skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This will be true provided that states make an effort to assure that all can obtain the required ID

I really don't understand why that was not the focus whenever this came up. Not having ID is a huge impediment to constructive participation in society. Need to open a bank account, take out a loan, rent a house, drive a car, fly somewhere, get a job, etc., etc., then you'll almost certainly need ID.

Voting once every now and again of course is important, but to people who genuinely don't have the means to get ID for themselves, I'm sure it's a vanishingly small problem compared to their immediate concerns of surviving day to day.

It's crazy that the outrage is about the ID requirement for voting and so much effort has gone into that, rather than being outraged about people not being able to get ID and the effort going in to making that easier for them.
Sorry to add some more to my own analogy: some of the unreferenced pages in the giant binder also sometimes will contain wiretapping devices.
yet. That's the whole point of getting in early (to the mass-consumer-market), to make it the standard. It's not a necessity yet, but neither were smartphones (now just called "phones").

FB is banking heavily that VR will become a necessity, to one extent or another. I sincerely hope FB fails, but my suspicion is that it would fail not because FB failed, but rather because VR itself failed (e.g. Google Glass for consumers). Still to be seen.
as people get older, they become infirm and require support; not just directly (relatives or nursing homes looking after their basic needs) but financially. Society is a pyramid, and when a pyramid narrows at the base, it becomes unstable.

Also, our problems (presumably the myriad environmental ones) aren't caused by overpopulation, they're caused by rampant corporate polluting in service to individualistic consumer culture.
Good question. Depends how you define OS. I consider them different OSes based on the same kernel.

They have too much disparity in terms of configuration to consider them the same OS for management purposes which is my main focusat work. But I can understand if someone with another perspective feels differently.
> I see you can setup using CloudFormation. Any chance terraform is on the roadmap?

Yes, we will be adding support for TerraForm by next month.

> On a personal note, thanks for everything you do.

You're welcome! But database research is probably keeping me out of jail. That's why I have to keep going.

> I’m a subscriber to the CMU Database Group channel and advocate of keeping it real.

Don't thank me. Thank the Steven Moy Foundation for Keeping it Real (https://stevenmoyfoundation.org).
It would just outlaw the easiest way to insure an IoT device is easily controlled and authenticated.
Yes, ones that are obviously a year or two from an IPO or a major acquisition.
And when it's good, it's good.

I just clicked buy on Halide. I'd downloaded and played with it back when I got my iPhoneXR, and I only upgraded from that recently purely because I wanted some of the camera advances.

$80 to buy specialised software for my $1800 camera (that also happens to be a phone) feels totally like the right thing to do.
At my first job in financial software, one of my coworkers was an MIT-grad aeronautical engineer with ~5 years experience in aerospace, ~6 months software. He took a pay cut (though not much of one - I think he went from about $90K -> $75K) to get into finance, because aeronautical engineering doesn't really pay you enough money to have a decent life in the Boston area. Within 2 years he'd jumped ship to a hedge fund and was making about double his aerospace salary.

And people wonder why we don't make things in the U.S. anymore...
Is that an argument for making 3D graphics mandatory or the opposite?

I am suspicious of arguments of the form: “Here’s some stupid shit people do! Let’s do more.” Although I will grant there is a seductive consistency to the logic.
If when you bought the tractor, the tractor company said “this tractor requires that you have internet access and keep the tractor online”, and you bought it, then no, it’s not fair of you to expect to just disregard that.

Now, if you want to take a screwdriver and serial cable to the tractor and hack the crap out it, and you manage to bypass the requirement, have at it. You own the tractor. They can feel free to void your warranty / not give you updates, but you can do whatever you want with your property.

But to buy a device that says “internet connection required” and then be angry when it requires an internet connection doesn’t make sense to me, nor does asking the government to mandate the business model used by tractor (or VR headset) manufacturers.
Agreed. US citizenship is probably the luckiest lottery ticket on earth. People literally die trying to get it. And she just brushes it off for the sake of paperwork.

