skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it was actually written by Bjarne, I think it was K. Carroll and others from Lockheed Martin, but I expect the document is this one:

https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf

which is linked from the Applications page of Bjarne's website.
Good thing Babel, Open Source and everything else related to this has nothing to do with San Francisco or Silicon Valley but still the group somehow want to have Silicon Valley salaries. Why use the most expensive place on earth as a benchmark?
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I understand that the tweeter is the original author of Babel - as such, I find this a little bit embarrassing.

The author originally had 100% control of governance and management decisions, and personally chose exactly how to delegate those.

A single person's salary (and the public disclosure of it) has created massive point of political tension for the project. I think that's a bigger problem than the perceived waste of $.
>The Sesame Street creators weren't stoners who tripped balls while creating content.

I'm sure it wasn't while creating content. But in their off time, that was part of the culture.

Lots of intelligent and creative people use or used marijuana and/or psychedelics. The idea of reducing those people to a label like "stoners" is disingenuous.
So why aren’t hydrofoils used almost everywhere? Who wouldn’t want less drag?
could you fill it w silicone?
Isn't the world "neurotypical" by definition?
See the Beam/OTP as part of Erlang and now Elixir, Gleam, etc.

Erlang came out of Ericcson when they were building giant telephone switches.

Nowadays things like RabbitMQ and WhatsApp run on the Beam VM.

The beam handles both local and remote nodes, mostly transparently.

Then there are things like Nomad or k8s which try to tackle the problem more like *nix(linux/BSD/etc) does, but across multiple nodes. These are not meant for hard real-time systems like launching rockets obviously, not even for soft real-time.
An F150 will too. Are we sure a Tesla won't?
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The listings look like they are scrapped from different places around the web, and it filters them for you based on your ip. IMHO at leas
Every opinion host out there uses this defense when the inevitable suit is levied.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/12/28/rachel-maddows-defen...
Ironically, your comment was in positive when I read it...
Yeah, like an insulin. I wonder what happens if someone’s glucose sensor implant(don’t know what’s it called) gets burned like that.
I would expect an outrage here if someone suggested evaluating someone's work performance based on the number of commits the same way we consistently criticize evaluation based on number of lines of code or hours spent in the office.
Obviously they’re going to disable the touch screen if that happens.
A private company can do more or less what the owners want. Of course, they'll probably have less access to capital and employees should expect commensurate compensation/no opportunity for public stock appreciation/etc.
I told my manager that if they want more than 40 hours per week, we can negotiate overtime. And considering my tax bracket, I'd rather be compensated with vacation days than money.

I don't understand why _anyone_ should be on a salary model of compensation. It doesn't feel like a privilege awarded to me as a middle-class white-collar worker. The privilege is the fact that I can tell my manager to stick it and I won't get canned immediately.
Amazon does not treat user data privacy as a core value. That means there is no floor to police those who use this network for data privacy.

Beyond that, Apple mobile devices have the most efficient battery / processor compute on the market. Nothing to be said for mobile data use, though I would be interested to see analysis of how much new bandwidth usage results from participation.

Also, I would expect Apple to be much more aggressive in curtailing unnecessary data usage than Amazon would be. That's just a gut check though.
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Most every methodology when applied properly to a well functioning organization will work better than a methodology applied to a random company. Which says less about the methodology and more about how most companies are dysfunctional and no methodology will magically make them better. So comparing average X to optimal Y isn't I feel a fair comparison.
This one might also be interesting https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~kimchris/cs201/handouts/The%20Powe...

It's basically just a quick list of 10 useful rules to follow for safety-critical code.

(I've seen a different format in the past, that wasn't quite as fancy, but this is the only version I can find at the moment)
> at least on the current road system

I came to the conclusion years ago that we're going to need RFID tags on everything (or something similar) to make FSD work safely enough without AGI. We'll probably also need dedicated lanes in some places. Nothing I have read or seen yet has given me any reason to think differently.

