skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any article examining this that fails to acknowledge the role that youth, alcohol or drugs play in the majority of accidents is not to be taken seriously.

Other minor factors that people constantly forget about are motorcycles and the fact that many pedestrian deaths actually happen _outside_ of a city.
Their database was likely measured in megabytes not gigabytes or terabytes.

I have a similar situation... it's awesome, I can afford to back the entire production DB up in its entirety once per hour for months on end.
That’s fair, some models do still have serviceable RAM. From picking random models on Lenovo’s site and googling them it seems to be the majority of advertised models that are non-upgradeable. That said, even if you can swap it out, a RAM upgrade only gets you so far. Your display, webcam, CPU, wifi, graphics etc all stay behind. In my opinion the age of upgrading laptops easily is behind us - for years, adding RAM and an SSD was the way to rejuvenate an old laptop, but even if a modern laptop is upgradeable I don’t see these things really helping much.
I'm not sure this is correct. People who avoid obesity-related health issues often just get old enough to suffer from some other, even more expensive disease.

A cancer patient requires more expensive care than a typical diabetic or heart disease patient, and the prolonged costs of caring for someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's can be greater still.

I'm not saying obesity is good for society (prolonging years of healthy life is a worthwhile goal on its own), but the impact on the healthcare system itself isn't necessarily so simple.
Of course not. Don't be silly. The post even tells you with its title: "I don’t Know How To Count That Low.

:)
If particles behaved like software we could have a guess.

It could be that time dilation is caused by some underlying physical system having a bottleneck, thus causing the slowdown. The underlying physical system has to evaluate all possible states for a particle in superposition, even if working in parallel. Then i would guess a particle in superposition should always experience the biggest possible slowdown.
No it's not strange at all -- I once had a colleague who went on to become a brilliant engineer at Google, but was horrible at the small startup we worked together at, because his solutions were over-engineered, fanciful, totally ignored the day-to-day messy problems we had, and did NOT help further our mission - to make the customer happy.
The absurdity of not being able to support a name as common as Christopher or anything as long or longer just screams "government work". What the hell went through everyone's head when they built this system? Absolutely no testing or real data was used either, but that shouldn't matter, because having a max limit on someone's (very common) name is honestly impressive. The fact they developed this system without addressing this issue is a testament to the quality of government software development.

I'm sure there is good government software out there, but there are plenty of showcases of the opposite (especially since these are systems that NEED to work).
It seems like too big of a leap for a consortium of companies that have yet to field a single manned orbital vehicle to be planning a space station.
Lists don't make good HN submissions—they're too generic. The only thing to discuss is the lowest common denominator of the items on the list, and that's usually some very general topic about which there's nothing particularly new to say.

It's better to post the most interesting item on the list. That increases the chance that there's something specific to talk about.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
... All 4:3 videos are taller than 16:9 certainly, and there's a non-trivial number of those.
What do you mean by "finally"? It always was one the main use cases, doing p2p value transactions.
I mean… we are talking about a UI update here.
Reflections on Solana's Sept 14 outage
Just a note that you've framed the question as "without JS turned on" but it's not always a choice; there are people who don't have access to sufficiently new hardware or reliable telecoms that it will work as intended.

As an example, for the past ten years I have had to browse with a tablet that crashed every time JS was enabled (luckily I could recently justify the expense of a new one, so that won't be the case any more when it arrives)
What is a broccoli?
I agree. The population of the USA is increasing. After India and China, it is the most populous country.

It is better for the United States to look at Indian Tax structures and codes. Because that’s this country’s future. You can’t have a thin section of tax payers supporting the majority of the population.

Developed vs developing countries is not just about standard of living. It is about GDP and what percentage of the population is productive. By that measure, America is a developing country.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country
A developing country is a country with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.[1] However, this definition is not universally agreed upon. There is also no clear agreement on which countries fit this category.[2][3] The term low and middle-income country (LMIC) is often used interchangeably but refers only to the economy of the countries. The World Bank classifies the world's economies into four groups, based on Gross National Income per capita: high, upper-middle, lower-middle, and low income countries. Least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing states are all sub-groupings of developing countries. Countries on the other end of the spectrum are usually referred to as high-income countries or developed countries.
That's a common way I see well-educated candidates fail our interviews. What happens is that they only have N minutes to do the whole interview... If they burn twenty minutes of that time gaming out whether the DB needs redundancy, multi-tier storage, and synchronization, they don't have time to actually show me the algorithm that will generate the data to go in the database, and that's what I'm hiring them for. "Is the database the right shape" is rarely a problem at our scale.
It seems like there should be some technical solutions though. Maybe just use the name field in the mainframe DB as a unique hash of the utf-8 encoded name and store the real utf-8 encoded name in an external DB or something.
Return Culture: ECommerce and Reverse Logistics
Oooof, SAS (in the author's dad anecdote). If they get hooked young, it's expensive hell to get them to quit. I'm not sure how that colors by analogy my view of the main point of the article, but it's tempting to reach for: yes, if you get addicted to expensive (and/or proprietary) complexity, you sometimes lose sight of how to build simple solutions to simple problems. I'm not sure that's an argument in favor of the intellectual superiority of those who build the complexity...
https://sharktanktales.com/skinny-mirror-shark-tank-update/
They meant engine swap using the same engine make/model. Swapping in a used or new one as a unit to replace the old one, without getting bogged down in details of engine internals.

