skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current approved proposal is 11k satellites, the 42k satellites still doesn’t have approval if I remember correctly.
Likely from next year they will be able to send 400 satellites with a single launch using starship, that will make the 42k constellation perfectly feasible.
Couple red flags here.

- concealing identity (anonymous)

- Asking for laptop.

- Proton mail (anonymous)

- Ship to PO box. (anonymous)

If you're legit - this won't help you to get a gig.

Not saying it won't but it's not helping.
I'm guessing it leaves the logistics to the customer rather than the railroad. You probably can't send your railcar too early either.

Unlike a ship, trains get broken up and re-assembled regularly on long journeys, so you might draw the short end of the scheduling stick.
I'm not sure how you came to this decision rule. There are plenty of things which strictly decrease my mortality rate, by some non-zero amount, which I do not do and are not recommended for me.
> Effectively, infinite slavery

I’m really sick of people equating working for someone else with slavery.
Alphabetical makes it so two databases with the same triggers have the same behavior. FIFO breaks that, because now it depends on trigger construction order (eg when dump/restoring) and is totally invisible to the user.

Additionally, modifying a trigger by drop/creating it would change behavior, unless you also drop/create every trigger (in the original order)
There is absolutely no basis for the cost to be that low. Nobody believes that. Not even Elon, since he's commented on it several times.
This is wholly irrelevant at any tech company that uses leetcode style interviews, which is most companies in the bay area.
Yup, I've always believed anything on my resume is fair game for someone to ask about, so I should be able to talk about each thing to some extent. As you accumulate more things it can be a useful filtering tool too as you just leave stuff off you don't want to talk about or where your recollection is too hazy.

Getting into a conversation can be stress reducing for both parties (interviewers can get stressed too) though if the interviewee comes off as trying to control the discussion, interviewers pick up on that (even if they're new and bad at driving things themselves like they're supposed to) and will consider it a red flag...

I hope after a while you get to experience the other side being one of the ~6 people interviewing someone for joining your team/the company, it's pretty eye opening too. Judging someone in such a short time period given at these bigger companies is tough, and when you actually want the candidate to join you don't want them to turn down an offer because of a bad interview experience with you. If you ever get involved I'd only encourage you try to improve things -- some ideas include trying to lower stress levels of candidates, or having more reasonable/useful and typing-instead-of-whiteboarding tests of "can you even program?", but there's many possible improvements, the goal of improving on what you have is what's important. (And there does sadly need to be some sort of "can you even program?" test in the pipeline, at least at the sort of companies that do the multiple-people-all-day interviews, because the input stages are even more broken than the interviews.) Even if there are many corporate constraints on what you can do, and even if you can't get management or other interviewers on board with your proposals, you can at least make your section the best it can be.
Mainboard/logicboard is exactly the same. Left side of the logicboard in the original Acer design is connected via a flex cable, which is where modularity daughterboard goes, which means that that part is custom and probably just a USB-C.

The main opening being on topside as opposed to bottom means the enclosure is custom made. So what.

Overall it’s not something that we are smoking, it’s basic understanding in laptops and modern electronics.
Since the issue is caused by an undefined behavior optimization, possibly the tests ran on a different optimization level or on a different architecture target? Would still be surprising, but less so than there not being tests at all.
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With regards to the "principles of justice", your definition of justice is awful: It doesn't line up with any accepted dictionary or academic definition of the term. It lines up really nicely with the objectivist movement, though, which is pretty widely derided as hot garbage.

Anyhow, even if I agreed with your concept of "justice", your definition of society is also wonky, if you imagine that it can only be defined by the sum of its current constituents.

Society does not consist of only your contemporaries, and is not made up only of the efforts of those who are currently contributing.

You, as a member of whatever society you are member of, benefit from the contributions of the members of society who have come before you. To some degree, you also suffer from the mistakes of those before you as well. The society you are a member of gives you a great many affordances, some of which you are able to benefit from more than others due to your circumstance, and some of which you do not benefit from at all.

If you believe that you have not benefited from the society you live in, at the expense of others, you need to think on it a little longer.
Tried it out with some friends a couple hours ago, worked like a charm!
Much less physical connections in SV.

SV is great if you're introduced or already have connections to strengthen your existing position.

SV is also great if you already working here and want to move to low/no tax state and going to win the fight with your HR to not downgrade your salary.

If you starting from scratch - not so sure.

Lots of concerns about growing taxes, reduced freedoms, raising crime, polluted cities with homeless encampments.
I do.

Galaxy S2 it was called. I had one that was passed onto me. It had a thin plastic removable back panel so you could swap out the battery.

I loved the form factor and the feel.

My point was more around the fact that you stated you want a phone to just work, then proceed to talk about how a linux phone might be good for you. Apple is good at making consumer friendly devices. Linux phones are for hardcore tinkerers that like to hack things together and learn about stuff (compromise on the 'just work' bit).
Your math is way off. 50M subs with the coverage over land and total bandwidth will put their provisioning rate (Bps/sub) way below even the Geo satellite providers. They need to charge a lot more or provide slower service by having more people.
> Just the thought of 18 to 30 interviews a year makes me anxious and I don't even need to interview now.

That was their life as a contractor. I think the advice was just to do more than zero, not necessarily go to such an extreme. You can't really hold a full-time job and do that much interviewing unless it's just tiny screening interviews.
Talking to an experienced European HR professional, there appears to be a systemic misunderstanding of the function of HR specifically in the US. HR is seen as paper-pushers there to protect short-term interests of the company rather than working on strategic level to develop the workforce in a long-term direction.
I can see politicians pushing all high quality faked videos as the real thing (without caring about origin) to bash their opponents. Fake evidence of crimes etc. Some societies are going to have a really hard time with this.
The phishing angle should it come to pass would be solved with new systems of trust though it might be devastating at first.
The fake generated websites feels like the current state of the internet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No, not really. The federal supplement was a super crude metric meant to temporarily match the average pre-pandemic wages of those losing income. It wasn't aimed at any sort of minimum standard income.
It's an idea. They have not been demonstrated successfully.
List of corporate titles (CEO's, CFO's, CxO's, etc.)
Or making the plant produce pesticide of its own, causing bugs to develop resistance to measures needed by organic farmers, and also dosing humans with what would otherwise be easily rinsed off.
Direct costs are all anyone means when they say that “bugs are 100× more expensive to fix in production”. There’s nothing in that statement about indirect or reputational costs, just the cost to fix. The factors you mention all exist, but they are irrelevant to the cost of fixing a bug. They are very relevant to the cost of _failing_ to fix a bug.

What is relevant is your definition of the various stages of development. The numbers that are the source of the “100×” figure are from the development of an anti–ballistic missile system from the sixties or seventies. They would have been programming in assembler (thus the “27 lines of code patched per change” is not unusual). Finding and fixing a bug in the software after you’ve built all the missiles and shipped them to every ballistic missile base in the US could indeed be very expensive! But if your release process is just copying the new code to a server (or even a fleet of servers) and restarting some services, then it’s not expensive at all. Most of us have a very different idea of what “releasing” the software means than the folks on this project had.

https://gist.github.com/Morendil/f9c2e9f3f450d3a76de8aeee7cf...
Hard sci fi is hard to define for me personally. But, Children of Time by Adrian Czajkowski is worth a look, and maybe Saturn Run by Ctein and John Sanford.
My ability to solve an artificial problem on a whiteboard time limited with a gun to my head correlates directly to my job performance?

Not only does it not in my case, I don’t know how you could even make such a claim without knowing me, my work, and how I perform in such interviews… and that’s just me. Much has been written on this subject with similar anecdotes as well as quantitative research done by Google’s HR department. Clearly 0% is an exaggeration at large, but it’s well documented to be a poor correlate.
He proposes a novel way of thinking about the economy,ecology,and political governance nicely bundled in a meta epic about terraforming Mars.
One of the biggest causes of (un)planned obsolescence, if not the biggest cause, is an end to firmware and microcode updates. Once they stop coming in, vulnerabilities start piling up.

For how many years can consumers expect to receive these updates?
> Somewhat rhetorically - what value was the owner providing if he wasn’t getting up on the roofs?

Owners take on the risk of providing a stable paycheck for their employees, and far far more beyond that. In the vast majority of small businesses, the owner is the last one to take a paycheck.

There is plenty of work to running a roofing company that's beyond just the physical act of putting the roof on a house.

Who does the marketing to find the projects? Who handles the billing (and inevitable disputes)? Who places the orders for supplies? Who cuts the paychecks? Who handles OSHA requirements?
> Want to upgrade the RAM, you need to upgrade both sticks.

No. Single channel configuration is slower, unnoticeably on laptops, that’s it.

> One is on the bottom side of the motherboard that requires 16 screws be removed and a pry tool to get the bottom case off.

Wrong choice of laptop brand.

