skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, then iPhones and iPads are computers meant for a subset of the functionality of laptops and desktop computers. The point remains. If it isn’t designed and meant to be used the way you want, it’s simply not the device for you and you should seriously consider rooting a phone or tablet with a mobile OS that you can control down to the code level.
This is another case of an open source developer choosing a license for personal gain instead of the good of the community. People blindly choose MIT/BSD licenses for personal benefit need to understand what they are allowing. They reap the rewards with recognition, jobs (companies seeing you as an open source developer), praise, or in the case of companies, developer mindshare. But then someone does something the license allows but the author doesn't like, and suddenly the person obeying the license is at wrong.

Point is, understand what you are allowing with your license choice and accept that you are okay with everything it allows. If you don't want to allow something, include it in the license.
windows release contains both 32 and 64bit versions, it's indeed a waste to ship both in a single file..
A man walks into an auto parts store and says "Can I get a rear-view mirror for my Yugo?"

The clerk thinks for a minute and then says "Seems like a fair trade to me".
The magnitude of the slingshot boost increases with the mass of the planetary body. This thing is smaller than any of the planets so you’d get a much smaller boost. The best planet for slingshotting from is Jupiter because it’s the most massive.
Many previous submissions, but the meaningful threads appear to be:

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21735528 - Dec 2019 (82 comments)

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13790954 - March 2017 (81 comments)

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13217129 - Dec 2016 (11 comments)

If the Moon Was Only 1 Pixel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12038584 - July 2016 (4 comments)

If the moon were only 1 pixel: a scale model of the solar system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7551423 - April 2014 (17 comments)

If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341690 - March 2014 (178 comments)
There is no benefit in reporting it. I would lose my job and visa.
It can reduce the delta-V requirements, though - by the same principles as a gravity assist, a capture burn (especially into a loosely-bound planet-centric orbit) often takes less work than burning into the equivalent heliocentric orbit on your own.
> with mini saying it’s illegal

In the U.S., it is illegal to advocate for it while on a jury. It’s also standard for potential jurors to be asked about it in an indirect way.

As long as we have juries, nullification will exist. It’s a bad mechanism for the rule of law, however. And if a judge suspects nullification is afoot, they will generally call a mistrial.
https://archive.is/IqKd9
Anyone that doesn't use a language aware editor is making themselves a disservice.
Had a relatively similar experience (finally understood what drinking out of a firehose meant), the silver lining of the experience though is it finally dispelled any notion of imposter syndrome when I realized everyone was running around as much of a headless chicken as myself ahah
Welfare disproportionately goes to the poor for these sorts of reasons.
I don't agree with all you say but you do write well. And I don't read to be agreed with; I read to learn the errors of my way. There are many many writer groups and they are cheap to join. The trick to writing is to write, which you clearly do. The second trick to writing is to quit caring what others think; if you write to speak truth to yourself, others will read it. The previous post did not sound like sarcasm to me, so you may have a little self-confidence problem. A writer's group will help you with that. They can also teach you how to market your product ... but real writers write because they must, not for the external rewards. You were not being overly melodramatic; you were speaking truth. Others can like it or not, but they can't tell you that you are "wrong."

Your clear strength (as I see it) is that you think in nerd but don't need a translator to be able to speak to civilians. That is a gift. It would serve you well if you opened a small computer store. It will serve you well if you choose to write.

Go get 'em.
People who want to make that distinction often describe the KT event as “extinction of non-avian dinosaurs”. It still glosses over the fact that the extinction impacts many other life forms that it hits the high notes while getting across the idea that birds are still dinosaurs.
Disclaimer: I work for GM, anything expressed here is solely my own opinion.

"They don't make them like they used to!" - does anyone remember hearing this?

I'm surprised that no one has commented that 12 year is the AVERAGE. The population likely follows a long tail distribution. I'd love to have access to the dataset.

Some other implications:

The market for some cars has eaten it's own tail, and this is likely to be a progressive phenomenon - Sedans and small cars are still on the road in large numbers even as manufacturers reduce production on these models. If a manufacturer cannot sell a new car at a high enough price point, it does not make sense to stay in that business. This drives up the average price for new cars, as the market for lower cost cars has moved to primarily used cars.

Manufacturers make money on used cars in a few ways - repair parts and service is the biggest. I don't have access to privileged information about this, but I can only imagine that as EVs roll out Monthly Recurring Revenue will only become more important.
Nah, we'll garnish your wages or put a lien on your house or something.

Lots of insurance plans require some due diligence to actually be covered. If a driver is reckless, they could be on the hook for the full amount of damages.
'Black Boxes' to Be Mandatory for Cars in Europe from 2022
Nice to see the watch faces page using the Web Bluetooth API!
There's no perfect answer. Could you make enough from the private classes if you did them full time?

