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Comparing different metrics is not valid across all use cases. Counting startup time but excluding development time is disingenuous. Having used both Fortan and Julia the difference between development time is staggering.

Different tools for different uses cases is the best way to put it.
How can I learn enough Lisp to understand Emacs well?
> "Engineers are almost completely unique as a labor force. There is far more demand for engineers than there is supply, and that makes engineers powerful in a way other professions are not."

In my experience, this is absolutely not true. Everyone I know struggled to get interviews. If you got an interview, a single mistake would end any chances of getting another interview.

The algorithm rounds were brutal, esp online coding tests. I have been grinding leetcode but I'm mentally exhausted now, and working an unpaid job at a startup to at least stay in the game for now.
> I meant if someone calls into HR to verify employment. You run the risk of HR secretly bad mouthing you. Yes, it’s probably illegal, but if they are doing all this other stuff, then would you be confident what they say or don’t say?

Employment/salary verification is outsourced to The Work Number (an Equifax product). Nobody at Amazon is involved.
I'd be seriously interested in it as a mobility aid, as a "replacement" for a guide dog. Could be useful to some types of users. But yes, thats not really the average guy... I guess it is like with Alexa. First, there is the product, users will find usecases for it, and they will try fucking hard to legitimize their own investment.
Your definition of the belief system is not accurate and designed to hit on a number of wedge issues about collectivism vs individualism.

>I don't know what the outcome will be of telling kids that they are more or less living in a system corrupt to the core and they are more or less a victim of circumstances of birth.

There is an irony here as existing education lies to children and teaches them that the world is a fair and just place any anybody can succeed given enough effort.

It's only through being able to collate data on a global scale and efficiently share the experiences of people that we've been able to witness how untrue the existing individualist meritocracy myth is.
Why stop at 4 days a week? Why not 3? 2?
Old cars can be maintained to run for hundreds of thousands of miles, but you might run into a catastrophic failure (main seal leak or similar) where the cost of the repair exceeds the value of the vehicle.
How are you sure its a lie ?

Not common? How do you know?

Eating nothing but pizza is not healthy? I disagree, Pizza has carbohydrates, protein, vegetables, vitamin, etc. Not always but it can be healthy.
Nothing, but that only makes reading the malware's memory possible with these exploits. That malware won't be able to access memory of some other process, if that other process is using those flags itself.

Edit: For that to work that flag would have to work on the context switch level. So every time you switch away from a sensitive process, flush all buffers and whatever else, then switch.
This also requires the kernel itself to enable mitigations as necessary when it touches encryption keys before switching back to user space.
Oh wow even better. Thanks for enlightening me on this
Even without improvements to air bags and the like a newer car is safer because it's body has less structural fatigue. It would be stronger in a crash.
Rear view camera is pretty easy to install even with out a head unit, they even make wireless ones that just mount over or under your mirror, or like a GPS unit
It’s remarkable how much they’ve improved. When was the last time you saw a car on the side of the road with its hood up and steam pouring out of the engine compartment?
mRNA is short-lived, metabolized, etc. That's exactly how Pfizer and Moderna vaccines work.

> Once the instructions (mRNA) are inside the immune cells, the cells use them to make the protein piece. After the protein piece is made, the cell breaks down the instructions and gets rid of them. [0]

You seem to be arguing against the principle of vaccination in general.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...
All things being relative think if you see big bank doing things badly imagine that there are companies that are doing 10x worse.

So they might be bad but there are companies that are worse and well just to remember when you are running away from zombies you don't have to be fastest it is good enough not to be the slowest :)
Looks like Popular Mechanics just bought a copy of his book, and picked their eight favorite items: https://www.amazon.com/Made-Russia-Unsung-Soviet-Design/dp/0...
What do you do in rest of the 3 days?

I am anxious throughout the weekend. It may have to do with the lockdown we have.

But I am glued to mobile anyways or some sort of screen.

How can I work on this mindset?
You HOPE I do that? why would you hope that?

i don't think you're paying attention to what I am writing. Right, when I said "misuse", I understand that as including using the money fraudulently or irresponsibly.

I am not sure what you mean beyond "filling out reports", "reporting" is the word that means documenting how you spent the money in the philanthropic world.

Do you have much experience with non-profits and charitable giving and how it works?

There is obviously a continuum of degrees of how much time recipients (or philanthropists) spend on making sure the money is spent non-fraudulently and responsibly, right? It's not all or nothing.

If 95% of philanthropic money were spent making sure the other 5% were being used responsibly and non-fraudulently, we would agree there was a problem, right? (or maybe we would not?)

