skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who remembers Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust"?

> The norm today is auto-updating, pre-built software.

This is a little bit misleading. The actual paper[1] explains that you can't even trust source available code.

[1] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-tho...
Yeah, but for which country?
The book was originally published in 1923 and is available on Project Gutenberg[1] for free.

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60979/60979-h/60979-h.htm
I think that the risk of civilization collapse has been highly overrated and is mostly bullshit prediction.
So after reading through that very long profile Amy Chua drank with students and judges while making sexual comments despite not just being a professor, but a particularly influential professor, and was suspended after lying several times about the events that took place. Seems pretty straightforwards to me, most professors with far less authority pull less shit than that.

Then there is a bunch of non-drama drama. Pretty bad article overall.
I don't know what reputation damage will happen, they're just third parties compiling code. There is no reputational damage for operating a malicious tor exit relay, why would this be different?
> I would estimate at an albedo of 0.01-0.08 a diameter of 130-370 kilometers (nominally 160) which puts it on a similar scale, if not larger than, Sarabat's huge comet C/1729 P1, and almost undoubtedly the largest Oort Cloud object ever discovered- almost in dwarf planet territory!

So a bit less dramatic but still really cool.
A shot in the dark but I think there’s a lot of “ult”s in English but not many “ura”s

Uranium and Urine
Was it intermittent fasting or carbohydrate restriction that helped you in particular?
Some context:
It took Cassini-Huygens 7 years to reach saturn with two venus and one jupiter flyby.
It took New Horizons 9 years to reach pluton with jupiter flyby.
With Inclination of 95.467° and Argument of perihelion of 326.285° flyby could happen near to Ecliptic but for getting to orbit one would need a nice gravity assist from jupiter.
I prefer to call it the Georgium Sidus!
A useful accessibility is not cheap. Every project has its budget. Most of website still can be read out by text-to-voice software which should be good enough for information delivery. There is definitely something can be improved later.
Healthcare - yes.

Housing - we lived with the kids in a 2-bedroom for three years. One room for kids, one for us. Not super pleasant, but overall acceptable.
Prisma is not mature, they keep putting major breaking changes in patch (not even minor) semvar updates. They're the only package I've had to lock patch version on.

They just underwent an obvious coder restructuring/hiring after recent funding, which has caused some of the chaos.

Migrations are only recently out of alpha, don't support some common operations (rename?), and DOWN migrations are not supported.

Prisma is innovative, and there may be some fair tradeoffs to their declarative approach and fast pace. But I've never used a less mature ORM.
From what I've read, the biggest predictor is girls education, but this is not incompatible.
sqlx is able to do this, but using compile time macros. For a typescript project you'd possibly need a running process reading your source files for queries and probing the database for what will come back.

https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/#compile-time-verificati...
That only works if you coordinate. With even more people, you can pick randomly and be relatively sure you've read it all, but I posit that 1) you don't pick randomly, you pick a part that is accessible or interesting to you (and therefore probably others) and 2) reading code locally is not sufficient to find bugs or backdoors in the whole.
> There's no good reason (that I can think of) why this shouldn't have been the case all along

Well, it's not like developers consciously thought "How can I make my build process as non-deterministic as possible?", it's just that by the time people started to become aware of the benefits of reproducibility, various forms of non-determinism had already crept in.

For example, someone writing an archiving tool would be completely right to think it is a useful feature to store the creation date of the archive in the archive's metadata. The idea that a user might want to force this value to instead be some fixed constant would only occur to someone later when they noticed that their packages were non-reproducible because of this.

But you're right; if the goal had been thought of from the start, there's no reason why every build tool wouldn't have supported this.
My 2 cents has always been it’s really up to the business. The business should do what it needs to maximize profit. If catering to the 0.3% of people who are vision impaired helps to that end, go for it. In this case, the 99.7% of people who can use the site are the target audience — and that’s good enough.

I’m not at all unsympathetic to the blind. I just think it’s a client problem and needs a client side solution.

I have severe allergies, ones where I could die if I ingest very little of multiple common foods. I NEVER expect a restaurant to cater to me as adjusting to my diet would put them at a competitive disadvantage. It’s expensive, time consuming and it’s a minuscule percentage of their customers.

Instead I carry an epipen and use my judgement or am responsible for myself. Sometimes that means I call ahead, don’t eat, w.e.

In this case, I’m sure the blind individuals can figure out how to get a vaccine. I’m sure their doctors will help and provide guidance. I doubt most of my friends and family got their vaccines without even knowing this site exists.
It would be like saying all the school children exercises and train timetables are invalid because they don't take into account relativistic effects that obviously are still present at 60mph.
I was recently told I was "long" with the company for moving after a bit under 2 years (I'm leaving 31st July, I joined on 15th september).

