skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Oberth effect from fast flyby of a body with low gravity would be negligible.

Pretty sure the problem would be, rather, that a flyby of a body with low gravity would be negligibly fast (relative to your speed when not flying by). Oberth effect is because of high speed (a given increase in momentum gives more kinetic energy at higher speed than at lower speed) - it's just that dipping deep into a gravity well is the obvious way to get that speed.
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s lost album, Human Highway
Any corporate is going to make you sign something to receive the cash. The terms would not normally be as strong as an NDA though, otherwise we wouldn't see any bounty reports.
It actually isn't a contradiction because all the vehicles we own are safe when they are properly maintained and when the person driving has had appropriate driving training.

Airbags don't make you safer. They simply absorb and dissipate damaging energy thus preventing many serious injuries when drivers become involved in accidents.

Safe drivers drive defensively and practice traffic hazard and conflict recognition and avoidance which minimizes the likelihood that they will become involved in someone else's malfunction. You won't need those airbags.
My mother just completed her memoir about her career as an anthropologist and archaeologist. It will be published early in 2022 by the University of Nebraska Press as "Girl Archaeologist: Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession", if you're interested in the experiences of women anthropologists of her generation (Harvard Ph.D. 1964). Needless to say, I had an interesting childhood with her, never realizing what challenges she was facing.

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I mean - feel free if you actually think your job is aligned with your life's goal.

Me? I'd rather do what I can to make Art. So it's nice that I can get a software company to subsidize it thoroughly.

I'm just glad I can get paid effectively for being Skilled instead of laboring with my Skill. Availability is the best ability after all.
A correct Multi-party computation protocol (MPC) by definition is private. MPC from its inception has used zero-knowledge proofs as a building block (i.e. see the GMW compiler from the 1980s) (though other approaches exist).
I'll never understand that concept that certain management types think they can keep you perpetually under a feeling of obligation alone.
Fly is also good. https://fly.io/blog/
What is an organizational case for tighter coupling and fewer services? Downsizing with an intent to not grow in the same direction again?
Taking notes....
Small pieces... uh ha, yep got it,..
Slow it down... yep.
What else?
Just remember: having a “later” is not guaranteed. Too much can happen between now and then.

My advice is to also enjoy the time you know you have: now. Even if it postpones the “later” for a bit.
This is what happens when you redefine 'art' to become almost completely meaningless. Just about everything can be considered art when you squint hard enough, so you can sell just about everything as art to people who play along with the illusion. At least I know what I like, even if it is art.
> Well, job hopping (in my experience) often signals that the candidate thinks of employers as interchangeable widgets, which is just as false and dehumanizing

Really? In my experience it signals that most humans recognize that the vast majority of employers are not interchangeable (hence looking around). And I'm not going to be upset by dehumanizing corporate organizations that are not human in nature in the first place.
The level editor exports a file. You need to write code that parses that level file into a format your game can use.
>I don't find his affiliate marketing play shady.

>Forbes uncovered 11 such sites, all created in the late 1990s and early 2000s by Radvinsky and his Glenview, Illinois-based business, Cybertania. They included Password Universe, which, in 2000, published a link directing web users to a site claiming to offer pedophiles more than 10,000 “illegal pre-teen passwords.” In 1999, a site called Working Passes had a link for “the hottest underaged hardcore” containing 16-year-olds. Also in 2000, another site, Ultra Passwords, promised a link containing “the best illegal teen passwords” and “the hottest bestiality site on the web.”
This was my first car. It had a push button start and got 45mpg highway.
Interesting that all of mine seemed to be quite well established in terms of account age and karma.

