skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> pit of despair of our own making, but I still haven't figured out how teams like mine get out of it.

I’ve only seen two ways out:
1. Team implodes when everybody leaves, reorg follows making it some other team’s problem
2. Management recognizes it’s a problem, takes it seriously by staffing the team with enough people to sustainably address the tech debt/operational load AND build new features
Question is which Fortran vs Which Version of Julia
You should write this up on Quora so it sticks around.
Don't remove it; better a few foreign lupines than no more bumble or solitary bees.
The width of the bus, the width of the register, and the size of the pointer are all different values.

A 64-but cpu has registers that are larger than 64-bits (eg 512bits for AVX512) and the memory bus itself is already either 128 or 256bit already.

128bit pointers seems questionable for scalar processing and vector processing already has wider registers/GPU/TPU for acceleration.

From a security perspective 64bits of random space (actually 48ish) is pretty darn good and increasing that space for security is not something I’ve seen compelling papers on.
> I think it's very safe to assume the level of technical rigor in a given undertaking just falls to the minimum required unless there's a very strong force keeping it in a higher state.

It really depends on who's setting the tone. If it's an owner or manager taking an active interest, I think your observation is true.

> Maybe places like NASA JPL or Apple manage to float above the minimum because of a really unified and powerful culture, but outside of that I'm thinking it's more or less universal. e.g. the 737 MAX debacle illustrates Boeing's stochastic search for the lower bound of technical rigor when it comes to flight control software quality.

IIRC, Boeing has made a years-long effort to cripple their unionized engineering workforce. I don't remember exactly where I read this, but for a long time they had a very effective, rigorous organization, but management (from McDonnell Douglas. IIRC) make a lot of changes that messed it up.
Our municipality even gave out such a seed mix for free.

If you're buying somewhere (supermarket etc.): caveat emptor.

Many of the flower mixes are neither native nor appropriate for common native insects, but designed for beauty.

It may be a good idea to search for reputable vendors.

There are "famous" standardized mixes in Germany, but I cannot remember the names.
The Geo metro had similar specs. It got 55hp from 3 cylinders, but also lacked a tach. 200 lbs lighter, but the wheels were smaller. I got mine up to about 90mph on a long downhill section of interstate, but wouldn't want to race anything else apart from a bike
Thats why i think every engineer should at least attempt to launch a business (can be even non software related) in order to understand how their work fits in and at least appreciate the amount of work that isnt writing code that keeps the lights on
Here it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26656133

You banned me 2 days after the comment for saying that YC can be as or more exploitative than China's deals with African countries and I said that the parent defending YC but condemning China was acting on a base of racism and ethnocentrism. You can see how he brought a bunch of low-quality links I refuted them and you came 2 days later(I just realized that now) and banned me.

Oh well, I suppose you will be ban me again. BB cannot be criticized.
This has been a big public debate in Germany too, mostly with some politicians putting big "well then everyone can be back in school for sure!" hopes on it, and the vaccine board going "not so fast!", and experts splitting on both lines. Current state is that Biontech/Pfizer is approved for kids (can be legally used if a doctor decides it's appropriate), but not recommended except for some specific preexisting conditions.
> The analysis shows that ‘severe’ magnetic storms occurred in 42 out of the last 150 years, and ‘great’ super-storms occurred in 6 years out of 150

That seems extremely imminent, like in my lifetime. How many of these events would shut down tech for months or years? Are those odds worth risking civilization over?
My social media manager had the exact same reaction. She says it’s getting better very slowly - she can still only stomach eating rice and bread, though. Everything else makes her throw up immediately.
Degoogled link: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~jhe/eurosys17-he.pdf
Also wsj: Increases in rents are not 'inflation'
Oh for a minute I thought you meant Kolibri-OS ... love that project!
There's 3 circular things at work there - land value has gone up, interest rates dropped making total cost of ownership go down, and therefore the land value has gone up creating a good investment.