Edit: The common counter-argument I see to this is that tags could be altered maliciously. My response is that we've already been building systems which scan for and filter out malicious changes for a long time, and we keep getting better at it. It seems to me like this kind of system would be far easier to design & update than any FSD software I know of.
The 50 Hertz rate surprises me, a lot can happen within 20ms, a lot of distance traveled at high speeds
This reminds me of the warnings about a coronavirus pandemic from over 10 years ago.

We know from geological records that these are periodic events that happened every so often. We are due for one, and it is in our best interest to take the periodicity of nature seriously.
>but no amount of self-care can substitute for a living wage, manageable hours and secure employment.

The motivation behind not providing these things is so that employees are too burned out to look for another job: https://issendai.com/psychology/sick-systems.html
> Whose to say that Tesla didn't update something between the crash and when the NTSB tested autopilot in that area? I don't think they did do that, but are there any safeguards in place to detect that happening?

That one. To do so for a very specific location with no visible lane markers (implied by the article) to disable the lane guidance system seems very much like a stretch. "I don't think they would, but are there safeguards" implies the author of the comment is describing intent. I don't think it's a stretch to say that's a statement of conspiracy.
I think there is a correlation between income and skill. More specifically, I think it's likely that highly skilled people have higher than average incomes.

> It's definitely not normal outside of Silicon Valley companies

How many companies do you class as SV companies?

It seems like in the US in general there are salaries at that level and higher, not just SV.

I have also seen people talk about salaries in Europe at that level, though I suspect they are rarer than in the US.
I replaced my TV with an LG 43” 4K monitor which cost AUD$700 (similar price to a TV of the same brand/size here). It’s not quite the 50” my TV was but it’s big enough for my purposes.

It has 4 HDMI inputs and zero smart features. Turns on in under a second, etc. Before that I had a TV that required almost a full minute to start up before I could change AV input or change channel or do anything because it had to load it’s bloated smart crap.
Yep, register allocators are really low priority early on if you're making a JIT(or AOT) compiler for a dynamic language such as JS or Python since there are much larger gains made by just avoiding the interpreter and high level optimizations avoiding type tests since they introduce branches, skipping reference counting, etc.

Once all that is done a register allocator starts becoming relevant, and even then you probably want another kind of allocator than is mainstream for lowlevel languages since you might not be doing a full-method compilation or a compilation that shouldn't require a full de-optimization if an divergent type is detected.
How typical is it for an apology/statement of this nature after an event makes the news? Is there any precedent?
People have had serious complaints about the accessibility of Discord's UI for ages, disheartening to find out that they've made it worse as part of another redesign. I wish there was more of an incentive for companies to take this seriously.

Hard to forget the bit where they removed Light Mode as a "joke". Very funny until you remember that many people can't easily use Discord in Dark Mode (in part because of how poorly Dark Mode is designed for accessibility) so you're sabotaging their experience as a gag.
Why not just run Windows 32 bit in a VM?
I'll probably end up doing the same pretty soon: there's quite some money to be made in the sector I work+ no serious SEO work done by any of the main players,so a website with 100-200 blog posts would do nicely.
The color palette on their UX was terrible to begin with, new design or not.

Everyone's riding this dark mode train but it literally makes things worse sometimes when the colors don't contrast well.
There are questions in a form that I'd fill out like: how well I know this person, how well I know their work, etc.

For you, I would need to answer "don't know" for all of these.

Having a strong github would go a long way in making it possible to answer one of those with with something other than don't know.

Basically you need something more tangible than a resume for a stranger to go out on a limb for you.
A lot of people did recommend Honda Civics, I considered it but they also apparently are at a higher risk of getting stolen too... so I didn't get one.
> Make something idiot-proof and the world invents a better idiot.