Astounding.
Yeah, it was satire, and all good satire has a kernel of truth.
>10 million

A world population that small certainly wouldn't sustain semiconductor manufacturing, even if you concentrated them in one region.
The Economics of Dowry and Brideprice
> For the vast majority of projects, serde makes parsing / serializing something they don't even have to think about, without having to sacrifice type safety to get there.

This has not been remotely my experience. Deserializing has a lot of implications for ownership and you get into complicated deserializer trait specifications pretty quickly.

In particular, there doesn’t seem to be a way to deserialize a type that has a reference because you don’t seem to be able to tell serde who should own that memory. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ve walked through this multiple times with experienced Rust users and no one could get it working.

Serde is impressive, I’m sure, but far from “don’t even have to think about it”.
Yes, that's why corporations, even the most perfectly good ones in the world, still value their ability to keep things private.
> A more consistent normalized baseline performing tire, even if louder, would be welcome.

Background noise can lead to fatigue, which can lead to crashes. I have no idea of the overall impact (pardon the pun) of this, compared to increased safety of (louder) tyre performance, but probably worth considering.

> Managing air pressure in tires can be problematic, airless tires are a welcome innovation.

True, but modern cars have inbuilt pressure sensors, and these can be retro-fitted relatively cheaply.
Not on purpose, and they didn't keep or memorize it.
Yeah, and once it starts to boom, the dilution of shares is crazy because the investors start to pile into their pool (which is also your pool if you're an employee). Founders shares are really the only good ones, because that pool doesn't dilute the more money they raise. I'm not sure if this is always true but when I started contracting for startups I hear a lot about this.
Are both major parties the wrong party? Because college students skew Democrat but married women are more likely to vote Republican.

Honestly if there are people without ID and an inability to acquire one that's a bigger issue because of the many things you can't do without an ID voting is pretty low on the list.
your family might not be on our human plane of conciousness

but, a family might make decisions to prolong it's lifespan and reproduce itself. like the parts of our bodies, stomach, brain, eyes work to achieve these goals for ourselves, the family members likewise engage in similar decision making in it's own self-interest.

it can engage and interact with society as a unit, though it is comprised of distinct actors.
How many CTOs that wrote two books are there around Boston?
True. Even if we do find a solution to replace the current economic model, the transition would be messy with a high chance of violence.
Other ways to put your thumb on the scale: https://nypost.com/2021/10/13/mark-zuckerberg-spent-419m-on-...
How much more do they weigh than standard tires? I expect the extra material required might end up negating any "environmental benefit" which comes from reduced scrapping of tires due to punctures/etc.
How does capitalism (ie. "private means of production") translate to "ever increasing number of mouths to feed"?
In many EU countries, to have a telephone line (land or mobile). The same with internet access: you must have a bank account. But most local banks do not want local US customers. It's prohibitively onerous for them. Imagine trying to establish a life without a telephone or internet.
Just because they aren't secretive about it doesn't mean it's an okay thing to do. Doing a bad thing out in the open might make it shameless, but it doesn't make it acceptable.
I'm in Seattle so the situation is a bit better than the valley. But here's a breakdown:

L6 at Amazon, single, no kids:

~$400K TC
$33,333 per month gross

About $100K in federal tax, no state income tax in WA.
$8333 per month

Healthcare: $34 a month for an HSA plan.
$3,650 over the course of the year goes into the HSA, including the employer portion. That ends up being about $205 out of my pocket. This is a bit complicated if you're not American and familiar with the different account types but it's basically money you're saving that's not taxed, but you can only use it for healthcare expenses.

$3000 max out of pocket per year for medical expenses. For all intents and purposes you can assume that's the most I'll ever pay. Out of network stuff makes it more complicated, but my network has essentially everyone.
$250 a month, but you can use the HSA funds from above, so net $0.

Rent: In the Seattle area a newish one bedroom that's about 50-60 m^2 will run you say, $2200 a month. You can go cheaper or more expensive, but that will get you something that's plenty nice. Commute is extremely dependent on exact location, but if you're in the city, the majority of it has a commute time of less than an hour.

