skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the suggested app (Dictionary Universal) provide integration with iOS’ “look up” feature?
Also, depending on how long ago this was, may not have been as bad as it sounds -- MyISAM doesn't support foreign keys, and it was the default all the way until MySQL 5.5 in 2010.
Remember ~15% of common cold cases are caused by a coronavirus, one that has evolved so as not to kill it's host .... there's a good chance it started out a lot like the current coronavirus
I'm not an expert but I think that's how Internet works. Those who don't like that, probably can send their complains to Tim Berners-Lee.
Have you sold any? The site looks pretty barebones on mobile.
Malware? Are we just redefining words when we don’t like something?

> malware (n)

> software that is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system.

How is a dispatch system (which GCC supports) malware? Yes, Intel “cripples” AMD by requiring an Intel processor, but it’s not malware.
The race for space-based broadband: OneWeb launches 34 more internet satellites
In a zombie apocalypse, I would worry more about physical safety and staying alive.
Not to mention SLS which is just nonsense at this point. As well as the numerous delays on the demo missions to the ISS. This feels to me like an ultimatum to NASA... move the ball forward or get out of the game. I get the sense there is real fear we could lose the idea of ‘space’ if we don’t start showing some progress. As it stands now there isn’t a platform for the moon and there’s not going to be a platform by 2024 unless some really remarkable things start to happen.. I wouldn’t be surprised if Spacex does it but if it does I can’t imagine NASA will have anything other than token participation. Perhaps that is really for the best...
Link to the table: https://peterattiamd.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/200209-c...
Yeah, that might very well be the case.
> why one fall/winter (IIRC) everyone in the US was bombarded with endless Motorola Droid

That was the fall/winter of 2009 if I recall.
A good piece of advice I read or heard when I first started driving was, “never trust a turn signal”. This has saved me a few times when someone had their right turn signal on but kept moving forward rather than turning right at an intersection where I was about to pull out and turn left.
Fascinating, and well studied, but I don't buy the '1 in 10 distracted'. As someone who has done tons of driving, I'd honestly put the number of distracted drivers, specifically dicking with their cell phone, somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of all drivers. And that's just my corner of the nation, I'm sure it's more in others.
Wow, that's impressive in a bad way. Recommended reading for everyone who thought Linus is exceptionally rude and want some nuance.
I must say all the book suggestions are really great.
Except for P&H. As mentioned in comment he now recommends CS:APP over it and I would do too.

Also, for compilers I would suggest C compiler design [1]. It provides both implementation and theory instead of just theory which the dragon book does.

[1] https://holub.com/compiler/
"one half of 1 percent"

Is this a common way to write 0.5%?
> gee great, more unnecessary shoving everything into the "cloud"-- just to make sure that users have absolutely no due process protection for the confidentiality of their data.

This doesn't really make sense as a response to comment mentioning Syncthing which works with any backend, including your other machines.

> What's systemd's excuse?

Systemd's excuse for what exactly?
A little tangential but the SLS itself is an attempt to reuse technology off the shuttle... and yet, hundreds of billions later and nothing... the whole concept of technology repurposing is fine on paper... but for some reason NASA can’t even seem to do that right either. It’s a colossal mess...
100% agree with this. I have a Spotify subscription but I continue to listen to podcasts on another app. Even as a music app, Spotify lacks so many basic features (like swipe gestures to add a song to the queue) that I can't imagine it being any good for podcasts.
How it works:

"As a technology, the 17-kilogram-sized MOXIE creates oxygen from carbon dioxide by pumping the gas from the Martian atmosphere through its electrolysis system to break up molecules ultimately into breathable oxygen. The engineering was particularly tricky because the electrolysis system works at 800 degrees Celsius or a blistering 1,472 degrees Fahrenheit. Aluminum, which is a material that's often used in engineering, however, melts at 660 degrees. So they ended up using chromium, which melts at more than double that temperature"
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The good news is this means the outbreak is less contagious and uncontrolled than was reported.

How do you figure? If you're juicing the numbers presumably you're doing so to make things look better than they are. An optimistic curve is going to catch up to reality only if reality stays the same (or improves). About the only thing we know is that the data from China are suspect.
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My exercise playlist alone would cost around $600 AUD to purchase, and half of that would be lossy formats.
This sounds like a lot of impressive work. I wonder if there would be any benefit to the Linux kernel adopting more of agile release cycle. This waterfall like release surely has to increase the risk surface.