If we found that 5% of the total philanthropic money were being spent "irresponsibly", but to reduce that further, it would take spending 25% more of the total on "oversight" -- would that be an appropriate trade-off, even though it actually results in net 20% less to "responsible" uses?

So it's a question of the "appropriate" balance, and who gets to decide what that is and what it looks like and what "responsible" spending of the money looks like.
On the downside, the engines in cars will pollute more as they age. This will make reducing pollution more difficult as people stick to their older and less efficient cars.
I kept my ICE car (Lexus RX) for about 6 years, it was a great car and I planned to keep it until I couldn’t use it anymore but once I drove an electric car I knew it was time to upgrade, the technological leap was too great to stay in the past.

I hope to keep my electric car for at least 10 years
So while I agree with what you're saying, you'd better be able to come up with a legal standard of "respectful". I don't know what that is. If you don't you'll wind up with something like "killing a chicken by slitting its throat" [and facing mecca] is disrespectful.
I used to get by on about 5-6 hours. If I slept early, I'd wake up long before my alarm feeling well rested, alert, and ready to go. Something changed when I was around 30, and it took a few years to figure out that I wasn't getting enough sleep. But even so, it's rare that I sleep more than 7 hours.
AWS is very big, culturally, on making sure that all the bugginess from shitty code is not shown externally to the customer. Externally it might look like everything is fine to you, but internally AWS is a massive, leaky cargo ship with thousands of engineers running around 24/7 with duct tape and band-aids to plug the leaks.
Judging by the way the UFO rhetoric was suddenly ratcheted up several years ago by the US Govt, I feel that #4 is probably the most likely. My gut is telling me something isn’t right.
Companionship with lower maintenance cost. The diversity of behavior is the problem but perhaps with the advances in neural nets we will get the behavior people desire in pets:

* unpredictable behavior within boundaries

* possible to alter behavior through repeated action (training)

* diversity of response to novel stimuli

Ultimately, what is it about a dog that makes it lovable? If we can replicate that and exploit the human desire to personify and love anything, we could create pets with intermediate intelligence and I think many people would enjoy that.

The actual product risk, I think, is making the robotic pet too useful. I suspect that would transform the pet into a tool. For instance, a robotic pet that reacts strangely and hides before the human owner detects a thunderstorm is far preferable to one which (using its link to the Internet) says “Thunderstorm approaching; batten down storm shutters”

The imperfection of understanding and the fact that the pet is a net cost center are two things that I think are crucial to mass market robotic pet adoption among those who desire companionship.
Vaccination has its risks too. Long-term pain in the vaccinated shoulder, that will eventually spread to the other arm (due to sudden overuse), will not make you enjoy your life either.

Having to test regularly may be less of a bother in life, if you lose this stupid vaccination lottery..., if you want to play on the convenience note.
Exactly. I'm happy where I am but I've currently got companies willing to increase my salary by 2-3x if I leave my current employer. I'm totally going to use that as leverage in negotiations for a raise. I'm due for one.
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Safety... for whom? Occupants, yes. But for pedestrians, bicyclists and other vulnerable road users, it's gotten worse with the trend for larger vehicles [1][2][3] in the last decade.

[1] https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/new-study-suggests-todays-s...

[2] https://www.ghsa.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/Ped%20Spotl...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/03/collision...
I remember some of these. Morskoi Boi was not the best arcade game I played, but I remember it. I also distinctly remember a magnet-driving game, but I don't remember it looking like that.

My dad used to have some magazines - I have no idea what they were, but I remember loving flipping through them and looking at their vaguely sci-fi/science illustrations. I don't know when I can go back and visit, but I'll have to ask him about them, and see if he still has them. If he's as much of a pack rat as I am, they'll likely be tucked away on a shelf somewhere.
The owner looked so lonely while walking in the park with the robot dog. Isn't companionship a big reason to have a (bio) dog.
Im in automotive maintenance and repair as a trade, and a 12 year old car is no problem for anyone but the people at the wall street journal in my opinion.

how long you keep a car is your decision. if you like it, and you're willing to pay for regular maintenance, then keep it. this "long run" comparison of owning and repairing versus buying a new car is just silly. So many people have the incentive to get you to buy a new car, but practically no one has an incentive to tell you to take good care of the things you own so they last.

And new cars arent always better. That nice collision avoidance/lane keeper and camera system? that was implemented as a countermeasure for increasing A and B pillar size after regulatory agencies decided too many americans were getting crushed to death in roll-over accidents. collision avoidance was literally the only way auto manufacturers could keep you out of a manslaughter charge thanks to the absolute byzantine nightmare of info-tainment systems that also do things like climate control.

controversial opinion here but older cars teach you a healthy fear of operating a 2000lb rolling death machine. no infofainment means they are safer for the driver, and no nanny-state A pillars mean you arent doing 80 in a 65 quite as often.

