skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always wondered why perpetual insurance isn’t more popular. It has an interesting model we’re you make a single payment at the start of the policy and claims are paid out from the proceeds of the investment income. You also get your principal back if you ever chancel your policy. Only found out about this after hearing an ad for The Baltimore Equitable Insurance Company a few years back.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_insurance
Also about a third of Amazon's engineers are on a visa. You can transfer jobs but it is never smooth sailing and full of gotchas.
Let's send some boosters out there, redirect it to earth, and make a second moon. Come on people, what ever happened to doing shit cause its fuckin' rad, do you know how cool another moon would be?!
I get that you're trying to help. But when crowdsupply has a specific page that says "contact the product creator" then I kind of expect to get a response using it. Having to tag a specific person on a discord server is in my opinion asking too much from a customer.

But everybody else here seems to have gotten theirs, even the person with the same delivery date as me. So I have a bit more faith in it arriving sooner rather than later
https://archive.is/LgJjx
Disappointingly, it won't do a burnout.

A friend of mine had two Yugos in the late 1980s and was able to achieve a short burnout on one of them. It might have involved jacking up the car, or holding up the rear bumper while someone else revved it up (He had the height and physique of a Kobold)

They were so cheap in every sense of the word. Sticker price was like $4000 or $5000 IIRC for the base model with nothing included.
While reading through the Quake 3 source code, I noticed that whenever the FS functions were reading from a CD, they were doing so in a loop, because the fread/fopen functions instead of hanging and waiting for the CD to spin up sometimes just returned an error. It wasn't just slow, it was also hilarious at times.
> When you need only 4 days of vacation to take one week off, 20 paid vacation days will let you go on vacation for 5 weeks per year, just like like a full-time employee with 25 vacation days.

Sure, but it is contingent on using your vacation allotments at full week increments, which is not the only way vacation days are used. In your hypothetical scenario, since we're in the realm of managerial approvals, you could as well ask for a 1 month unpaid time off which amounts to a nominal %8 pay cut for 20 some days (which is actually less because stock vesting tend not to stop), whereas a 20% time cut only gets you 45 extra non-workdays with more than 20% paycut due to the non-linearities I explained above. Marginal cost of non-workdays are much higher in the latter scenario.

> In fact, if your employer is flexible about which days you work, you could leave on a Friday and return next Monday (4 days) without using any vacation days.

If your employer is flexible you could work 5 days for 4 weeks and take the next week off without vacation days too. It runs through every person's own objective function for sure. I am not saying costs can never outweigh the benefits, but I am trying to draw attention to the cost function which is not usually as well thought through.
It's a pretty interesting take given that Bezos himself is the most entrenched person that Amazon has.
Tight Labor Market Returns the Upper Hand to American Workers
Yes, they went up much, much more, almost double the price increase we're discussing.

Nominal median household income in 2019 was $69k, compared to $42k in 2003, for an increase of 64%[1]. The price inflation figure that the parent comment shared is about a 36% increase in nominal dollars.

Using the parent comment's inflation and ignoring his claimed 25% nominal price decline for the Golf, this means that a new Golf costs a dramatically lower portion of median income.

Whoever told you that real median income has been negative since 2003 has badly misled you. I suggest doing a quick spot-check when you hear a new figure, as these figures are very, very easy to find.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/200838/median-household-... The figures are denominated in 2019 dollars, so I converted the 2003 household income figures to 2003 dollars to get the nominal comparison we're discussing. I used the parent comment's inflation figure for consistency.
Functions compile just-ahead-of-time to native code using LLVM. Functions specialize based on the input types used and use type inference, meaning that in idiomatic Julia code, all types are known at compile time. Finally, Julia uses struct layout similar to static languages like C or Rust.

The trifecta of complete type information, compilation to native code, and efficient data layout, is what makes the difference.

Notably, Julia is not any faster than most static languages, nearly all of whom also use the same trio.
Modern CPU are already able to process chunks larger than 64bits, (eg. AVX-512)

I can see that growing larger over time, in practice it already has with ARM SVE.

Because of that, memory bus width can also grow in a useful way.

But for adressable memory, I don't see it.

64 bits is likely to be the end-game until we use a radically different CPU architecture. (much bigger than the difference between a Z80 and a Xeon)

Of course, predicting the future is notoriously hard, but if you want to make an educated guess, it is better to not expect infinite and monotonous growth. There is always an end-game.
I like their step 4. I think this is what most companies should be doing right now. Remote-first is the only way to truly have equity in the workplace and they're not discounting finding opportunities for employees to collaborate together, but they're not forcing people to collaborate physically in the same place.
All I know about wristwatches is you can tell a faux Rolex from a real one by the faux sweep hands move in increments, while the real one moves smoothly.