Perhaps the mindset of web software and operating system kernels don’t overlap enough for this to be reasonable?
It's not uncommon, especially when you include the "about" that was missing from your quote. Even more common is to say "about half a percent".

Try them both out loud: "about zero point five percent" vs. "about half a percent". One rolls off the tongue much better than the other, is easier to understand, and doesn't introduce false precision.
You read my mind! This must be some sort of SEO optimized writing. The ‘meat’ of the article is at the bottom. All the rest is explaining how a certain situation came about, how it was measured and whatever else the author can dig up...
Definitely - there's an option in the settings to show unplayable tracks. There's tens, maybe a hundred songs I used to be able to listen to that I now can't (through Spotify)

Bonus question: what about when this happens to a Spotify-exclusive track?
> drive less

a lot of fatalities on the road are pedestrians, though. Even if you don't drive you subject yourself to the risk of being hit by a car pretty much every single time you go out.
Your last two points contradict each other. If it's not urgent, they can be gone for a few hours or days. If it's a consistent problem, that's a different discussion.
I commute about 35-40 minutes both ways and it’s crazy to me how many people I see messing with their phones while driving at freeway speeds. It just makes me wonder: Do people not realize how dangerous it is? Or do they just not care?

I honestly think it should be treated the same as driving while intoxicated (in my state it’s just a fine which I believe does nothing to deter people).
Alternatives? There are 49 other states and the rest of the world, for starters.
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Using percent values <1% can be a bit confusing for some people I think. I've definitely seen people see "0.01%" and interpret it as "one percent," so writing it out in words is a decent way to do it.
The item that's being scanned in and out of the Amazon warehouse is the box of boxes, not the granola.

This will lead to the inventory of granola to be out of sync with the actual amount at the warehouse, but in that case I'm assuming Amazon would eat the cost since they're the ones that "lost" the missing inventory. Think about a physical store. If they lose some of their inventory, it's the store's problem, not the product's.
The public is horrified at astronauts' death, politicians listen to public opinion, politicians cut budgets to "dangerous missions".

PR for space is a very tricky affair.
My quick skim shows nothing really unusual or exceptional. Pedagogy looks standard. Seems to be written by several different people and/or over a long period of time. (For example, it uses "".format() and f-strings and concatenation to produce a string.)

There's a few places where my nose scrunched up in distaste, but that happens.
> The Spotify app isn't a podcast app — you can't play podcasts

Exactly. A podcast is an audio stream that is published via RSS. If you can't subscribe to _any_ arbitrary podcast RSS with the app, then it is not a podcast app.

If podcast was a trademark, this kind if abuse of the word would not happen. But now it will be embraced, extended and eventually extinguished as we know it.
Not entirely convinced that Apple would own the mobile space without Android. There were lot of mobile handset incumbents when IPhone came out. It was the one-two punch of IPhone AND Android that destroyed the handset dominance of the likes of Nokia and Blackberry.

Had there not been an Android, I'm pretty sure one of those incumbents would have come up with something.

Nokia, for example, had lots of nice Linux handheld devices before IPhone. They were encumbered by a degraded engineering culture and Symbian.

People don't remember but, what actually killed Nokia handsets in one stroke was one memo by their then CEO Stehphen Elop where he basically stated their platform as it is was dead in the water. Until then they had had a fairly good portion of the market, but that single statement just killed it. People who did not like IPhone moved from Nokia phones to Android after that.

Now, without Android, there might have not been such an obvious migration path, and Nokia might have kept some of it's customers. Nokia managed to get some great handsets out after that, but they had already lost market momentum.

Nokia was never a big competitor in the US market mainly because they refused to play the game by the operators rules, hence the operators did not really endorse them.

Without Android, once again, I think there might have been openings for Nokia to get into the handset market state side.

Or Blackberry or Ericsson might have come up with something.

The thing that commoditized handset market was not actually Android, but the availability of cheap radio circuits from Asia. Until then the radio technology had been the secret sauce of the encumbents, not software. When the radio stack became commoditized, the playing field changed fairly rapidly.

I'm pretty sure there would have been competing Linux enabled smart devices in one way or another without Android. Android just got there first.
Maybe hiding the deaths has been working well: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7969861/Wuhan-crema...

If they are requesting 100 body bags per day how does that’s square with the official death count?
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I'm an editor and writer and at my last job I got interested in how many words I typed a day. I put some applet on my work computer that tracked them across all applications. It was usually less than I thought; something like 10-15k words per day, sometimes more like 5-8k.