> The second stick is under the keyboard that requires multiple levels of plastic pieces to be pried off and disconnecting the keyboard cable which can barely be reached. Want to swap the battery? That's 16 screws and enough force to break the adhesion that you are bending the case. Plus the system will complain about the battery

Again, wrong choice of laptop brand. Panasonic? Theirs are good as long as you only repair and don’t fiddle with it.
he wasn't "bullshitting", you didn't get the point of his tweet and quora post and I think you're kinda proving his point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_chess
The article makes two points. First that data is important but must be curated and maintained. Second that spreadsheets require specific methodologies and expertise to prevent data quality issues from propagating.

I don't think that part of the story had anything to do with spreadsheets. It just illustrated the value of (timely) data, especially when fighting a virus and specifically in distributing scarce vaccine doses.

A virus with animal reservoirs could similarly be controlled based on monitoring where outbreaks occur and taking some action. That could be distributing vaccines, limiting access to the animals or taking some action to reduce the animal reservoir.
Wow Google tried a lot of mental gymnastics to down level me. Trying to convince me that higher levels at FB or other companies is equivalent.

That’s a whole other level though. Not surprising and it is hard when it’s a coveted company. I would’ve taken the down level if I didn’t have a better offer at another company.
Railroading is definitely a unique industry and in some cases is treated entirely differently than other businesses in the United States. These are large companies that can't really go anywhere and have a lot of similarities to utilities and their "granted monopoly" status.

The job itself is not easy and the locations (as mentioned in a different thread) aren't in the most desirable locations. Typically you're working outside, you have to deal with seniority when getting shifts (which eventually does pay off if you stick with it), and you'll be dealing with the NSTB if anything goes wrong.

This is entirely a quality of work/throw cash at it problem. If you can't make the job better ("You'll be on call all week and will have to report within 3 hours notice if we call you at any time of the day to ride around in a port-a-potty in all the weather") then you better pay up.

(See also the labor shortage in the trucking industry if you were considering other modes of shipping)
But his point was on that of getting vaccinated as a "public good" - not on the vaccinations impact on your personal risk from covid. Excluding your personal risk, getting the vaccine does not prevent you spreading covid. Probably, it reduces your spread, as you have less symptoms, though.
This is great! Was about to order an XPS or Thinkpad but think I'll go with this instead! How many external displays does it support? Would I need thunderbolt (would that just be a $9 adapter???)? I'd like to connect at least 3 external displays (so 4 total screens including the laptop). Is that possible? Thanks!
> The fact that vaccinated individuals don’t stop transmission...

No such fact exists.

"Vaccination with BNT162b2 reduces transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to household contacts in Israel"

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.13.21260393v...

> The overall vaccine effectiveness against transmission was 88.5%.
The recycling isn’t the expensive part, it’s the collection. If someone had 20 tons of these, they might actually be able to be paid for the value. It would most likely go to a battery smelter and they would burn / melt off the non-battery in the slag. Imagine collecting 20 tons 4 grams at a time though, and when they come in it is not 100 or 1000 units at a time, it’s one mixed with many other categories of material.

The real complexity is in a clean, sorted and segregated stream to recycle large quantity’s at once, and I don’t see that given the fractured state of current collections.
I enjoyed Permutation City by Greg Egan and the Zones of Thought books by Vernor Vinge.
"Hopefully the Muse Group will learn from these missteps and proceed a bit more carefully from here on out. A focus on real improvements for users and better communication with the user community would help to rebuild trust. It would also be nice if the Internet would learn to damp its reactions a bit — but there seems to be little hope of that. If the Audacity project can find a way to reconnect with its wider community, though, at least one thing will have gotten a little better."

Once you have lost your users' trust, it is very hard to get that trust back. Especially if your "better communication" is simply to walk back (er, "clarify") some of your more outrageous statements. (Pro tip for these kind of situations: start by demanding the moon. Then, when you settle for merely owning, say, California, you look generous.)
I really enjoyed Blindsight, I'll have to check out your other suggestion. Thanks!
That’s my intended point - high property prices but not the dev salaries to match.

The decent 6-figures coming from the business roles but not dev.

270k developer? You can do it if you can write low latency C++ trading code, or get some super obscure but valuable tech contract gig.
That doesn't really matter, once you have data and the cops show up with a warrant asking for it, you are required by law to hand it over
With respect, if you’re based on Terraform, then you’re not taking advantage of any of the special features of AWS, and you could use any cloud provider.

Conversely, if you do take advantage of any special features of AWS, then you can’t use Terraform.

