skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that even if we take care of the waste, nuclear power can't scale in output in less than three days because of safety procedures.

So it will push the real renewable energies off the net, and we'll need gas turbines to handle day to day fluctuations.
In Global Energy Crisis, Anti-Nuclear Chickens Come Home to Roost
The U2 was subsonic. Also, un-powered gliders can get up to impressive altitudes.

https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2018/09/ai...
More like a graph that a single person generally can't hope to move unless they have a following to the level of xcow. If someone burns a tire in the middle of the rain forest.... can anyone tell until its 50,000 people doing it?
I believe by gut feeling, that the "heavy farm equipment with tracking and repossession built-in" example directly inflames ancient tensions between farmers and remote management. The psychological trigger of the topic adds power and excitement to both sides of that, and security shenanigans multiply, with publicity.
The worst part about the office in the United States is the car commute most people have. Besides that, it's not so bad. Socializing and feeling like a true part of a company is much easier when going to work. I like the office and the physical separation between more home and work life it provides. When I get home at the end of the day, I don't want work to be interrupting me. My home life is the priority when I am home.
It doesn't say because Apple being Apple, it never acknowledged it had a problem, but this is the gist:

> In 2016 Phil Schiller took over the App Store group inside Apple and pretty quickly review times reduced from weeks to “about a day” across all of the stores and review times have now been consistent for about three years. In my mind this problem is totally solved.

Whole story here: https://daveverwer.com/blog/saying-goodbye-to-app-review-tim...
> Not sure why you’re being downvoted

I have no clue. It also seems to trip some throttling in HN's code. I have unapproved opinions I suppose? Maybe dang knows the reason.

> He asked for an acqui-hire instead, and was told that’s not possible.

The funniest thing are his grandiose claims that he "could definitely have obtained a patent" for his package manager. Despite NuGet being 10+ years old and the fact that earlier in the article he explicitly states that he wrote AppGet so that he could replicate the Linux experience on Windows [0]...

That gives the reader an interesting insight on why he might have failed his interview.

[0] https://medium.com/@keivan/the-day-appget-died-e9a5c96c8b22
You don't have to be a Catholic to see that killing your child is bad.
… Yes. That's your obligation under the LGPL. Pretty much your only obligation, actually – other than including the “this is this, by these people, licensed this way” boilerplate text.
If you're joining, there better be an index (or else you have bigger problems in your DB design). Indexes are usually B-trees and can look up an item in 2-3 page faults and ~20 memory comparisons, regardless of how big the table is. The page fault time dwarfs the comparison time, so in practice it doesn't matter whether keys are strings or integers. (I guess there's potentially a space premium for strings that makes fewer records fit on a page, but remember that ints are generally 64 bits now. Anything less than an 8-character string will be smaller than the equivalent int, and 8-16 characters is within a factor of 2x.)

Putting order header and order items in the same table is weird, but could potentially be defensible if it saves you a join on common queries.
China and Taiwan are very very closely economically and culturally linked. The PRC and ROC governments do work together, it's no longer the 1970's.
If it was a week long, in a desirable location, and I could take my fiancee, I'd be all for it. But it's 1.5 days, no SOs, and held in a casino in the ass end of bumfuck Indiana. And forget about working -- it's centered around a team-building exercise with people from other parts of the company you probably don't know and will never talk to again.
I don’t think there is any need to defend in person work. Until very recently it was the only socially accepted form of work.

As the default, we all have a little experience in it.
When I had a mostly-remote job, I solved the traffic issue by coming in at 10am and leaving at 3pm on the days I'd visit the office. 2 days of that a week was enough to maintain contact, go to lunch with folks and handle any obligate in-person meetings.
if it is plants, it is not Eggs

best way for a product to not work is to label it as "plant based" *insert_animal_food_name*
From what I see and hear the work-in-the-office rule is, for the most part, cause I (mgt) say so
and then:

In terms of programming-in-the-large, at Google and elsewhere, I think that language choice is not as important as all the other choices: if you have the right overall architecture, the right team of programmers, the right development process that allows for rapid development with continuous improvement, then many languages will work for you; if you don't have those things you're in trouble regardless of your language choice.
I've seen that. It's not very helpful outside of FAANG, in my opinion.

For example, the levels for my own company on that site are a complete mess - multiple names for the same level, profit sharing and bonus columns are sometimes reported wrong or in the wrong columns, etc.

Many of the companies that I see jobs for are not even on that site. Many of them are non-tech companies.
I believe it so as well. I was just reinforcing that I don't believe conventional war can occur without a major technological innovation in missile defense. It all comes down to sociology-economics, which is in turn downstream of culture. Neither the USA or China have close to optimal culture, but even accounting for western propaganda, the United States is a much happier place.

