skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right - there's two parts of "open source" as the term is commonly used, open source as in the license, and open source as in the community.

We look skeptically on companies whose "open source" involvement involves dumping code that works for them and not accepting contributions or responding to questions and not participating in upstream communities. We talk about being a good open source citizen because we have an analogy to the real world, where being a "good citizen" is more than merely following the law. We have opinions about codes of conduct (whether for or against) even though those don't affect the license at all. We talk about an open source sustainability crisis even though all the code that's been released so far isn't danger of disappearing.

Maybe we need another term for it, but for now, the term as it is used in practice both refers to the licensing regime and the community and culture around it. The idea that projects have maintainers in the first place and aren't just released anonymously to the commons, and moreover that it's reasonable to contact the maintainer if you have a problem to report or an improvement to suggest, is a significant part of what defines the open source community, even though the term "maintainer" appears in no license (except the LaTeX one, which adds some obligations around non-maintainers marking modified copies which is called out in the DFSG as a compromise not to be encouraged).

Frankly, it seems to me that the author in question just wants to stick by the license: they want to release the software and not be contacted about it by people who receive it from redistributors. That seems reasonable to me, in the abstract. The hard part is reconciling that with the norms of the community.
Maybe Guix can save the packaging aspect, which would need to include C and C++ extensions.
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> none of which seem more intuitive than writing "mu"

Write for the convenience of the reader, not of the writer!
I didn’t get any cushier offers out of undergrad and have worked at Amazon since - do you think that reflects poorly on me? I self harm sometimes because many people think it does…
Hmmmm, -2.

From this, would it be logical to conclude that at least three people believe that this is not a good idea?
Mine had that same updated date but it arrived last week. I haven’t played with the code yet but i did wear it one day last week and no complaints
Then they should use a different one. There are at least half a dozen of these, and most of them do not require any symbols not found on most keyboards. Jyutping is actually an outlier among them for how it uses j and z. These are truly not intuitive for people used to the english, french or spanish alphabets.
There’s a reason why heart surgeons have nicknamed motorcycles ”donor cycles”. An unprotective vehicle in the hands of a young male who doesn’t yet grasp his own mortality.
I was under the assumption that RMS’s main purpose was to protect the users, and especially their ability to use it in a future where the author was no longer maintaining it, or was focused on different features than required by the user.

In this case, RMS would be more concerned with nixos’s freedoms rather than the package author’s.

Anyways, that is my assumption, I might be wrong…
I said something slightly similar once. A little weirdness was going on, in a niche platform community, so a while ago added a statement on a Web page that listed my packages for it:

> If you'd like to put modified copies of my packages in public Git repos, or otherwise distribute them, I'd appreciate you reaching out to me. The license very intentionally gives you the right to modify and distribute, but [niche project] is a small and cooperative world right now, and it's better for everyone if we coordinate.

One of incidents that prompted this wasn't compliant with the licenses, but I thought I'd leave it at the above.

Back to TFA, I'm somewhat sympathetic to the developer there, not wanting to get support requests, etc., for problems caused by a packager, and this is a problem that, say, distros normally have to address.

(And I've seen it addressed badly, such as a third-party setting up a bug-reporting system for my upstream packages, which gave the appearance of being the official way to report bugs, but... I didn't know about it, I didn't get notified when people made bug reports there, no one was handling those reports, and, when I eventually stumbled upon the reports, the mechanism didn't have a way to contact the submitter for more info. The bad mechanism was just sitting out there, wasting submitters' time, and sabotaging success of the project. Then, when I explained to the party running it that it was hurting the project and contributors, they refused to make it opt-in or let me opt-out. I think this is just one example of the kinds of time-suck that you see after contributing to open source for a while, and which might not be obvious to people until they've seen it or heard about it.)

That said, while I think the developer in TFA is fine in saying that they'd prefer a package they develop not be included in some other thing, or perhaps explains why and asks for changes in how that's done to not hurt the developer's work... they have to be aware that, at least in US culture, their request (like mine, in a different situation) is orthogonal to the license, and is a cooperation "ask".

There's some value in having terms clearly communicated (such as with licenses). And when you give a license, if you're going to ask for a restriction on what you already gave in the license, you're taking away some of the value of licenses.

Considering this an "ask" is even more appropriate -- but not limited to -- cultures/subcultures that might consider "whatever is legal" (or "whatever you can get away with") the sole consideration.
FWIW, the FB recruiter I spoke with also sent me Leetcode links. But the rest of the process was one of the best interview experiences I had, for a company of this scale. Not sure how well FB takes care of its employees, but they sure take good care of candidates.
“640k ought to be enough for anybody.”

