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> I wish the barriers to using new architectures were lower.

> For instance, suppose binaries were typically distributed in a platform-agnostic format, like LLVM intermediate representation or something equivalent.

We're doing a pretty good job on portability these days already. Well-written Unix applications in C/C++ will compile happily for any old ISA and run just the same. Safe high-level languages like JavaScript, Java, and Safe Rust are pretty much ISA-independent by definition, it's 'just' a matter of getting the compilers and runtimes ported across.

Adopting LLVM IR for portable distribution, probably isn't the way forward. I don't see that it adds much compared to compiling from source, and it's not what it's intended for. (LLVM may wish to change the representation in a subsequent major version, for instance.)

For programs which are architecture-sensitive by nature, such as certain parts of kernels, there are no shortcuts. Or, rather, I'm confident the major OSs already use all the practical shortcuts they can think up.

> When you run your program the first time, it's compiled to native code for your architecture and cached for later use.

Source-based package management systems already give us something a lot like this.

There are operating systems that take this approach, such as Inferno. [0] I like this HN comment on Inferno [1]: kernels are the wrong place for 'grand abstractions' of this sort.

> I realize I've sort of just re-invented Javascript

Don't be too harsh on yourself, JavaScript would be a terrible choice as a universal IR!

> [[ to the bulk of your second paragraph ]]

In the Free and Open Source world, we're already free to recompile the whole universe. The major distros do so as compiler technology improves.

> Processors would be able to compete directly with each other without regard to vendor-lock-in.

For most application-level code, we're already there. For example, your Java code will most likely run just as happily on one of Amazon's AArch64 instances as on an AMD64 machine. In the unlikely case you encounter a bug, well, that's pretty much always a risk, no matter which abstractions we use.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9807777
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Awesome, super relaxing vibes. That album art is dope too, custom for the EP?
Depends on whether you've gone crypto or not. If each patch is authored and signed by some form of crypto id in a permissionless p2p system, there's no central authority to create the compact version of the patch.
A desert would be excellent. We lost a Space Shuttle due to humid Florida air leading to condensation, ice, a heavy torn-off chunk of foam, a fractured wing edge, and heat-induced structural failure.

Southern Arizona would work, especially at high altitude. We used to do that, but moved to Florida after Mexico complained about debris crossing the border.
I hope this doesn't offend you, but I am more confused by your answer than I was before. Could you point me to some papers/books available online (maybe on certain hubs of science) you'd consider "seminal"?
I am really liking the track "Aftermath" off your latest album. it's really, really, good. Gives me some nice Tron and Blade Runner vibes.
This has been my experience. Time is crunched in a rather unrealistic way. Not that time crunches don't happen, but it's never once been the case in my real job that I was approaching an unpracticed academic algorithm problem which had a 30 minute time cap.

Recent example: I was asked to do a density map with about ~20 minutes remaining in an interview. I could immediately see the performance issue of the naive solution (re-summing the same positions), but I needed some time to think through an efficient solution. But because of the time limit and the fact that I had someone watching my every step (i.e. there was more performance than problem solving going on), we agreed that I would take the naive approach and simply sum all of the positions as quickly as I could. When I wasn't asked back for a second round, it was obviously in part because I had resorted to such an ugly and inefficient solution.

I don't blame the interviewer—he was actually one of the best I've ever interacted with—and I actually think the problems selected fit the role very well. But at the end of the day I don't feel that format gave a very good snapshot of my abilities. (Case in point, I looked up solutions afterwards and an intuitive approach I had thought of was very close to the optimal solution, but I didn't feel I had time to go down that route.)

I don't think there is a perfect interview format. They all have downsides. But this is definitely a tradeoff you're making with timed algos.
Yes I’m very interested in edm production and working on some side projects in the space! Have tried producing a bit of everything (DnB, bass music etc) but might focus more on house/techno since it can be easier plus DJs will find it easier to mix into their mixes.

https://soundcloud.com/fellfire
Level 2 vs 3 is more a regulatory distinction than a technological one.

Teslas have a summon feature which is kinda level 4.

In summary: the driving autonomy level system kinda sucks.
Could you point me to some papers/books available online (maybe on certain hubs of science) you'd consider "seminal"?
So, it's a long PDF. Can someone summarize the recommendation from the study?
Which they might, if the cable happens to sit right on top of a drilling spot.