Think you're probably right about how much programmers type. I was going to write that if a programmer sets something up to track how much they type, they'd have to measure it by keystroke because I don't know whether all aspects of most programming languages would count as "words". Plus navigation, shortcuts etc. Tracking by keystroke or character would be better. But then... if you asked me what I consider a high or low number of keystrokes for a working day I'd have no idea what to tell you, whereas if you told me you typed 20-30k words or more in a day I'd be hoping you are using a good keyboard and sitting properly.
> Do you find people who did well on a preliminary test where they wrote some code fail this? If not, then why do the whiteboard? If people do fail, do you assume it's because they cheated on the previous test?

My preliminary test is a phone call if there is more candidates I want to interview than I have time for. No coding.

> you're saying they can't do anything and yet somehow they were hired and do stuff at other places.

I have not stated that they've worked other places. I said that they claim to have worked at other places - that is a very important distinction.

> If they can "get something done", why are they useless?

I don't need people that can "get something done", I need people that can work in a team, do code review on both sides, do pair programming when the situation calls for it.

> It's not just the rock stars that are missing from your pool

I do NOT want a rockstar. They're expensive and not that much more productive. I want a great team and you build that carefully with hard working people that complement each other.

> it's the people who are terrible at interviews and are much more loyal to a job than those who can handle whiteboards and small talk.

We've had our share of people unable to perform a whiteboard "problem" as interns and for one-off things. Commonly for those that was unable to function in teamwork, was that they want a task and be left alone. That is not how you produce great software, and it certainly is not how we do it because of the software we write.

> I think this idea of your hiring pool not being representative and getting wrong ideas of what good and bad people are like has implications for diversity of various types, but I'm not going to flesh that out here.

Again, my goals are people that can work in a team. A whiteboard is representative for both communication and a basic level of competency.
Nope they won't. Over 60% of their revenue comes from Search advertising (Ref: latest quarter financial reporting). If people lose trust, they may no longer hand over the data that makes their search relevant and also will broadly agitate for restrictions (as opposed to essentially nerds doing so right now)

Much of Google's moves are explainable in terms of steps to protect and grow the search revenue stream.
I knew this was the case but the reminder is just more motivation to revert back to purchasing optical media, ripping it, and using mpv on a computer.

I don't want my entertainment to be tied up with advertising. I don't want my whole life to be subject to metrics.
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Closer to how humans often sort things.
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For number 3, I mean lonely in general. I've experienced it myself and witnessed a number of good people get burned.

As engineers, makers, tinkerers and creators, we tend to find our social networks among like-minded folk. When I was remote, I was living in a smaller town, where not much happened. There were a number of IT employers, but nothing particularly interesting. So I didn't have much "professionally aligned" groups to hang out with.

Working from home also allowed to skip trivial outdoorsy stuff, and the weather being inhospitable for >6 months a year didn't help. At the office we meet like-minded people all the time. Those at the company who lived in large cities (3 in the entire country that qualify) could meet in person outside of company activities, and they had groups of other makers to socialise with. Where you have a tech scene, you tend to have lots of nicely aligned activities. Living in a more distant location, you're alone.

As for number 8, you're of course right. It's not specific to remote, but I've found that at an office environment talking about some tricky problem that has surfaced during code review happens automatically, and discussing wider aspects of the code review in general tends to be part of workflow/tooling.

Yes, I do review code review at the office but it's not essential. (Important, sure.) But when your communication channels are not in-person, going over code review as matter of course becomes critical. Not being able to walk over and chat about engineering practices is something you will only miss once you've seen both sides for long enough.

The selection for wealth? Here I'm talking about jobs that require deep concentration. Tech is notorious for our constant search for the flow state. Interruptions and bad ergonomics can be devastating. But more than that, in order to remain mentally stable at a remote-only job for a long time, you need to be able to respect office hours and have a clear way to cut yourself off of the work environment.

If your work machine is the same as your personal use machine, those lines can get awfully hazy. Not good for mental wellbeing in the long run.
This brings back memory of that stupid "DROID" sound effect in those ads. That sound effect was also in the original boot animation of the Motorola Droid.

video of og droid boot+sound:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vLMa5tq1tE
That's why in the Netherlands you are fined ~$250 for even holding a phone while driving.

Holding a device while you are on a bike will cost you around $105.