Source: I met many Chinese people in college. Many of them were striving for success with such fervor because they wanted to stay in America.
From their viewpoint, TSMC is theirs anyway.
Aren't lodges, churches, and golf clubs kind of the stereotypical examples of race- and class-exclusionary groups?

I suppose it's not exactly a strong set of convictions if you're passively going along with broader social pressures to segregate on race and class, but if we're talking about the health of society (which I think we're implicitly doing), I think segregating on worldview is actually a whole lot healthier.
Yeah this is another fear I have as well. Lots of the social interactions that made life better (albeit more difficult in some ways), were kind of automated away: dating, irl friends, etc.
I think exceptions are a not what you should use for regular error conditions that you can handle with the caller. ML descendants are great for that. Sum types with pattern matching to make sure the caller handle the regular error conditions, and exceptions for "catastrophic" things. This with some tooling to show you where exceptions can bubble would be perfet for me.
Taking over Taiwan will not give China cutting edge node fabs. TSMC is working on a western equipment plus chemical stack. So it will give China absolutely nothing, China is rich enough to make Taiwanese talent offers they can't resist. So much so that Taiwan had to shut down Chinese recruitment bureaus and certain Taiwanese talent are not allowed travel or exit the country.

China can just bide its time they will be the biggest economy at the end of the decade that will psychologically change the world so much regarding the West and Asia. You can already see a disconnect between western and Asian elites/diplomats view on China and the Region. Why Western ASEAN anti-china recruitment the last few years failed really hard.
Their public is the West.
They aren't given up anything. They can walk into multiple other jobs with similar pay and benefits, and that's the problem Amazon has.

It isn't being picky, it is employees having actual worth and choice. Employees can "pick" the pay, conditions, and benefits that suite them best: In this case moving out of one of the highest housing cost areas in the country.
Think about how difficult systems engineering is. Then realize that everything is systems engineering. But, very few people making decisions are systems engineers.

Ad-hoc heuristic decision making + political in-fighting can get you off the ground, but it can't keep you reliably airborne.
"you might get lucky and have a cultural resurgence as artists, musicians, restauranteurs, local retail, etc etc can afford to live and set up shop downtown again." Or you might get what you have now: boarded up businesses, open air drug markets, rampant unprosecuted crime, needles and human waste everywhere.
I had been planning recently on taking a multi-year hiatus and moving to the midlands and attending university (for the visa and NHS), because after researching it, 3 years of university and living expenses are roughly what 3 European vacations cost anyway. And this would make vacationing to Europe a lot cheaper than from the states.
I don't know.

It seems that somewhere between you must be butt in seat all day every day and everyone can move to a mountain town or the beach if that's what rocks their boat there probably exist reasonable flexible approaches.

Some will doubtless resent that they can't depend on being able to tap an arbitrary coworker on the shoulder on a given day and others really don't want to live close enough to an office to drive in occasionally. But there seem to be intermediate approaches that make most people happier overall.
Speed Without Discipline: A Recipe for Disaster
Nuclear power can help fill the gaps in a tricky energy transition
Ask HN: Can open source software violate GDPR?
Is open source software that is installed on a users computer required to comply with GDPR? For example, sending personal data cloud servers hosted in the U.S.
I imagine OP is talking about a significantly smaller company than 1500 people.
Do you happen to be a doctor/scientist? I’ve had an unbelievable experience which I’m looking for a scientific explanation to / trying to replicate, but I’d rather not share publicly. Is there a way to get in contact with you outside hn?
> I had a few terrible bosses as an example of what not to do

For this reason, I think the best leaders come from below.
One example might be influencers buying followers. If simply paying money for bots (or people?) to follow you is enough to create "influence," then that may be a flaw in the system.
Well, compare the crime rate in a US city to the crime rate among Asians in the same city. Or any other US city.

Chinese cities are populated by Asians. If an American city made that change and no other changes, the crime rate would fall to negligible levels.
The product is called “ vEGGie.” The branding is silly, but certainly doesn’t seem deceptive.
people also hire those who fit the company culture. It's important if you are to spend the rest of your life in the same room. Better to just hire for skill.
Google doesn’t have a massive distribution network. If you take out the distribution and warehouse has jobs there are still many complaints like the hire to fire headcount. Not to mention one must ask themselves do they want to work for a company that doesn’t give lower employees bathroom breaks or fires people based on AI feedback? How long until they use AI feedback to fire SWEs?
Some random favorites:

https://tcrf.net/X-Men_(NES) Great little way to hide a secret.

https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris Developer rant. Niel Voss really did make great music!

https://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Bros._3/Unused_Levels Unused levels in Mario 3.

https://tcrf.net/Prerelease:The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Ocarina_of_... A huge wealth of early screenshots and development info for OOT.

https://tcrf.net/Proto:The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Ocarina_of_Time/... ...and a leaked build from around the time many of those screenshots were taken.

https://tcrf.net/Proto:M.C._Kids Because I love this game and I wrote the level map dumper to take those images.
I haven't, the builtin ones are good enough for my project.