The likelihood of that seems astronomically slim, but it's still a possibility.
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If your hunch that the antibiotics' effects on your gut bacteria was the cause is correct, have you considered a fecal microbiota transplant to restore a healthier mix?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant
[Chill Electronic] Bittersweet 27 - https://soundcloud.com/user-892673556/bittersweet-27

[VOCALOID]「KAITO & Miku」Ferris Wheel - https://soundcloud.com/user-892673556/kaito-mikuferris-wheel
I DJ and make electronic music, mostly techno and other noisy stuff. I pretty much only listen to abstract electronic music, keeps me sane :)

https://soundcloud.com/woudsma
Sure, but the grandparent was talking about how it's not uncommon to have no TV, bad food, etc. in prison. Given that private prisons are uncommon, clearly privatization isn't the main cause of these problems.
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Having lived most of my life in the US, and only the last 8 years in NL, I wouldn't move back to the US to an onsite office unless the pay were at least 3-4x higher.

If I could work remotely from the mountains in Colorado again, I would consider it for a 3x increase. Less than that, and it's just not worth it. The quality of life here is that much better imo.
I think the "$420.69" jokes are a sort of biomarker.

Sort of like self-deprecating humor might not be the entire picture of mental health, but a sign that it is probably ok.

EDIT: I think if Elon Musk gets too serious, or gets shut down, I suspect some ingredient of entrepreneurial spirit might be lost. The "do the right thing poorly" vs "do the wrong thing correctly"
Especially compared to the cost of reading and complying with them.
The guy writing this article killed his dad.

Not really into reading what this sort of monster has to say about chess or anything else, do you?

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/former-san...
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Just bought the premium features because this is both simple and well thought and works very well. I really like it.
> The problem is (a) the stock market is full of idiots that won't listen to real engineers like us

So you are a real engineer and Musk is not?

> begin to understand how real science and real technological advancement happens

By pushing for it hard, investing your credibility and a lot of man power and resources into it? Like literally what Elon Musk does with all his projects.

> The way NASA is funded, for example, is the exact opposite, and minimizes bullshit

NASA claims nonsense literally all the time. The #JournyToMars under Obama for example.
Rad, have you ever tried performing live as a one man band?
> They are calling it "Full Self Driving", but a subset of functionality will always be level 2?

Well, yes? That's how subsets work.

Thought experiment, pretend "City Streets" was called "Level 2 Mode". Would you be upset that "Level 2 Mode" will always be level 2? Or that "Level 2 Mode" is a subset of "Full Self Driving"?
I thought it was obvious that I was both simplifying the situation and talking about the long term repercussions. I recognize that holding a national election tomorrow in North Korea wouldn’t result in any real improvement.

The important point is that Israel’s problems are largely detached from the flaws of its current leaders. Meanwhile the problems in the listed countries are often created or reinforced by their current or former leaders.
Here is a player that unifies spotify, youtube and soundcloud because many links here are on these platforms.

https://www.kord.app/

Disclaimer: I'm not a dev of kord, just a satisfied user.
Thanks for sharing. I'm intrigued by the topic but every time I've tried to find some good reading material, I've found myself going down some pseudo-science rabbit holes.
These types of marketplaces always turn into low-quality listings for side projects that have never made money, listed for $$$, created by people who have never made money online.

When I was toying with the idea of selling my business last year, and other side projects in the past, I looked for a legit website where I could list my business alongside other like-businesses, but I never found one. There are brokers, but those are annoying to deal with and I feel the sector is ripe for a good marketplace with vetted listings.

There's no way a real business owner is going to list their sale alongside the usual noise these websites eventually produce. It looks bad and the chances of finding a real buyer seem very slim.
Used to make music and sfx for videogames, both in house and freelance but moved out of it due to saturation.

old stuff: https://soundcloud.com/infinite_shades/sets/warp-shooter-ost

Currently doing a lot of live looping and working on an electronic set which I post a lot of random snippets to my instagram, hoping to have a 45 min set to play live once pandemic lifts:

insta: https://www.instagram.com/brendancwood
one example: https://www.instagram.com/p/CL0eLLZjcCj/
Yeah, it's a shame there was no one to share the most well-known way to relate words to the alphabet that likely many of the guards would already be familiar with.

Had you considered they chose these words for good reason?
> isn't nearly as effective as telling the issue tracker

I don't agree with this conjecture, at all. After seeing plenty of projects with hundreds of open issues, I don't create them anymore unless I'm ready to submit a patch, or it's just a quick question. Whereas here in a thread that will be out of sight by tomorrow, it's a no-brainer—two people answered already.

FairEmail makes this decision even easier by 1) promoting its paid version, which I didn't buy and thus am not in a position to demand anything; and 2) not having an issue tracker in the first place.
"Yes, healthcare and the cost of living are more expensive in the US"

They should add, [but not that much more expensive].
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Unfortunately a large part of the population is conditioned to not see convicts as people, let alone citizens deserving of any kind of rights or freedoms

see: The consistent running "joke" throughout American pop culture of men getting raped on a regular basis
If I had a Bitcoin for every time I heard a manager say that he idolizes the Navy SEALs.....
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I make weird ambient electronica. I just finished an album last week:

https://soundcloud.com/gilmore606/let-us-build-a-tower-album

Vaguely in the vein of Abel Mogard or Stars Of The Lid.
The whole extension is all about “let’s see when customers go to competition and try to bring them back.” That’s rather shady but it’s exactly the advertised functionality. And I’ve already got the first comment on the blog essentially saying “I don’t care what else they do, this extension gives great suggestions and I love that.” :-)
Just because someone does something terrible, doesn't mean there isn't anything valuable to learn from them.