$33,333
-$8333
-$34
-$205
-$2200
=
$22,561 income remaining.

I think you'd be able to survive :)

Obviously doesn't account for internet, a phone, a car, utilities or anything else, but that's maybe another $2K a month on the high end.
The CTO position isn't for everybody. A few years ago, I used to work at another tech unicorn from Amsterdam, at a time it was rapidly expanding.

The CTO at this company was the first engineer. He was talented, and more passionate about engineering than management. He eventually stepped down to a similar role as they brought in a suit from the corporate world to replace him. That was around the time that I left.

Funnily enough, I always thought he was the most grounded person on the leadership team.
Interview problems that are stripped down versions of real problems faced on the job are gaining popularity. All of Stripe, Coinbase, and Google gave me interview questions that were recognizably related to their business when I interviewed with them last year. I've always tried to give interviews distilled from my actual job when I interview candidates at Google, but it's hard in a 45-minute block. Some companies are moving toward fewer longer interviews for that reason.
Thats fantastic.

I maintain the nodejs bindings for foundationdb. Foundationdb refuses to publish a wire protocol, so the bindings are implemented as native code wrapped by n_api. The code is a rat's nest of calls to methods like `napi_get_value_string_utf8` to parse javascript objects into C. (Eg [1]). As well as being difficult to read and write, I'm sure there's weird bugs lurking somewhere in all that boilerplate code. I've made my error checking a bit easier using macros, but that might have only made things worse.

I'd much prefer all that code to just be in rust. serde-v8 looks way easier to use than all the goopy serialization nonsense I'm doing now. (Though I'd want a serde_napi variant instead of going straight to v8).

[1] https://github.com/josephg/node-foundationdb/blob/c1165539e5...
It's just as straightforward to interpret the browser bar as only being a search bar that accepts any textual representation of intent from the user and does its best to interpret that intent (that's what search engines do, after all). And if that intent looks like a URL [0], then it might interpret that as your intent and load that URL. It's just one of many cases that are expected from a search engine–other might include showing a map for a query that looks like a location, doing arithmetic calculations for queries that look like arithmetic expressions, etc.

[0] Or a domain...even the most tech-savvy among us probably types in domains without examining the difference between a domain and a URL or how software might detect whether a given string looks like a domain
Flutter vs. Electron Performance
Zuckerberg spent $419M on nonprofits ahead of 2020 election–& got out Dem vote
You can’t have infinite growth on a finite planet, either.
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Lack of orphan instances really aren't that bad of a problem in practice. If really necessary, the newtype pattern is very easy to do in Rust and has the benefit of never conflicting if the dependency adds a trait implementation. What is way more important is keeping your crate sizes manageable since IIRC Rust doesn't do any incremental/parallel compilation within a single crate.

Compilation speed isn't just one number. While 5min isn't bad at all for compiling a whole project from scratch including dependencies, 5min is a really long time for incremental builds.
Are you saying that homeless people shouldn't be able to vote?
> It's just as much of an anthropomorphization as the article accuses traditional conceptions of God of.

For the record (just to clarify the overall context), the traditional conception of God, in the Catholic view, is not anthropomorphic. From metaphysical analysis, God is the Ipsum Esse Subsistens, the Subsistent Act of Existing Itself[0]. You see this declared in the Torah in Exodus 3:14[0]. Faith only enters into the picture with the identification of the God of Scripture with the God of philosophy, but it is not much of a leap given the agreement between the two.

That God is personal does not imply anthropomorphism. That the Logos became incarnate does not imply anthropomorphism.

Also, w.r.t. "God without denying His transcendence", the traditional Christian view of God is one who is both transcendent and immanent.

[0] https://www.newadvent.org/summa/1003.htm#article4

[1] https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+3:14&ver...
Lol, that is a smart way to do it. Until one student comes along, who is two weeks ahead of the class and the teacher
I'm not sure how this is easier than just synching up your dotfiles on Linux
Would you feel that way about an article on metaphysics or any other branch of philosophy outside of mathematical logic?