If I borrow 500k at 1% interest I'll pay back 565k in total over 25 years. At 6% I'll pay back close to $1m. Or to put it another way, the collapse in interest rates have almost halved the total cost of a house. Now, house prices are twice as high because everyone has access to low rates, but as well as this houses look like a fantastic investment - it's doubled in value! It's going to the moon!
Working on building a newsletter about key learnings from the best and most innovative companies in the world. My goal is to understand what did they do to become better than everyone else, so that others can adapt and improve their own businesses with these learnings.
If you're interested you can read here: https://disclosinggrowth.substack.com/welcome

So far I've written about companies like Revolut, Notion and Webflow.
In the city I live in we are lucky to have a lot of parks, but also they leave the grass uncut in large portions of them. It grows long, with flowers and other plants providing greater biodiversity and a habitat for many more insects and small creatures.

Some short grass is good, but the overabundance of lawns—particularly as the default coverage for parks and gardens—is a big problem.
It does make sense to have 128 bit computers. Consider memory mapped sparse datasets. 18PB looks like a whole lot of address space now but in 50 years, who knows…
"Green welcomes high fives and handshakes"

Seems like quite the scheme to signal.

I used to like marijuana as a signal of an "other" type of person in society. Always had a good conversation, sometimes crazy crazy, sometimes super start, but never really too dull.

Then the Government took away that signal when they made marijuana legal. Now the normies are all on the train.

Now if I want that same experience, the anti-overton experience, I look for signs of dissent against the coronavirus response.

So yeah, I'm all for people signalling their fear and conformity so I can stay away. I'd rather drink a beer with the green band people and pretend it's 1999.
I just do \mu (or ;mu) in Emacs.

We're in the 21st century, all the tools we use should have reasonable Unicode support. The fact that we collectively keep on talking about typing non-ASCII characters as a real problem is a pretty depressing reflection of our shared computer infrastructure :(.
“ We didn't experience any starvation from fuel slosh (old-school stability control).”

Saved the best for last.
>Oh, you want 18 months of non-compete?

Is this even enforceable? Maybe if your C level, and they pay you while you wait.
The easiest way to think about this is as perfectly elastic collision between the spacecraft and the planet (mediated by gravity, but this is an unnecessary detail already).
> Who’s the job to teach those kids how to behave in class ? Their parents ?

Yes.

> what do you do if their parents don’t care

Then other family members should pitch in. Or other adults in the kid's life should pitch in. Or, if you believe the government can exercise such power with good judgment (I personally don't), you could have the parents' rights terminated and put the kids up for adoption.

What you can't do is ask schools to do the job, because that isn't what schools are for. Schools are not supposed to be rehabilitation centers for kids who can't be educated because they have bad parents. They're supposed to be places where kids who can be educated, are educated. Trying to make them into rehabilitation centers just ruins the education of all the other kids who can be educated.

> Not educating a kid is ruining its life

I entirely agree. But that doesn't change the fact that a kid who refuses to behave in class cannot be educated. Even if it's not the kid's fault, that's still the fact.

Also, if kids who can't be educated are put in schools, now you don't just have them not being educated, you have all the kids not being educated because of the constant disruptions. How is that an improvement?

[Edit: I see you mentioned specialized schools elsewhere in the thread. I'll respond to that point there.]

> just sentence those students to jail for life already

I didn't do that; the kids' parents did, by making them unable to be educated. So why aren't you all on fire to hold the parents accountable? Why are you going after me, who had nothing to do with it?
It takes a good bunch of a lifetime to simply get access to most of the equipment you mention, not to mention those are the most oversighted jobs in the world. Nobody wants crazy or unskilled people handling super powerful hardware with almost no countermeasure aside of taking them down with some similar hardware (ships, aircraft).
hardware 128 bit wide ops were supported from at least 1970 (IBM 370)
Maybe starship will be ready with orbital refueling in time to make a faster trip. Imagine being able to do a sample return mission from such an object.
Does a union negotiating system make sense in a individual contributor focused profession?