-possibly Bill Gates.
Metals can be recycled perfectly to space/medical/marine/any grade, they do not degrade like plasics. You can get a collection of metal scraps and produce pure elemental iron if you want
>If the root cause is to be fixed someone needs to look at it in depth

The root cause has already been looked at in depth 999 times when the same issue has come up. It's already been RCAed and the fix has been put in the backlog to be implemented sometime next year. In the meantime while we wait for the fix, we will continue to do a full, ad-hoc RCA every time the exact same issue appears, with the exact same results every time, because managers genuinely think it is a valuable way to spend our time.

I understand your point, but the relative utopia of a team you're describing is not really the situation I'm talking about. We have on-call periods where the exact same issue will appear 10-20 times per week, and each and every time it is treated as a completely novel issue with an ad-hoc response, even though we already know beforehand what the root cause is and what the fix is. It's an incredible waste of time and contributes significantly to on-call engineers being overloaded, and yet we continue to do it and then are baffled when all of our engineers leave the team due to being overworked.

There's also nothing excluding runbooks and root cause analyses from existing together, either. In fact, most good runbooks specifically include steps to determine when an RCA is necessary and how to conduct one. There really is no excuse to not use runbooks as much as possible. If over-reliance on runbooks is having a negative impact due to engineers not applying personal judgement, then that is certainly an issue to be addressed, but the answer is almost never to completely abolish runbooks and documentation.
It's not per se bad for the economy to use capital assets more productively. In fact, the baseline assumption is that it's _good_ for the economy.
I think highlighting that link can give more people a better long term view of earth and having that longer term view of earth can make people care more about being better sheppards to our planet. Some people view dinosaurs in a really disconnected way and their link to now can be hard to comprehend. Highlighting the link between dinosaurs and birds can help show how amazingly old and connected our home is by giving people a glimpse of how incredible evolution is and how fleeting life is.
Thanks. Looking up support for this I found dcache.org which supports rfc3230 which supports even more digests.
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Modern cars last a long time, regardless of the powerplant. Old cars having catastrophic mechanical failure doesn't drive ownership turnover - in fact the opposite is true for most vehicles, as it's easier and cheaper to address significant mechanical failure in say, an 80's Chevy pickup than a similar issues in 2010's chevy pickup. Turnover instead is primarily attributed to mounting maintenance/ownership costs that are primarily related to all the value-add features companies keep adding to keep up with joneses. In addition, "Catastrophic" Failures (eg Totalling) is much more prevalent not due to unreliability of ICE systems, but rather, the new safety standards that result in high replacement costs (crumple zones for example can turn even minor incidents into significant repair costs, even if it's not mechanically compromised). Those same pain points will be just as if not more present, no matter the powerplant, and the simplicity of electrical drivetrains will be offset by the high cost and short life of batteries (unless there's some revolution in battery tech on the horizon, which I certainly hope for, and is possible, but am not expecting to happen as a simple result of economies of scale).

So the drivetrains may well last longer, but that's not what drives first-owners of cars to trade/sell for a newer model, as drivetrains already well outlast most first owners desire to keep them.
Hence why I started my reply to Gibbon1 with "The cargo cult goes beyond that.".
On that topic, I'll throw in a shoutout to Cormullion's excellent JuliaMono font [1,2]!

Typing certainly does add more friction between u and µ than a chalkboard would, though it is perhaps also notable that mathematicians seem to have felt that it's worth the effort, and have come up with a quite nice system for it in LaTeX -- and I would certainly not mind seeing more languages and editors add support for LaTeX completions the way the Julia ecosystem has.

[1] https://juliamono.netlify.app/

[2] https://github.com/cormullion/juliamono
If there was a significant retail sell-off right around now that caused the share price to plummet, it would directly affect their business transformation plans.

They are currently completing an at-the-market offering for 5,000,000 shares, as a means to raise capital to fund their new digital strategy. We don’t know how long this will continue to go on for.

You may or may not be aware of this, but their new chairman is on a major recruitment drive and is taking on many new technology-focussed executives (lots of former Amazon execs, a total change in perspective for a brick-and-mortar retailer that was nearly bankrupt last year).

This has all been disclosed in their recent filings — and so as I understand it, at the present moment their share price is directly linked to the performance of their business.