I own a 2000 mercury grand marquis. its a v8 so it inspires me to bipedal transportation pretty often with its fuel enconomy. the biggest problem I have with the car is my coworkers nicknaming me "the don" for driving a murdered-out land yacht but its what i like.
"large scale event" or something to that affect - these issues are visible to everyone company-wide
Cool stories, thanks for sharing. Reminds me of some places in the California desert (Trona comes to mind, just without the underground houses).
Yes whatever is above Senior, I don't have every corporations IC structure memorized
I saw one complaint and a few jokes. The fact that the top comment is a complaint about a complaint is sillier. Why not reply to that single person?
> Our leverage in fact comes from building abstractions that enable more rapid product development that leads to greater software pervasiveness in all of our lives - leading to greater demand of the engineers needed to maintain these abstractions and build on top of them.

Notably, these are two different kinds of demand. As sectors of the industry move from standard-creating software to standard-applying software, I would expect there to be less leverage for certain kinds of software development as those parts of the market mature.

It's not an either or since there are layers (Unix vs Kubernetes), but the guys that are paid to build the next Kubernetes vs learn to apply Kubernetes are going to, or if their pay is correlated with productivity, they should be valued differently.
Way back I used to work in telecommunications at a place that provided POTS service. They are two very completely different worlds. Software engineers act as if 5 9's is a badge of honor, when really it isn't. When you are responsible for something that people use to dial 911 and can make the difference between life and death a few minutes of downtime doesn't cut it.
If you like this article, I suggest checking out the book it is based on:

Made in Russia: Unsung Icons of Soviet Design

edited by Michael Idov.

The book is rather small and consists of just pictures of products or designs along with a few paragraphs explaining their context, use, production, etc. The boiling wand is not the oddest example.

I found the book fascinating as a mechanical engineer, because it just shows how much a designer's constraints often affect the final product (good, fast, cheap --- pick two, as they say). Soviet society was defined by scarcity, and many of the designs were highly influenced by scarcity one way or another. They were quite adverse to disposable products, like paper cups, etc. The designs had to be reasonably permanent to not waste resources (at least in theory). There are many examples of this in the book: the communal soda fountains with a single shared cup, the portable and collapsible cups, and fish net shopping bags (avosha). In each of these situations, Western designers picked disposable solutions: soda cans, paper cups, and plastic bags. Such choices were considered wasteful to the Soviets. Note that the last two designs (collapsible cups and net bags) could be pocketed and carried around and used at a moment's notice. This is an important design consideration when living under severe shortages, since you may only have a short time to get certain products when they suddenly become available. The book does note, however, that plastic bags did become increasingly available in the 1980s, but that people tended to wash them and hang them on clothes lines for reuse (they did not understand they were supposed to be disposable).
I looked at installing a backup camera in my 10 year old 4Runner a couple years back after a friend got me one for Christmas. After looking through a bunch of YouTube videos, we returned it. It was going to be a significant project.
"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."

I wish HN had a tag to identify JS-only submissions. And a filter feature to allow me to not show them at all.
Julia: Faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy
I don't think it goes far enough. We should be aiming for a 24-hour work week.

Whether it's four ninety-minute shifts (six hours) per day, four days per week, or one intense all-nighter, that should be enough.
As someone not getting the vaccine. I'll explain my reasoning. At this point, the odds of getting COVID are small. And much better treatments are around the corner. Thus a 1% mortality rate for the elderly, with multiple co-morbidities, will be even lower for someone my age should I get it at some point. Vaccines introduce a foreign substance 100% of the time into your body, sometimes have side effects. I won't even date girls that got the vaccine, until more is known about long term effects. I'm worried about possibility of birth defects should a pregnancy occur.
On Kiwix, the entire english Wikipedia with images but not videos is 90gb. 6.3m articles.

You can pick and choose categories to some degree (e.g. I’m downloading some to get the videos as well), but I think this leads to some redundancy.

134gb for stackoverflow, but it's from 2019. This guy does sql files, but viewing is another story: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/10/how-to-download-th...

There are torrent links here: https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages but I think in iOS, you're stuck downloading over http.
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Have you tried going for walks? Play basketball? Exercise? Do chores you couldn’t catch up on that usually need to be done during the 8 to 5? Gardening (even in an apartment)? Running group? Volunteer work?
Not quite. You're conflating two things: using set theory to talk about sets (what undergraduate math textbooks do) and using set theory to talk about everything (what ZFC foundations does).
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I’ve been in the web development sector for over a decade now. I took a gap year during the pandemic to reconcile the fact that I no longer love development like I once did. There are still fascinating texts I plan on reading on things like compiler engineering, systems/OS/networking theory, and algorithms. However, I honestly have only worked on a high level over the span of my modest career, many here have a decade or two on me who I hope can save me from this moral nihilism of the software industry I suffer from.