Sounds interesting though to keep in mind.
Judging by the historic job changing trends in the last few months, I think your suggestion that "through quitting everyone reorganizes themselves" is already happening.

The only question that remains to be answered is whether remote or in-office companies have structural advantages over the other type, and it will probably take a decade or so before there's enough data to conclusively call it.
The moment the high-tech antitrust employee lawsuit was announced, I got a pay bump of 50%. (Literally the moment - the press release went out and within an hour managers were making the rounds and saying "Well, looks like you got a raise.") It equalized at about 2x my hiring comp.

Makes the $1000 I got from that class action lawsuit look pretty piddly, though - if the whole industry's salaries were increased by 50% in a day, how much were we being underpaid before?
You should stop being a crab in a bucket, and go try to improve your own situation instead of being unhappy that others have done so in their own lives.
The future of work is flexibility, it has nothing to do with in office or remote-first. It has everything to do with tech workers, or people who work from a screen having control and autonomy over their lives to decide to work how they would like too. We need to stop choosing one side or the other, its just a balance :).
That's very sad. Like many others, I used `cdrecord` and `mkisofs` back in the day.

But mainly I remember him for his work on SCCS. That code was AT&T proprietary for a long time, but it was open-sourced as part of OpenSolaris. Schilling made it portable and produced binaries for several platforms, including the Mac. He even gave some conference talks on this topic. By the time he did that work, most projects had already moved onto other version control systems. But there are older, closed-source histories of various projects (such as Java) that are still in SCCS, and I find his tools useful to this day for investigating those histories.

Condolences to his family.
I've always been kinda fascinated by this solar yacht concept.

I wonder now with post-covid remote working options and starlink if you could actually make it work.

I do wonder though if sailing the ship is basically a full-time job in itself (navigation channels? Docking at foreign countries? Getting food etc?).
1-2 hours away from a major city is actually kind of a sweet spot, IMO.

Big cities have things like major hospitals and major employers, they have airports, they have baseball stadiums. They've also got social networks -- it's much easier to make friends in a place with 100,000 people your age than 50.

Now, escaping to the undeveloped areas is cheap, and many of them have access to things like beautiful mountains or beaches that are either far away from or too crowded near big cities. However, rural areas generally have poor infrastructure that big cities have, and often have extremely bad schools.

Being 1-2 hours away from a big city? That's kind of a sweet spot. You're still close enough to the city for culture and hospitals and the airport. But you're on a big plot of land, and since you're still in a metro, you've probably got reasonably good infrastructure and schools.

The whole "move to the mountains" thing that so many people talk about assumes you don't care about good schools, airports, hospitals, etc.
Someone is going to pay for that increased efficiency--either your Employer will pay in dollars, or you will pay some opportunity cost. Why should you pay?

After all, there are plenty of things that you could do in your spare time that would make you a more efficient employee. But you wouldn't let your employer tell you to work unpaid for an hour each Monday, preparing for the week. Nor would you let them require that you spend an unpaid hour of your free time reading or doing professional development each week. The only difference between those things and commuting is that we've all been conditioned (not in any nefarious way, just by the reality of work in the past) to consider a commute a hard requirement to have a job. But it's not anymore.

Your time is a commodity. Why give it away?
Doing a sometimes long commute that gets you out of high-cost areas is hard in the Bay Area but a few hours gives you a lot of flexibility in what type of place you live in generally.
I think this is gonna be a good re-evaluation of what work / office is.

commuting is horrendous for some, workplace social life can be too

but for some it's fine and needed

I think it can lead to a rebalancing effect.
Why not have a program dedicated to building mass? If you’re skinny fat like me getting abs isn’t hard, just have to reduce my calories in. However, gaining muscle mass has been difficult
Living for the weekend is an extremely draining way to live. I fucking hate it.

As it stands - I live for 2-3 hours on Sundays if the weather is good because everything is closed and will be closed for another 6 fucking months. It's fucking horrific. I have to spend the rest of my week grinding away at meaningless drivel.