Ultimately, though — I’m just speculating. This is far from the only indication they’ve given that retail investors needn’t worry. Just some food for thought. I wouldn’t normally give much weight to this if it weren’t also for everything else they’ve got going on at the moment. Time will tell!
The FTL is like a virtual memory manager. It is firmware/hardware to manage things like the logical to physical mapping table, garbage collection, error correction, bad block management. Yes there will be a lot of FTL data structures stored on the flash. It can be made durable by redundant copies, writing in SLC mode or having recovery algorithms. I used to develop SSD firmware in the past if you have further questions.
It just strikes me as an intensely bad equilibrium where the best priced insurance should be the one that advertises least, yet insurance is the most heavily advertised industry.

It makes sense why, it’s basically entirely 0 sum. There’s no innovation to be made, just stealing customers from other companies. Further, I don’t see how competition is improving the industry, as they have next to no tech. I see that competition may keep things honest, but especially in the cases like health insurance I can’t see how it has. Whether that’s entirely caused by bad policy I don’t know.

For all the above, in my dim understanding, it seems like one of the few truly ideal cases for being government run. I’d love to hear reasons why not.
No, that's not how gravity boosts work. If you match speeds with an object you actually get zero boost.

The point of a gravity boost is to come in pretty hot (relative to the body you're boosting off of) and then go out pretty hot in a different direction. So you take your relative velocity vector at the point of the encounter and twist it around. By doing that you change your orbital energy around your central body (the sun) by a lot, and the other object will lose a similar amount to keep the bookkeeping equal.

If you have zero relative velocity compared to the thing you want a gravity assist off of you can't get an assist. It isn't like drafting a semi.
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I think it should provide a much stronger slingshot velocity boost than any other planet, however getting to 11AU first is not easy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist
I'd guess Digital Alpha (DEC) but I can't find anything mentioning it. Other guess would be Cray.
I'm not blaming. I'm trying to gather data because I'm having a serious problem with trust.
People on buses, trains, ferries, and planes would also be inconvenienced.
I did digging on this a few weeks ago, this is correct if you add up SDE, SDM, TPM, Scientist etc roles.
>There are plenty of career hedge fund traders actively supporting this “conspiracy theory”.

>One of the most well-known contributors at Superstonk is a former Citadel employee

Source for both of these?
Do you see them as anti-features? My mom's newish car has backup cameras, lane guidance, and blindspot detectors, and those things alone have quieted the vast majority of my lifelong frustration at cities that force you to waste hours of your day piloting death machines just to go about your day-to-day. I still would never want to _live_ somewhere like that, but my visits to my parents have become significantly more pleasant through what I consider to be these common-sense safety features.
Stripe, pal-v, skyroot and drift.
It's a dwarf planet of ~ 200 km diameter. The thing has a miniscule gravity well, it won't matter much compared to launching from earth and matching orbits with it, i think...
Things I have learned about SSDs:

If you want to go fast & save NAND lifetime, use append-only log structures.

If you want to go even faster & save even more NAND lifetime, batch your writes in software (i.e. some ring buffer with natural back-pressure mechanism) and then serialize them with a single writer into an append-only log structure. Many newer devices have something like this at the hardware level, but your block size is still a constraint when working in hardware. If you batch in software, you can hypothetically write multiple logical business transactions per block I/O. When you physical block size is 4k and your logical transactions are averaging 512b of data, you would be leaving a lot of throughput on the table.

Going down 1 level of abstraction seems important if you want to extract the most performance from an SSD. Unsurprisingly, the above ideas also make ordinary magnetic disk drives more performant & potentially last longer.
>steer people clear of that org

Um, shouldn't we fix the org instead!!!

Very glad that I've been denied from Amazon final round twice now. It was great interview practice and nothing more
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Can you please cite said literature? You know peer reviewed studies that show proof flossing is very important?

The only recent study of any meaningful size I’ve found is this: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcpe.12765 and this can also only show a 17% reduction in periodontitis if you floss a couple times a week. Even when compared within the American population (which I posit has flossed at least once in their lifetime for the most part), there’s vanishingly little benefit in reducing an arguably non life threatening condition and that requires you to annoy yourself every day of your life.

I’ll wait for you to show any studies before I make more judgements.

