skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electric bicycles come to mind. They would provide a more direct comparison with the Ami, but being 50 times lighter, I don't see how the Ami could compete.

True, but the level

This amounts to 20000km! That's a lot of cycling before the Ami becomes less impactful. Also a battery lifetime is about 5 years.

A lot of cycling, but not a lot of commuting. Could be done in 4 years.

Also the most significant factor contributing to a battery's degradation is not age, but the number of cycles. Even at the low estimate of 500 cycles(consumer grade battery), it should be good for 35 000km. But since it's likely an automotive battery, one could expect for it to withstand 1000 cycles or 70 000km.

I didn't find this number. "CO2 emissions from the average European diet, which is another 16g per kilometer cycled" [1]

I've read the source and it says:

"at 16 km per hour, a cyclist is burning about 4 kilocalories per kilogram per hour, while the relative metabolic rate of “driving to work” requires no more energy than somebody going about their daily activities: 1,5 kilocalories per kilogram per hour8."

It takes this from * the Compendium of physical activities, 2003* where it's written that:

0101014.0Bicycling<10 MPH, to work or for pleasure

It's not at. It's less than.

The updated source(2011 Compendium of Physical Activities) says:

01010 4.0 bicycling, <10 mph, leisure, to work or for pleasure (Taylor Code 115)
01011 6.8 bicycling, to/from work, self selected pace
01013 5.8 bicycling, on dirt or farm road, moderate pace
01015 7.5 bicycling, general
01018 3.5 bicycling, leisure, 5.5 mph
01019 5.8 bicycling, leisure, 9.4 mph

They're not actually using the figure for 16km/h - the real figure at this speed is closer to 5.8 calories, which using their parameters yields 27g CO2/km for an average European.

It's hard to argue that a 500kg vehicle can be more efficient than a 10kg one (or even 20kg for an electric bicycle).

Problem is, the 10kg one is powered by a ~70kg biological machine, which isn't very efficient - that's my entire point. Also the 500kg one seats two and can sustain 45km/h for probably 50km or so - not an easy feat for your average cyclist.

But I agree - pedelecs are the most efficient as personal transportation.
I can derive two very different strategies from this. Either "generalize and avoid showing any reason to reject you" or alternatively "specialize and provide a reason too good to reject you".

Surely, it depends on the situation of the specific employer. So the trick for a candidate would be to figure out if there exists a single argument (e.g. a certain skill) which makes it impossible to not hire you.

Coming back to the original question: You can be honest to the candidate; figure out what your organization is desperate for and tell them. Of course, this gives up some negotiation strength.
I loved FireBug. Nowadays, every browser has its capabilities, but back in the day, FireBug was the only game in town.
RC Heli = expensive specialized mechanical parts, collective pitch Rotor Head is a nightmare.

quad = difficult to develop software control loop

One is easier to replicate after initial development than the other. Heli crash also usually results in destruction of Rotor Head, the most expensive part. You could use an analogy of Carburetor versus EFI.
No. But once in a while, I want to remind us some bit of history. Hopefully inspire new developers, just like how I got the inspirations about old stuff when I first joined HN.
Whenever i see stuff like this (youtube recommends speedruns + indepth speedruns videos on and off over the last few years), i imagine something like game of life where a ton of pixels are getting smaller and more refined.

The thought behind it is, that we as brains churn through everything and as we are that many and we are connected so well, we just churn through games which have been released 32 years ago by doing everything you can do with it.

Just a few days ago i saw a video where they used debug code to manipulate the game state and one of those things was a sprite fix, as there is a bug in super mario bros. 2 where the last frame was skipped and the memory fix fixes that.

The same happens with more complex 3d games as well, like thx to nvidia tools frame analysis of games exist on yt. Nice to see all the render pathes explained step by step.
Yes, this is really a terrible anti-intellectual thing here.

I wonder where this comes from. Is Shellenbergers propaganda bs so influential? Or maybe those failed efforts by billionaires like Gates to get hilarious amounts of cash from the Government?
OK, so you agree that corporations a government created construct.

Is it such a leap that liability is also a government created construct?
They have limited choices, yes. This doesn't change the fact that they do have a choice.

Tell me how limiting their power and opportunity further helps them exactly? What were they doing before ride-sharing and other contract work? What jobs are suddenly available for them? Wouldn't creating new opportunities be better? Wouldn't creating a new classification be better? Wouldn't creating a general health and benefits pool for everyone be better?

Yes, better situations can/should exist, and yes, this legislation is terrible and helps nobody. The opposition is that a real solution was never sought after and instead we have unintended consequences, not that things were fine before.
Well most social science studies are conducted over the same sample - it just proves that all their results are biased.
Risk analysis requires accepting trade offs. I don’t think it’s so backwards or self destructive to not want the level of potential danger that a nuclear power offers in your backyard.

