skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do they still have the cool little water channels flowing through the city center streets?
I understand what you're saying but only with respect to global remote hires. I've seen the same attempts to fight it. But with local hires and optional wfh you just let that sort of problem work itself out. If the by-choice wfh person feels like they are left out its on them to do something about it. Its a personal problem not a team problem.
FYI, Nintendo Switch is Tegra based as well. 61 million units isn't bad, and there are significantly more Tegras in use in Switch consoles than in Jetson boards or even Telsas (~1 million).
> Caller can add a throws declaration themselves and catch anything.

You are right. I meant someone in the call stack has to catch, not the immediate caller.

That I mentioned null pointers is a red herring. I want to add a block that tells the compiler "prove that no exceptions (checked or unchecked, not even NPE)" can escape outside of this block!".

The escape hatch is about this: imagine you have a function that throws if the argument is odd, but you know you will only call it with an even number:

void myFunc(int i) never_throws {
swear_never_throws(NumberOddException) {
throwsIfOdd(i*2);
}
}

(Apologies for the pseudo-code, I haven't made up a nice syntax.) If you mark your function that no exception can escape (not even an unchecked exception!), but the compiler sees that throwsIfOdd can throw NumberOddException, you must of course assert that what you are doing is OK.
Jellyfish, along you came,
and right away I'm stung.
Sweet words I long to whisper,
But you've paralysed my tongue.
This is probably why Zuckerberg will never testify in a federal court. Like Gates, he has "never groveled for a job or sufffered many of the indignities most of us suffer on a regular basis."
> Obviously, COVID has caused a lot of people who love urban living to take a hard look at it. Living in a city loses its appeal when all the amenities are closed/gone

I still don't really understand this attitude. Sure, if you're only living in a particular city to be close to your office, it makes sense to re-evaluate when your office is now your home. But if you like living in a city because of those urban amenities... they're not gone forever. They're already starting to reopen, cautiously, to some extent, and I expect things will be back mostly to normal early/mid next year (minus, unfortunately, businesses that did/will not survive the shutdown). It seems pretty short-sighted to leave a place you otherwise love because of conditions that are temporary.
Part of the story here, too, is that relatively few Americans make up the populations of top graduate programs. An undergraduate degree or less might be sufficient to build a great advertising business, but it's unlikely to be enough to make major advancements in AI, quantum computing, semiconductors/photovoltaics, superconductors, etc.
http://cvpr20.janruettinger.com/statistics => caught up is an understatement
Well we already have to keep track of the size and shape of Earth. Go and read the SI Brochure from the BIPM. Local measurements by atomic clocks on Earth have to be weighted according to how far they are from a reference surface of equal gravitational potential. There's a publication named Circular T that comes out every 5 days.

You don't need science fiction for this.

* https://www.bipm.org/en/bipm-services/timescales/time-ftp/Ci...
> I feel like there are some pretty good reasons to hold opinions you probably find so ridiculous that it isn't even worth your time to consider them

I am curious about these opinions. Care to share some?
While I’m not really an expert on either, I have looked at code for both and I got the impression that RISC-V’s “simplicity” is actively harmful to making it a good ISA outside of teaching because it’s instructions are just not really all that great; indexing into an integer array (for example) is a shift, add, then load while basically every other architecture can do this in one instruction. It seems to me that the ISA is really designed more towards being pretty than being practical.
If you programming language has this concepts and even then this will highly depend on the programming language you are using.

The right data structure does not only depend on performance. I can write you the most performant code in the world if you want to but it will take 5 years. Oh we only have 1 month? then sorry for now an Array will do.

In most cases you pay someone for the skill to learn new things fast and stay motivated. Why? Because in good companies you want to hold on to the people for a long time and this people need to educate themselves. Why? Because even the basics depend on the context they are in and languages, frameworks and runtime and other stuff will change over time. 20 Years ago memory space was a problem? Do we even think about memory now? Not really unless your working on some embedded systems.
No. If someone makes the claim, "X is important", it's perfectly reasonable to ask them to substantiate that claim.
https://gitlab.com/thefinn93/signald/-/issues/52#note_406669... has some details about the issues running Chatty with libpurple-signald
Most users however do depend quite a bit on the performance of a small section of architecture-specific code.
They do a serious assessment of every new technology to decide if it adds value to their society. Disposable nappies are one of the few technologies they decided to use.
Apple is already shipping devices with ARMv8.4; do they need a specific license for that?
I think it’s a pointless bike shedding exercise to discuss which of your shipping versions was the MVP. I note your mentor is from Google - rather notorious for keeping things in beta long after it’s shipped to millions of users, and killing off viable products because they measure success in billions of users.