I can't help but think that it's pathological to consider that "long" :/
Other people in this thread (and in our world) have taken a different interpretation, arguing that people should be forbidden from making new public services, including online publishing, that don't work for users with some disability. (For example, someone else in this thread said that web sites need to be annotated with accessibility information in order to facilitate interoperability with assistive software. In that account, that is extra work that someone might otherwise not do, rather than just refraining from breaking something.)

The popularity of versions this position suggests to me that there is a need for analogies and arguments that defend the idea that you should, in fact, be able to do stuff that some people will benefit from/be able to participate in and others can't/won't.
In the mid to late 2000s, a British company sold a glorified dowsing rod as an explosives detection device to several international customers, most notably the Iraqi government [1].

I can easily see somebody taking this face restoration tech and packaging it up as a CSI-style "image enhancement" suite to law enforcement for cleaning up CCTV footage. People could easily be wrongly imprisoned because they happen to resemble the fake face created by the algorithm.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651
That seems awfully weird. Is that something that things orbiting the sun normally do?
We can say it's a win for Canada (gain people) and a win for the people coming (gain standard of living). But then, it's a loss for the place the people come from since that place loses the people that Canada gains.
I find it easy to believe that Amazon is a shit place to work (as a SWE) and that Amazon is a massive company with different bits being different. But I also find it easy to believe that a meme could just be wrong. It’s also a meme that Google has the best engineering and that their products get shut down after a year and that it sucks to be their customer. If everyone at Google is convinced at orientation that Google is some great company with great engineering then that can create a brand outside the company by the force of the size of their workforce. Maybe Amazon just has a different employer brand.

Don’t Netflix also hire relatively many employees also? Perhaps I’m just misremembering. And wasn’t stack ranking and the like quite popular say 20 years ago? It isn’t obvious that the Google or Facebook of Apple or Amazon way is the best way to manage a business. Lots of people online have complaints about each.

And I’m not even particularly put off by your Jeff Bezos quote: it doesn’t need to be a bad thing for someone to have an incentive to quit something they are not suited to as they could then go on to something they are better suited to, and it’s true that a lot of people (even well-paid with alternatives) will spend a long time going to a job they dislike because it is easier to stay with the status quo than to leap.

I still feel like the hire-to-fire stories are directionally right (and so are eg stories about shipping new products being the only way to get promotions at Google leading to warped incentives)
Conceiving a child so they can wipe my ass sounds selfish
R-right... What can go wrong?
Ha, got it. Thanks for enlightening me — that helicopter flew right over my head.
> both parents typically need to work

I think that's the key. I'm still trying to figure out for myself if it has something to do with "we need more women in workforce"
France birth rate per 1000: 11
France death rate per 1000: 9.4

However, the fertility rate (total births per woman) was 1.87 before the pandemic, which is well below the replacement level of 2.1.

Fertility rate is really the number that matters, as an aging population eventually hits the years where larger generations die off, and then the death rate is much higher than the birth rate, and the population drops dramatically.
Search almost any disease + curcumin on pubmed and you’ll find plenty of studies claiming impact or showing murine/in vitro results. There have yet to be any high quality in vivo human studies demonstrating anything of value.

Looking forward to the longvida Alzheimer’s trial that should be out in a few years.
It depends on the work, there are a lot of dev jobs out there that are boring tech, boring co-workers, boring managers, boring problems
A street vendor in New York once tried to convince me to buy a Rolex with the pitch "It's got real Seiko parts inside!"

In Bangkok, the fake watch dealers offer grades of product, giving you the option to pay more for a better fake.
My doppleganger has stopped posting somewhere in 2020.

Now I wonder what happened to an internet stranger.
Fortunately most people aren't running OLTP workloads on client SSDs. That's mostly done on enterprise SSDs that have much higher endurance. That said even on client SSDs you can probably get away with running such workloads as long as you're not doing them 24/7.
Why not both?

Long-term I want to live on a college campus(except it's filled with other like-minded adults) like environment where my peers are not my co-workers so if I switch jobs I don't lose contact with them.
Hmm not sure that math checks out

$0 * 2 = $0
I am not saying it is a perfect system, but that would a red flag for a full time employee.
> why do you think turnover in the tech industry is so high??

Pretty sure it's mostly driven by raises not being able to catch up with job hopping offer.
Expecting someone else's kid to be there to wipe your ass is even more so.
>If you're right about Kenny G being able to play at a Coltrane-esque level

Well, it appears my assumption was false!

