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Our engineering team is the core of our company. Fast-paced and product-focused, Qualia engineers work cross functionally with design, product, and our customer-facing teams to imagine and build new experiences for our growing user base. We're looking for generalists—our engineers do everything from user interface design to data syncing across distributed systems.

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I use ripgrep on macos
> People are dying now

But not a lot. That's what's fascinating. At least in the US, over 95% of fatalities are people over 55. We're at 200k ~ 300k deaths for the year in the US (and I think there is reason to believe this is an overestimate, not an underestimate). That's lower than heart disease and cancer (500~600k yearly). I doubt we'll even approach those numbers by March.

Science is slow because it needs to be right. We're no longer in a time 185 years ago when Jenner could just stab people with puss he pulled off of a Horsepox infected cow. Remember that 500 years ago, the Chinese were blowing smallbox puss into people's noses (infections in the nose were typically not bad and people recovered faster) and isolated them. Many of them survived fine, but some died.

Do you want to return to that world where we just experiment on humans without regards to what that means?

This vaccine should be a choice. I'm under 40 and not in a high risk group. I'm fine with people volunteering to take this vaccine. Maybe I'll take it in 5 years. But I don't want to see this become mandatory for going to work or being able to enter a music venue.

You can quote the Jacobson decision all you want, but that SCOTUS decision only said Jacobson had to pay the $5 fine, he never was forced to take the vaccine. Furthermore Jacobson lead to the Buck decision (forced sterilization) and the SCOTUS decision that led to the WW2 Japanese internment camps. It's bad law that's bread a poisoned well of bad law.
Yeah... is discussion helpful to anyone if it isn't coming from a human? hmmm
TSLAQ
you can put something to hold down the insert key, thats the best solution I found
He used a throwaway exactly because of people like you, seeing as you're well on your way to cancelling him for his thoughtcrimes.
A well named function is easier to read, then having work out the intent behind some low level code.
Command line, linux, and open source immediately come to mind
Yeah, I've thought about it too, but both mild reinfections and vaccine trials show that SARS-2 does not exhibit ADE.
Google is an organization run by engineers. They have no concept of marketing, or product placement or community engagement. They build for an audience of engineers, and if a wider cross-section of the population embraces a product that is purely by happenstance rather than design. As an enterprise they appear to have AD/HD, these products are launched and supported for awhile and then dropped. It is baked into the corporate culture, and I don't think it will or can change.
I mean, that's what you get when the internal metrics are skewed towards shipping new products, paying no attention to maintaining or improving existing ones.
Isn't the entire frequency range that it is capable of transmitting in licensed spectrum?
That's a proposition, not an argument.

An argument would be evidence for this claim about "low-quality science".

Comments upon comments of fear-mongering, and not a single one has managed to reference a scholarly work.
I'm pretty sure the "column limit" claim was a false online theory that just stuck around because we're in such a post-truth era that even the definition of post-truth is itself post-truth... The reputable news coverage all said it was the number of rows that was the problem.
https://twitter.com/michaeljburry/status/1333998226244964353

Mike Burry (of 2008 Big Short fame) comes out as TSLAQ Member
We've been hearing about male suicide rates for years. The female suicide rate is the story because it's different.
"Controlled" doesn't mean what you think.
This is just semantics, but I think not. If you're attacking a military unit to achieve a military objective, murder feels inappropriate. In my opinion, murder tends:

* to be done by an individual, not a group

* tends to happen to one, or a few victims. It's odd to describe someone as murdering 70 people at once.

* tends to imply the victim was not professionally engaged in such a way that their death in those circumstances is not a plausible concern

* the motive is not political, else it is an assassination
Well, they do point out an interesting trend.

For example, "Femicide" is a hot topic right now in Mexico. "10 women are murdered every day", you'll frequently see mentioned in infographics shared on Mexican Facebook over the past year. There are marches and protests against femicide.

Not to say that public attention should never focus on the ordeals of any specific group that doesn't hold the #1 prize in victimhood.

But the thing is that you will read all these headlines and start to wonder what Mexico has against its women, and that life here must be especially tough for women when it comes to staying alive. When Mexico comes up in conversation, you might start mentioning things like "oof, really hard to be woman there right now!"

Eventually, you might not realize that men are the victims of 90% of all homicides in Mexico.
Is that a Freudian slip, DALE?!
Wouldn't be surprised if it were that order of magnitude, but I bet the engineering effort cost much, much more. I'm ballparking the PCB alone at a hundred dollars each (that large of a multilayer board with controlled impedance), custom silicon probably had a high startup cost that will eventually amortize, a few hundred dollars in extra components, and then an expensive custom process for the top section with all the antennas.
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What? He got 46%.
Thomas Kurian is an empty suit. There is not leadership coming from him in any meaningful way. Especially involving actions that require him to try to make changes outside of the cloud org.
Yes, but these about micro optimisation for video games. People here are complaining about this in standard situations. Where being able quickly grasp what function is doing is far more important then identifying recomputed work.
Did no one notice that this service was set to shut down 6 months ago?