Don't judge a book by it's cover and all that.
Thanks to Brexit (well done...), Amsterdam is expected to be the new biggest trading center of Europe.

https://www.ft.com/content/3dad4ef3-59e8-437e-8f63-f629a5b7d...

I was already aware of at least two big trading firms opening significant offices here, and now I expect there to be more. For those interested in fintec, Amsterdam is going to offer a lot of good options soon.
Those purport to operate on the ions themselves, supposedly to favor one kind of crystallization pattern over others. In lab conditions, a permanent magnet is said to work equally well, presumably interacting with the ions as they flow past.

From what I have been able to determine, nobody has shown that such a gadget works with any reliability. I.e., it might work under certain circumstances, but there is no way to know if your water and pipes match such a circumstance without buying. And, the prices quoted seem badly excessive. There is probably not more than $5 worth of parts in there, if in fact there are any.

Personally, I would not buy one. You could experiment with a permanent magnet, but it would be hard to know if it was helping or making it worse.

A somewhat similar sort of gadget is supposed to actually work, on diesel immediately before injection into truck engine combustion chambers, to produce more complete combustion.
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Indeed, this is the only pain point I have with FairEmail. I would love it if a skilled designer overhauled the interface.
I’d be upset that level 2 mode was released 3 years after they promised level 5 would be ready.
Experience in the specific technology combinations a particular organization wants is usually the "bottleneck", not raw education. Companies don't want to wait for nor pay for the learning curve: they want plug-and-play employees with paid hands-on experience matching their tools.

But that's not realistic because the combinations they want are too specific. A person having a thousand college degrees won't fit the way companies frame their expectations.

Note that I'm mostly talking about non-IT companies hiring IT workers. An IT-centric company like Google or Microsoft may take a different angle.
[but not that much more expensive, you can just make a fuckton of money its as simple as that]
There's measurements (say, increase in customer retention as a % after a new feature is deployed) and then there's heuristics (discussing the feature with customers to gauge sentiment, being careful not to fall prey to bias or lead the customer's answers).

My point is that an obsession with empiricism can make you think that only #1 is valid evidence and thus use it for qualitative analysis where it should not be used.

Only using metrics for feedback is giving yourself tunnel vision.
I think a lot of books from this list are applicable: https://techleadcompass.com (shameless plug).
> Can you give a concrete example of something that can only be learned as a child?

The canonical example is fluency in an unfamiliar (spoken) language. Most people lose the ability to internalize a new language to the point of being able to 'think in the language' as opposed to 'translating in your head' past their tweens, although the skill of deliberately acquiring new languages is itself learnable, and of course improves with practice, but the ability to learn to speak a language 'natively' (not merely fluently) is lost by nearly all people even earlier.

However, more to the point of this discussion, this age-linked loss of ability or plasticity does not seem to apply to learning programming languages (it is fairly common that one's first programming language is successfully acquired well past that point, after all). I suspect this has something to do with differences between listening/speaking vs. reading/writing fluency.
I'm not sure if cultural background is required.

"Yesterday those lobsters were so big, really big, but sold for 5 roubles each. But today they are so small, pretty small, but sell for only 3 roubles. Should I have bought yesterday? Should I buy today? I have a frog..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkL54oQgf6I

One of the really good humoral references to Soviet cliches is "Lord of the Rings", translated by Goblin (e.g. here - https://oper.ru/trans/view.php?t=1039986472 ). Imagine Tolkien's heroes played by a sort of lumpen, with snippets of classical Soviet tunes, including patriotic ones, quotes from blockbuster Soviet movies, political jokes etc. - same video, but very different sound. It's a treasure trove of references, but pretty hard to appreciate to someone not familiar with culture. Every significant nation has their own stories of old which everybody knows, which helps people get together. And it's hard to enjoy to outsiders.
This is such awesome feedback! Thank you for taking the time to go so deep geraltofrivia

Privacy Policy: Hear you loud and clear. We'll prioritize this

Monetization: Both of us believe users should own their data, and we would reject any monetization that would involve selling data. There are some paths we're considering (freemium, community memberships, working with authors), but our first priority, is to make something people actually use.

Export: Heck yeah. We'll prioritize this. In the meantime, if you need to export data, send a ping and we'll do it manually

1) - 5) We'll fast follow on all of these -- excellent points!

Gratitude again, can't wait to iterate.
Your track "Cybernetics" is honestly really good and will likely be on repeat for some time going forward.