Sure, but if you only ever give people safety scissors then you're severely limiting the kinds of things that they can build. You have to let people who know what they are doing be able to do what they need to do, so you have to be able to turn the runtime safety off. Zig can do this at the scope level.
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> 11K per month?! That is absolutely bananas and same reaction I had the last time this came up

Even the reduced salary of $6,000 is still quite a lot if all you are going to do create a couple of small PRs per month: https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1392053448892469250
My whole life I've been 'Off Narrative'. Don't see any reason to change that now. lol
I would speculate no, as it seems a trade off between inherently stable and inefficient (standard v shaped hull) and inherently unstable, but more efficient (inverted v).

Ekranoplans have wings and aerodynamic control surfaces.

I also wonder (this may be the primary reason) if the speeds a hydroplane achieves are sufficient to generate much lift in air from something the size of a boat hull.
I’m not saying it’s fair. I’m simply articulating what most people think, I believe.
Even describing the lives of normal people would be interesting. The problem is that "feminist scholarship" carries a very real risk of history revisionism.
Shouldn't you expect a criminal to misdirect and point the finger at someone else at this point! Have you even read a single crime novel, watched a mystery movie?
But Samsung has its own huge mobile business. Wouldn’t it be justified to make an OP SoC for their Galaxy Tab(or whatever they sell)? I’m sure their execs are aware of the possibility.
Is "harmful" the best word here? I feel like inaccessible much better describes the issue at hand.
On a very similar discussion (e-mail feature bloat; particularly HTML mail) I once heard somebody describe the software developers involved to have suffered from "Beach Boy Syndrome" (wouldn't it be nice if...)
Any boarding party would probably have overwatch by an armed escort (cobra gunship, something else with a minigun door gunner, etc). Anyone on deck with a weapon would find themselves having a very bad day, very quickly.
"To thank _me_ for my hard work, I'm leaving at 5 to go get Chinese takeout"
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Yes, my point is you can simultaneously be aware that Apple can or will screw you in the future, but also choose to place more trust in Apple compared to Amazon at the present time.

Interesting read though, thanks for the link!
1. His language sounds like he knew Henry personally. I will take it with a grain of salt. But same applied to creator of the Babel, since he could have beef with Henry.

2. He said lots of circumstantial things about the matter. Namely: 130K isn't high for NYC; he could have and probably had better offer easily; he didn't need to maintain Babel but did, etc. All these are good but didn't answer the direct question, is he worth 130K for his work in the project. Even with the understanding that lots of work is in private, his public contribution in recent years seems to be way too low to not make people raise eyebrows.

3. Also, it's funny he said "is 130k too much for someone to maintain Babel" to the creator, who probably earned way less for creating Babel from scratch.
Waymo believes that the the roads need to be fully 3d mapped, with crosswalks, street lights and signs before their car can autopilot safely on it. More mapping will happen if/when the AI autopilot is ready.
I guess it’s nice that they are trying to care and all but I’m so sick of it at my work.

People encouraged to bring their ‘whole self’ to work has made my workplace miserable. I miss the days when work was just work, devoid of world politics, beliefs, and all the “let’s all exercise and be happy together” activities.
Pretty much. The company is going to try to get as much positive publicity and as many talking points as they can. Something like diversity is low hanging fruit and doesn't cost very much. Why would you fix pay, review processes, etc if you can distract from those things with stuff like positive diversity rhetoric?
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I think in this case the changes are making an existing situation worse, so by changing it Discord's design team is inflicting harm.

The product itself is not harmful, just inaccessible, but describing the changes as harmful seems right.

I have to use Discord every day for work, so if this redesign was interfering with that I'd be pissed. (I pay for a third-party Discord client for this and other reasons)
I miss the times™ where theming was a thing in my favorite programs and environments.

WinAmp, MySpace, even my Nokia 6300 had themes. I never understood why this trend didn't stay and become more popular.
Google street view of our solar system

Has anyone ever updated Commodore's Visible Solar System? Very inspiring.

https://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=https%3A//www.lemon64.com/g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_(Gates_book) talked about software agents which would go out and coordinate tasks on our behalf. Like dentist appointment because it would know our calendar or even book flights.
But for every kid like this there could be 10 austistic people with average or even above average IQ.