Why is this news now?
Well, I think it is both. I find it quite cruel to kill animals. Even more cruel to breed animals just to be able to kill them later. It's quite a twisted moral towards a sentient being. No animal wants to be killed.
Qualcomm’s new flagship SoC is the Snapdragon 888
that has already been ruled out in the UK and by many other nations and it is also not something that the WHO advocates so I dont see that getting leverage ever. Except in authorotarian regiemes where it would not be about the vaccine anyway.
Yep, I hadn't heard of this one. Several of their shutdowns have effectively been product announcements and shutdowns rolled into one for me.
They announce a shutdown, I don't know what it is so I check it out. I get excited for a brief moment until I remember it's getting shutdown.
Would you date someone who's suicidal?
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I've not only heard of it, I use it frequently. It's by far the easiest way to access permissively licensed (Creative Commons attribution mostly) content for making things in WebGL. Given the fact that Poly is essentially a very basic CRUD app with simple files attached there's can't really be a good reason to shut it down - it's simple, mature, and can't take much more than a few hours of maintenance a month for a single developer.

Either Google has a real problem finding developers capable of maintaining things, or their decisions to keep things running are based purely on cash with no regard for either users or their own reputation as a company that can keep services running.
Works on non-Windows. ripgrep is notoriously fast. Command line interface. Not comically priced at 59.95 USD.
The "I'm suicidal dating app", that definitely would have a negative impact on both individuals.

People need to understand that you can't fix being suicidal by love or buying things.
Not to mention that its been built on top of the Google internal development stack and getting it working outside of that environment would require a substantial re-write.
I think the argument is that we have derived massive benefits from farming as a species that outweigh the amount of suffering we’ve caused in the process. I’m not sure I agree, but then I do eat meat.
Hi, I work at Materialize.

You can read about Vertica's "Live Aggregate Projections" here:

https://www.vertica.com/docs/9.2.x/HTML/Content/Authoring/An...

In particular, there are important constraints like (among others)

> The projections can reference only one table.

In Materialize you can spin up just about any SQL92 query, join eight relations together, have correlated subqueries, count distinct if you want. It is then all maintained incrementally.

The lack of caveats is the main difference from the existing systems.
that's hilarious if true "give away even more privacy in exchange for some pseudo feature"
> We use ethical justifications (or avoid them) that we don't use anywhere else.

I don't really agree with that. We don't use those ethical arguments when it comes to conduct that has a direct, near-immediate effect on other humans, and we give a handful of animals we have particularly positive feelings about a partial exception, but we do use them basically everywhere else.

> "But it just feels too good to give up! XD" or "But if I stop, everyone else is still going to do it, so why stop!" aren't arguments we'd level at the carnal pleasures of rape

These are exactly the kinds of things people say about why they still fly numerous times a year for leisure, why they're driving a large vehicle they don't need, and basically every other area where what people recognize as the ethical or societal ideal doesn't match up with how they want to behave.

Most people recognize it's not compatible with their ideals, but the vast majority still choose to do it anyway.
Hah! Came here to echo what you wrote.
I’ve been in (too) many data anonymizing/sanitizing efforts. It’s nothing but easy. I would strongly consider investing in test data generation.
Watch This Google Hacker Pwn 26 iPhones with a 'WiFi Broadcast Packet of Death'
> Glucose is a problem, but there's no reason they couldn't use sugar substitutes, of which there are many (though unfortunately some of the best, like tagatose, are still pretty expensive).

Have you tried allulose? I can't get it in my country, but it sounds better than others.
Why We're Finally Closing in on a Game-Changing Universal Flu Vaccine
This is what is the problem with such compatibility tests... they tend to test full power of the language while you really may use quite small subset in your application, as such even solution which is "20% compatible" may well meet all your application needs.

I remember in its early days MySQL had pretty poor SQL support (if you think about full standard) which did not prevent it from having huge success.

Or more recent example ClickHouse which I think similar to VictoriaMetrics as it does not fully implement SQL, but also adds many convenient extensions which are not part of the standard.