That's not unusual at all, and is actually a rather easy task even DIY hobbyists take on at home.

I personally swapped out the motor on my turbo miata in a weekend after cracking a piston, using nothing but plain hand tools and some rachet straps thrown over a rafter as a hoist. The used low-mileage replacement was found locally for $250 and ran strong, bolted right in. The only fiddly bit was I had to drill and tap the oil return hole in the oil pan for the aftermarket turbo.

On another occasion I swapped an 05 motor into an 04 R1 for a friend, another small weekend project, didn't even get the floor wet. Modern ICEs are quite well contained, loosely coupled (though less so on exotics/superbikes with stressed member engines), consistently affixed (within generations) modules. Mass production kind of forces this outcome. You can swap them out easily.
Understand you may be that 5-10% of the market that the notch impacts. The vast vast majority aren't running Photoshop and will spend 90% of their time on a browser which likely complies with notch.
Is there some context available or can someone provide some background?
99% is actually generous lol. There's 2,200 US dollar billionaires globally, and if you're sending $1B you probably have at least $2B which is going to narrow down the problem space pretty significantly. However, being generous, that's a problem that 99.99997% of the world cannot by definition have.
EPYC almost certainly has more compute power though.

Honestly, the memory bandwidth is imbalanced. Its mostly there to support the GPU, but the CPU also gains benefits from it. Its hard enough to push an EPYC to use all 200GBps in practice.

EDIT: For workstation tasks however, 64GB is huge for a GPU, while 400GBps is huge for a CPU. Seems like win/win for the CPU and GPU. Its a very intriguing combination. GPU devs usually have to work with much less VRAM, while CPU devs usually have to work with much less bandwidth.

64GB is small for CPU workstation tasks however. Its certainly a strange tradeoff.
I have a A* search algorithm and a toy compiler that I use exactly for the same purpose.

I just rewrite them all the time as means to get a feeling about programming languages.

I dumped a couple of other stuff on GitHub so that HR people are happy to get a link that they never read anyway.

Then I get back to Java and .NET at the office. :)
Keep in mind that this is an atom-derived chip (Goldmont Plus uArch), so it will be VERY VERY slow. Do not compare clock speed with something like Core i-series, expect this thing to have a much lower IPC. It barely has any cache as well. With the size of modern websites; JS, i'd expect it to struggle with anything complex...
I don't relate to this article at all. On the rare occasion when I need a picture of myself I use software to automatically snap ≈10 photos a second and then comb through a couple hundred to maybe find one good one.

I also get the feeling that modern phone lenses are optimized to make female faces appear slim, since females are generally more concerned with taking photos of themselves, and this is not good for masculine features. But I wouldn't know how to verify something like this.
In switzerland, probably the highest paying dev market in europe.
Because with a dog you have something worth fighting for
Fast Simulation Software for Production 3D Printing
I suspect the commenter is borrowing from AI terminology to describe a real life ecology of ideas and solutions to problems.

Also this is an incorrect generalization of 4chan. While rare enough that I don't bother going there, thoughtful exchange can and does occur on it. Besides, this is about anonymity in general, not on one specific site.

Do we really want an internet where everything you do and interact with is forever attached to your real person?
Things you do with no sound rational basis are generally better when they don't bankrupt you. There are lots of such alternatives.

Men with TP take risks that do not offer any commensurate reward. E.g., reckless driving. They are dangerous to be around.
China is thinking about unbanning Bitcoin mining
Doesn't an Xcode update _always_ take about 4 hours?
Enable compatibility mode and you'll be back to the same "dog shit" as the previous screens which people didn't seem to be that outraged by.
> "I didn’t know how to count that low, but now that it matters I am learning"

This is the sign a good engineer.
Antidepressant, Anxiolytic Effects of Medicinal Cannabis in Observational Trial
As someone who did trigonometry every week for over a decade, I can say that reinventing it often will really slow you down. There is merit to memorizing the identities (of course, you should understand them well enough to derive them if you need to).