I finally read The Pat Metheny article you posted, and he's pretty clear that Kenny G is not on the level of the greats:

> He had major rhythmic problems and his harmonic and melodic vocabulary was extremely limited, mostly to pentatonic based and blues-lick derived patterns, and he basically exhibited only a rudimentary understanding of how to function as a professional soloist in an ensemble

> The other main thing I noticed was that he also, as he does to this day, played horribly out of tune - consistently sharp.

> There must be hundreds, if not thousands of sax players around the world who are simply better improvising musicians than Kenny G on his chosen instruments. It would really surprise me if even he disagreed with that statement.

Mind you, he is comparing Kenny G (unfavorably) to the best jazz sax players (because he also argues that it is jazz, despite what the naysayers may say).
How to Use Microsoft Edge on Xbox Series X/S
The kernel can't optimize that because sqlite is specifically requesting it to force a write.
American is more culturally diverse than Canada or Europe, I would see how the population breaks down in comparison.
The signal-to-noise ratio is very poor, especially for large companies running bounty programs. In addition to honest and diligent researchers, there are also scam artists, script kiddies, and soccer moms sending in false reports saying “my ten-year-old found this bug in FaceTime, pay up!”
In other news a colleague of mine beat me in lines of code written for second straight year.
The yellow stars shouldn't be taken lightly. Don't compare badge colors with what Nazis used for holocaust.
There are entire communities in the US that view children as assets rather than liabilities and for the most part they seem to be doing just fine.
Looks good, but I actually love that Julia gets at least the same performance right out of the box, with full interoperability and the great multiple dispatch logic.

Would be interesting to run your optimized code against the Julia optimized code that was linked to in this thread.
Or run a Julia GPU benchmark as well.

As for loops versus vectorization - I personally am used to vectorized code as it has always been a requirement. Sometimes it makes sense to use (e.g. Matrix Algebra stuff).

On the other hand, I have also been in many situations where I could not vectorize my code. More code than I'm happy to admit includes list or dict comprehensions or even loops. Sure, not all performance critical. Nevertheless, the prospect of performance no matter what is pretty exciting.

Finally, threading and multiprocessing in python is a headache compared to Julia imo.
Sometimes I just miss the good ol' "parfor" from Matlab.

All in all, Julia is a really appealing value proposition to people doing numeric computing.
I think this depends a lot on the time scales you are looking at. COVID isn’t going to go anywhere once the pandemic is declared over. The chance of you getting it at some point is very high.
For reference, a nominal 160km diameter would put it around the same size as the 40th largest asteroid known. Huge for an object coming from the oort cloud, but not really huge in comparison to other rocky bodies in the solar system.
> 2. Using only 10% of your brain

That’s not correct, but it’s a common misconception
Wiping ass is just another job which someone has to do. And that someone has to be someone's kid.
Any links or brands that provide this information?
swap dwarf planet for a neutron star and you have "Dragon's Egg" story.
Competition = progress.
I'm genuinely not sure what those are. They appear to have been proposed at some Seattle facility: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazons-sleek-n...

I've worked at two different facilities in CA and never once seen those. We still used the white/yellow/blue badge scheme.

Are there any ambassadors in this thread who know what those are?
Hundreds of vaccinated Indonesian health workers get Covid-19,dozens in hospital
Does powdered turmeric have the same issue? My parents eat loads of that stuff.
I'm in the UK and I don't think I've ever encountered a job with those hours.

The shortest "standard working hours" I'm aware of is 9.00-5.30 with 1 hour for lunch in places with formal time. That's 37.5 working hours.
I watch low-income multi-child parents pay for groceries and formula w/EBT and WIC vouchers on the daily. Children are subsidized by the government, it's definitely not cost-prohibitive.
Wrong system.

System as parent comment alluding to is "the world". Many latest/last gen people feel as though it is highly unlikely they will ever buy a house, for example. It is simply not feasible for most of them given wages vs house price increases.

I think the YOLO thought process is:

"
If you're fucked anyway, why not bet everything you can borrow?

Worst outcome: you're slightly poorer. If that is possible.

Best outcome: you're rich!
"

Not one I agree with, but I can see how people get there.
"Tedious" is right. Must have been designed for a phone, because on my desktop I gave up scrolling before I got to the first planet.
I think that automation will have a significant effect on the ability of society to care for retirees.
What exactly do you mean by competitor? Is there a reason you'd want more people using your open source project than another?
Sorta similar story here. Wide shoes + barefoot style have stopped my bunion growth completely, and fixed my terrible arches.

