skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about Android specifically. Is it still heavily Java-based?

There are a lot of universal-binary candidates both current and historical. Javascript, Java, SPirV, LLVM intermediate representation are some of the current ones. So, this isn't a new idea, it's just that most of the software I use regularly is compiled specifically for x86-64. Maybe it would be better if that were a rare exception rather than the norm.
This is an excellent point and I can't believe I overlooked it. Obviously there could still be significant lopsidedness since places where you'd be moving mass around might not be evenly distributed, though. No idea why someone downvoted you for this observation. :D
I like this \m/
For this American, free toilets were a triumph of socialism. I have never had to pay for a toilet in my life. (At the age of 25 I was refused the use of a toilet in a Chicago storefront, and I was shocked.) Most companies and governments keep their toilets cleaner than my own bathroom. Just don't live in the big, overcrowded cities, and stop voting for immigration to overfill the ones that still work.
what a great term for it and a pleasure to listen to it. followed.
Seriously, I was thinking "150/month for a parking spot is cheap"
Was it the X-ray tech or a radiologist that billed you? Radiologist is often $30 or whatever.

(I would expect the cost of the tech to be included in the hospital billing)
It doesn't remove your ability to install apps from the Play Store. You can use the Aurora Store app to install those apps. For the apps that also require Google Play Services, microG usually suffices.
The people who make the standards do not get any money from you buying a copy of the standard.
That's very true. I especially would trust someone with your username!
This statement says more about your own attitudes to sex than anything else. There's nothing wrong with that, but you seem incapable of imagining that the two activities can be performed in similar, non emotional, ways. Why must you feel vulnerable to have sex?
Just do it all again when you get customers, which you can only get after your’re actually approved for business, for which you need the standards.

I guess maybe you can just ‘hope’ you comply and let the inspection figure it out if they ever show up.
I'm not familiar with her, but I agree she does seem objective and could have some useful input. We'll reach out.

Thanks for sending!
You should consider trying Urbit. There's a large community of people who have had this desire for decades, and most of the good ones are settling there.

https://urbit.org
We do not sell personal microbiome, genetic, or survey-related data and don't have plans to do so. We will make every effort to keep your personal data yours. We de-identify all your data so that it can only be analyzed as an aggregate, so while your microbiome data and health survey data contribute to new scientific discoveries, they also remain completely personal. It will be nearly impossible for interested parties (such as insurance companies) to get a hold of your personal information on the Bristle platform and use it as leverage for their pricing. Hopefully this helps relieve some of your concerns, as we have similar concerns around health-related privacy, too!
https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme
What's the cost to clean when people poop right outside when they realize that they have to pay?
I taught an engineer how to do 2D iterative scenarios with TABLE(), and his XLS files began taking 30+ minutes to open. Every XLS ended with "-DANGERTABLES.xls" to remind us not to accidentally click it and kill our machines. [For those who don't know, it's basically a way to reduce a massively interconnected spreadsheet (dozens of sheets) as f(x,y)=z, and then make hundreds of tables built with that function. Insanely powerful, but causes spreadsheets to grind to halt every time you touch a cell (unless you turn off auto computation).]
Memorization is largely vilified in American schooling, and for good reason. But I think if not abused, it is an excellent form of (self-) learning not at all devoid of near meditative qualities. There something special about committing things to memory, especially verses.
Your full family is covered yes.

My wife was covered before we were married as well, being in a stable relationship was enough.

And yes agree I would like healthcare to be not tied to employment.
"10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness" by Alanna Collen (2016) is another good book on this topic.
I'd just add that we're hoping to develop products that specifically reduce/eliminate oral pathogens while encouraging growth of probiotic species
To be honest, if a candidate told me they didn't have time for a take home, I'd arrange to complete the interview process in times-of-day that works for them. The purpose was to avoid 'coding in front of a firing squad', and we could achieve a similar outcome by leaving the room while they work.

BTW, I will consider the approach of simple conversation probing past experience and domain knowledge. I infer that would be in lieu of a coding demonstration. If that has worked for you, any detail that you can fill in would be appreciated.
It's being downvoted because it comes across as someone arrogantly dismissing an important work because they have no idea what they are talking about. If they instead asked "why is this noteworthy? in my ignorance this seems obvious", they might have gotten a better reception.
This is exactly what I fear about diving back into software development. The last time I was a full time programmer was in 1990. We had an office, with a few desks and phones, and 2 computers, not networked, and a portable for taking onsite to do support. I was the programmer and field support guy, Scott wrote the manuals, did sales and some support, and the owner showed up on occasion, sometimes with clients in tow for a demo.