I was also better at solving problems involving trigonometry than anyone I knew - including my professors.

You could, of course, argue that if you needed to use it every week, you would know all the identities merely by using them so much. Don't assume this is correct, though. One of the reasons I used them so much is because I had memorized them. My colleagues who used them as often as I did and who didn't memorize them did not, in fact, have them burnt into memory after so much usage.
Thank you very much! I really appreciated it.
It's economically rational in a world filled with the moral hazard provided by universal healthcare and insurance.

Why eat right or exercise when 99.8% of my $500k quadruple bypass surgery will be paid by other people?
> Compared to what? There are no laptops quite like these new Apple laptops. Anything with faster graphics also uses LOADS more power and runs WAY hotter.

Using 2x the power for 2x the bandwidth (on top of significantly more compute power) is a good tradeoff, when the NVidia chip is 8nm Samsung vs Apple's 5nm TSMC.

In any case, the actual video game performance is much much worse on the M1 Pro. The benchmarks show that the chip has potential, but games need to come to the system first before Apple can decidedly claim a victory.
They were actually very successful. German culture in the US was wiped out and the Anglo culture eventually dominated those of German ancestry.
New features available with macOS Monterey
That’s a different metric than “number of wafers”. Apple likely pays quite a premium for using the newer tech.
Metadrop is hiring front end devs interested in cryptocurrency, NFTs
As I understand it, they delayed rolling out CSAM scanning on-device due to the backlash.
Please read “Language Models are Few Shot Learners” https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 it’s the paper behind gpt-3

Large transformers display few shot learning similar to children. It’s a major advancement, machine learning is much more than supervised learning nowadays.
This is like a who’s who of companies that spacex have been making look bad recently.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/25/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-unvei... is good coverage with some links to various previous episodes.
I am tackling the problem side-on as no algorithm has managed to beautify a profile picture of me.
I’m wondering whether the notch was supposed to be for Face ID, but they couldn’t make it work due to current supply chain constraints, and that notched displays were already ordered.
I have inherited overengineered unwieldy architectures from programmers who had solved much harder technical problems than making our product successful.

Having to live with this kind of complexity slows you down in ways that you can't even really quantify (because it's difficult to run the required experiments while you're living the situation).

A list of issues it causes in web development (for example):

1. Makes it difficult to experiment with new features or different features in a product because every change is now 10 times as involved as it needs to be.

2. Makes it difficult to hire programmers with less experience because you are working with 3 or 4 complicated technologies (caches, job queues, etc.) when a single database server would do.

3. Makes it difficult to debug problems because you have to identify bugs across $(n \choose 2)$ microservice boundaries (where $n$ is the number of microservices in your architecture), each boundary involves a different set of components to enable communication (REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, Redis, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, etc.) each of which perhaps made sense locally but which certainly do not make sense as part of the whole system.

Apologies if I triggered anyone with this comment.
Ask HN: Virtual Dress Shirt Software
Are there any startups/side projects out there that will put a virtual dress shirt on me that doesn't look cheesy?
I've always kind of wondered what the country would be like if we held drivers materially accountable for injuring/killing other people. Ex, injuring a kid by rear ending a car was legally treated like inflicting the same injury with any other weapon.
> Does it seem a little strange that a startup would not hire someone who had solved a harder problem (big concurrent sharded DB system) for not knowing exactly how to solve an easier problem (keep the database in memory)?

Actually, it seems they knew how to keep the database in memory, they lacked an intuition as to the scale at which that solution becomes unviable and openly questioned its applicability when it should (in the retrospective opinion of the applicant and presumably the contemporary opinion of the interviewer) have been intuitively obvious.

Rejecting for that reason seems a kind of dumb though typical symptom of systems that overemphasize easily-acquired contextual familiarity, leading to preferring inflexible hyperspecialists in narrow problem domains and solution approaches.
I think "easier" and "harder" are not used appropriately here. Technologies to be used at different scales of size do not always match to the scales of difficulty. Especially when you are the person to use the technologies, not inventing the technologies.

Maybe there is a sequence of learning, for example you always learn to manage small databases and then go on to the technics to manage larger databases. But again, the sequence of learning does not always match to the scale of difficulty.
I'm new to Rust and am far less along than you are, as evidenced by this project. I noticed that in the few files I spot checked, there aren't many/any tests. Without any context or opinion, I'm curious whether unit and integration testing are hard for a project like this.
The author of the article wrote the ESLint plugin: https://github.com/steadicat
So they probably use(d) it.
That would be the 4-D-est of parasitic behaviors on record, and I think you're onto something
First of all what you said is correct. Physics is looking for a quantum theory of gravitation and of course that would allow for superposition.