Ever get home, take your shoes off, and notice how much better your feet feel? Mine haven't hurt at all in over a decade now, because I quit using shoes that make my feet feel like that. Pointy, narrow shoes are unbelievably stupid and human-hostile.
Long term this might push us to invalid patents or shorten the length.
I don't even have a family but I'm currently considering switching to a job that is easier. My current job is interesting and pays well, but is very demanding and stressful. To meet the demands of my job and not burn out requires my life to pretty much revolve around work and it's just not worth it. I've been dreaming of a boring 9 to 5 job for the past year or so.
People seem to be confused here. What’s required is accommodation not equivalency. The important bit is things like color blindness can often but not always be accommodated.

Government websites need to accommodate the blind where possible, but that doesn’t prevent them from making a video game which they are unable to play. Similarly, companies can discriminate if someone is unable to preform core job functions after reasonable accommodation. Aka, no blind school bus drivers.

It’s because Covid information is just text and basic forms that they have the obligation. The requirements for 508 compliance are really quite basic, where projects trip up is treating it as some sort of tacked on requirement rather than basic functionality. Spending months on style choices etc then trying to tack on compliance when it’s “done.”
> Most of the decline in birthrate within both western Europe and the US can be traced to increasing drops in religion.

I would debate this conclusion. The drop in people observing organised religions over the last 40 years also correlates with many other things.

Off the top of my head:
Increase in the cost of education
Increase in the cost of housing relative to income
Increased use of pesticides and artificial colours/flavours/sweeteners
Increased global connectivity
Greater average life expectancy
Lower taxation on the rich

And I’m sure there are many more. Determining which of these, if any, cause the lowered birth rate would take years of study.
e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21069437
Ask HN: What was your most unfair interview experience in your opinion
Can list the question asked on technical or behavioral side. If we leave out the HR/Recruiter that might be good since that’s a different class of issues.
Part of my work involves creating web UI, and the accessibility part of it is a bit annoying because I'm not very familiar with it.

But then I think about the people who have to rely on screen reader tools and then my irritation seems insignificant in comparison. Just do it, there's no excuse for having non-accessible web UI.

Also, if you're using either plain HTML or a library such as FluentUI that provides components with accessibility built-in, you get it without any effort. It's only when the designers make things complicated that it requires extra effort to make things accessible.
Some things are good here (other departments, not ours), but they've basically let our department atrophy without replacing anyone for several years our 'dev team' that used to be 20+ devs and architects is now basically just me and my boss, while they're trying to force massive new projects on us without even shifting people over from other departments to help us out at all (and I know they can do that, they had me help out another department last year).

Only reason I stayed as long as I did was we had no office so there was no chance of being sent back to an office in the middle of a pandemic (and the year before that I was too exhausted preparing for our wedding), and there was just too many uncertainties for me to want to take a chance elsewhere. Also we were kind of slow that year, so work/life balance was pretty good (not anymore). But I'm fully vaccinated now, and it's time to get the hell out of here.
Because Google isn’t preventing them from doing tracking and other nefarious things. In fact, Google themselves are doing it.
What sort of propulsion mechanisms (even those that are currently physically plausible but entirely outside our technology, so, for example, solar sails or nuclear torchships, but not, say, warp drive) could possibly be used to achieve such a task?
I've tried curcumin. I wasn't impressed. It did little or nothing for me.

From what I am reading, this seems to be an approach that treats symptoms, not cause(s). I think it would be better to ask "What is causing the inflammation?"

Trying to control inflammation without knowing why it exists potentially makes things worse in the long run, even if it provides relief in the short run. This is the fundamental flaw with most medicines: We trade short-term gains for long-term costs, hand wave off the long terms costs and doctors get credit for "curing" your problem short term and wash their hands of long-term side effects, often chalking it up to the underlying condition for which you were nominally being treated.
Both education and religion play a role, but at least in the US religion has a stronger correlation.

The reason why the effect of education in the US is weaker (compared to third world countries) is probably because we require 12 years for all students.
Hmm. My experience off all nighters are typically a work day, all nighter, then the next work day.

That's more like 30 hours.
The Ice-V: a simple, compact RISC-V RV32I implementation in Silice
It’s a “virtuous cycle.”
Not sure why you’re being downvoted — many people would and indeed did find that useful vis a vis Sony’s Aibo. In fact, when those robotic dogs became unrepairable, some people would have a funeral for them: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/03/japan-robot-do...

Many of the dogs are accompanied by notes written by their former owners. “I feel relieved to know there will be a prayer for my Aibo,” one said. Another wrote: “Please help other Aibos. My eyes filled with tears when I decided to say goodbye.”