite large. In addition to the above, there are tennis courts, a relatively modern kids playground, a pavilion, accessible fishing piers, a basketball court, sand volleyball courts, a softball backstop, many picnic tables and grills and benches, a disc golf course, a few miles of multiuse trail, a public beach that is guarded during the summer, a boat launch, a decent marina and a sledding hill. There's also a historic lighthouse and small museum.

This is just a normal small town on Lake Michigan (the members of the Yacht Club have medium sized sail boats...). I guess the density matches up with lots of older suburbs, more dense than a lot of newer stuff, but not a lot of large apartment buildings either.
I would just cat | grep | awk | sed on this stuff rather than resorting to Py.
To play devils advocate: If he was as brilliant as you imply perhaps he SHOULD have been the one making the key decisions under his purview anyway.

This almost sounds like bitterness coming from the other side of the team.

Not everything is a team decision and nor should it be.

Often times brilliant engineers, in order to express that brilliance, need to be left alone by over zealous managers and jealous teammates that would rather argue than get work done.
> Synthetic fuel makes sense for fueling aircraft, rockets, long distance shipping, collectible historic cars, and other niches

What's driving the emphasis on lightweight batteries for aviation over better synthesisation?
That’s only if you don’t discuss it first.

Well intentioned work can still be bad or not usable or not the thing the code needs right now.
That is not the only possible alternative employment, though many would sugest it's both an accurate statement regards the past, and an undesirable alternative.

False dichotomy, regardless.
The technical term is called "loss aversion" and is very well documented.
I don't love using slippery slope arguments, but I feel that it's appropriate here...
No. You misunderstand. Why do you want to do both creative work and sales?
It's all about the super capacitors.
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Unless you are using drugs it's very unnatural for your body to allow you to stay awake for 48hrs. It is however common in people with bipolar.