The first problem is that a quantum theory of gravity is not straightforward. It's not "just" a spacetime with superposition, it probably has an even richer structure, the way QED has a richer structure than an EM field with superposition. And from the little hints we have it might have "spin 2" representation, and thereshould be some quantum very complicated field that acts like the metric GR field at low energies. But not only there are many possibilities for that, they are also very complicated, basically untreatable, or have infinite degrees of freedom in their definition itself.

The second problem is that there is no current way of experimentally probing such behavior. You say put a massive object in superposition, but to have observable effects you need to have so massive an object that is tens of orders of magnitude above "impossible".

This experiment is nice but it probes "just" the gravitational field of the Earth (a ~10^25 kg object). It is very nice for accurate time measures, and maybe for measuring gravitational fields, it comes nowhere near to probe quantum gravity effects, just quantum effects coupled to classical gravity (classic in the sense of GR but not quantum)
I would love to see a system that isn't subject to quantum effects.
Governor Parson, Apologize to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The difference is that the blame is shown all the time. magit’s blame has to be activated (magit-blame) and the buffer is read-only in the Magit-Blame minor mode.

Personally I find the feature distracting and turn it off (gitlens.currentLine.enabled set to false).

Of course, GitLens also has a separate blame mode.
> I didn’t know the limit because it had been many years since I’d had a problem that could be solved with a DB small enough to be held in its entirety in memory. And they were right to fail me for that: the fact that I was good at solving strictly more difficult problems didn’t matter because I didn’t know how to solve the easier ones they actually had.

No way it's "right" to fail an interviewee because they wondered outloud if a dataset can fit in memory. A candidate should be able to estimate the answer, but beyond that it's trivia that can be researched as needed -- indeed even asking the question is a positive signal not a negative one (it's not just people with "google scale" background who reach for over-complicated solutions).
Go's dependency management is pretty sophisticated w.r.t. mitigating supply chain attacks.

I'm working on a post about it

https://verdverm.com/go-mods/
Well, maybe. On the other hand a "moonshot" program is designed to give you a huge goal with a long list of challenges that get there, so this seems like a good way to get a consortium-owned space station done.

On the gripping hand the original moonshot had a national context that a corporate space station does not.
That's correct, but it came after them rebuilding the bluetooth stack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26647981
There is an advantage to enjoying unpopular things. When I seek out used books on matters of interest to me, the prices are low. When I go riding on bike paths in Los Angeles, there aren't gobs of other cyclists that I have to deal with. Yes, you can have too much of a good thing.
I've actually been considering adding a toy compiler to my collection of getting-up-to-speed projects, do you mind sharing what you think are good features?
Evil-is-to-good-as-hate-is-to-love
Positive and negative share the same signal. Decision determines whether a signal is positive or negative. Pain doesn’t happen, signal happens. Some people find pleasure instead of pain. Pain shares the same signal with bliss. Truth with illusion. Good with evil. Love with hate. Life and death.
The only sin is to believe a lie. Truth runs deeper in you than blood, it’s encoded to your soul: It’s your conscience. A sin is every time we lie to ourselves, because it distorts our perception of reality.
A strong understanding of reality in all its layers makes us God-like. Therefore, self-realization makes us less sinful. Self-realization is the path to superhuman. There are divine layers of life, which open up to those who learn to live without lying to themselves.
It was solved with M1 last year
Nigeria follows China’s footsteps in piloting digital currency
```So central banks around the world are now producing their own digital currencies. In a groundbreaking move for the African continent, buffered by local activity and interest in cryptocurrency — after the U.S., it is the second-largest market for crypto trading — Nigeria joins that list this week.```
Absolutely. I run into this all the time with my phone's screen (likely a different ratio, but I almost never have it not cover video.

If there's a program that will literally add black padding until the notch goes away I'd probably use it, at least when watching media.
> did NOT help further our mission - to make the customer happy

I can't help but think he'll fit right in at Google.
Define "algorithmic curation". It could mean any of:

- Chronological order

- Round-robin per subscription/friend (per sibling comment here)

- Upvote/downvote and vote weighting

- Brigading, sock puppets, etc

- Inlined advertisements - you may not like adtech but legality is a separate issue of debate

- Locality, proximity

- Content as it relates to time of day

Only some of these contribute to echo chambers and manipulation. I think it would be difficult to write a straight forward description that does what you would want and extremely difficult for doing what most people would want.