Honestly I don't know but if autism is due to genetic differences then greater proportion will be with slight deviations from normal population.

In fact, Elon Must said that he has Asperger's. Some prefer to avoid this label but I find it very useful to actually distinguish autistic people with average IQ (or better) from really disabled.
Yeah the Nex-5n with the kit lens was $140 and it was fun to shoot around with. That's what I shoot for primarily other than creating YouTube content is to go outside/be in the park, mostly doing macro since the place I live at sucks landscape wise. But yeah I shoot to have my own wallpaper and that's gotta be 4K res at least.

All my stuff is used, the latest Sony Alpha 1 is $6.5K ha a bit out of my budget.

Anyway the talk of money is bad/pointless, I saw one cinema lens that was $100K like wth... levels in life.
…as long as they contain the same content. I've seen e-mails where the HTML content is up to date, and the plain text part contains whatever was being sent a couple years ago, and hasn't been updated since then. Got me quite confused until I figured it out.
The market adjusts. People pay for "quality" in an environment of information asymmetry - cheap stuff will be polished and given a high price tag. Products can do a better imitation of quality than people can discern it.

Even the value of "brand" is diminishing: decent corps are bought and gutted all the time.
queue the need for ifix to show how to remove 5g antennas.
It's also a great way to garner fake empathy and "create" a better working environment than you really have. People with lower/average mental faculties are more susceptible to these kinds of doublespeak.

Its like those oil commercials of "We care, we really do", showing a few ducks being wiped off from some horrid oil spill disaster, and doing nothing to solve the root cause.
yea I was a bit taken back by multiple uses of "harmful" and then "catastrophic"
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Harm now means 'negative to any extent'.
Some years ago SamyGO was started towards replacing TV firmware, not sure how far they got though:

https://www.samygo.tv/

Since most TVs probably run Linux it probably isn't hard, but will have the usual problems of non-mainline drivers, blobs etc.
I wonder why don’t we send more probes like that in every direction by dozens?
Untracked time off is a double-edged sword for sure. I just make sure to take more time off than I would have gotten at my last job, and I tell my employees to do the same.
Is the memory controller aware of unused pages in physical RAM that thus can be safely skipped during refresh? That would surprise me. In stand-by the self-refresh mode is used, and I believe partial refresh is only supported by the low-power (LPDDRx) standards and is very coarse-grained.
Sure, everything sounds worse if you read it in a cynical frame of mind.
How would you support formatted text in email, then?

Please don't say "there shouldn't be formatted text in email." That's not a reasonable position.
babel is a very popular build tool, so most js build tool authors are aware of it.

The problem is that they are very few. With tools like CRA, vue-cli, angualr cli, babel is even less visible.
This is significant. Current OLEDs at full luminance burn in within 100 hours. The problem is mitigated somewhat by the variety of details displayed during typical TV programming, but if you use an OLED TV as a daily driver computer monitor or with a gaming system to play the same games for hours you will notice burn-in quickly.
Evan You[0] has over 4x more contributions than Henry Zhu[1] this year.

Evan's absolutely correct, there's a lot of 'invisible' community activity, but in my experience of OSS, it's typical to have a 'contribution' on GitHub every day, which is missing in the case of a Babel maintainer who's being paid $130k/y

Let's compare to the other maintainers: [2][3][4][5][6].

Contribution counts aren't and shouldn't be everything, but they speak on a macro-scale. It's not an unreasonable expectation to review a PR a day.

[0] https://github.com/yyx990803 (2,979 contributions)

[1] https://github.com/hzoo (771 contributions)

[2] https://github.com/existentialism (2,608 contributions)

[3] https://github.com/JLHwung (1,849 contributions)

[4] https://github.com/loganfsmyth (130 contributions)

[5] https://github.com/nicolo-ribaudo (2,329 contributions)

[6] https://github.com/xtuc (1,614 contributions)
5000 is still 50 hundreds if you want to get pedantic.
So? I am color blind and could care less
Big waves and high winds will cause your vessel to go unstable and crash. Ocean-crossing cargo vessels have to handle all weather conditions.