This all because there was an increase in accidents when social media became available everywhere.
I once ordered some sheet music. I don’t remrber exactly how many pages it was, maybe 10 or 20. It came in the biggest box I think I’ve ever received, from anyone. Literally there was a thin booklet floating around in a - approx. 3ftx2ftx2ft box. (Sadly, no packing peanuts! :-) I should have taken a picture.
The timeline doesn't seem correct. According to https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/misc/Tim, the author joined Google in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#His... says "Android Inc. was founded ... 2003" and "In July 2005 ... Google acquired Android Inc". The iPhone launched in 2007.

Google knew about it earlier since they were partnering for Maps & YouTube, but it's incorrect to state that Google was doing Android in response to the iPhone.

The Android acquisition was initially a response to the horribly fragmented and underpowered mobile phone ecosystem that Google was trying to get its software onto. Android & the Open Handset Alliance unified it and gave Google an easier way to develop for billions of devices. Android had to be redesigned after the iPhone launched to switch to the new stylus-free & button-free paradigm, but it initially wasn't a response to the iPhone.
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Unless we simplify it significantly, it's surprisingly hard to do. And completely irrelevant anyway.
gimlet is a company acquired by spotify that makes many podcasts, although it would be boring if there was a podcast about one cocktail
The reference implementation [0], might not be the easiest to translate to a new language, because it makes use of Fortran arrays really well, but shouldn't be too hard.

[0] https://www.drdobbs.com/database/the-flashsort1-algorithm/18...
How a carrier has any say in what phone is used on their network (other than banning dangerous devices) sounds absolutely absurd.

I bet the US situation is also repsonsible for the carrier vetting of all(?) OS upgrades. Doesn't make any sense either.
Another thing that you can do is drive a late model SUV. The late model can proved things like lane keeping assistance, automatic emergency braking as well as thinks like automatic traction control and curtain air bags. The SUV’s large size means that the vehicle’s body can absorb more of the energy of an impact.
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> In particular, assume one person awoke today with the explicit instruction to kill you with their car.

My dad taught me this on day one of driving with my permit.

Assume everyone on the road is trying to kill you. Assume know one but you knows the rules.

And as you drive more, you'll gain experience in identifying the behaviors that are most likely to indicate someone who is about to try and kill you.
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If you have the rollerball: A G2 cartridge fits, just add a small padding to the end. I used a cut down eraser from the back end of a cheap pencil.
I dodge a lot of pedestrians who walk out in the road with their back to you, expecting you to drive into oncoming traffic to avoid you. They take no notice of you, do not attempt to move right, etc.

One was a woman pushing a baby carriage down the road. I stopped and asked her what if I hit her? She replied she'd sue me. I replied that wouldn't help her or her baby much if she was dead.

It's amazing.
I don't know much about Clear Linux; is this a contingency-entry by Intel into the software world in case other core businesses struggle? And how is it as a user's distro?

Anyway the 6% increase over other distros seems worth exploring. Admittedly I would look at refurbs right out the gate instead of a $199 new model, but I am sure in matters like gifting to a child, such a method might not be well received, for one.
Not sure why getting downvoted. Is this an ignorant question? Or maybe just not fans of the word agile? Oh well. Guess I’ll just have to ask someone who contributes the the kernel in person the next time I meet one.
I'm not sure where the 90% comes from. What is it refering to? Rotor stage RPM, static thrust, fuel flow?

In general turbine engines are limited mostly by the temperature at the first stage of turbine blades after the combustion stage. It's hard to get reliable instrumentation in this zone so a proxy temperature is often taken from a later stage.

In older airliners there was a table of max ITT values varying with altitude and outside air temperature. In modern FADEC engines the computer does the same calculations. It's not unusual for smaller jets to be set at their max continuous thrust setting shortly after takeoff and be left there until the beginning of the descent. Modern airliners will be flying a cost optimised Mach number.

That Mach number is entered on their flight plan and is used as a basis for ensuring they are separated from other flights on the north Atlantic tracks so they wouldn't be able to change it readily.

The interesting part of all of this is that they would have been assigned an altitude for the crossing, at high altitudes maximum speeds drop (because flutter margins are proportional to velocity rather than effective pressure) but stall speeds increase so the range of viable flying speeds is actually quite limited at cruise altitudes. They probably couldn't have slowed down if they wanted too.
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yep. in the time it takes for you to go through 10 songs, where spotify does a mini payout each time listen, you can listen to a podcast, where spotify not only makes $$ through ad placement thanks to anchor, they get the content for free