| Username | Similarity Score |
|-----------------+------------------|
| boomboomsubban | 0.974 |
| tgsovlerkhgsel | 0.973 |
| fixermark | 0.972 |
| shadowgovt | 0.971 |
| stanferder | 0.971 |
| xvector | 0.971 |
| geofft | 0.971 |
| drdaeman | 0.971 |
| shkkmo | 0.971 |
| frombody | 0.971 |
Thanks. It’s fixed.
An insurance company I did some work for had a bell go off for your two coffee breaks and lunchtime. You spent half of your lunchtime waiting for elevators.
It looks interesting enough, but I see that it's AGPL 3.0 licensed. AFAIK, the perceived toxicity of that license makes it impossible for use in a commercial setting?
As much as anyone who uses AWS and its various client libraries can attest to the areas this manifesto didn't solve, I think it's still very much the right way to go, and I think the success of AWS was at least significantly attributable to it. I've been part of several projects whose goal was to build Good interfaces on top of services after the fact, and I'm absolutely convinced that the shittiest interface in the world built in from the start trumps whatever you think you're going to be able to do later.
At the end of the day all that matters is how much one makes for when working full-time. I find it insulting that the employer acts like it is already paying you for a 2 hour per day overtime schedule on a salary that is already bad. To be clear Japanese salaries, in my experience, are bad. Slicing out some of the already low salary and claiming it is there just in case one does work overtime is not ok.
I want nothing more than for my species to enter the federation of species with a reputation for being the ones who did that absolutely ridiculous prank using 10% of their GDP for a century.
Do you actually need a source? This is one of those things strengthened by the absence of data.

Just look at the supply chain. The pepperoni on a pizza was from a cow or pig somewhere, injected with chemicals from a research lab somewhere, where safety of the chemicals and livestock health was verified by another party. It was butchered by someone unnamed (some argue trafficked immigrants). It was cured by an unnamed person. It was stored in an unknown location, in unknown sanitary conditions. It was sent by an unnamed truck, to an unknown warehouse, run by an unnamed middle man with a turnover rate that's probably high enough to literally not know the names of the workers. It exchanges hands several times down the delivery chain. Thankfully it's a processed product and not something like milk which has to be carefully stored. It reaches an unnamed cook. And that's just one component.

This is something that can literally kill you. What's keeping indentured labor from going school shooter and putting arsenic on it? A lot of food is processed in prisons too.

There's an awful lot of trust in the supply chain. I live in a fairly corrupted region and worked in the food industry, where it's not uncommon to pad food with non-food items, so I trust this much less. I don't trust my payment gateways either; I keep several bank accounts, only a few of which have payment gateway access and I make sure that I don't have more in an account than I'm willing to lose. So dodgy SaaS isn't a huge priority.
The alternative has always been to not blindly trust, but to validate when the circumstances seem suspicious. "trust but verify"
, after all.

This goes 10x when there's a distinct partisan political slant /objective in the belief.
What are the differences? Is it primarily based on weight or height?
Would be good to confirm the number of threads being used by both, but it could also be that pythran is using a better `sincos` implementation.
On very old hardware (which it would have to be if multithreaded), the exp implementation might not be great either. That'd especially be the case if it has no AVX, as the exp implementation relies on a table (which requires gather instructions).

For 2000x2000, their time was 14ms, vs 6ms for the 2600.
Refactor a dynamically typed language safely or automatically, not both
Roku CEO explains why he no longer reads business books
That's fascinating, I wasn't aware that they actually did that to allow for semi private tracing.

That's going to be hell to explain though, as you've already mentioned.
Of course, everyone will differ. And while Americans don't get the same vacation allotment as Europeans, reducing vacation but 20% isn't the worst. Some cases you will lose and in some cases you will gain. You don't have to use any vacation days to have a three day weekend. If you wanted a four day weekend you now only have to take one day off instead of two. That is a huge win. About the only time you lose is if you want to take a day off in the middle of the week. I'm sure there are a couple of other examples were you are worse off. But I think generally things will pretty much even out.
Now, reducing pay by 20% is a different story
Not all "weekends" have to be at the end of the week. You can have a weekend Wednesday and be able to recharge every 2 days without having to wait for 4 full days before your next weekend.
Your concerns are all theoretical and the management disadvantages of direct partition access are real with or without LVM (which itself is exactly the sort of middle layer you claim to be worried about.)