Hydrofoils significantly increase draft and nobody wants to dredge their ports and canals 20 feet deeper.

Also drag is proportional to velocity squared, so you can save a ton of fuel just by slowing down a bit. Much easier than designing a hydrofoil cargo ship.
To offer a non-walmart option, I've been using the Rtings table tool to find consumer TVs are potentially more respectful of privacy. Although I get the impression a number of sets aren't captured here (maybe walmart has some listed that Rtings doesn't), they are fairly thorough.

https://www.rtings.com/tv/tools/table/53948
> The pensions of state workers are often funded through the mysterious maze of the state budget, so their rising cost is hard to see. But teachers’ pensions in Pennsylvania are funded through local property taxes, so when the fund needed more money, homeowners felt the bite.

> Taxpayer contributions to the teachers’ pension fund nearly quintupled from 2001 to 2008, causing an outcry. Then came the financial crisis of 2008, and seven years’ worth of taxpayer pain came to naught. The fund emerged from the Great Recession with even less money than it had in 2001, the year of the big miscalculation.

Nothing to see here - just a “mysterious maze” of where taxpayer money flows. Who could possibly understand it?
The language here rubs me the wrong way. Everything is stated as being "incredibly harmful" with no explanation beyond

> ...directly harms visually impaired individuals due to lack of visual clarity.

I am also not sure how "Elements lack unity" is related to the UI causing harm.

I don't use discord, so I have no idea how good the UI is. If the UI is bad and hard for the visually impaired to use, there is definitely a better way to communicate that.

This is how they end their post:

> This is not good UX design. It is the opposite. It harms end-users. Revert the changes.

The whole thing reads like a bad tumblr post.
Management blaming individuals by name (in public no less) shows severe incompetence at the top. I don't doubt he hired a slacker, but that's on management for hiring and retaining that... to the point of demise? Stupid.
I'm sure plenty of people here enable showdead. I do at least.
I know Apple has rejected offering a TV panel, but to offer continuity of privacy into this domain I suspect they still may need to.
The supply chain contains about 3 days worth of food. Without power there is no 1) gas for trucks 2)food in stores 3) food being produced 4) water to homes 5)lifesaving medical devices

Many people depend on medical devices that will no longer work. All those people would die immediately.

Many people depend on lifesaving drugs. They will die in the short term (e.g. insulin).

Within a few months People will die from untreated water and starvation.

I doubt 90% of the population will die. You can look at the siege of leningrad and see that people survived years of a siege and I think 25% died.

People will find a way to survive even if it means eating bugs.
Here's [0] a blunt take on the situation by Sebastian McKenzie, who left Babel to start Rome Tools. He blames the full time salary of Henry, who he doesn't think contributed enough.

[0] https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1392019586833387522
Is "speed of reading" a function of the probe, or the silicon?
About Waymo: I used to think they were a leader in this space, partly based on their published safety statistics, but I am no longer so sure.

I had the great fortune of living in "Old Palo Alto" (think "mega rich tech CEO paradise") for a year while my wife was at Stanford. This is a grid of low-traffic, low-speed, sidewalked residential streets, ~10 minutes on all sides from the nearest highway, with typical mid-Peninsula weather (in other words, essentially perfect driving conditions).

I would would frequently see Waymo vehicles going all through the neighborhood at 6-9AM on Sunday mornings when I was out on long runs. They would often be essentially the only cars I saw on the road.

If there is a better way to pad your urban safety statistics, I do not know of one.

Old Palo Alto on Google Maps, for the curious/unfamiliar: https://goo.gl/maps/cAqifusdRL647YgWA
I hit the "play" button on the SEQUENCER 5 times hoping it would say the word out-loud for me :)