Reminds me a little bit of Lemon Jelly.
> "Really, truly full self driving" that's actually level 3+?

Prediction:

* Ridiculous Self Driving

* Ludicrous(+) Self Driving

* Plaid Self Driving
Working through a problem out loud is definitely a bit of a different skill from just solving a complex problem on your own. I do find that saying something along the lines of "OK now I just need a minute to think through this next part" goes over well enough and can give you a minute to relax and think though.
My most liked song:
https://www.bandlab.com/post/8205c6ba-b17e-eb11-9889-0050f28...
English+french+spanish rap:
https://www.bandlab.com/post/feb1f466-5f7f-eb11-9889-0050f28...

A preview for my new mixtape:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/kodayd/disturbance-mixtape...
I really work as a software engineer / designer so I can continue making music. Music is my life.

https://soundcloud.com/tastycode/shelter
https://soundcloud.com/tastycode/shimmer
https://soundcloud.com/tastycode/cycles
https://soundcloud.com/tastycode/masks
https://soundcloud.com/tastycode/hexed
https://soundcloud.com/tastycode/outside

My first album dropped right as quarantine started last year, here it is on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2EV92anG93I9fhBObbFFJa?si=t_...
Can you cite sources for "more diverse"? I'm curious if you mean "higher percentage of POC" or "numerous different minorities are all represented"? A company composed entirely of 30-something black men is 100% POC, but it's still not actually that diverse.

I definitely agree that it's weird how much we focus on holding tech companies "accountable" for diversity when they're fundamentally working with whatever pipeline society gives them.
Science's decentralized nature is a strength, not a weakness. Do you really think such a database would be immune to coercion from, say, Monsanto or Chevron?
Bill Gates is and has been much worse for the planet through his vulturous capitalistic behavior and hoarding of wealth and resources.
> Without knowing the specific collision that's about to happen in the video in most cases I can see a dangerous situation starting to develop I would have reacted to seconds before the collision actually occurs.

But you tend to know a collision is coming. Most accidents are due to people being comfortable and not being as alert as they should be; your example is the opposite.

AP is currently ~good on highway (probably safer than I am in good weather), but Meh elsewise. Hopefully it continues to improve; but it will be awhile still i think; and iffy to ever get there on our current Teslas.
I guess not everyone agrees, since my comment was demolished.
ooookay, can you give an example address to track? an example non-wallet token to track?
I don't think anyone condones or wants to promote murder, but treating humans (even criminals, even terrible, violent criminals) as subhuman is the kind of thing that puts us in a bad space as a society with regard to criminal justice. See: America.

Maybe we think this guy is the most reprehensible person on earth. Maybe we think he's irredeemable. But is he so bad that we are unwilling to listen to his thoughts on prison conditions? Or do we not care because he's a "monster?"

For what other crimes do we now get to completely ignore and dismiss the person who committed them?
Yes I have made some weird attempts at electronic dub music https://soundcloud.com/guido73
My most liked song:
bandlab.com/post/8205c6ba-b17e-eb11-9889-0050f28a50ba
English+french+spanish rap:
bandlab.com/post/feb1f466-5f7f-eb11-9889-0050f28a50ba

A preview for my new mixtape:
distrokid.com/hyperfollow/kodayd/disturbance-mixtape-volume-ii
Given the amount of upvotes and comments, clearly some people do.

Amy why not, just because someone did something terrible even if you find that irredeemable, do you really believe that nothing can be learned from from or their thoughts?
Unfortunately, in the US, people from higher socioeconomic strata don't like to mingle with those of the lower. That is why they flee public education and laws allow them.

In addition, charter schools have no curriculum requirements in the name of "flexibility". They can teach whatever they want and hire whomever they wish but still get federal $$$. It's absurd.

Even worse, the US lacks comprehensive nationalized standards to begin with - public schools can purchase textbooks that have completely different US histories, usually regarding the Civil War and racism. It really is a clusterf*ck of epic proportions driven entirely by the GOP. I know HN gets fussy about calling out political differences, but this is a huge one. The GOP fights standards tooth-and-nail, as do GOP governors at the state level.
> Tesla sent a letter to the CA DMV requesting approval

Can you cite that? It directly contradicts the linked article which claims that the CA DMV contacted Tesla to clarify if Tesla were testing a vehicle without proper permit.

If Tesla were seeking some kind of approval it makes their email very confusing as Tesla is insisting that they don't need additional permits/approval for the "City Streets" beta.
> Thought experiment, pretend "City Streets" was called "Level 2 Mode".

That would be an accurate name for "city streets". Except currently, it's part of an umbrella feature called "full self driving" that's supposedly going to be "level 5" soon. This is it with most things with FSD. Qualifiers after qualifiers for a clearly misleading name.