Do you have numbers or not?
Strange Lights Above Atlantic Ocean in Salsibury, MA (UFO, UAP?)
I think it was less pyrokinesis and more "ordering the mitochondria on everyone nearby to overload and cause spontaneous combustion". The intro is a whole theater's worth of people combusting when the mitochondria on the antagonist "awaken" in presence of the protagonist.
It's based on the book (and referenced by the scientist character, Maeda, as "the case in Japan") but it's a lot more actiony and flashy with all sorts of mutated animals and orange goo.
Could there be some energy advantage to being in orbit around it? I'm thinking of a scenario where you spend a large amount of energy once get into orbit around the object, but then gain a small amount of energy continuously through something like tidal forces.
I think you just load the generated file into the game. One part I don't know is how to handle entities. Each game has its own entites and maybe even completely different treatment (architecture) of entites. I'm not sure how flexible they are.

I'm building a simple 2d RPG that is a Ultima spin off and a map editor. In my game I could put different components into entities (not ecs but more oldschooled way) and call each component's update(). Since I'm building my own editor, it's a lot easy to integrate all those into it. For example I could even have a dedicated entity tab that designers can enter some values. I wonder how tiled treat this kind of questions. I browsed through the manual and didn't see anything related so I think it's a pure map editor.
I wonder if Google ever did something about their similar problem:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/23/20829615/google-calendar-...
I don't think this is a pivot at all. QNX in the nineties was a common embedded OS especially industrial.
I think the question is whether that "make up" time is always 1 hour or can be adjusted. At my previous job I would regularly take 15 minute lunch breaks and leave 45 minutes early (compared to a 1 hour lunch).

Where I work now local laws require taking at least 1 hours of breaktime per day so I can technically not do that.
I have boilerplate Android code to run experiments with, mostly with things like network, tests, kotlin, viewmodel, and so on. Sad thing is it's always a little obsolete every time I try to use it again, and I've had situations where it's over architected.
I think the workflow you're proposing is to take some trusted source code, then compile it to make a trusted binary. Now compare the trusted binary to the untrusted binary provided by the vendor - If they're the same - then it must have been made by an uncompromised toolchain.

That does require reproducible builds, but here is how to do it without reproducible builds:

Take the trusted source code, then compile it to make a trusted binary. Now put the untrusted binary in the trash, cause you already have a trusted binary :)
I work at a company where it is encouraged to use the fitness facilities during work hours. 15 minutes walking to one of the gyms, 5 minutes changing, an hour working out, 10 minutes in the sauna, 10 minute shower, 5 minutes getting dressed, 15 minutes walking back. That is 2 hours of my work day right there ;-)
This is Steve Yegge paraphrasing and exaggerating, it is not the actual text of the memo.
Get a new job? Do they actually pay attention to when you show up and leave, or do they treat you like an adult?
Here's one, a podcast that tracks developments in ZKPs: https://www.zeroknowledge.fm/
Knowing the manager, he was extremely devoted to his work, the company and the craft. He was just holding holding me to his own standards.

I'm assuming this is a problem in a lot of organisations; the people who rise to the top are the ones who lean more towards work on the work-life balance scale.
I checked their research: Every affected patient had mitochondria.
Good question.

The majority of union members were not software engineers. OPSEU is a large union covering a bunch of different sectors including the finance sector which also comprised of software developers.

The only choice, AFAIK, would be to break away from OPSEU and join (or form) another union. This would have been a very risky move.
> But making something a platform is not going to make you an instant success. A platform needs a killer app.

Which is a big ask, since

> The problem is that we are trying to predict what people want and deliver it for them. You can't do that.
I tried running Linux for one full year, since I got the laptop, until I got fed up. Even if Linux in Ryzen works flawlessly now, I got an Intel laptop from my employer and that one has all the Linux stuff.