So, why should I use your tool on AWS versus any other provider?
What type of wifi cards do these use ? Is it the cnvi type, which I think are semi-soldered ? Or is it the regular pcie type one ?

Also, would like to see this reviewed by someone from the linux community (e.g., phoronix).
Where is the big increase in coal? If you look at the stats coal use is down.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

What is not well known in the Anglosphere is that the German nuclear phase-out was actually legislated around 2000, and not in 2011 after Fukushima.

In 2011 Merkel extended the phase-out end date by ~10 years, which was democratically very unpopular. 3-months later Fukushima happened, and the phase-out went back to an end-date similar to the original.

More charts here:
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
So you make anyone liable for user comments, only the existing players will be able to muster the resources to comply with the ever increasing and self-contradictory regulations that result. This is a great way to raise the drawbridge for FAANG and stop innovation in its tracks.

All the startups will move to some country with actual freedom of speech.
Which apps refuse to run in the absence of a TPM, please?
Not to be a poop, but I will want to see confirmation in a US or European lab before I believe this. Incentives for fraud, and likelihood of getting away with it, are very strong in China. A mark in its favor is that Nature has good reasons to try to ensure the work is real, but they have been taken in, in the recent past.
Mirror: https://arxiv.link/games.greggman.com/game/zip-rant/
Any language that offers some kind of effect system that has support for brackets and cancelation, for example Haskell or Scala.

There isn't even specific language support necessary, it's on the library level.
How is Linux support?
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> This one scared me since it was a large, relatively unbiased sample, with before-and-after imaging. It also showed brain damage even in mild cases of COVID19 in >10% of cases.

It shows no such thing. It's an analysis of MRIs where the authors infer loss of gray matter in specific regions of the brain. This is in no way "brain damage", and representing it this way is leaping to wild conclusions.

Lest you not believe me, here is a randomized controlled trial, showing that "excessive online video gaming" reduces orbitofrontal gray matter:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29057579/

(...so your Mom was right: gaming is turning your brain to mush!)

Here is a review that shows that similar losses in gray matter are associated with anxiety and sleep loss (two problems that I'm sure didn't affect anyone in 2020):

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29244642/

Similarly: "Profound and reproducible patterns of reduced regional gray matter characterize major depressive disorder"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31341158/

Just for fun: here's a paper that shows that "tooth loss was a causal factor for volume reduction in brain areas related to memory, learning and cognition"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29475808/

(bonus points: can you spot the missing correlate?)

The fact is, you can find research literature associating "loss of gray matter" with pretty much anything. And if a reliable trend does exist across this literature, it seems to be that gray matter changes are often seen in...wait for it: depressed people and the aged.

But I'm sure that Covid has done nothing to depress people or affect the aged, so we can probably safely ignore that little detail.
At some point maybe people will finally be forced to stop believing everything they read on the internet
> There are 12 million people unemployed and there are businesses everywhere trying to hire.

The majority of states (even beyond the large minority that have also terminated enhanced benefits) have reimposed work-search requirements (the federal enhanced benefits program allows, but does not require, states to suspend work-search requirements while it is in effect.)
Your comment reveals you have never owned a successful business. Please - start your own business and see how easy it is, and how little value you provide.
The 500-yen coin seems to work fine in Japan.
I really like Dragon's Egg by Robert L Forward, and its sequel as well.
Sure you could, even though MS-DOS wasn't UNIX, and using pipelines meant writing temporary data into the current directory.

In fact that was one of the reasons ARJ got more love than zip, given its flexibility and ability to split archives across floppies.

Unless you were coding COM files, demoscene or commercial games, there was enough software being written in Turbo and Quick Basic, Turbo/Quick/TMT Pascal, Clipper/FoxPro/DBase III, Turbo/Quick C/C++, Turbo/TMT Modula-2,....
Incentives for fraud aren't much smaller this side of the pond.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
Haha nice catch ;-)

What I meant with “stop reading” is “stop reading entirely”. If I read a book and at 50% think: I could probably finish it but it’s not really enjoyable at all, I just delete it from my ereader.

No sunk cost fallacy here :-)
I've used that, Hews (also good but looks abandoned) and am now using Glider https://f-droid.org/packages/nl.viter.glider . It's very smooth
In my experience, for every engineering subordinate that turned out to be good that I didn't bother testing with leetcode, there were 19 who sucked and also failed their coding test, or sucked and we should have tested them. So far, among people who studied programming as their major in college, the best predictor was the prestige of the university they attended.