It was fully possible to spend hours on a problem with ZERO interruptions, have a lunch break, and they dive back in. I have no idea how anyone can expect productivity and response to calls/email/texts at the same time.

I'm willing to work hard, learn whatever is required, and will route around the fads that keep things more complicated than required... but I need time to think. If you want email twice a day, fine... but no more than that if you value actual productivity.

Things are far worse than they were in 1990, and far better. The documentation that comes with systems is almost non-existent, and you have to Google things instead... but we've gotten used to that.

The hardware is almost infinitely faster, especially on my Optane SSD laptop, but the OS is horribly insecure.

I don't have to use sequentially numbered/dated .ZIP files, instead getting to use GIT / GIT hub and it is glorious. The fact that it all gets backed up for $5/month at Backblaze has saved my bacon more than once.

I'll never internalize the fascination with RUST and immutable strings of Python... but I could live with them.

All I ask is a quiet space, a reasonable set of goals, and someone who can manage me without being cruel.
Happy user of RCS Talos II and Blackbird for several years here. It really does live up to all the hype. There's also a very close knit community of users and an IRC channel (#talos-workstation on Freenode) if you want to drop by and chat. :)
Privacy is one. A lot of people don't carry cash, and probably few carry coins anymore. Which means going with electronic payment. Do you want there to be an electronic record of every time you paid to use a restroom?

Another is precedent. If charging for a restroom were allowed, it would likely be done in a lot of places that are currently free. That seems like a step backwards.

A third is that if pay toilets were a big business, then such businesses would have a strong incentive to lobby their local governments against constructing new free bathrooms.
My corollary: Never attempt to account for Hofstadter's Law!
> There seems to be this implicit understanding that when you drop the thing in light snow it will just careen off the side and nobody is particularly incentivized to find that yep, that is exactly what happens.

Most people from Southern states will careen off the side when dropped into light snow--I'm exaggerating, but not by a lot.

If the Waymo car does nothing else short of "maintain appropriate following distance" it is already ahead of 90% of all drivers in all weather.
Tips to spot a fake review on Amazon
I don't understand how anyone thinks Exchange can still be used ... just setting it up without obviously choosing any obviously insecure settings somewhere in the stack while also trying to support the actual needs of a diverse set of users (without even considering the presence of unpatched vulnerabilities and required patching spedds) probably exceeds the IT capabilities of 99% of corporations.
The downvotes you’re receiving would seem to confirm your hypothesis. :)
I guess there could be some improvements, such as a right to feedback law (protections for both parties), make it harder to legally fire someone but easier if it's a real democratic team decision, better short term unemployment benefits.
So very much effort is spent on making websites 'pixel perfect' conforming to some marketing person's designs.

Human Interaction Engineers should be dictating this instead; with a focus on making information easy to parse, for humans and machines. For placing action widgets in locations that reduce errors.
This is interesting and I'm trying to think of others. You're on to something. Zuckerberg comes to mind. Jack Dorsey, maybe. Warren Buffett - consumer business.

I think the Shark Tank cast are probably pretty well-known by now, at least as much as Bezos. Though I don't know if they're known for their companies, so maybe it doesn't make sense to include them. In fact, Daymond John is the only whose business _I_ know, and that one was a consumer business. They're all much smaller time, ofc, than the other names mentioned. Cuban makes me think a bunch of sports CEOs are probably well known. Vince McMahon.

Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, and Ray Kroc I think were big deals, back when.

Probably there's no value in the CEO of a non-consumer company having celebrity. Nobody's deciding between PWC and E&Y based on a TV appearance by the CEO, so the CEO won't spend time on that.
This does not, by the way, imply that the machines are working correctly and human drivers are the problem. These cars are rear-ended more often than human drivers, which suggests they stop more suddenly or at times humans don't expect.

Slamming on the brakes is a flaw. Even if every car on the road had the ability to respond instantly to the car ahead, being forced to brake hard still risks loss of control especially in bad conditions.

Also, having automatic emergency braking on all vehicles is at least decades out. It will never work on motorcycles or scooters or bicycles, period. It cannot be retrofitted onto existing cars. Requiring it for all new cars would require pretty hamfisted regulations. I expect human drivers to be widespread for at least the rest of my life.
I used to think this way, but I think it’s a mistake. If something happens to men but happens far more often to women, then there’s a problem. The fact that we keep hearing about these stories, with various shades of face-palming awfulness should be a sign that something is wrong. “Use your femininity”? I’ve been working professionally in various STEM positions for 15+ years, never once has someone told me to “use my masculinity” to help smooth a working relationship.