Another honest review of issues with Ryzen, hopefully he is someone you can believe:
https://youtu.be/Fmj2kUk-xO4
I think the biggest predictor will be women’s financial independence, as well as cheap or free effective birth controls.

I suspect the vast majority of women in the past were “coerced” into having the number of children they did, to put it in most charitable terms. If they had the same freedom and access to birth control that women had today, I doubt we would have seen all the 3+ children families we did.
I noticed the new light speed feature.. Shockingly slow compared to scrolling, really drives it home.
So, an interesting thing about high eccentricity orbits like 2014 UN271 has, is that they have a much higher ratio of energy (kinetic and potential) to momentum around the sun than a nearly circular orbit like say, Earth has. One can think of an orbit as being a superposition of a purely circular orbit and a purely radial one, with all the momentum around the sun being in the circular one. Any leftover energy above what is needed for the circular component goes into the radial component. In this case, almost all the energy is in the radial component.

What this means is that if do you have a way to move it into a circular orbit around the sun, you could gain energy from the process, rather than having it cost energy. Maybe the best way to gather that energy, and possibly to move it as well, would be through gravitational assists, since they are lossless kinematic interactions. The energy gathered could then be used to build more of whatever is doing the interaction, exponentially speeding up the process.
I moved to a country where I need less money. My life style is actually much better while making a little bit less money then I did in my own country. That works for me and not for everyone that want to stay close to family or/and have kids.

But remote working does. I spend more time with friends and my significant other then I did before. Because now I have more time to engage in social interactions I prefer. Work social interactions for me are just to a level of professional courtesy. It is more fun to interact with people outside of my field....
> you can prove that arbitrary heap allocated data structures with pointers are bug-free

Can you say a bit more about that? The way that's written, it sounds like a solution to the halting problem.
Well It Was Twenty Years Ago Today (2007)
If and when companies stop treating employees like children and more like adults who can decide for themselves when to take breaks, work, and take vacations, they might just watch productivity and morale soar. Netflix generally has the right idea on this.
I love Ada, but sadly it probably missed its chance. There’s always the stories about how expensive the compilers were (and I think even now there’s some sort of weird license issues with GNAT and the Adacore tools)

I have no interest working on legacy code at DoD contractors who are probably trying to replace it with C++ anyway. Some people have told me that companies like Nvidia had some Ada projects going, and I recall seeing some announcement, but never any jobs.
That’s insane. I’m in the states, but my company treats us like adults. I roll in when I want, work out in the gym for 2 hours during the day, leave whenever I want. I can’t imagine working for a place that tracked my hours.
I think you misunderstood the training, which likely didn't apply to meeting after hours. If the training mentioned that, it was bad training.
side scrolling is really fast with a trackpad
Great hearing from you! If you look carefully at my comment history, you will notice that I have replied to you a couple of times over the years. Also thanks for the insights.
Using with for Neater SQL
Yes, and? What's your objection?
You have to find and follow people you want to see - and ignore all the "New and Trending" that Twitter tries to shove on you.

I don't use Twitter often, but it seems like the social media of choice for semi-public techy millenials so I follow a bunch of that type. Every time I go on twitter (~monthly) I have a good time seeing all the fun projects that have been happening and all the cross-pollination between different interesting people.

A starting point:

@kenshirriff
@whitequark
@BenKrasnow
@foone
@ID_AA_Carmack
@MarcoReps
@craig_jbishop
@jonhoo
@TheSignalPath
Any chance this will be successful with all the lobbying going on? I see no benefit other than for the consumer and the environment.
This appears to be incorrect. Illinois only requires a 20+ minute lunch at or before 5 hours into a shift of 7 and 1/2 hours or more: https://www2.illinois.gov/idol/FAQs/Pages/meals-breaks-faq.a...
Still way too long.
Once upon a time, I worked at a nuclear engineering consultancy. One engineer ate a hamburger and french fries over his keyboard, using it as a placemat, and never cleaned it up. In order to fix his computer, I first used a bottle of alcohol to clean the brown and black muck and hunks from the keycaps. It honestly smelled like a dumpster.
900$ is rent for many ppl. It’s half a full time minimum wage job.