MVP is about optimising the risk of your investment of effort and money in a new product. It’s not a lagging indicator given by external usage. It’s a decision you make about readiness to launch.

Don’t waste time waiting for someone else to tell you that the third version after launch was your MVP. Make the hard decisions about whether you need more design work before launch. After launch, focus on feedback and product fit. Don’t spend time asking “is our already shipping product MVP yet?”

(Of course at scale, there are decisions to be made about launching into new markets, integration into other products, how much to spend on marketing, lining up partnerships. All of which may in fact be determined by success to date. But for the product you describe, these are very separate to the MVP conversation you need to have)
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I'm in the same situation. I benefit from telling another person about tasks that I've been putting off. Would you like to try a regular 5-min "standup" meeting with me?
Nice write up and great Jeff Bezos story!
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You don't need to lift it from earth gravity therefore less fuel is required.
The exact same phrases are also used in digital electronics.
I think the general idea would work, but not for employees of the same organisation because they're both operating for the same legal entity (the same "licensee" in the language of the license).
Sure, I've been poor, but that's not a necessary condition to think through this situation (as if any of these politicians have experienced such conditions).

These laws are not protecting anyone, they're preventing opportunities for them. A new classification between employee and contractor would've been a real solution. That would've been real progress to create benefits while maintaining flexibility. But that's not what happened.
I, also, have wondered this and came to the conclusion that you use whatever medium travels faster than light. Because until we discover that we're totally isolated anyway.
I don’t think the issue is that they aren’t doing well, it’s that they have historically not done good.
Way to read. MY LAWYERS room. The end of the deposition was THEIR lawyer realizing they had no shot. The settled a few days later which is what we wanted.
> Back in the good old days most US municipalities used to require people to sort their recycling by type, but over the years we have switched to a more wasteful system.

It's ridiculous to see the increasing burden put on consumers wrt. recycling. In the city I come from (Kraków, Poland), we started with simple categories (AFAIR: trash, glass, metal/plastic), and accrued new over time, along with extra requirements. These days, as my family tells me, they have ~7-9 categories and recyclables have to be washed. Which is ridiculous. Even if everyone went along with it, that's literally wasting every citzen's time where it could be done efficiently, in a central place, by salaried workers. On top of that, it creates a water waste issue - as people wash their plastic/metal/glass containers in their sinks, where again, it could be done more efficiently at a central facility.

But of course, and quite wisely, people at this point don't bother recycling much.
> The theory is that clusters form around “anchor tenants”

Yes. Largest technology hub in Europe sits in Eindhoven (Veldhoven), Netherlands where you have a technical university, but the real anchor was Philips who were headquartered there. Eindhoven is home to ASML and Signify (formerly Philips Lighting) among others.
I’m sure the PayPal CEO is deeply wounded by a HN commenter declaring that they haven’t “solved scale,” but perhaps he’s comforted by the tens of billions of dollars they make each year.
".. filmed on purpose to make Gates look bad."

It is routine to film in-person depositions.
A light sail would have probably been a better term. A solar powered base station could emit a beam that would propel it.
Thanks. I checked out recommendations just now and indeed they make sense. I swear at some point in the past when I last tried it had very suspicious results, hence my question.
Because most regulation is bad and not voted in blood.

Politicians, political interests, corruption, graft and many other factors influence legislation and most regulation has not had the intended consequences, often creating more problems than it solves.
> The reason these restrictions exist is to address the inherent power differential between the contractor and the contractee.

Being effectively prohibited from working on my own terms - even if the best terms I can negotiate are poor - doesn't give me any power.

It makes me a subject to the crappy welfare system, which now has far more power over me than any employer would have ever had.
A sibling semi-facetiously suggests taking a bus ride out and back, which obviously isn't a great idea during a global pandemic, but... I think it's a pretty good idea otherwise?

Or you could just walk (or bus, when it's safer to do so) to a park, sit on a bench, and read for a half hour? Or maybe even the full hour and a half, so you get some uninterrupted reading in, and you can pick whether you do that in the morning, or in the evening? Or, hell, do half in the morning and half in the evening as you do now, just without the pressure to get somewhere.

I keep hearing how some people (mostly those who don't have to drive themselves) like their commute, and are sad they don't have one anymore, and may not even after COVID restrictions are lifted, but... you've been given that time back to do whatever you want with it. How is that not in every way better than a commute, even one you currently enjoy?
What is “manual review” here? The reviewer doesn’t have the ability to send the transaction through. It went to the circular file.
If you use try/catch, you can either swallow the exception, deal with it, or rethrow. But sometimes you don't know how to handle or rethrow an exception. Maybe you don't even know that the library code you are calling is going to throw!