I couldn't care less, and wear a cheap Timex because I regularly ruin them (usually by scraping).
I've got SQLite databases in production that are well beyond 100 gigabytes. These size limits are completely meaningless without any background on actual usage patterns & business cases.

There is no arbitrary point in database size (prior to the exact stated maximums [1]) at which SQLite just magically starts sucking ass for no good reason.

In the (very common) case of a single node, single tenant database server, you will never be able to extract more throughput from that box with a hosted solution over a well-tuned SQLite solution running inside the application binary. It is simply impossible to overcome the latency & other overhead imposed by all hosted SQL solutions. SQLite operations are effectively a direct method invocation. Microseconds, if that. Anything touching the network stack will start you off with 10-1000x more latency.

Unless you can prove you will ever need more capabilities than a single server can offer, SQLite is clearly the best engineering choice.

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/limits.html
Have you read the headline ?

They banned an interview with the inventor of mRNA vaccine tech for saying it might be dangerous and needs more caution and study.
I let them know, they’re trying to keep up with the load.

Edit: Should be better now.
You clearly have important and valuable software and engineering skills that our industry's recruiting ability has a hard time activating; I hope that you get healthy soon and, if you chose to, are able to find a job that uses, and rewards these skills appropriately.
The funny thing about a lot of these cross platform Haxe GUI applications is that they are actually made with Electron.

I guess using Haxe means that you could also share libraries with your “real” game code that likely compiles to C++, which could be a big benefit. I just thought it was funny that LDtk could be written in JavaScript and be just as cross-platform as it is.

Other examples of Haxe-Electron apps include the Ogmo level editor and the CastleDB editor.
> controversial opinion here but older cars teach you a healthy fear of operating a 2000lb rolling death machine.

Sure. And what about adding a giant huge metal sharp spike in the windshield pointing directly to the driver's forehead, while we're at it. That should teach people to drive safely.
Thanks! Sure, I'll look into the panel placement issue.
Ah very interesting, this is great to know! Sorry I didn't properly read your initial comment. I'm now quite interested to see what we can do to match or beat Pythran here.

What CPU are you using? I know my CPU, a Zen+ Ryzen 5 2600, is one of the worst modern CPUs for this sort of thing and there's much better scaling on Intel CPUs or the Zen 3 CPUs, but those things are probably also effecting the Pythran code as well.

Is Pythran any good at producing BLAS microkernels?
> something that takes so long to appear must be related to DNA damage

May I ask why? Can't it be some other process that builds up over time?
for no reason in particular except for shits and giggles in the best case, incompetence because their blockchain wasn't ready yet and they never could change the staking model afterwards in the worst case

the distinction people care about is whether transaction finality depends on Ethereum or not. it doesn't.

validators merely activate their status as a node by doing a random assortment of things, which in this case happens to include moving assets on the Ethereum network. that's it.

the part about delegation is irrelevant.
What if we crash landed into it? That would probably tick the irreversible box. Clearly engineering difficulties quite high though!
Reminds me a little of the Nintendo 64. 64 bits was a marketing gimmick, and even now, most applications barely need 64-bit memory or precision.
There were several name complaints and several jokes and they formed the bulk of the initial comments. The complaint that triggered me to write this comment has been deleted since I made my comment and it looks like a couple of others have been deleted as well.
While I can understand that with something visible and/or obvious like seatbelts, airbags and anti-lock brakes, does the average driver have any idea how safe their car is in a rollover collision? I have a 2003 and a 2020 car, and from the outside, the A-pillars look the same. (from the inside, the 2020 A-pillar looks bigger, but I always assumed that was because it has an airbag). I certainly couldn't tell you which one would be safer in a rollover (and I don't intend to find out)
Stream loading is another technique that's used to reduce load time. You start loading data for the next level as the player approaches a boundry and you let them enter the next level before all of the assets(ussally textures) have finished loading.
TLDR:

> Petitioner’s diarrhea, originally caused by the innate immune response [to the vaccine], failed to resolve and progressed to UC as a result of the later adaptive immune response, which was part of the continuum triggered by the vaccine. This progression occurred about a week later, as evidenced by the onset of bloody stools, which is within the time frame medically expected for a T-cell mediated response. In closing, the court commented that he was impressed that Petitioner’s treating physician took the time to research and prepare a report supporting her vaccine claim and spend a day in court testifying. The court noted that the treater had the opportunity to view the evolution of the disease and the bowel itself at surgery, and drew upon his immunology training from a transplant residency to develop a reasonable theory to explain how the vaccine could and did trigger the disease.