We can assume that all of these people, across the industry, in dozens of different contexts are all just whining, or we can do some introspection and wonder if we could do better. Even if some things are unintentional, if they make people en masse feel less welcome, we should re-examine how we do things, and if they are truly necessary.

I’ve personally known several women who are insanely smart and good at what they do who have felt rejected, mistreated and unwelcome in tech. It’s a tragedy they faced that, and it’s sadly way too common. We cannot deny there is something systematic at play here.
> I purchased his book off Amazon a few weeks ago, thinking it wouldn't be long until they started delisting books. Now all this nonsense with Dr. Seuss.

Except it was the copyright holder of the Dr. Seuss books that decided to withdraw these books. Not the government or sellers like Amazon. It's more of an argument for reducing the length of copyright in the US rather than some sort of ominous supression of free speech.
Column/ is a new social network for signal over noise
There are a couple of vendors of multi-architecture CPUs where the native architecture is MIPSish and the other supported arches are MIPS, ARM, RISC-V & x86. Tachyum is one of them, here is another:

https://www.zhihu.com/question/414069789
On the other hand, if self-driving cars are as good at avoiding accidents as the article says that may cause the price of insurance for non-self-driving cars to fall.
Wouldn't a normal db btree index work just fine? Scans certainly seem problematic though
Doesn’t that threat model defeat the purpose of the algorithm leaks?
I do not use Google Meet, but do those buttons at least now stay visible and not only appear if you know where to mouse over? Very relevant comment from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965293
An Exploration in the Space of Mathematics Educations
I recently read this Wikipedia article about a 15th-century Italian traveler and thought it was fascinating. This guy had quite the eventful life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovico_di_Varthema
Aker/Seetee Shareholder Letter [pdf]
As others have noted, it can be harder to move around academia than in industry. Your immediate community matters a lot more, whether you're a PhD student, a postdoc, or faculty. When things work it's great; when they don't, it's correspondingly worse.
I went to live in a German speaking country for a few years and the most astounding and unsettling thing I learned the whole time there was that function names in Excel are also translated to German. For example, you need to use SUMME instead of SUM.
I have no idea what happened in this case, but that doesn't follow - MIT is one of those schools that routinely promote to associate without necessarily giving tenure [0].

[0] https://thetech.com/2010/06/11/tenure-v130-n28
PoS systems can be bootstraped by PoW, so no problem there.

Bitcoin did not have a fair launch either, there was a lot of information asymmetry between the project insiders and the public. Satoshi's stealth-mine of ~1 million BTC for example.
> if you think about taking your average developer and putting them in a propel-facing sales role, how well would they do

Probably not too well, although I've known more than a few programmers that have also done sales. I have actually, and I'm very bad at it not because of my lack of social skills, but just because I don't like being pushy. Anyway, "not being good at sales" doesn't mean you're "socially inept" just as not being able to program a computer very well makes you "technically inept".

And maybe programmers, on average, are a little bit below average on social skills – I'm not sure if that's the case but it could be – but "a little below average" is still "normal" and not "inept", and it's a far cry from the stereotypes that were being propagated.

I don't really know enough about James Damore to say anything about this, especially not him as a person.
An entire management layer could be removed from the average software company or consultancy if only it were possible to maintain multiple estimates for one project. Expecting one number to inform resource scheduling, account management and new business is expensive.
I live in Australia, and we do have a few public toilets, but honestly 90% of the time if I need one when I'm out I'll use one in a food court or a department store or some other private enterprise which seems to have a financial incentive to provide good quality amenities.*

Does this not happen in the US? And if not, can anyone muse as to why? I would figure that the incentives would be the same.

* I expect that there's a legal requirement for many of these businesses to provide toilets, but the level to which they maintain them is without doubt over and above any requirement of law, certainly better than any public facilities.
> Owning my computer is still relatively possible. I can build a computer from parts which I can choose

This is insufficient according to conditions of TFA. It is widely assumed in the security industry (based on evidence from the various state-sponsored attacks we can see) that the NSA and/or other government agencies have backdoors and/or zero-day exploits for both the CPU secure execution modes and common networking hardware. It is very likely that there are "magic packets" which you can send to such devices which install a rootkit payload.

If security against even government intrusion is something you care about, it really difficult to buy or make a modern computer that is configured like computers were in the 80's and 90's: just running code we have complete access to, with no hidden interfaces.
Curiosity peaking (I have also seen peeking) is quite an interesting mondegreen for curiosity 'piquing'. The latter means 'stimulating' or 'aggravating', whereas the former implies that when you hear about something for the first time your curiosity is at a maximum - which is a fun interpretation :)
Their page on trending topics has a scrolling list at the top: topic 1, number of articles; topic 2, number of articles.