The reality is that many nuclear disasters have happened and not wanting to risk irreversibly destroying your land for many generations seems like a reasonable position to hold.
What could the one common language be? English would seem to be the logical choice, but there is no way France would agree to that.
So the civil law system is not sufficient when the power balance exist? That's a Marxist argument. The results have been demonstrated.
I dont think there are... Uber and Lyft filled a market need for lower cost ride services.

The key was they were LOWER COST than a taxi, if everyone had to be full employee's with all of the costs that entils it is likely the fare will be at or higher than taxis,

And given there would be less competition between drivers, the service would also drop

It would just be a taxi service which was universally hated as too expensive with poor service.
Since it's "just" for crimes: It UK it can be used for thought crimes, social media crimes like pointing out basic biology and so on.

You are spot on about the definition of "crimes" being altered in the last decade. It will only get worse by the looks of it.
I think I agree with that position. I seem to have gotten the impression that you were doing this and not seeing a performance impact, which has been wrong in my experience.
iSmartAlarm down for a week without public acknowledgement/status communication
One of the leading smart alarm suppliers is down for a week without any public acknowledgement/status communication. They don't have a status page, nor do they confirm the issues on their Twitter account or elsewhere. As it stands right now, tens of thousands will are with a dead alarm system that you can't lock, while they still sale of their stock for 50% on their website. I'm not getting mad a companies or any people easily, but given that they have a serious issue without any acknowledgement to their customers if 10x worst than the fact that they are down in the first place.

https://twitter.com/RhyanProbert/status/1303681487783563265
https://twitter.com/search?q=ismartalarm
While the plants may thrive they may carry less nutrients per volume/weight. So you'd have to eat more.
> And let the brain drain go to Europe or China instead?

A lot of things would need to change for that to happen. Switzerland naturalizes more people every year than the PRC has ever naturalized and the Swiss are not known for making joining their nation easy. Shanghai, the richest city in China, has a GDP per capita on par with Poland last I checked and the country as a whole is ranked 96th, a bit above Thailand. The EU isn’t that attractive either. Germany is poorer than all US states but Mississippi. Money isn’t the only thing when it comes to brain drain but it’s a big, big thing.

A European long-term resident of China.
I must be a really really good programmer, since I rarely see the need to use strlen().

For one, strings are just chunks of memory like other arrays. So for almost any string that is not a literal in the source code, you just store offset/length as needed, like for any other array. I have sizeable projects (on the order of 10K lines) that have maybe 0 or 1 instances of strlen() in the code.

Very often though, strings are bounded and pretty short (since they are meant for human consumption), and in these cases, using strlen() when looking up a string is often sensible, since persisting the length might require more memory than the string itself.

Another case is when you're scanning the string from left to right anyway, so you just "stream" through it until you find the terminating 0. That's how printf() and friends work (they take a formatting string), and arguably this scheme works just fine.

Btw, the length of a string literal is (sizeof "Hello" - 1). You can also initialize char arrays using string literals and have the size available:

static const char name[] = "Foobar";
static const int nameLen = sizeof name - 1;
I just want to say that this is an attitude that's come up over time and as an older person it baffles me.

To explain, college curriculum's require atleast 1 public speaking class. These classes are infamously difficult for a lot of people who find it scary to talk in front of a class of 30+ students. But society as a whole considered it to be the young persons responsibility to overcome this fear.

Nowadays, it's far more likely that people are going to make arguments such as "the class shouldn't be required" or some other thing to try and help the young person avoid the scary public speaking.

My point here is that yes, it's true there are going to be some who struggle with presenting to 5-6 people. That's on them. If they can't talk to 5-6 people they're going to find something as simple as a daily standup to be scary as well, should we just get rid of it? (Actually, I hate standups and think they're a waste of time, but you get the point).

It's also not clear to me why you characterized this as a "large group", but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say maybe you're used to interviews where 20-30 people get involved. That's certainly not what I'm suggesting.

And finally,

I can't imagine a young developer not being able to have a 5-10 minute talk in front of others about something like, say "What is memory safety in rust and why should it be used for new projects" when we're hiring for someone to work in rust.

A more senior person would obviously get more generic options. The one I personally spoke about was roughly "What can we as a company be doing to empower software developers to create the best software possible".
> social media crimes like pointing out basic biology

Do you have any examples?
The whole thing paints Germany as some retarded country who didn't know what they're doing and now they need Russian gas.

All this neither having the dates right nor making a logical Russian gas connection. It's just a pure hate on Germany bs argument which appears all the time nuclear is the topic.
The Cat Gap
I don't think blaming is a solution. I think some choices should be heavily discouraged or simply forbidden. I don't expect people to willingly lose comfort and convenience. Unfortunately, this is the only way to go if you want to reach the objective fixed by the Paris agreement [1]. CO2 emissions should be reduced by 5% every year.