If not, and if your goal is to start your own business, I'd say that you need to have free time to work on it. It's generally not the best idea to quit your job without having something lined up for your business idea and without traction, so I wouldn't quit just yet.

Like you said, going for a more "conventional" company is also an option, as it'd give you more free time to work on your side project while still earning money to finance it.

If it was me I'd do this last option, I think it's the most balanced solution. Just be selective in choosing the company as you also don't want to feel demotivated with your main job.
See this paper from 2017, The unwritten contract of solid state drives: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3064176.3064187
This reminds me of the "Universe in a Nutshell" app which also attempts to visualise the various scales of the universe.

https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/products/universe-in-a-nutshe...
Maybe that's the next step.

I would just give up and get some other job with less requirements, but I don't know what that would be. There were a few sales jobs that I was considering.
There's a lot of problems with reproducible builds. Filesystem paths, timestamps, deterministic build order to say the least. This is a pretty great achievement and I'm looking forward to a non-minimal stable ISO.
NASA and the Soviets didn't need any wonder materials, just airbags. (Though they did a lot of braking first - either with the atmosphere for NASA at Mars, or with thrusters for the Soviets at the Moon.)
I don't even have kids, but I'm having trouble finding the time for all the interviews and coding tests (and now some people are wanting me to record video of myself also).

Work is really busy right now (and only getting busier, there will be no good time for me to quit here), and I could get away with an scheduled 'appointment' hour here and there, but there's four people wanting to schedule hour long interviews during work hours next week and Amazon is wanting me to complete a 2.5 hour coding assessment on top of that and my boss is denying my requests for days off, so...I don't know what to do.

I know I don't want to work here anymore, but I also don't know how to squeeze in even a handful of interviews without completely tipping my hand to my former boss, and I'd rather not quit before I have a new job in hand (and I also know if I put in my two weeks notice now I'd just be even busier at work with KT but I'm already in the middle of the interview process with several places now).

I hate the tech interview process.
This is why public health insurance is so important and why I feel so lucky to be covered by one: my brother had brain hypoxia during birth and even in a country (Spain) with a solid public system it places considerable personal and financial strain on our family.

I don't know about your legal system but in Spain at least it must be proved by the insurer that if you lie about a previous condition that lie is directly related to the payment they are trying to deny you.
Will this disturb longterm orbiting bodies (with exotic orbits) and drive them into the inner system, without the guardians able to catch?
If security starts to depend more and more on a random address NOT being real addressable memory the move to 128 bits may come sooner rather than later.

I suspect it’ll happen because a 128 bit wide bus will be useful for calculations.
You have reversed the logical sequence.

You can't know how efficient a vaccine is without a trial. You need an authorization first to do that. But you wouldn't get an authorization if something exists, even "only" 70% better, because that 70% would make Covid less lethal than the yearly flu.

Hence 70% is enough to block emergency vaccines trial authorization.
But these buses are also significantly larger than 32-bit. Picking one randomly, the Cortex-A72 has a 44-bit PA which is in the multiple terabyte range.
> You can't be captured by a planet's gravity alone

Technically, this isn't completely true. There are gravity assist techniques that will allow you to dump speed by essentially adding your momentum to the object you are trying to orbit. The is basically an anti-slingshot manuever.

In practice, I believe the range of scenarios when this is possible with a dwarf planet is so small as to be practically useless.
For comparison, that's about 10% of the Moon's diameter, i.e. 0.1% of its volume. (The mass ratios are probably within that 0.1% ballpark, but can't tell for sure until we know more about its composition.)
My guess would be that, growing up in the culture you would be expected to have a better knowledge of what constitutes good food for your culture,moreso than having learned how to cook, say, Italian food from a cookbook.
I'm not sure even 18 exabytes would be enough memory for that.
> ...I'm there because I got fooled and plan to quit very soon, when graciously (not screw team-mates) feasible, because it's just a waste of time that could be spent helping positive efforts in healthy orgs.

Quit now, and encourage your teammates to do likewise. I understand where you're coming from, but the attitude you have can be a source of exploitation (e.g. using loyalty to peers to keep you while the org screws all of you more).
In my experience:

1) Make a goal: we should get paged for at most N incidents per week. That goal should be closer to 0 than 10 IMO.
2) Track stats on this goal, both in aggregate and broken down by cases you think you can address separately. Example: tickets from alarms vs tickets filed by people. Alarms having to do with external dependencies vs alarms caused by your own bugs. Don't just make this a "it seems like we've had fewer pages lately" thing. Real numbers.
3) Review these stats on a graph every week. Someone should have an explanation of why they have spiked, why they haven't dropped, the breakdown of problem type, etc. There should be congratulations when they drop and a request for plans when they don't.
4) have management that can communicate upwards to leadership that ops improvement is a priority for your team and that you ultimately won't be able to continue other feature development if you are always mired in ops pain and people are either busy with mundanity or driven to leave the team.
5) dedicate time in each sprint to working on the most recent identified target from plans made in #3.