Chances are if you chose VictoriaMetrics you will find a lot more utility in advanced features of MetricsQL than you loose from exact compatibility with PromQL
This is a good summary paper with some safety concerns: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243.pdf?origin=ppub

> A possible concern could be that some mRNA-based vaccine platforms 54,166 induce potent type I interferon responses, which have been associated not only with inflammation but also potentially with autoimmunity 167,168 . Thus, identification of individuals at an increased risk of autoimmune reactions before mRNA vaccination may allow reasonable precautions to be taken. Another potential safety issue could derive from the presence of extracellular RNA during mRNA vaccination. Extracellular naked RNA has been shown to increase the permeability of tightly packed endothelial cells and may thus contribute to oedema 169. Another study showed that extracellular RNA promoted blood coagulation and pathological thrombus formation 170. Safety will therefore need continued evaluation as different mRNA modalities and delivery systems are utilized for the first time in humans and are tested in larger patient populations.
This argument that the world is more peaceful than ever is true... but it's true for a really bad reason. It's true because we have nukes. Full stop.

The reality is that we're staring down the barrel of not one, not two, not three, but potentially dozens of existential threats. The aforementioned nukes, climate change, environmental collapse, bioweapons, topsoil erosion... it's not an illusion created by the media. We're really not in good shape.
Also it can’t really be read only because of things like GDPR compliance.
> How would they do that? Who would pay the server costs?

The user would run the server, or another company, or a group of enthousiasts. It doesn't need to be expensive, especially if the user doesn't require many other users on the system.
I don't disagree that animals (cows in this case) in nature (whatever that looks like at this point) do suffer and are constantly under fear of predators.

However, I think saying that there is "no good measure tape available" might be intellectually dishonest since we can probably come up with a rough model to optimize for the minimization of global suffering of all beings involved.

Obviously, most mental models have a higher weight biased for humans rather than animals, so a suffering factor for humans would have a higher multiple than for animals. That is where most of the controversy seems to be.
As I recall, the UK government very loudly and repeatedly refused to rule out a second national lockdown, despite calls to do so. Now, Boris Johnson said that he really didn't want to carry out a national lockdown and that it was a last resort, but that's not the same thing at all. Didn't stop the press calling it a u-turn anyway of course.
There's certainly been issues with how parts of the trial was run. However, it's not insurmountable. It's possible to untangle some of the past data and the trials aren't over yet and these aren't the last trials so we will have better data soon and it could all check out.
This vaccine is appealing in particular because it's a lot cheaper to make and a lot more straightforward to distribute and even with questions over how the trials were run it's still looking like the good results will probably hold up mostly.
Complete second hand / third hand heresay but:

The reason google kills everything is because they do everything via monorepo. So if they don't have enough devs to literally -keep a service up to date with the currently evolving stack- they have to kill the project. This is why things get killed so easily.

Makes sense to me from a "why canyt you just leave it on" standpoint. But it still makes me very leeery of trusting any project of theirs long term (besides search/gmail).
Aren't there strict limitations on the maximum power output of any radio transmitters? At least in Germany there are quite low levels even for "free" frequency bands, so long-range FPV flight boosters/repeaters are already illegal, although they are working in a free band.
I have mixed feelings about these kinds of tools.

I can understand it might be nice to have a personal library of PDF books and searching in them. I can't think of a time I've ever wished I could search my bookshelf in that way, but you never know.

Obviously I use tools like ripgrep for searching codebases and the like.

But the extreme flexibility of this one in particular (and others like MacOs Spotlight) makes it seem more like a data recovery tool for me. If my directory structures and databases ever completely failed for some reason I might need to search through everything to find the data again. It's good to know such tools exist, I suppose.

But my fear is that tools like this teach people to not worry about organisation of data and to just fill up their disks with no structure at all. I think that unless something goes terribly wrong nobody should ever need a tool like this. Once you rely on it, you're out of luck it if it ever fails you. What if you just can't remember a single searchable phrase from some document, but you just know it must exist somewhere?

It's similar to what Google has done to the web. When I was growing up it used to be a skill to use the web. People used tools like bookmarks and followed links from one place to another. Now it's just type it into Google and if Google doesn't know, it doesn't exist.
Program = Proof [pdf]
Horseshoe crabs have resilient immune systems; they do not have adaptive immune systems like humans that have to "learn" how to defend from a new pathogen. Instead, their immune systems are general purpose. This is exactly why their blood is valuable for testing for the presence of pathogens in drug and device testing.
Or, use all that Apple money and build more capacity. Perhaps even try to get money out of the US federal government in exchange for an agreement to build new factories in the lower 48.
The 1976 Swine Flu?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bOHYZhL0WQ

Vaccines are also very young. We've had them for 185 years, and there were probably a lot of side effects from people getting stabbed with Horse Pox, but a lot of them probably just died and we didn't collect data back then they way we do today.

It's not comparable.
I still prefer gift cards, because they entice people to use them on non-essential things. I'd throw a 50€ on top of the pile, but I'd use a 50€ gift card for something nice I wouldn't buy otherwise.
Fail Fast, Fail Often...
Google Music and Google Photos disagree.

They ended Music, and bait and switch their photo policy.

Traumatic events for me. I've left both services, won't get another pixel, and attempted to switch to Firefox.
I asked for one for use, and teardown. I haven't received a reply.

StarLink is underrated. Where I live, it's $100 a month for 100Mbps Fiber to the Home (it was $200 last month) if you can actually get in touch with the "National" telco, which has a monopoly on FTTH, xDSL. The other operators offer "4G", which goes to 10Mbps at 3 or 4 in the morning. It's also capped as you can only download with "high-speed" about 1GB before it's throttled.

Mostly, though, it's a few kilobytes per second. We lost millions of euros in business because of that, couldn't make video calls with physicians when we needed it the most for extremely urgent situations [tried 8 devices simultaneously with three different networks to get that to work and it did not work]. We bought about six 4G devices (routers, dongles). We bought a 4G antenna. Main xDSL provider took a year to bring us a line. For businesses, it's $300/month for 20Mbps. (Yes, that's 20 mega bits not bytes per second).

There were other providers, but they were shut down by the "regulators" because they were too popular.

Seriously, fuck them. Let StarLink shatter these assholes. It's taking too long.

If there's anyone from StarLink here, I'd like to get some of these babies.
Mobile Firefox supports uBlock origin and others.
I always found useful something along the lines of

pdftotext -layout file.pdf | grep -E ...

for PDFs, good to see a Swiss Army knife utility for all sorts of file though!
" Productivity Score is designed to help IT administrators measure and manage adoption so their people can get the most out of Microsoft 365. We appreciate the feedback we’ve heard over the last few days and are moving quickly to respond by removing user names entirely from the product. This change will ensure that Productivity Score can’t be used to monitor individual employees. " Seems like exactly what everyone wanted. Great response.
Fixed instruction block was referring to the Huffman encoding. Something like 8 or 16kb per instruction block (perhaps set by a flag?). Compilers would have to optimize to stay within the block, but they optimize for sticking in L1 cache anyway.

Since we're going all-in on code density, let's go with a semi-accumulator 16-bit ISA. 8 bits for instructions, 8 bits for registers (with 32 total registers). We'll split into 5 bits and 3 bits. 5-bits gives access to all registers since quite a few are either read-only (zero register, flag register) or write occasionally (stack pointer, instruction counter). The remaining 3 bits specify 8 registers that can be the write target. There will be slightly more moves, but that just means that moves compress better and seems like it should enforce certain register patterns being used more frequently which is also better for compression.

We can take advantage of having 2 separate domains (one for each byte) to create 2 separate Huffman trees. In the worst case, it seems like we increase our code size, but in more typical cases where we're using just a few instructions a lot and using a few registers a lot, the output size should be smaller. While our worst-case lookup would be 8 deep, more domain-specific lookup would probably be more likely to keep the depth lower. In addition, two trees means we can process each instruction in parallel.

As a final optimization tradeoff, I believe you could do a modified Huffman that always encoded a fixed number of bits (eg, 2, 4, 6, or 8) which would half theoretical decode time at the expense of an extra bit on some encodings. it would be +25% for 3-bit encoding, but only 16% for 5-bit encoding (perhaps step 2, 3, 4, 6, 8). For even wider decode, we could trade off a little more by forcing the compiler to ensure that each Huffman encoding breaks evenly every N bytes so we can setup multiple encoders in advance. This would probably add quite a bit to compiling time, but would be a huge performance and scaling advantage.

Immediates are where things get a little strange. The biggest problem is that the immediate value is basically random so it messes up encoding, but otherwise it messes with data fetching. The best solution seems to be replacing the 5-bit register address with either 5 bits of data or 6 bits (one implied) of jump immediate.

Never gave it too much thought before now, but it's an interesting exercise.
True enough, but this is among the largest gatherings of technology decision makers (at varying levels, presumably some very high level) out there and this comes up every thread about Google.

Hosting some files to serve as a counterpoint would not be totally unjustifiable from a marketing perspective.
So you're saying they're getting bitten by vendor lock-in?
Maybe by “Any of Us”, the author meant “Me”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you ask someone who doesn't read HN if they've ever been frustrated with Google shutting down a product, my guess is 95%+ of people wouldn't be able to remember a single product that was shut down that they used.

That is true, but it ignores the fact that at least 50% of Google's product offerings are aimed at the sort of people who read HN.