[1] https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/...
Simple solution. Disband the military. It's the elephant in the room.
The main thing I’ve never understood is why online voting is even desirable. Even if it were as secure what’s wrong with going to a polling station? If it’s inaccessible to many busy people then let’s make it a public holiday. What problem are we trying to solve?
> the best way is friending/following people and learning their tastes compared to yours

If only goodreads could somehow find others who like the same things you do and use it for recommendations!

Joking aside, they might already be doing that, but if so, they suck at it. They have enormous datasets of people and their tastes, yet their recommendations always seem to be simply matching genres that you happened to like a book from. You liked Watership Down? Here are 10 other books with talking animals!

If you and I can successfully identify people we share tastes with, then goodreads should be able to, too, they have even more data to base this on.
Perhaps this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painlev%C3%A9_conjecture
>hard to imagine the French government letting it slide or the US government letting a intel be sold to a foreign company

You mean something like GE buying off Alstom Énergie using corruption and government pressures ? Or the Chinese getting a piece of all our ports and nuclear tech ?
How much was the commute costing you though?
Do you mean std::extent? [0] You can do the same in C if you define a macro that uses sizeof [1]

This doesn't diminish the advantage of std::array, though, as it embeds the size of the array into the object, unlike when a raw array is passed and 'decays' to a pointer.

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/extent

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/4415646/
Croatia is introducing a digital nomad visa (Google translate)
It seems to me that the idea of supersymmetry will have the same fate as the idea of an aether. But physics wasn't stuck at the heydays of the aether theory and it is also not stuck now. There is much more to physics than just supersymmetry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_p...

But maybe some fresh ideas from other fields of physics are necessary for particle physics. The problem it seems to me is that the people working in high energy physics and string theory are often very narrow minded and are ignoring important developments outside of their own field.
I worked with the 16 bit PIC24f. I don't have the source handy to check, but according to a forum entry "The provided gmtime() actually fails earlier than 2038. The year wraps around when the time_t input goes beyond 0x7C55817F or Thu Feb 7 06:28:15 2036." [1]

1: https://www.microchip.com/forums/m522929.aspx
Sort of like the “this product will cause cancer in California” warnings on just about everything to the point that they become meaningless?
They not only don't build new ones, the'll close down 50% of them in favour of renewables:

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-france-nuclear-reactors-macron...
>> "special" rate,

Pretty sure that is illegal, if not it is unethical

> if they leave California the existing Taxi company's will fill in the gap.

Clearly there was a demand for something other than taxi's, while you seemed to like it, and did unethical things to get your rate lower. For most people they found the taxi service to be unappealing and over priced, Thus uber and lyft where born
Which history?
It depends a bit on where you are.

In England sexual assault requires deliberate physical contact; the contact has to be sexual; and there has to be no consent or belief of consent. Common assault doesn't require any of that, and you can be convicted of assault without physically touching the victim.
Good seeing Ian's work here!

http://www.ianww.com/
Casey Muratori showcased a new model of a programming interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfyWvJdsDRI

It shows to the interviewer how a given person works in a programming job, how they researched solutions to the problems they were faced with in the past etc.; as opposed to the usual exercises that have nothing to do with the job and won't really show you how well they will perform.

It's also less confrontational which should put the interviewee at more ease.
I am not sure if I have made myself clear, because I have no issues with the Google documents on this and I believe they are very clear: this feature is optional! Optional optional optional, only on hardware that supports it will Google implement these things because they literally cannot use it otherwise. Your wording has always implied that this is a requirement to run Android 11 and it is not, and that is what I am asking you to change. Like, what’s wrong with being accurate and saying “Google is implementing support for this in Android 11”? “This feature may be used to classify Android devices”?
Turning down yet another productivity product
:D

So funny
The sizes of federal liabilities are uncertain and state-contingent
LOL, you remind me of the #LearnToCode people "Well who cares if all the jobs go away, just teach people to code"
To get away as a bad apple is to make a valid buisness with a auto-flagged name, get reviewed and de-flagged as a mistake - then use the "reviewed" account for money laundering, weapons or drug trade.

Most systems will not re-check again on a false-positive that already consumed money. There is a whole buisness out there, making real-fake-door companys for just this.

Surprisingly, using a very common name or a already dubious name does not work as well.
The trick here, is to follow expected algo optimizations to reduce money spend on reading through transaction history of a flagged case.
But pietism is associated with protestant/Lutherian christians whereas Baden is mostly catholic, isn't it?
Gmail seemed kind of crazy at the time.
> Well, yes, without the laws that banned those things, they would be totally legal. That's what “law” means.