This isn't particularly complicated, and typing it out almost sounds like I'm giving you worthless common sense advice, but I think the key here is that multiple levels of your organization need to commit to making this important enough to spend time reviewing it, agree it is a priority, and put actual dedicated dev work into it.

edit: formatted so indented list is readable on mobile. I have no idea how to do this without a code block. HN, please make this easier :)
'Let them eat cake'
Hah, sorry. Ive always found their articles to have the least fluff on the topic, despite the awful awful website.
If cheap energy is the issue, bitcoin could eventually become a support program for clean energy:

https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth

One exciting technology which is underdeveloped is near-shore wave power, like the Pelamis Wave Energy converter:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYzocwUfpNg

It is in fact not commercially ready but what makes it really really interesting that wave power propagates in space and time to the shore, and therefore decouples the capture of the energy from its place and time of origin. This makes it an ideal filler for wind and solar, for times when the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine. It is also a good supplemental option for countries in the roaring fifties of latitudes, like Scotland, Norway, Canada, Argentina.
You're counting the years per bit incorrectly, the comment you reply to gets it right - the new generation is needed when the current space runs out, not when the next limit is needed in its entirety. So the ~18 years you mention are the time from needing 33 bit addresses to needing 49 bit addresses. (And 7 years is the time from needing the 9th bit of address space to needing the 17th).
Your thoughts are in the right place. Reuse old Android devices for this purpose. Could be one very phat app :)
That's a good approach; I looked around what to sow or plant; here is a site with useful information: http://hummelgarten.ch/dokumente/ (mostly German, but there are also a few English documents).
Realistically, the expectations for technical competence for a senior engineer are going to be higher at a huge successful tech behemoth like Amazon or Google than most smaller companies (though maybe not tech start ups), especially non-tech ones.
There isn't a correct plural for 'octopus' because it's a Greek word filtered into English by way of Latin and so you can make a reasonable argument for basically any option.

If language evolution followed strict deterministic rules, then it probably would be "octopodes", but that's not the case - language changes and grows in all sorts of different ways and words become valid despite their "pedigree".

As your link says, "sources differ on which plurals are acceptable"; there's no single correct option and basically all of the suggested ones are in reasonably-common usage.
I used to think the same thing, but now that I work on SSD-based storage systems, I'm not sure this holds up in today's storage stacks. Log structuring really helped with HDDs since it meant fewer seeks.

In particular, the filesystem tends to undo a lot of the benefits you get from log-structuring unless you are using a filesystem designed to keep your files log-structured. Using huge writes definitely still helps, though.

A paper that I really like goes deeper into this: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jhe/eurosys17-he.pdf

Edit: I had originally said "designed for flash" instead of "designed to keep your files log-structured." F2FS is designed for flash, but in my testing does relatively poorly with log-structured files because of how it works internally.

Edit 2: de-googled the link. Thank you for pointing that out.
Even if the external addressable memory is 48 bits the internal representation of the virtual addresses may be 64 bit.
The scale is pretty accurate and all, but why is there giant text in space?
of those 64 bits, many are used for tagging pointers with certain attributes (PAC security codes, allocation flags, etc)

We have so many uses for pointer tagging we really ought to have more.
Perhaps it can pull a trailer?
The code has to be changed so that things like system specific paths, time of compilation, hardware, etc. Don’t cause the compiled program to be unique to that computer (meaning compiling the same code on a different computer will give you a file that still works but has a different md5 hash)

By being able to reproduce the file completely, down to identical md5 hashes, you know you have the same file the creator has, and know with certainty that the file has not been tampered with
No? They let you unlock your car from a distance. This is of pretty questionable utility in the first place, since you can't benefit from the unlocking without being next to the car, but it worked then just as well as it works now.
Of all the dissidents, Ross best embodies the character of my generation. He took technology and built something good. He didn't just bitch into the ether, he put his politics and beliefs into action in a wonderful way.

He also paid the highest price, and has my highest gratitude.

Ross will always be my kind of dissenter.
The presence of natural satellites indicates this can indeed happen. It just requires a pretty unlikely orbital configuration.
I believe it is when you review your colleagues, they review you and your manager collates all the reviews to access your performance. Some places allow you to nominate who you want to provide your review, perhaps people you worked closely with the last couple of months etc.
Pelamis Wave Energy Converter generating electricity off the coast of Portugal
> Toilet paper and showers are not necessities.

Bacteria will form on your skin and can lead to infection. Maybe that's the answer to population growth, never shower or excercise good hygiene measures therefore increasing mortality rates.

We don't need to clean our teeth either right? We can lower food consumption through that too.

Very, very strange replies.
I disagree. There's no technical reason SUV and pickup truck front bumper design is so dangerous. People just prefer that design because it looks more appealing.

"When a car strikes a cyclist, the initial impact causes severe lower-body trauma, but it’s also likely to sweep that person’s legs out from underneath them. This is significant, because as the rider slides up the hood, they’re scrubbing speed and, with it, some impact force. An SUV or truck, by contrast, is taller, so the initial impact is likely to target the pelvis or even the chest. “That momentum is carried through your body,” says Hu. In addition, the front-end shape of a vehicle is vital. More than 85 percent of fatalities among pedestrians and cyclists hit by cars and light trucks involve impacts from the front of the vehicle, according to 2017 data from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. Modern truck and full-size SUVs favor blocky, muscular styling at the front end, rather than the more gently sloping transition from grille to hood that cars and some compact SUVs have. Instead of sliding onto the hood when hit by a truck, the rider’s pelvis and torso rotate with a twisting, tearing motion. With a squared-off front end, Hu says, “it’s basically the person wrapping around the vehicle.”"

https://www.outsideonline.com/2411345/suvs-trucks-deadly-cyc...
Have an upvote. How f*king lazy do you need to be to link to a tweet instead of the actual article! What next? Are people going to start commenting here via emojis?
Yeah, but I remember when computers had 1KB RAM, and 64KB was more than the largest mainframe and seemed insanely massive.

And then there was the time, a handful of years later, when "No one will ever need more than 640KB".

And then 4GB was stupidly massive, and no-one could want, let alone afford, that much RAM.

The same with CPU clockspeed (my first computer ran at 2MHz), storage capacity (I paid several thousand dollars for my first 5MB hard drive).

Which is not to say that the curve won't flatten out as we approach the number of atoms in the universe, but ... there's never quite enough of anything.
> Why should individuals that live for themselves and don't share the same values as you do suffer because of your decisions?

This is an argument against eating octopuses. Why should they suffer because of your decisions?
Arguably, the Ethereum VM is a 256 bit computer which could see a hardware implementation.
Wouldn't the root of the problem be how much insurance is mandatory? If it wasn't then people just wouldn't buy it if they never actually paid out
Compared to smaller/less prestigious/non-tech companies, a certain level at Amazon/Google/FB will generally come with a higher expectation for technical competence, as well as more comp -- even an L4, mid level engineer at Google makes like 250k. So someone who's a "Senior Software Engineer" from some rando firm in the Midwest may still be doubling their salary or more.

The extreme version of this is being CTO as a startup of 10 people vs CTO at a company of 10,000.
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The NFTs aren't really needed though, a manufacturer could just have a "scan this item with your phone to see if it's genuine" app and that would be sufficient.

Again, the problem of a centralised ledger comes back.
Love the Female/Male symbols for Venus and Mars, nice touch
Another reason to have insurance: you are required by law, or contract. In the US at least you need liability auto insurance if own a car, you have to pay a tax penalty if you don't have health insurance, many apartments require you to have some level of renters insurance, if you have a mortgage you are almost certainly required to have homeowners insurance, and possibly mortgage insurance depending on the size of your downpayment. And then there is title insurance, rather expensive insurance that you have to pay in case the company you are paying to research the title makes a mistake.
Like what advantages? Julia is a "general purpose language" too, every bit as much as any of those other languages. It all boils down to the availability of polished utility libraries, and I don't exactly think Common Lisp or Racket have an indisputable edge there.
Look for unbiased meta-analyses on this topic. I haven't found any evidence that diets can cure or significantly modify MS disease progression.

I'm affected by it so believe me if I say that I really wanted to find something reassuring, but the evindence is just not there.
> My feeling on those who use LeetCode as some sort of indicator.

I'm fine if you need me to at least demonstrate _basic_ competency with a few simple Leetcode questions. There are a LOT of candidates who don't actually know what they're doing (either they're new or incompetent). It's okay for you to make sure that I have half a clue of what I'm doing. The problem becomes when Leetcode is used as an actual measurement of competency ceiling.

The best engineers I work with would completely fail at Leetcode challenges because they've found easier, simpler ways to implement something.

For example, anything that lodash provides is Leetcode/HackerRank under the hood (not a dig a lodash, just the type of problems Leetcode tends to ask about). I would expect a senior engineer to be able to replicate any of that code, but I'd first expect them to know that it's not worth their time to replicate that code. Instead, they should find a well tested tool instead.