Importantly my hypothesis is more nuanced and hinges on the fact of “never having flossed”. I haven’t come across a study that looks at this aspect and would love to see what such a study would say.
This is very very true. The PS5 does hardware decompression, so games by default are now going to be compressed. For a real world reference of how big a difference that makes, see fortnite turning on compression [0] (disclaimer: I worked for epic on fortnite at the time)

[0] https://www.ign.com/articles/fortnites-latest-patch-makes-it...
The East African Community planned on introducing the East African Shilling in 2012 but have missed multiple deadlines. Creating a common currency is difficult. If they're able to make it happen, certainly it would be good for trade. Many of the west African countries are small so they have extra incentive to ease the barriers to trade with their neighbors but that also means that anxiety over being swamped by other countries is a reasonable concern.
perhaps the sun's heat exposes them :)
Sure, and the short sleep gene people are brought up here in this thread a bunch.

But that's not < 4 hours a night without naps for long periods of time.
The primary source is the NYT, not Business Insider. They clearly name their source too, "David Niekerk, a former Amazon vice president who built the warehouse human resources operations"

1: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-wor...
Thanks. I came back to update this post. Yes, it's a "shc" URI followed by a long numeric string. This baffles most QR code readers, but https://zxing.org/w/decode works.

The "shc" URI scheme is indeed registered by SMART Health Cards.
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"over 50% of a car's lifetime emissions happen before it leaves the factory."

Totally wrong, it's only 20%

Think about it - if most of emission wad in production, electric cars would make no sence, they have higher production footprint and lower running footprint

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/201...
Why do you think I'm talking about the author and not in general?
> "Something like "public source", i.e. source available but not free to use under any condition may be an answer in some cases."

A term for this exists already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software

> "For instance, an independent developer writing an important library should get a share of the business use/revenue"

No matter how much people try to avoid saying it, this is simply a proprietary license, albeit one that happens to provide source. All the downsides of a proprietary license are there: the user having to pay for it, having to legally evaluate and accept the terms of the license, and having to monitor for license compliance. Beyond that, the author themselves have to build an organization around accepting payments (internationally even), handling taxes on revenue, undertaking legal action against violators, and be bound by legal requirements, such as fitness for merchantability and export restrictions. None of these things can be avoided so they are now playing a game that the proprietary software vendors are literally structured around winning.
We gave our people the option of working 4 10 hour days instead of the usual 5 day week. Remote or in office, we dont care. Several people tried it, but all except one went back to the usual schedule.

The feedback was that 10 hours is just a bit too long.
A number of high-level techniques help rationalize data management and transfer, but the mileage of practical implementations may vary a lot. Generally speaking, only a small number of applications really need to take care and add a further layer of abstraction, that because the best practices already codified into any widespread language do an acceptable job already.
How are the ergonomics of a proof assistant based on λP2? Lean does a lot of elaboration of metavariables and typeclass instances and such before handing things off for checking by the kernel -- I'm curious about whether λP2's undecidability is decidable enough, so to speak.
Somewhat unintuitively, thanks to the Oberth effect, it can be easier to reach escape velocity closer to an object, (Humorously portrayed in https://xkcd.com/1242).

Aside: if you are looking to learn more, I cannot recommend Kerbal Space Program enough.
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So three out of twelve months is more than anywhere else? Nomads move every few months.
> 0-75 (sec): did not reach 75 mph in 1/4-mile

HA. I love it. It's like taking a VW beetle and removing one of the spark plugs.
Probably the IBM AS/400 or its predecessor the System/38, which uses 128 bit pointers.

However, it has an unusual architecture in which all programs run in a bytecode-based virtual machine, comparable to Java or dotnet. The 128 bit pointers are only used in the virtual machine. The underlying physical hardware had 48 bit addressing initially (starting in the late 1970s); in the 90s they switched physical hardware to support 64 bit addressing

Also, even though the pointers are 128 bit, many of the bits in the pointer are reserved for future use. Partly it was an exercise in extreme future-proofing. Partly because they use tag bits to mark valid pointers in memory (to stop programs from forging pointers), but they only have one tag bit reserved for every 16 bytes of RAM, so pointers must have 16 byte alignment.
Falling in Love with the World–Weekly Wisdom 20th June, 2021
This is an important article.

All of his companies are welfare queens, including SpaceX.
Not in this case: the +13 figure is a predicted *apparent* magnitude. The absolute magnitude 'H' as your link defines is the 'H' field in the OP link, which is +7.8. (Note that's 'H' from your link's section on asteroid magnitudes, not comets or stars -- they're all on different scales).

Here's the documentation for the fields in OP's data table:

"H Absolute visual magnitude. A table converting H to a diameter is available."

https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/info/OrbElsExplanation...