I am in a union in Germany and the main result is that I earn considerably less the market rate.

This is because there is a single pay grade for every Software Engineer in the company(excluding entry level). There are no performance bonuses. Unless I get promoted into management I can look forward to the union negotiating a slightly above inflation pay rise every so often until I reach retirement.

It's a lot to swap for the workplace protections that Software engineers mostly enjoy anyway.
Do you think there should be differences based on lifestyle? For instance, should someone that works out everyday pay the same as someone who is 400 pounds?
The new feudalism - they want us to be serfs.
> . A ton of my peers went to Amazon after graduating, very few went to Google,

For CMU at least: https://www.cmu.edu/career/documents/2017_one_pagers/scs/BS_...

Only 8 to Amazon + 1 to Twitch, 18 to Facebook + 1 CZ Initiative + 2 to WhatsApp , 32 to Google + 1 to DeepMind.

Considering Stanford is even more elite, and presumably has more discerning undergrads, I doubt it's much different there (and most likely even fewer Amazon folks).

> Do you have any evidence this is the case?

I can't get interviews at Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Lyft, etc as an L4 or as an L5.
Lots of things on the Vlang website sound very impressive. Unfortunately very few of them actually work as advertised. Try downloading and running a few of the "Built with V" apps listed at the bottom of the vlang.io front page. Most of them are broken and have been since forever.

I actually like the language itself. It is like "a better Go". But the hyperbolic claims made for it are pretty irritating.
That assumes that the malware can already have arbitrary control over system calls, at which point spectre isn't the issue.
I'm not sure that it's fair to ask a random employee (myself) to explain the employee churn for an employer that has over 1 million employees. That being said, it is largely based on the org you're in.

My org (AWS support) has a high churn rate because it's largely seen as a stepping-stone to other places in AWS. People get hired into my org, learn AWS really well, and then go one of a few different places:

- AWS operations (e.g. SOC, NOC)
- Service team SDEs
- Technical account managers
- Solutions architects
- Training and certification

Or they simply get enticed to work for someone who uses AWS. I've worked on literally thousands of support cases. I've gotten really good at diagnosing and fixing things on AWS. And as such, I have companies reaching out to me nearly daily with some job or another.

Similarly, for SDEs, working for a FAANG can open lots of doors for you.

The question can be similarly asked: If Amazon is 'lethal' to your career and health as the OP said, why are there so many boomerangs?
Are there synergies with the Debian reproducible build project that this can benefit from?
I think you are on to something insofar as noticing that supercomputing vs. cluster computing is a spectrum. You could imagine starting with cluster computing at zero hardware support, and slowly adding more hardware interconnects and putting more work into topology, as you climb towards the platonic ideal supercomputer which, fitting its name, would simply be one super computer.
Just recently, there were large non-reproducible projects: python, gcc. Not sure where is the history of non-r13y.

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There is Debian initiative to create bit-to-bit reproducible builds for all their software (well, all critical).

https://reproducible-builds.org/

R13y is akin to "computer proofs" in math -- if you don't have it, that's fine, but if you have it, that's awesome.

There are practical reasons to favor reproducibility too, but those are more for distro maintainers.

The fact that NixOS (not Debian) got this 100% is mostly because

- minimal image has a small subset of packages (https://hydra.nixos.org/build/146009592#tabs-build-deps)

- Nix tooling was created 15 years ago *exactly* for this, Nix is mad to make packages bit-to-bit rebuildable from scratch.

- Nix/Nixpkgs is growing in number of maintainers and got more funds

- Nix has fewer Docker/Snap pragmatics
Fellowary – Secure, Private, and User Controlled Spaces
> if their parents are not able to say « shut up and study », it should be the role of the public power to say it, even if it means transferring them into specialized schools

Who pays for the specialized schools? If it's we, the taxpayers, then we have a right to expect that those schools do their jobs. Do they? Do you have any specific references you can give?
Single Responsibility Principle Explained
What is unique about this wave energy converter is that it couples most strongly to ocean waves with a certain wavelength. When waves become large, it dives below them with weak coupling. This solves the problem of most wave power plants that when they work efficiently with small waves, they are easily destroyed by powerful large waves.