I think the comments at the end of the post are particularly eye-opening—many people coming out of the woodwork to attest that they or their children have had experiences similar to the Petitioner’s.
Napa Valley Feud Pits Real-Estate Startup Against Homeowners
Why do you disagree with the fact that a billion year old civilization will have overcome aging ? It does not seem all that far-fetched to me, there may be species out there that are composed completely different than any life we have here on earth.
Not sure I agree. The tone from the top varies quite a lot across big tech companies, and sets the tone for the culture of the teams. Then within that context, a lot depends on your team, your manager, your ability to connect with stakeholders in the company, and the problem you’re working on.

I work at Shopify, and while we have had intense projects, I haven’t experienced anything like what’s described here about Amazon. Shopify, culturally, is quite different than other large tech companies I’ve worked at. It’s opinionated about tooling instead of dozens of things that do the same thing. We emphasize sustainably doing work and not burning people out. After all, why would we want to burn people out when we want to retain them? We emphasize “building for the long term” and to do that we do seem to put people first. One example, a colleague of mine has been out nearly 10 months on parental leave. And nobody has batted an eye.
Likewise in the UK - Nissan leaf is about £300/month or about 415USD.

I feel like leasing in the UK is not a good deal, at least to me. I think a fair amount of people outside of tech get a company car allowance that probably props up prices a bit - I don't see why anyone else would pay these rates unless they absolutely must have a new car Vs a used one
Inflation Disproportionately Hurts the Poor
It does come with this backdoor, and I don't think it is necessary for Google Play to function. The client could be written so that it won't install a new app without user consent. IIUC that doesn't really affect Google Play's main functionality.
Like someone else has mentioned. The old fart tool is literal proof of the extremely high turn over rate. From my own experience checking the tool it showed that over %50 of people have been fired or left the company in just 1 year. I suspect that you’re astroturfing.
Good advice about managers, it sounds like it may take a while to settle down and find a team that fits. It's good that you have been able to find a manager and team that actually works as a, well, team.

> IIRC, in US salaried tech employees can effectively have unlimited unpaid overtime as a specific exemption.

Yeah I see that daily with my dad working from home. He works at a local newspaper (wait those still exist?) doing stuff with maps, datavis and page layout/design. He works probably twice the amount of hours he gets paid for early morning until late at night, and can never take time off even with his measly "paid vacation time" allotment. He somehow manages to trudge along, which is unimaginable to me. Generational difference? Or maybe I just don't have the full picture yet
I have taught for multiple years in a southern state in the US within Behavior Support units for the "emotionally disturbed or distracted students." These classes range from neurotypical, ADHD, autism spectrum, to learning disabilities.
These students being the so called "bullies and disruptive kids" many people in this thread have directly judged as poor ROI and "not worthwhile."

Many of these comments trivialize the complex issues surrounding the school system. They widdle down the problem to "lazy teachers", "not worthwhile" students, and "teacher unions" as a few examples. These comments also ignore contributing factors that happen outside the school system, such as homelife, cultural and societal shifts, economic and technological gaps, and policy changes, which in effect directly impact how the school system behaves.

I'm chiming in to this discussion because I have first hand experience from me and my peers, troves of data collected on students' performances (not anonymized, so I can't dispense it), funding resources and student allocation receipts, and ample secondary resources from my peers that mostly corroborate the experiences many teachers are forced into within poorly managed and maintained school systems.

I think overall the school system is an easy lumbering target to hit with our worries and hatreds. Corrupt or inept school boards, poorly functioning officials and administration making ineffective changes that seem to directly or indirectly impact students' lives and their potential future prospects. Teachers who are "lazy and uninterested" who are "unwilling to work harder at representing students within a fading, failing American school system."
I think many of these comments come from not understanding school systems' inner workings, and more importantly, not knowing what the inside of a classroom is like on a daily, weekly, monthly, yearly basis.

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> Government needs to be humble about the reality that the adversary will always be smarter and willing to work harder.

But often the lawmakers themselves exploit these loopholes. A big part of the problem is that the "adversary" includes the people making the law, which does not create well-aligned incentives.
Eh, I know people who work in insurance (Cali specifically) and auto insurance is not their bread winner. It's _heavily_ regulated, and not in the insurer's favor. So any supposed "collusion" isn't really helping them. If you're with a reputable company and took the time to set up your policy optimally, your auto insurance ends up being about as good a deal as you're going to get anywhere.

(FYI, the real steak and potatoes in that industry is life insurance policies. They can make more on that than anything else combined.)
In highly litigious cultures like the USA, wouldn’t a city be wary of attracting lawsuits from people with bee-sting allergies for putting them at supposed risk?
What does “last longer than their useful life” mean? I’d imagine that useful life is ~= how long they last.
We don't even have 64-bit computers today. Look at the specs of your hardware and you will realize it's actually running on significantly smaller address buses. Evidence: smaller powers of two showing up in maximum support specs.