A "neverthrows" block would not compile if there is anything inside that can throw (even a runtime exception). Its a way of drawing a line. A library author could use it to make sure no unexpected exceptions can bubble up.

And yeah, if you get NPEs at random you are making a mistake. If I could just choose to not make mistakes, I would :-D. But until then, I'd prefer the compiler to check my work. (And catching them is not an option. What do you do then? Terminate the program? Ignore them? They need to be found at compile time, not at runtime.)
The field of view is also on TFA: ~ 40 lunar circles
You just have to implement ARMv8 architecture in your SoC also nothing prevents you from extending it further with ML or GPU bits.

I doubt that NVidia controlled ARM will ever be so inclined to sell another architecture license ... they would rather sell you their own designed ARM chips.
The company I work for is looking at subsidizing rent as wfh office space. But, this company has been remote first for the past ten years, so their thought process is years ahead of most companies.
Uber is profitable in many markets and was approaching broad profitability this year before Covid.
It’s easier to set up a system to provide nonpartisan funding and review of scientific work than it is to have everyone read and source all of the research.

It’s also easier to set up an apolitical body that makes recommendations based on research than it is to have everyone draw their own conclusions or devolve into “blue science” vs “red science”

These are mechanisms that cultivate public trust, and there are countries that do a pretty good job at it.
Assuming it's possible both mathematically - in terms of an arbitrary encoding that we cannot explain away using standard physical phenomena e.g. quasars, and more importantly assuming it's actually possible from an engineering standpoint. All radio signals we send become indistinguishable from noise quite quickly.
You are totally right. This is why I don’t even bother using polite form expect when I really need it: my interlocutor is glad I’m speaking more Japanese than he could speak English or my native language anyway.

I would also add that speaking a Japanese that is too good can backfire, as native have then more expectations that go further than language (behavior), especially for East-Asian people. Keeping illusion of semi-(in)competence can be useful.
The United States balances innovation with ethics ?

The people of Hiroshima or the victims of agent orange might have something to say about that.
How do you handle bullshit? A candidate (most) might be great at talking like he has experience, but in reality have some pretty huge lapses in basic knowledge. So many under qualified people apply 'just to see if they hire me'.
And Search, Maps and Android are support products of Ads.
The assumes that demand stays the same with increased costs, or that supply remains the same under entirely different conditions.
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> I just took a stock 7200 rpm drive and added a 90Hz buzzer.

Congratulations: Your idea is both technically possible and completely useless in practice.
% printf "@40000000%08x%08x %#xs SI since the Unix v4 Epoch\n" \
0x6000000A 0 0x60000000 |
TZ=right/UTC tai64nlocal
2021-01-14 08:25:09.000000000 0x60000000s SI since the Unix v4 Epoch
%
We All Need Space. 11 Sublime Images from ‘Astronomy Photographer of the Year’
Doing the math with some quick Google searches...
A single red photon has the energy 2.810-19 J.
This sensor is for a telescope with the primary mirror size of 8.4 meters. So area ~ pi8.4m^2 = 221.7 m^2 (square meters)
The distance to the closest galaxy, Andromeda, is 2.537 million light years = 2.4×10^22 meters

If we assume it's a broadcast message (a poor guess for Andromeda, but reasonable for further galaxies), with energy projected in all directions, we can use the surface area of a sphere given a distance to get an idea for how much energy would need to be broadcasted to detect a single red photon: A=4πr^2

A = 4π * (2.4×10^22 meters)^2 = 7.238×10^45 m^2 (square meters)

7.238×10^45 m^2 / 221.7 m^2 * 2.8*10-19 J
= 9.14136×10^24 J (joules)

Wolfram alpha helpfully says that is "≈ ( 0.024 ≈ 1/42 ) × energy output of the sun in one second ( 1 s L_ )"

Which is better than I expected, honestly.

So, even for detecting life in the closest galaxy, an intelligent species would need to be working on the energy level of output of stars to have a hope of light reaching earth. Not even counting getting above the noise of the rest of the stars, and then sending something identifiable as intelligent.
Not type information, but CHERI capabilities: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/cheri...
Freiburg has many commuters working in Swiss pharma industry around Basel for the much lower cost of living so you should be ok as a single working in IT. If you even find housing, that is.
> Howver you still need a board and resolutions and you have submit your LLC annual returns have seperate bank accounts at the minimum.

LLCs do not need to have boards. If you're going to operate a simple single member LLC for example, there is typically no great reason to have a board.

https://info.legalzoom.com/article/does-llc-have-board-direc...