How about ethics, anthropology or another branch of the humanities that isn't amenable to the scientific method?

I suppose I'm asking where you draw the line between "distinct from the sciences" and "anti-scientific"?
It was data. The "I must be doing something wrong" was tongue in cheek. The specific data point was that I am not seeing any salaries anywhere near that. And Salary.com actually backs me up.

Just the fact "grind Leet Code" is a recommendation to someone who's most recent job title was CTO and has written two books may be a sign these interviews are broken.

But point taken, I'm sure if I studied specifically for interviews I could get those jobs. But the fact remains, a vast majority of people don't work for FAANG and even the "person unwilling to work for FAANG" example is higher salary than I have ever seen.

My point was actually that the article and ones like this seem well research but don't match the reality. For example, I recently interviewed at a fortune 100 company for a Director position and it was what this article says is "non-FAANG staff engineer" salary.
Are you mental? Governments around the world need to make it extremely hard to have kids. It won't happen of course, because the entire capitalist system relies on increased consumption. So we, as a species, will just keep fucking until societal and species collapse. Go us.

I think what you mean is "I want to have kids and other US Tax Payers should pay for me to have them."

You get that college costs are out of control simply because there are too many people, right? There's too many people of college age. There's too many people for the jobs that don't need a degree, so now you need a degree, so now even more people need to go. And hey, the government passed a law so that you could borrow easily (so, hey, they are helping you out!), but that just means that more people can compete for places, driving prices up!

Or did you want the government to just help you and your kids out? Not sure what you're asking for here.
It's even harder in Europe in some ways. Housing is expensive there too and while you got free education and Healthcare, the salaries are much lower than the US. Source: look at the birth rates in Europe vs US.
I was being flippant in my comment above, but just to be clear: I think regulating business models for cell phones is just as bad an idea.

Electrical service has limitations around things like termination of service / fair pricing / safety, but we don’t mandate how they design their software and servers.
Agreed. Overpopulation is an outdated boogeyman. Climate change IMO is the more pressing concern.
> with a long history of promoting market share, access to information, and knowledge transfer at the expense of short-term profit.

Can you back this up? Because last time I checked Hauwei was bent on supplying phones and phone tech for the entire planet.
"Your mistake"

There is no mistake. Your first paragraph is unfortunately founded on some misunderstandings of optics, however I calculated the hyperfocal length for an equivalent ASP-C 35mm system and an iPhone at the same crop (which anyone with an SLR and an iPhone can replicate in moments). The iPhone has a dramatically higher DoF. There are no mistakes in that calculation. This is the reason why you need computational bokeh. It's why it's so easy for everything to always be in focus. Could someone contrive ridiculous focal length / f-ratio / CoC parameters? Of course they can -- it's just a function with parameters that you punch in, and they can offset. In actual reality, however, short focal length is the primary input into why small cameras feature larger depths of field. Why we talk about the equivalent aperture in the way that we talk about equivalent focal length.

sudosysgen's argument in the end seems to distill down to "yes, but compare it via the equivalent DoF f-stop on the larger camera" which is a short circuit of the entire argument. It is basically saying that AMC is worth the same as Apple if AMC shares were each worth $4636.

Okay.
When the average person's personal computing device is barely stronger than that phone graphics card it's pretty good.
lol a world population that small probably couldn't sustain iron smelting. Have fun digging for grubs and shivering through the winter huddled around the campfire.
Merrick Garland Has a List, and You’re Probably on It
Yes for me 2K is QHD or 1440p. It just easy for me to compare display resolutions for example 0.5K for 720p, 1K for 1080p, 2K 1440p, then 4K, 6K, 8K, 16K, etc [1]. Buying laptop with less than 1440p display today is just beyond me.

They are many 1 kg laptops around at the moment by most of laptop manufacturers. For GPU personally I have an external GPU or eGPU via Thunderbolt interface.