Imagine actually spending 40+ hours/week around people and enjoying a significant amount of your interactions.
Yes, I have. I have started to question whether its maybe a personality flaw of my own, or a real lack of interest in my career choice. All I do know is it feels less fulfilling now than it did before the lockdowns.
"Hacking YouTube" is a stretch description ...
Teaching intro classes is indeed difficult. I like how some universities have dedicated staff for this (who are paid to only teach and not do research).
Not discord, but the default player is vulnerable to many different crash shenanigans. I get them sent to me all the time to look into and its usually just people using bogus timestamps, bogus seek times or concatenating multiple videos of different resolutions/rates that the player can't handle. If there was a way to get discord to spawn VLC for playing videos by default this would be less of a problem.
>> It's no surprise that many tech companies install Slack and then suddenly find themselves, shortly thereafter, dealing with employee uprisings. When you rewire the communications topology of any group, you alter the dynamic among the members. Slack's public channels act as public squares within companies, exposing more employees to each other's thoughts. This can lead to an employee finding others who share what they thought were minority opinions, like reservations about specific company policies.

> Shout it from the rooftops!

Shout what? That employees should have a public square? Or that employers should keep people isolated, so reservations about company policies won't surface?
The cassowary, possible first bird raised by humans 18,000 years ago
But then : 'I was told that the acqui-hire process through BizDev would take a very long time. An alternative to speed up the process would be just to hire me with a “bonus” and then work on migrating the code ownership after the fact. I didn’t have any objections'

For anyone who was involved in an acquisition, it's a polite way to say "we're not interested". And considering he describes his PM interview as "I met with four different people; three of the meetings were more like your typical interviews;" it sounds like he went through the typical hiring pipeline because an employee gave him a referral.

Real acqui-hires are nothing like what he describes.
If you're new to an area, often coworkers will help introduce you to local bars/clubs/libraries/whatever. Not that you might like the same ones, but it does start you with a baseline you can modify, which is valuable.
Zip files that contain themselves are infinitely large when recursively decompressed, so that's much worse than a log file which is merely easy to compress.
Lobste.rs is one: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters
Telemetry is like bureaucracy. Once you have one it's extremely difficult to get rid of it.
OP is referring to phashes aka perceptual hashes, where closest hashes should indeed indicate similarity.
No, that’s clear. But that was the point of the comment you were responding to.
You definitely want to try an English narrowboat before you start. I know people that have done this; it's romantic, but at its least romantic you're living in a not very well insulated damp trailer.
First communications satellites were just passive reflectors. They were just big inflated balloons made with reflective material.

Same idea could work with solar powered aircraft.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Echo
Life has always been normal here in Sweden.

No lockdowns, mask mandates, restaurants have always been open. And no excess deaths.

So don't speak for everyone.
> If an app is rejected, Apple says it provides the developer with information on the reason for the rejection, and says that the app makers have an opportunity to "correspond with the Apple team member who reviewed the app." Furthermore, developers have a chance to appeal a rejection to the App Store Review Board.

Having been through this and heard stories from others, Apple will send you the very broad section of the rules they think (often incorrectly) that you've violated, but they won't tell you what part of your app is violating which part of the section of rules quoted. The correspondence with the Apple team member will just reiterate the rules, and won't tell you what you're supposedly doing wrong with any sort of specificity.
I remember when margarine, and other plant based fats were being touted as the healthier alternative to animal fats, and in the end, it turned out that these artificially oxidized plant oils ended up being a direct cause of heart disease.

I'm afraid of products such as these for the same reason, because we have no long term health data.

I'm happy to eat plants of all sorts, in their natural form. A slurry of plant fats and proteins which approximates eggs sounds like nasty factory runoff.
China's official position is that Taiwan is a province in rebellion, but economics mean they can't treat it exactly like an ongoing civil war so... It's complicated
In terms of political and cultural impact in the United States the defining characteristic of the Baby Boomers is not the wealth they grew up with but their sheer number.
16 days is kind of a lot. For me the hybrid model means I can much more easily do long weekends or weeks-in-an-interesting-place as 16 days would let me do 2 weeks and a half dozen long weekends.

Compared to my old employer that's a ton.
Start doing serious changes which address things like climate change and people would magically acquire more confidence, and its the right thing to do anyway.

This is really all about a crisis of confidence in political leadership at its core. Its also pretty rational and the correct thing to do is to address that leadership deficit rather than trying to convince people they're thinking about it wrong.
This author is very intelligent, well versed and wonderfully dry at the same time as being slightly amusing:

> For all of these references, I give a big "Thank You!!!" to my co-authors.

...

> This pointer is now a "zombie pointer" that has come back from the dead, or that has at least come to have a more entertaining form of invalidity.

...

> Furthermore, even given unanticipated universal acclamation of Rust within the Linux kernel community combined with equally unanticipated advances in C-to-Rust translation capabilities, a significant fraction of the existing tens of millions of lines of Linux-kernel C code will persist for some time to come.

and his parting words, not that he is negative or pessimistic about Rust but rather highlighting some unsolved challenges and their possible solutions:

> In short, choose wisely and be very careful what you wish for! ;-)