Then you are conflating labor laws with criminal law. Individuals are already prohibited from doing those things via criminal law. If one party is not paying the other, labor laws are irrelevant yet the behavior remains illegal.
Were the expert-produced entries in Britannica of lower quality/accuracy than in Wikipedia?
> So it's creating a whole new genre of runs that simply isn't about execution anymore.

This sounds to me like a variant of "using glitches/sequence breaks isn't how the devs intended it to be played".

Arguably, setting up for these glitches and exploiting them in real-time (i.e. not TAS) using only a controller is still "execution".
Longtime Climate Science Denier Hired at NOAA
> Perhaps the real problem is the mess that occurs when governments recognize and try to control abstractions like corporations to protect people from liability.

Huh? I don't get it - if i understand, you are suggesting that we should kill the concept of the corporation, while still making all law related to operating a business continue to apply to individuals, and somehow that will result in a utopia where nobody gets in the way of two parties consensually working with each other, but at the same time nobody will be abused/coerced? Do i have that right?
Since when does nuclear energy provide for heat?

PS. Russia has been delivering gas even in the worst days of the Cold War and your "joke" was insulting and is pretty much misplaced in the discussion here. They however probably still talk about the stupid 'murican who thought they'd run out of gas.
A Show HN with comments by the author:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286770
What exactly are you supposed to figure out in the interview? The skill level of the interviewee? A list of skills they have? Suitability of their skills? Cultural fit? Intellect? Knowledge? Compress it to 3-5 points.

Now pick some arbitrary rating system (5 stars, school grades, 1-10 points, whatever). It does not matter that much which one you pick. The hard part is to stay consistent about it over time.

Now, here is the way how to make it more pleasant for your candidates. After 3/4 of the time, write down your rating and discuss it with the candidate. E.g. "I gave you four stars for cultural fit. I get good vibes with you but you would be the only PhD in our startup, so you are probably more academic than everybody else." Give them a chance to correct your rating. "Oh, I forgot to mention I'm involved in my brothers construction startup. I feel fine in that non-academic world."

Giving such honest and clear feedback to candidates is a better experience than most companies.
I mean like you can pass it through a function by using the “array syntax” when defining the parameter and making the size a template parameter. Like so:

template <size_t N>
void foo(int bar[N])

And this gives you the size without an additional size parameter as you’d usually need in C (of course with the limitation that the parameter now has to be a compile-time sized array).
Yup, but it’s just plain dumb to ignore the ones that do.

I have a gigantic open-source portfolio[0]. I also go to great lengths to make sure that I’m a “known quantity” (like posting frequent exposition on fora like this one). I don’t feel that I have anything to hide. Everyone that has worked with me has found the experience enormously fulfilling.

It’s been quite jarring to see this ignored and treated with disbelief. That’s pretty much exactly the opposite reaction from the one that I would have, but I guess I’m out of touch with the way things are done, these days. I even talked to someone who told me about a friend that had invented some kind of machine learning candidate evaluation system, and relied on that, as opposed to human vetting.

One of my goals is to discourage people that wouldn’t want to work with me. I was a hiring manager for a fairly high-functioning, high-stakes team, and am quite aware of the value of making good hiring choices, which go well beyond simple expertise. Team dynamics are also very important.

I feel that getting a job as a result of misrepresentation is a big mistake, and a recipe for misery. So I don't hide my age, don’t pad my résumé, and make every effort to be as open as possible. If you don't want to work with me; fine. Let's not waste each others' time.

I have always sought to make it easy for people to figure me out. Since I live a fairly good life, and know my way around the playground, I feel that I'm a pretty good bet, but I have no problems if others think otherwise.

One of my favorite Twain quotes is "Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry."

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall
that's the wrong attitude.

That would be like a layman hearing someone say "general AI isn't possible, their claims are bollocks" and someone responding with "maybe that's true, but do you have a background in general AI?".

And this attitude causes things like police to arrest the wrong person because they don't understand the limits of machine learning.

I don't need to be an expert to simply say this is problematic and shouldn't be used. YOU need an expert to explain why it CAN be used.

We need more skepticism, not less.

But to answer your question, I understand biology well enough to understand the challenges involved here. But you don't even need that to understand the problem. In their marketing photo's, they've attempted to replicate the _HAIRSTYLE_. That by itself is all you need to understand how low the applicability of this is.

Just imagine a police officer arresting someone who was bald and sort of looked like the criminal because this algorithm chose to render them as bald. People aren't NEARLY good enough at being able to identify a _STRANGER_ with a radically different hairstyle to be trusted with this.
Except Fortran 2018 is quite modern, supports modules, generics, and even OOP, first class support on CUDA alongside C++, whereas C18 hardly changed since C89 besides some cosmetic stuff and it is as secure as when it got used to rewrite UNIX in the early 70s.
So, now that they no longer provide bags, but prices have not gone down at all, the grocery stores are suddenly seeing their profits increase?