Currently they are many laptops 128 GB RAM around, they just need to put it in a lighter laptop based on i7 or i9 [2]. Heck even the cheaper Intel's 10th Gen Celeron CPU can support up to 128 GB RAM [3]. It is not a rocket science to put 128 GB RAM inside a lightweight laptop today.

[1] 720p vs 1080p vs 1440p vs 4K vs 8K – Which Should I Choose?

https://www.displayninja.com/720p-vs-1080p-vs-1440p-vs-4k-vs...

[2] Top 10 Laptops with 128GB RAM:

https://www.reinisfischer.com/top-10-laptops-128gb-ram-mobil...

[3] Intel® Celeron® Processor G5900:

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/199268/...
Why though? Why is that requirement there? Okay, it's nice for me to sync everything and have a seamlessly integrated ecosystem. But what if I have one device and just want to use Word on it and that's it?
> The store is just a physical extension of apples drive to put the customer experience first.

They could learn a thing or two from Dell and Lenovo about repair turnarounds.
I’m saying it’s not clear to me why it’s a bad thing. It’s clear that you want them to design a different VR headset, but I wish IKEA made a different depth Kallax shelf and yet I’m not looking to make it a legal requirement.
> Users don't normally construct urls by hand

You never typed google.com into the browser? I doubt it.
Maybe you just mean "construct" as in edit the url to access another site - well, that's still a perfectly normal use-case. I regularly change reddit urls to old.reddit because it gives me a better user interface. Or access a subreddit by adding an "r/subname". Sure, those aren't alphanumeric IDs, but that distinction is meaningless. Some unique IDs on the web do actually consist exclusively of english words. And some numeric IDs are harmless page numbers or pagination info.
Yeah the whole chicken and the egg thing. I don’t know but I don’t want to have a hamstrung ecosystem right now
Nokia a.k.a. HMD had to have been researching whether to go with either full or modified nostalgia, as potential sales today always outdo dreams of recreating yesterday. My guess is Nokia's 2020s-era focus groups probably balked at the smaller screen and smaller buttons of the original. I'd love to see a tree list of all the menu items before I decide on how I like this newer 6310.
Yes, it looks like it was built to search educator SSNs[1], so the devs just... put them all in the js. How's that for caching? Ouch.

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20210428154433/https://apps.dese...
> Because your proposed legislation would outlaw most IoT devices.

Only if it were drafted carelessly. Which, yeah, plenty of laws are, but it's not a requirement.
> You don't have to be a citizen to have a driver's license, either, but they're accepted.

34 states require a birth certificate or proof of legal residency.

16 states do not require the above, but that does not mean that no identification at all is required.
The C-suite will be punished with a bonus for dodging responsibility.

edit: if that actually happens, Boeing is finished. They will be doomed to repeating the mistake of the 737 Max.
Coincidentally I currently work in aerospace (in a software engineering role) and I have 15 years experience.

I wish I made $120k/year.... :(
Inflation is a most brutal regressive tax there, completely robs people in bottom 80%, who have no assets.
Some new HP printers won't function without internet access and an HP account
Based on some quick googling (not an expert in the related physics like some sibling commenters seem to be), earth’s orbital velocity around the sun is ~30km/s and the sun’s orbital velocity around the center of the galaxy is 250km/s
Anyone know why fitness tracking would not work after disabling telemetry? That’s very strange they’re intertwined.

If you own a quest, what’s the appeal of disabling the fb part? To me it’s the telemetry that’s most incendiary, especially as a friend at Oculus suspected people’s video is uploaded as part of data sets for training the tracking algorithms (which means the inside of my home is in FB servers… even worse if you consider some popular VR movies and their related activities…)
Unfortunately it looks like this is really a fall guy with no mention of where the instruction to hide this information came from.

On the other hand, according to his Linkedin Mark Forkner worked for the FAA before moving to Boeing to become the chief technical pilot, so he should have been well aware of the stakes when he hid information.