In Quebec daycare is more like 150$/month, in Berlin 50$. That’s a huge difference.

Btw, parental leave is another item that makes kids cheaper in social democratic countries. Thats paid leave on one hand (e.g. 12 months), or unpaid leave allowing you to return to your job after an extended absence (e.g. 36 months).
Whaaaat? What year, country, and/or location was this? Call center?
If every part of Amazon is really like that, then it'll make the task of breaking them up much easier!
It doesn't need to be full PWA spec to be a PWA.
I guess insurers want to avoid being bankrupted by a single disaster, and prefer that the insured person goes bankrupt instead. Unclear what is the socially optimal policy, but I'd anyway assume if a car accident ever causes like $1B in damages, government will end up paying the bill.
Have you ever been to Central/South America or Europe? ;-)
In the marketing agency world 50-60 hour weeks are the norm and 70 hour weeks occur once a month or so. It isn’t really sustainable. Most people burn out and leave the agency world within three years. Those that stay often make work their life or have a way where they can set their own schedules, which is usually because they have reached marketing executive level and the work becomes different.

It is a very unhealthy industry. I am not sure if it can be sustained in it’s current form, but I don’t ever see the hours being reduced either. 4 day work weeks would just mean 12+ hour days and you would have to hope your clients aren’t open on Fridays or whatever day you decided to make your company day off. Staggering days wouldn’t work that well as most agencies have little to no redundancy by design.
True in a lot of places, e.g. even in pretty labor-friendly Denmark, most union agreements in the private sector call for a 37-hour work week, but with lunch not counted as working time. So workers typically take short 30-minute lunches to avoid extending the day more. The public-sector unions have managed to get 37 hours with a 30-minute lunch counted though.
Here is a modest proposal: copy the best educational system in the world (Finland). Stop thinking you know better.
I wonder if this is related to the fact that my computer seems to have more bugs in it than a hive of angry bees.
In the USA, intention is not necessary.
Lars Rasmussen – from Google Maps to adaptive music
Crev is a great idea, unfortunately it is only really available for Rust right now.
Not quite. PackageCompiler isn't automagic. The sysimage doesn't get automatically updated in the REPL. You have to create one manually (and this requires tracing instead of static type inference which Julia can do). So the workflow isn't zero-friction. And StaticCompiler hasn't been updated in over a year.

The problem with Julia tooling in general is that they feel 90% done. And tooling is, in my opinion, more important than the language itself.
They are smart, the employees are likely to be more productive if they are healthy. Many companies squeeze up employees like tubes of toothpaste then discard them and hire a younger gen. It is sometimes not intentional, just create a stresful environment and dont allow enough time to employees to catch their breath so to speak
Another way to look at it
: the town of Marin actively wants people to come to their town an enjoy the beach and kayak. It's very much in the town's interest to for the occasional rescue bill in order to keep the tourists coming in.

In the same way, lots of towns will staff an information booth, and run some public toilets, and create tourist web sites.
That's a nice law. In Canada, most aspects of medical insurance are single payer, but other aspects (like out-of-country travel medical insurance) give too much latitude to the insurance companies. If you make any false statement when applying for insurance, when you try to use your insurance, the company will refuse your claim and declares the policy null and void. For example, theoretically, if you don't disclose even the smallest details (e.g. that you had a chest x-ray done 10 years ago that did not show any abnormality), and then you get something completely unrelated, like getting stabbed during your travel and have to go to the hospital, the insurance company can and will refuse to pay out. It's ridiculous.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/retired-coup...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/hefty-medica...
Thinking is work too, and you can think from anywhere