The very day lockdown began I left my job and went down a self destructive yet necessary path to burn the disdain in my heart away to answer where exactly I needed to belong.

I decided to be absurd and said fuck it I will work on a paper surrounding the Riemann Hypothesis, not because I knew what I was doing but because I didn’t.

Now to get to the questions I must ask of HN:

1. If I pursue mathematics will my honeymoon end in the same disdain I’m left with now after treading water in the river of filth that is this industry, in practice but not heart?

2. If I decide to level up on the CS topics I mentioned I still want to learn but could honestly take or leave, will I have a change of heart?

3. I realize most industries don’t work like burger king, you can’t have it your way after all. This is a fact of life I accept with stoicism, but still, is the grass really greener on the other side? Will I really be happier if I focus on math heavy CS fields like ML and cryptography? I’m a programmer like it or not, but I find myself torn between studying mathematics or core CS topics I mentioned which do have an iota of math but only as a means to an end I feel I do not have the heart to pursue. I don’t have the time nor money left to study both, and so I must choose. The nature of life is choice itself I’ve come to realize and am paralyzed between my future and the abyss of my past. How do I overcome this hell?
I agree somewhat with your assessment of “Code”. I read it first and then “Elements of Computing Systems” and I found reading them in that order was great because the latter puts into practice what the former simply describes.
Since iOS isn't flawless and it is ubiquitous across Apple devices, think of the damage that can be done by a single virus. iOS lacks diversity and is therefore a fantastic target for malware.
HELL NO! Download an app to basically virtualize (allow complete tracking ) an application. iOS and now iPadOS have allowed direct “app”installs for 10 years. Progressive web applications currently could be written for most native applications and deployed on just about any platform.
Yes, if it's aliens or a 1 in 10,000 glitch it's the glitch. But if it's either aliens or three such independent glitches, it's likely aliens.
There’s a high probability the logo was created in response to the XKCD, don’t you think? I’ll speculate yes. The sudo mailing list archive mentions the comic as “a favorite”.
I don’t think anyone is claiming that Julia is uniformly faster than well-written Fortran. But you can get comparable performance with code using a style that many people find easier to read, write, and reason about; and it’s interesting that sometimes this code does outperform optimized C or Fortran code.

Startup time is much improved in recent Julia versions¹, but is certainly not negligible for short calculations.

[1]https://lwn.net/Articles/856819/
You're discounting the immense carbon footprint of building a new car then shipping it to the dealer. A number I remember, that might be wrong, is that over 50% of a car's lifetime emissions happen before it leaves the factory.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...
Unfortunately not. The change in smell happened a few days before my first shot. That's lucky though, as there's no telling what I'd believe if I'd been fine and then thought the shot ruined my taste.
Indeed.

I'd benefit from having a newer car in some ways, but I actively don't want any specific new model I've seen for years because of their awful uses of technology. Go back to making cars that are about driving -- safely, efficiently and comfortably -- without all that other junk, and I'll throw money at you.

But still not too much money, because I don't think fully electric vehicles and the infrastructure to support them are quite there yet, and anything using an ICE or hybrid tech feels like it's only a stepping stone to the fully electric world that we'll probably be living in a decade from now.

I can't imagine why anyone would want to buy the kinds of cars that the big manufacturers are producing today unless they had no choice, and I'm not surprised at all that more people are keeping their existing vehicles for longer.
The video you linked is removed.for violating guidelines, which I'm guessing means it had a conspiratorial slant. Discussion does not have to include unsupported or crackpot claims to be "inclusive".
Oh, so not sales (new or used), but "install base".
> the message passing nature of the processes

Yes.

> which is directly analogous to smalltalk objects.

No. Definitely not "directly", because Smalltalk messages are synchronous, whereas Erlang messages are asynchronous.

Both are special cases of the general concept of "messaging", and arguably the Erlang instance more closely matches what Alan Kay had in mind. (See his description of objects and messages as lots of little autonomous computers exchanging messages).

> I am aware that Joe Armstrong got swept up in this analogy.

Not sure what you mean with "swept up". He realised it is obviously true. Considering he created the language, he might have had an idea of what he was talking about.

> so you really shouldn't make that analogy.

You shouldn't naively equate Erlang messaging with Smalltalk messaging, but the only who has done this here is you.

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