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/singlemember-llc-need-board-...
> A counterpoint on why I wouldn't ask anyone to implement something (such as a web server) using a framework: They're ever-changing.

Can you elaborate as to why this is a contradiction? Yes, they’re ever changing but doesn’t mean it’s not an interesting problem to solve.
How about we look at that quote with a bit of nuance?
Large address spaces are useful for virtual memory reasons, not because you literally have petabytes of RAM physically attached to your machine.
Edit: Below is incorrect. They claim the total area is enough to capture 40 full moons, not that the sensor is 40 full moons across. Assuming a perfectly round sensor you could estimate its radius from that, but that's too much on my phone.

Maybe they "left it as an exercise for the reader"? ;-)

The FOV is "40 full moons", so 40•0.5° = 20°. For a plane 15 miles away that comes to an image covering 2•15•tan(10°) miles = 5.3 miles.

So you can spot a golfball on an image that's 5.3 miles large.
There is no power differential. You are free to work or leave. These laws only took that power away from the individual.

A new worker classification between contractor and employee would be a real solution, but a real solution was not the goal of this legislation.
I have but a variable amount l, as I can’t decide how much to give. I use Wikipedia extensively and want to be able to cover some other users costs but not overdonate. Realistically, how much money does Wikipedia actually need per year?
> If humans were to advertise our own presence to possible species living tens of billions of light years away, how would we go about doing it?

We‘ve been trying: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interstellar_radio_m...
Looks somewhat unlikely. We may have other architectures as mainstream and, they would be more energy efficient for the same performance of x86 in mainstream use but, pure SIMD computation is underrated IMHO.

Yes, AVX has a clock penalty but, if your code is math heavy (scientific, simulation, etc.) it's extremely convenient for some scenarios still.

GPUs are not perfect for "streaming data processing" or intermittent processing because their setup and startup time is still in seconds. You need to transfer data first to the GPU if you want the full speed also. In CPU computing this overhead is nonexistent.

I develop a scientific application and we've seen that with the improvements in the FPU and SIMD pipelines across generations, a 2GHz core can match a 3.7GHz one in per core performance in some cases. This is insane. This is a simple compilation with -O3 only. march and mtune were not added intentionally.

Unless GPU becomes as transparent as CPU, we either need to catch or surpass X86 on SIMD / pure math level to replace it completely.
here there might be one
All I can say, to all the comments, is "whoosh".
It is quite common to spend $5k-$10k on various summer enrichments for a 14 year old.

Just 4 years later, that child will likely go to university that costs on average $30K in the US.
The author uses the word "problem" multiple times. Is it really a problem? It feels natural and right to just get the information you need and move on with your life.
Many employees are allowed to have GitHub accounts; since they used it prior to being hired :P The WebKit team uses GitHub because this is where web standards development happens.
Isn't this an idealization myth of the scientific method? I'm pretty sure some kind of observation prior to forming the theory will account for many theories.
That's because they were conflated with both arrays and pointers.
Do you have a reference about Apple having a perpetual license? I just found many articles that claimed they have an ARM "architecture license" but no specifics, and 8 years ago in 2012 ARM PR'd the deal as "long term" which might be relatively close to today.
I can't imagine universities actually caring to teach new programmers Rust... it's an overly complex language that most professors themselves would steer far away from because they know there's more to programming than following trends.

(We learned C++ in university in New York which was basically C with occasional help from C++'s standard library).
Linux is currently investigating using Rust in drivers (The main issue being lack of compiler support for the more isoteric architectures).
This has been discussed many times on many forums on the Internet.

The summary is that RISC-V is inefficient because it requires more instructions to do the same work as other ISAs and it does not have any advantage to compensate for this flaw.

Those extra instructions appear especially in almost all loops and the most important reason is that RISC-V has a worse set of addressing modes than the the vacuum-tube computers from more than 60 years ago, which were built only with a few thousands tubes, compared to the millions or billions of transistors available now for a CPU.

Because of this defect of the RISC-V ISA, the Alibaba team who designed the RISC-V implementation with the highest current performance (Xuantie910, which was presented last month at Hot Chips) had to add a custom ISA extension with additional addressing modes, in order to be able to reach an acceptable speed.

Whenever the designers of the RISC-V ISA are criticized, they reply that the larger number of instructions is not important, because any high-performance implementation should do instruction fusion, to be able to reach the IPC of other ISAs.

Nevertheless, that is wrong for 2 reasons, instruction fusion cannot reduce the larger code size due to the inefficient instruction encoding and the hardware required for decoding more instructions in parallel and for doing instruction fusion is much more complex than the hardware required for decoding less instructions with a better encoding as in other ISAs.