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

Wave energy conversion is not yet commercially viable; the Pelamis plants generated 750 kW. This might not seem a lot but it took developers of wind power plants more than three decades to get to that amount of rated power. It becomes clear that wave energy is a concentrated and highly interesting power source.

Also, wave power conversion captures energy that was delivered by the wind in another time and another place. This decoupling of time and space makes it a good complement to wind and solar, which do not provide power when the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine - and potentially at a much lower price than battery storage. It is of course particularly interesting with countries with large shores in latitudes of 40 degrees South, like Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina, or in the North Washington State, Canada, Scotland, and Norway, for example.

Pelamis the company went into administration and does not exist any more today. However the core principle seems to have been picked up by a Chinese company which apparently is developing the design further:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/10/mysterious-fac...
That just seems strange to me, but hey, I wouldn't begrudge a pet robot if it makes anyone happy.

Maybe I'll look back at this post in 30 years and chuckle at how little foresight I had when they're incredibly popular.
Author of ts-sql here. Shin Ando has forked my proof of concept / toy implementation and made it much more practical, if you're thinking about spending time on this idea that's probably a better starting point: https://github.com/andoshin11/sqlpture
No, it doesn't. No (rocky) planet has more satellites than craters, but every planet's gravitational field is larger than its surface.
You are now arguing that Blackrock knows something we don't know. Which is fine, and I think there is a good chance that's true.
As you point out, you cannot buy a new car today (in the US) without a wide array of safety features for occupants.

Why isn't the same true for pedestrians and bicyclists?
I feel for all of you in this thread that work at Amazon and complain of the poor conditions. There are no shortage of stories that point to a very large problem in that company, for certain. However, I believe the underlying theme, if there is one, is incompetent Management and Leadership.

This is systemic in Technology companies because, to me, the “bean counters” try to run the companies like a basic Manufacturing organization of commodities where line items and people are substitutable things and can be dialed and tweaked at the planning stage.
If PackageCompiler.jl was more polished you mean?
Very cool.

Do you know what's the current status of this project?
Wave energy is one of the most challenging forms of generating electricity, hats off to anyone working on it!
Um. Are those not the standard symbols?
These are work really well for business too, unfortunately they are small local businesses, not the kind who have the ear of government.
Ha, isn't the BTC transaction fees itself ~$25 nowdays? Oh i guess one could use the lightening network.
I was thinking it might be fun to paint one a garishly bright color. And maybe squat a few doors down to appreciate the view and also avoid the attention gained by the bright one
you can compete on price, or you can compete on quality. price competition can take various forms, from operational efficiency (better actuarial science, more efficient claims, etc.) to marketing efficiency (better targeting, simpler product, etc.). quality competition would encompass more sophisticated products/product lines, better customer service, etc.

so there is a lot of room for competition to drive down price (and increase quality) without it being a zero-sum game. the problem is that markets for financial products are irresistable to the greedy (as it's stripped down to the bare essence of pursuing money itself) making ethically dubious decisions under greedy incentive structures. the government can create a more competitive market through regulation and enforcement but chooses not to (because of its own perverse incentives), so it's not a given that a government monopoly would necessarily be any better.

with most issues like this, the default option should be to do both: have government-run options (with no unfair advantages) in competition with (for-profit and non-profit) market participants. this is a pretty rare configuration however, since it removes the obvious (unfair) leverage points for taking advantage of a market.
Minneapolis gave small grants to homeowners for this purpose. The program was well publicized before it began and all slots filled immediately.