Only one topic listed more than 100 articles: Meghan Markle, 484.

So, it's entertainment news? Not giving up my email and $ for that. But that's me.

https://www.thefactual.com/news
Job link is returning "no longer active". Is that the correct link?
Some (including me) might find it morally wrong.
You must have stayed in a very nice part of China.
Generalists vs specialists – Who has a greater chance of success? (2019)
Yeah, fired off a few emails last night, none have gotten their read receipts activated.
China is huge and fast-developing, so generalizations are dangerous. The notorious partitionless poop trough is pretty much a thing of the past (although I have no doubt some survive), but these days at eg. major train stations or tourist sites, the average public toilet is just fine.
> I really wish we could just enforce proper education of being observant.

I know we're talking about California here, but the other straightforward explanation is that self driving cars are braking unpredictably compared to regular traffic, possibly when other drivers have judged that they wouldn't possibly need to brake.

Such accidents are only the fault of the rear car in a simplistic prima facie sense. Unexpectedly stomping on one's brakes in a fit of road rage is generally seen as causing any resulting accident, as should overzealous braking by a self driving vehicle that isn't following the norms of the road.

For example, from the Waymo report of February 16, 2021:

> While in autonomous mode, the Waymo AV was stopped at a red traffic light at the unprotected intersection of 16th Street and Market Street. After the traffic light turned green, the Waymo AV began to proceed and then came to a stop as it yielded to oncoming traffic also entering the intersection. A passenger vehicle behind the Waymo AV then made contact with the stationary Waymo AV’s rear bumper

This could have been the Waymo turning left and needing to yield to oncoming traffic, OR it could have been the Waymo going straight through the intersection and slamming on its brakes due to someone coming in from the right that hadn't stopped before the Waymo's judgement margin. It seems impossible to tell from the accident report, but the two have very different root cause analyses.
Thank you for the link. I enjoyed the historical photos! At Glastonbury music festival, the ladies call these funnels "she wees". Bring back the pissoir!
It’s less of a limitation than you’d think:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
You're commenting as if Capitalism and Imperialism are squeaky clean, which is incredibly far from the truth. Just to give a little more context, Solzhenitsyn was a Fascist who supported the Germans during WWII and openly supported Franco in Spain. He was also a notorious anti-semite even at a time when anti-semitism was punishable by death in Soviet Russia. I've read Gulag Archipelago and he's a pretty good writer, but it should not be considered a work of non-fiction.

A quote from an interview with his wife:

"Natalya Reshetovskaya, a Russian chemist who twice married the dissident writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, and questioned the famous account he gave of Stalin's prison camps in ''The Gulag Archipelago,'' died in Moscow on May 28. She was 84.

In her 1974 memoir, ''Sanya: My Life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn'' (Bobbs-Merrill), she wrote that she was ''perplexed'' that the West had accepted ''The Gulag Archipelago'' as ''the solemn, ultimate truth,'' saying its significance had been ''overestimated and wrongly appraised.''

Pointing out that the book's subtitle is ''An Experiment in Literary Investigation,'' she said that her husband did not regard the work as ''historical research, or scientific research.'' She contended that it was, rather, a collection of ''camp folklore,'' containing ''raw material'' which her husband was planning to use in his future productions.

He began a series of love affairs with younger women and when Miss Reshetovskaya protested, she wrote that he replied: ''I have to describe lots of women in my novels. You don't expect me to find my heroines at the dinner table, do you ?''

He eventually left her for Natalya Svetlova, a young mathematician.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/world/natalya-reshetovska...

He has a "on Russians and the jews" bit on his wiki. Ridiculous anti-semite the west used as a poster boy for the horrors of the gulag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn#On_Russ...

What is a gulag? It's a penal colony or a labor camp or a prison.

The US today houses more prisoners for slave labor as a percentage of it's population than the Soviet Union at the height of the gulag period, modern day Russia, Iran or China.
I hear the RPi has nine different processor clusters, each with their own ISA.
They would be right to question advocacy groups that have been misleading the public about climate change for multiple decades.

The main point of conservatives has been, for over a decade, that the alarmism is overstated and behavioral corrections would eventually adjust us to the point climate change stabilized. Without the extremist “green new deal” interventions.

That seems to be true - and activists don’t like it, so they’re just pretending it’s not.

Who would respect activists lying for power and profit?