What we have are 64-bit instruction sets, which could have been used in the 16-bit era if we had wanted to for some reason. The real difference between 64 and 32 bit architectures is that when they went to 64, they said "who cares if we waste a few bits in pointers, we'd rather never have another change in pointer sizes." It represents no longer trying to shave every bit off of memory representations of code and data.
I see your point, I'm just saying that for many people viable alternatives already exist. But I understand completely that not everyone can (or is willing to) make the tradeoffs needed.

Btw, I hear FairPhone 3+ with e.foundation OS is a good choice too, if you want to avoid Google but still need Android. No first hand experience though, and it's still a few hundred euros.
> PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. is a credit institution (or bank) authorised and supervised by Luxembourg’s financial regulator

So PayPal "EU" is actually just the Luxembourg Bank PayPal LU which is a subsidiary of the US Holdings.

I'm not a lawyer but it seems PayPal LU just facilitates transfer of funds from EU accounts to PayPal Holdings US. Once the funds are in the US, they are subject to US law.

The blocking statue protects EU Operators from having to comply with 3rd party regulations. But since PayPal LU is simply facilitating transfer of money from the EU to your PayPal account which is in the US, PayPal isn't a 3rd party to the transaction and thus has to comply with US sanctions.
To use more information, you make more granular risk pools. The pools need to ne large enough to actually pull risk.

If you try to ise 10 pieces of information with 10 possible values each, that could give you 10 billion risk pools, i.e. individual person. Alternatively 33 Yes/No questions alsp let you identify an insividual person on planet earth.

Having "individual" insurance has no real meaning, because at that point its not spreading risk.
This reminds me in the poison plot of the Nakam group:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakam

The water supplies are just one example - so much in our civilization rests on trust. I think it would be better to accept that there is no absolute safety and the only thing that will make us collectively safer is to create and maintain good and peaceful relations.
> switched companies just to follow a great manager.

This is gold. I'm starting to realize (20 years in) that who you work with, and for, makes the difference. I really need to make this a priority for my next gig.
Yes. We've put that in the title above.
There's no way to tell if stocks going up is a bubble or not. But if you never invest when stocks are going up, you'll never make money.
> your airbag-less vehicle was the same model they sold "everywhere"

Yeah everywhere they sold the Defender, they sold it without airbags. That's always what I said, and it's true.

> I never contested that you bought some bizarrely outdated vehicle in the UK in 2009

You said 'your vehicle was sold in no first-world nations'. This a demonstrably untrue statement, because it was sold in at least the UK.
You'd think that, wouldn't you? Yet here I am, someone who grew up thinking computers were obtuse and boring because getting the computer to do anything interesting seemed like it would require knowing a thousand things not related to the issue at hand. I was always a mechanically minded person, so while the inner workings of things seemed interesting, making toy websites (the entry level computer thing to do in that time period) seemed about as interesting as watching paint dry.

But here I am, working as a software engineer and half way through my MSc in computer science. It took a couple of low level microcontroller classes in my mechanical engineering undergrad for me to see the light.
I'm guessing they came down on the wrong side of belts vs. bots?
> The problem is, video is not a proof

I agree, but a video is the minimal "proof" anyone will ask, even if it's not a proof.

Anyway, you must write a much more clear explanation of the experimental setup.
The physical product has to be linked to this chain of purchase records tho. How do you tell, given just a chip, that it has a corresponding chain of records? Whatever solution you give me, what stops counterfeiters from reuse as well?
Ok, but please don't respond to just the headline. That just perpetuates the shallowness.
A little off topic, but I bought a new Macbook Pro with the M1 chip with 8GB of RAM, and I'm worried about the swap usage of this machine wearing out the SSD too quickly. Is this an actual concern, as my swap has been in the multiple GB range with my use?
I’m not sure “norms” are avoidable. How many posts do we see to various github issues where people haven’t been “delighted” with the maintainer’s response?

We are highly defensive of the rights that floss/copyleft licences grant us, but highly dismissive of the “no implied warranty” verbiage that goes with them. That appears to be this maintainer’s issue.

And it does come at a cost. There’s a very strong chance his next project won’t be floss/copyleft.
> The other study that concerns me shows that the vaccine’s lipid nanoparticles— which carry the RNA instructions for the spike protein — move beyond the deltoid muscle they’re injected into and accumulate in other tissues, and seem to accumulate in ovarian tissue preferentially.

This is really nasty, I'm inhaling litres of it per year while vaping.
This is often jocularly called lithobraking and is typically not advisable.
I don't think Saturn comes that close, should be 8 AU at best, given that perihelion is at 9 AU.
On the History of the Artificial Womb (2019)
I don't see how gamblers make you lose out.
Very cool.

On a side note if anyone is looking at the license for forking / contributing it's GPLv3 (As of time of writing.) Really wish it was under MIT or the very least v2.