I know an entomology researcher that is studying the impact on native pollinators and (unofficially) they are feeling very bullish about the whole thing.
Running Win98 binaries is not a bragging point. I read archived diskmags through Wine, and all I need to do is double-click the .exe file to get it to boot up.

> I still chase these issues for server dist upgrades

Yeah, I don't doubt it. Full OS upgrades are always dangerous, as proven by the Windows 8 -> Windows 10 install fiasco or the Catalina wipes. LTS distros tend to get ~5-6 years of support though, so it's not like you're going to be forced to reinstall for another few years.

Linux, Windows and MacOS are all different flavors of the same shitshow. I can assure you that package/dependency management is not one of Linux's shortcomings, relative to it's competitors.
> I'm too lazy to figure out how to install and benchmark Julia on my machine.

Assuming you're eager to try once you've found out:

You should be able to simply download and unpack a binary from: https://julialang.org/downloads/
I'd strongly recommend going with the current stable release (1.6.1).

To start the Julia REPL:

bin/julia

To install packages:

using Pkg
Pkg.add("BenchmarkTools")
Pkg.add("LoopVectorization")

then you can copy/paste code from eigenspaces link to discourse to run Julia benchmarks.
E.g., you can copy/paste from https://discourse.julialang.org/t/i-just-decided-to-migrate-...
if you define

using LoopVectorization
const var"@tvectorize" = var"@tturbo"

(because `@tvectorize` has since been renamed on the latest releases)
Too small, maybe a generation ship on approach?
I wrote a similar tool for Go and Postgres but it also generates the serialization code. [1]

- I prefer generating code from queries instead of generating active record style models based on tables.

- I think it’s worth it to spin up Postgres to get type info instead of trying to parse queries. Reimplementing Postgres’ type inference is a Herculean task even with an AST. Sqlc, which directly inspired pggen does this.

- It’s hard to support customization of generated code in a structured way. The way I’m leaning towards is if you need customization, you need to use the SDK which provides plugin hooks. Using flags for customization is the road to madness.

- What I would like to do is serialize directly to protobuf to avoid the serialization dance of Go structs to Proto structs.

[1]: https://github.com/jschaf/pggen
Yugo hot hatch should have been a thing. It already had fuel injection. Slap a turbo in there, would have been an instant classic.
> not to mention has huge implications if you are relying on your job for something like a work visa.

Isn't it just apply for a new job and as part of the hiring process they handle the paperwork? I know people on work visas that have jumped jobs every two years.
I guess they're reasonable explanations if the sole piece of "evidence" was camera recordings - but they have numerous eyewitnesses for all of these events, including tracking on the associated carriers for some of them, validating the movements. Being outright dismissive because maybe it could be possibly a camera artifact but ignoring multiple trained eyewitnesses and confirmation from other electronic sources makes me think it is not just a camera artifact.
Many towns now let neighbours care about "Baumscheiben" (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumscheibe) along their streets. In my town there are many that have been "adopted", and they are sometimes spectacularly beautiful.

There are a few rules: the tree and its roots must not be damaged, you must not plant things that grow too tall, because it would create dangers in traffic.

City dwellers get to garden a little bit, the town saves on upkeep.

And today I'm in Muenster and I saw a nice addition to that: the town placed several large water containers along the sidewalk, so the people don't have to carry water from their homes.
It reminds me of the first home computers in the late 1970s. The product is not yet very useful, but attractive because home products like it soon will be.
Sounds cyclical.
My new hobby: going on hiking trips to uninhabited patches of desert and extrapolating as much drama from them as possible on social media
It means old cars aren't falling apart and becoming totally unfit to drive as soon anymore. Instead, they're getting replaced because new cars are leaps and bounds better, particularly in terms of safety.
From what I’ve been able to gather, the excessive paging may actually have to do with non-native apps running on the M1. Avoid those.
It’s literally in the article:

> See Mexico's live demo and these medical examples used by clinics in Asia and Africa especially, as hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia).