skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon has a lot money. These practices make them additional money. If they didn't have a lot of money they couldn't afford to hire to fire.

How can they do both?
- They waste money when they hire to fire and constantly onboard.
- They make money by not staffing enough resources but by using fear of being fired to force overtime.

Maybe the hire to fire costs are justified because the savings they get by understaffing outweights the cost.
So, if your spouse or other person you care for sets out in storm when travel is not advised, we need check if you have finances to pay before we send the search team? This is the slippery slope.

What other things in your life where you've not taken due diligence do we assess costs? If you want the fire department to come to your house have you had your monthly fire safety inspection? The list can go on and on.
Well, yes… If you search Superstonk, it proves a bunch of Superstonk users have left.

But I also linked to an article in Fortune, suggesting 56% of users want to leave. This was not a survey of Superstonk users.

Until they release any numbers, the best we can do is speculate. However it seems to me that RH’s reputation was significantly damaged as a result of this.

They also have an ongoing class-action lawsuit from retail investors to sort out.

Just type “Robinhood review” in to Google, and you’ll see this extends far beyond the Reddit echo-chamber.
I think it's some exceptions for 'rugged' vehicles.
You don't even have to look as recently as AVX; 128-bit wide operations were introduced with SSE, in the Pentium III over 2 decades ago.
Each time I set up a new project, I reevaluate the tools I use:

Is there a new major version?
Is my configuration obsolete?
Is there a better tool for the job?

That's how I switched from nyc to c8 for example (test coverage). Or when I upgrade hugo. Or look at new versions of Typescript, Bulma etc...

If I had a template (which is a fancy word for copy-pasting), I wouldn't do that and slowly but surely my stack would be out of date.

Starting a new project is the moment when you reconsider your previous choices.
The first artificial womb for humans (2019)
Vouchers aren’t about letting the privileged few opt out, not more so than the current system anyway. And shooting down vouchers without a better plan for improving the current system is just prolonging a system that is bad for everyone (mostly the poor).
Really cool, great improvement!
Continued from above:

Let's start at the top with administration. I'm not going to speak in detail on administration actions because my expertise is within the classroom and working the policy decisions made by school boards and administration into my daily lessons.
Over the course of my career as an educator (27 years) I have had 16 different principals. Teachers call this the "admin churn." This is when budgeting experts and superintendents look at collected data on schools and make decisions about what schools need from a budgetary and grade performance standpoint. Out of this comes the decisions to move principals and assistant principals around the county to "help increase or stabilize" schools' performances. This leadership churn is devastating to morale. The devastation comes from having to relearn an entirely new leadership's expectations and personality. This churn can happen at any time, the beginning, middle or the end of the year. This churn has a deleterious effect on teachers' morale because teachers who settle-in and get their classes following the codes and ethics of the school are suddenly given new guidelines to teach students. These guidelines, much of the time, upend the previous guidelines already established in the classroom. That means curriculum must be placed to the side and the new school guidelines are taught.
It's important to note that teaching guidelines is not as simple as telling students "these are the new guidelines. Please follow them." Instead it can take weeks or months, depending on grade level, to incorporate new guidelines into a classroom. This is due to how children and young adults ingest information. This accounts for mostly all students, including neuro-divergent students. All information must be practiced and students reminded hundreds, possibly thousands of times as a group or as individuals before information becomes concrete.
A fantastic example of concretififaction are the mask mandates we recently went through in our country. Getting students, whether in highschool, middle, or elementary to wear masks required a bunch of practice and reminders.
In my county, admin changed the rules partially through the school year at the behest of the school board's policy decisions. At one point students in my county had to wear face shields and masks, then just face shields, then just face masks, then back to both. All this change paused academics mostly so that the mask mandates could be incorporated into the classroom.
This is a small example of how policy decisions from the top directly impact teachers and students, yet these same policy decisions can have a consequential effect on important structures like school lunches, students grades, teacher teaching styles, and funding allocation.
https://archive.is/oXonX
What about the Transmeta chips? Were they not 128 bit?
Sorry to hear about your awful job, is this only in engineering or does it affect professional services like solutions architects etc too?
We may end up with 128-bit pointers even without a "true" 128-bit architecture. For example, CHERI has 128-bit pointers with 64-bit address space and 64 bits of metadata to crash harder on memory bugs in C and C++:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
They did not; they just quoted a Wikipedia article on x86. But then, if you ignore everything but x86 the argument is much weaker, because technology did not stop and wait for Intel.

It would not be that surprising if x86 ceases to be dominant in the future, at which point when the x86 became 64-bit is about as relevant as, say, the release of the PowerPC 620 (first 64-bit PPC chip, released in 1997).
The point of the system is that engineers operate what they own, that's fundamentally different from SRE. It allows for significantly greater organizational decoupling. At Google, they had to go through an entire ceremony just to get Rust into the monorepo (I actually don't know if they ever ended up doing that outside of the Fuschia repos) while at Amazon someone just created a build script that wraps cargo and now AWS heavily uses Rust for several control plane systems and Firecracker. This kind of agility is not easily possible with an SRE system.
In certain domains, people will immediately recognize the symbols for delta, lambda, mu...etc. That's how they're written in the textbooks and academic white papers and so on. Seeing the English word is actually more confusing.
The lack of investment into decreasing on-call pain is a real factor. I work on Oracle cloud (OCI) and at least some of the orgs (VP-down) have figured out that this is something worth focusing on, and the on-call gets better and better as a result. My original team had an average of something like 50 pager-worthy (sev2) events per week until we got moved into a new org that had the right philosophy and we relentlessly drove that down because management realized that engineers made miserable by mundane ops fake-emergencies would eventually get fed up and leave, and that's not what they wanted (afaik, OCI has no such forced attrition). So we got put on a program of relentlessly tracking and categorizing the sev2 counts and committing to improving those numbers over a period of time. 25% of dev sprints were dedicated to improving ops (tools, better alarms, fixing long-backlogged bugs that led to pages), and now that team's ops are pretty easy and they are free to work on new features, which everyone prefers. I've since moved to another team whose ops had already had this optimization done, and I've never experienced a bad week of on call there.

I won't pretend OCI is a panacea (lol google oracle cloud toxic work environment for latest stories) but at least they don't lack this particular piece of wisdom. The sheer number of regions they plan to operate doesn't really allow them to ignore dumb ops problems.
That is doubtful. We don't shadowban established accounts: we tell them why we're banning them and why: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Shadowbanning on HN, at least for the last 7 years, has been reserved for spammers and serial trolls. It's possible that we made a mistake and neglected to tell you, but it's far more likely that we did tell you.

We don't ban people for criticizing PG, as anyone can easily see for themselves by using HN Search or looking at any recent thread from paulgraham.com.

If you're going to make a claim about why you think you were banned, you should provide a link so readers can make up their own minds. When it comes to "I was banned" stories, people say all kinds of things, most of which don't hold up against the actual record.
How do you explain the high turn over rate that can be easily seen using the old fart tool?
There's some potential for embedding unique steganographic watermarks (or natural variation, like non-silicon PUFs) into physical items and linking them to the blockchain but it's currently hypothetical.
For now they're calling it 2014 UN271. It's got a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_UN271

I suppose it'll get named soon.
I would have said Greco-Roman values and the enlightenment?
How does it compare to zapatos?
West Africa has a long history of border closures when one head of state doesn’t much like another. Trade doesn’t really tempt nations to open to their neighbours, because so much of the international trade on which the coastal countries of the region depend is through container shipping from China or other far-flung places, not from the people next door.
> I personally believe that I will definitely make less than I do now.

It's not so much about whether you'll make less or not, but if you'll make enough less to land in a lower tax bracket to take advantage of the deferral. And avoid dying and having to pay tax on it all at once (unless you can shift it to your spouse, but then they may have a high income problem too, negating the benefit of the deferral).

RSPs can be great, but I think they're oversold to the working class as a tax advantage.
Yes, we should severely inconvenience people who are _doing the right thing_ by taking public transit so that bad drivers who can't stop checking their phones won't main/kill themselves and others.
North American Inland Seaway
If you have an old enough car, and are willing to pay the cost to replace if it you get into an accident, you can drop the comprehensive and collision coverage. This makes my old 2003 car cheaper to insure than my 2020 car, though I'm taking a bit extra financial risk, so it's not an apples to apples comparison.
More than 64GB? Because that's the limit of PAE introduced with the Pentium Pro (36-bit address bus), which was otherwise considered a 32-bit processor.
> Failing that they could release their project under a non-free license that restricts redistribution in a way that excludes NixOS.

He wasn't happy with Fedora doing it either. It's a matter of redistribution, not a matter of NixOS.

> I don't understand what their intent was in requesting that the NixOS packagers voluntarily give up rights that the author had explicitly granted them, via the MIT License.

The author isn't proposing software that a person might use to solve a problem. He's part of a project (Home Automation) that provides a service, and writes tools to that end. People who fundamentally see themselves as providing a service prefer precisely specified, first party dependencies. They see GNU/Linux distributions (which connect users and developers - or alternatively stand between users and developers) as dead ends and irritations.

He was saying "if you want to use this, go knock yourself out" but he's also saying "please don't get in between me and my clients".
18 exabytes isn't that much if you want to uniquely address every memory byte in a (future) datacenter. Papers on RDMA-based unified memory systems are currently producing some very compelling performance results in workloads like pub-sub and mostly-read databases. It's conceivable that in the next 15 years, there will be special-purpose datacenter-scale computers networked with a unified memory space that need address spaces greater than 64 bits, especially with the high-capacity optane DIMMs that Intel produces.
Toilet paper and showers are not necessities.

Plenty of people don't have those, and survive just fine
Had em replaced a few years ago, no issues!
33% in 18 years? About 1.5% per year? That does not sound extreme
TestTube for Ruby Experiments
At the point when he was confronted, had he already stolen the petitions. The fact that he gave them back doesn't turn that successful theft into a mere 'attempt'. It doesn't matter whether he was confronted a minute later or an hour later.
I think he is talking about a large category of product where you 'pay for the brand', the whole point is being outrageously expensive and exclusive. Thing diamons and designer handbags.
This seems conceptually similar to the 2019 CCC card10badge.

schneider has a great overview of some of the challenges of (barely) getting that project out the door on time:

https://twitter.com/schne1der_/status/1232055729202323456
> The single most powerful tool we have is fully sharing salaries and compensation. That drives prices up (and other benefits such as vacation time or equity).

We have an older, more proven tool to increase salaries and benefits: unions. The only reason US software engineers are so anti-union is 70 years of demonization, propaganda, and exceptionalism. Engineers think they don't need collective bargaining and the power of a union but then they go on sites like HN and complain about their management, salaries, working hours, open office, etc.
Thank you for the clarification! So the app does use location data, but it is (maybe?) not uploaded.
PWAs suck on iOS though. At the very least they delete your data after 10 days.
- https://publicseminar.org/essays/why-we-should-outlaw-oppres...

- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/000484008023703...
... in a joke nobody got at the time, and few even much later.
So in the last decade, how many VFX studios have gone under leaving people holding the unpaid bag? It's been a long time since DD 2.0 and R&H.

I'd hardly take the edge case of the industry (not exclusive to VFX) and say that it's representative of the norm.
If you aren't opposed to jailbreaking, there is Appsync Unified [1], which lets you install .ipa files directly from our device.

[1]. https://github.com/akemin-dayo/AppSync
> This is the fundamental problem with NFT's as I see it -- there is fundamentally no way to tie it to a physical object.

There is actually. I can't find any references to it at the moment, but there are certain things that are easy to make but near impossible to clone. For example, particles suspended in epoxy can make for a unique pattern for each item that can be scanned and verified, but getting a duplicate pattern is nearly impossible, and not economically feasible.

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.
Gotta love an article which uses an acronym few people will have heard of before, without once telling us what it stands for. ECOWAS?

Hmmm... I'll guess "Economic Community of West African States"
Unless you’re the Atari marketing department, in which case a 64-bit architecture means two 32-bit CPUs working in tandem. Rawr.
insurance is a scam and a poor excuse for bad services and products
Actually, Numba does support dicts now.(You can't have a mix of types in the dicts unless that's changed, but that isn't an actual problem for most ML work.) I have used numba very effectively to make my machine learning research projects run very quickly. I don't use pandas; I do use a lot of numpy and scipy. I understand that pandas can use numpy arrays for at least some things. Since numba works great with numpy, it seems like that might be an approach for using it with pandas, in at least some cases.
I wince at the amount of wear the `git clean -dxf; npm ci` cycle must be putting on my SSD.
You will need something much more exotic than a data center for the individual processors to need to address more than 18 exabytes. An architecture where every node can directly read the RAM of every other node is called a supercomputer. In a data center, dividing global address into node IDs and true addresses would handle everything you'd want to do.

If the top N bits of the global addresses are only ever read by routing software they don't need to be represented in the processor hardware.
It feels like people just aren't in agreement on the goals of school. And without agreement on the goals, it's going to be hard to succeed.

As far as I can tell, in most of the world and for a long time, school has been a place for academic education. Those that could not be educated for whatever reason were dismissed.

The idea that school should be a general social service for children seems popular among politicians and school administrators, but less accepted among parents and teachers. Furthermore, there was no explicit decision to move away from a focus on academics, it just kind of happened. That's not a recipe for good results.
Check out zapatos[0]. Codegen tool that generates interfaces and type-safe queries from a running schema (db).

I've tried them all and this one allows me the most flexibility without abstracting much.

[0] https://github.com/jawj/zapatos
Hey! Super.so uses Next.js and Vercel under the hood. They are using an unofficial Notion API to convert content to React components, and then ultimately to HTML through Next.js, which is deployed and hosted with Vercel. They also use Vercel for adding and managing custom domains.

We (Vercel) are working on an open-source example similar to this, so people and clone and deploy and built their own platform!
Even then killing with a car is treated far less seriously than otherwise. If you want to murder someone, have a few drinks and drive into them. They’ll be dead and you’ll get kit in a couple of years. Avoid the drinks and you might even get away with it completely.
You could get the same security if you voluntarily limited yourself to the app store, or never unlocked your iPhone.

> apple doesn’t have an obligation to make it easy

Nor do countries have an obligation to allow Apple access to their markets if Apple refuses to respect user freedom, should that be legally required.
Does this mean you are able to put off BT and WLAN?
Been looking into terminusdb, an open source graph database implemented in prolog and rust. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867767
This is a good thing, as it means cars are more reliable or people are conscous of the environmental cost of consuming new cars.

In places where cars have mandated regular checkups, it's also something that comes with zero risk to people running cars that have safety or environmental issues. This (If I understand correctly) is only the case in a few states in the US though.
Depending on manufacturer, and storage conditions, it can be up to about ten years. But the “three months” number is real: https://web.archive.org/web/20210502042514/http://www.dell.c...
Not sure why this is down voted. Perhaps in North America is different, but at least in Europe this strategy still works.
> There are lots of successful VFX studios

For relatively short time periods. Only Weta and ILM are able to get equity in their projects, and that is largely due to their owners being the filmmakers themselves. In the end, it is a work for hire industry, with no equity participation, yet carrying significant risk that tends to sooner or later blow up at least once, taking the entire studio with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/128-bit_computing list contenders as IBM System/370, upgraded DEC VAX, and ICL 2900 Series.
This is even true with houses and land value - a house didn't get 10x more expensive to build in the last 50 years, but thsts what people are willing to offer for it.v
> I now see those tests as nothing more than a way to reduce the number of applicants.

More like a way to discriminate neurodiverse people. This is probably illegal, but I have not heard of anyone challenging it.
If you create a test that certain people fail, that would otherwise do their job fine, then this is likely testing for protected characteristic and disguised as competence test.
Lloyd's of London literally started off as people in a coffee shop betting on whether ships would safely make it to their destination. The BBC ran an interesting article about it a few years ago: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38905963
Solvable problems with enough resources and engineering time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu75U_zqJZY
Going without a smartphone on transit is not a severe inconvenience. It’s a very minor one. Just a few years ago nobody even knew they needed one.

Snapchat was not worth my cousin's life.
I don't know how people are making these authenticity arguments using NFTs, because your counter-argument is spot on. Having said that, the anti-counterfeiting mechanism for physical goods like Birkin bags is exactly the use case for Vechain.
I have personally experimented quite a lot with numba. When it works, it's great. However, numba can have very cryptic error messages making it difficult to debug.

Which is why I switched to dask, which even though slower integrates better with numpy.
AS/400 architecture has been using 128bit pointers for several decades by now, even if underneath it involves 32bit or 64bit cpus - except for a tiny bit of code provided by IBM, you're not allowed to target them directly.
If earthquake is powerful enough to cause this much damage aint nobody gona pay that
Some tech news websites like The Register are completely self aware of that fact and lean into it completely and utterly
Ah, thanks. So its H_asteroid is currently +7.8, and if/when it develops a coma it should become a lot brighter, but unfortunately even at perihelion still way too faint for a naked eye.
> almost no one had access to a stockbroker

That isn't true. My dad invested in stocks starting in the 1940s, investing his Air Force pay (which wasn't much).

I started investing around 1980 at Boeing, and lots of the other engineers did, too.

Just phone up Schwab or Merrill Lynch or whatever, they'll send you the forms, and off you went.
With a search-and-rescue team, the risks are significantly lower. That lowers the incentive not to got out in iffy conditions or without prep.
Yes, you can argue a lot about the years, and about what constitutes a x-bit machine. The first 32-bit CPU was from 1948, for example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Baby), the IBM/360 had 128-bit registers in 1969 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_85) and the Pentium Pro is considered 32-bit, but has a 36-bit address bus.

I think the analogy with Moore’s law still holds if you pick machines used in comparable roles. Reason is that you can’t make much use of more memory unless your computer gets faster (an exception would be extremely sparse hash tables, but those would need amounts of memory we don’t have yet)

Assuming an extremely generous 2 cycles/byte, a 1MHz 6502 would take 2 seconds to clear 1MB of RAM, or 2,000 to clear 1GB. That’s over half an hour.

That first Alpha also only had a 34-bit address bus, limiting it to 16GB of physical RAM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_21064#Address_unit)

I picked x86 because it was used in more or less the same role for decades and because it made the 16-32-64 steps.