skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Person buys a phone, it's not got massive amounts of storage because person is not rich. On the box it says the phone has 64GB of storage (we could call that RAM, but it's not like a computers RAM as it's persistent). Person turns on the phone, and it says 'Hi, I need to update all the provided apps.", The thing is, the provided apps, are in ROM, and do not impact storage (other than for their data), but the updated version from the App/Play Store is now stored on the main storage, reducing that 64GB the phone came with before you've even had a chance to use the phone. ROM is also faster than the storage, not by much but it all adds up. Apps in ROM are quicker than in storage. When apps are 'sleeping' their run states are swapped out to storage, if storage is low, then the phone constantly has to make decisions on what old run states or temporary data needs to be purged first to make space for the apps run state to be saved. If a sleeping apps run state is purged, then when you click on it's icon again, it has to start up afresh, which is slower. All these things add up to delays. Then there's the constant indexing of your photos, videos and messages, the more stuff to index, the bigger the database, the more time and CPU cycles it takes to maintain it.

Basically, it's phone death by 1000 cuts.

What I do on any new phone or factory reset is NOT update any app I never intend to use, and/or disable it if I can. I also regularly purge older photos and videos (after having backed them up to another medium first).

However, none of this will stop newer apps just being more complex, and eventually your phone can no longer keep up. Phone app developers rarely optimise their apps for slower hardware, as the 2-year phone upgrade behaviour is now so strong in most users.
Excellent tip and really true for both the theory and the practice indeed. This almost never comes up in the CRUD apps that I had to make. But when it did come up, you better know stuff like ping, traceroute, netstat, netcat, tcpdump/wireshark and also nmap. I've learned about these tools from my networking classes.

But where I got to master them a lot more was playing hackthebox.eu with a friend! Also, the hacking skills obtained there are useful. Your employer might not always appreciate that you're hacking his/her company though. Not because you're hacking it, but because you're going "outside of your role" and not actually producing any features. So be careful with that one, I've burned myself twice on that front (it depends on company culture, I suppose).
>"cutting the grass", i.e. flying low with the gear up.

Unfortunately, one of greatest stunt pilots died doing similar stunt for the original "Flight of the Phoenix"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_the_Phoenix_(196...
Can confirm it works fine for me under linux firefox. OP, just adjust your user agent string if you're using a weird browser and proceed at your own risk.

(I say this because you're dealing with actual money, so incompatibilities from your browser might cause major problems if you're not careful)
Ah yeah, links to some random blogs... seems legit. A bit like all the "proof" of Democrats stealing 2020, I just don't have time to debunk them all and I'm just going to assume they're fudging the numbers.

But well, I've spotted something: https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/ukhsa-efficacy-stats-death-..., ages 40-49: the vaxxed are getting sick at twice the rate of unvaxxed ones.

But this image https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7A0B/production/... from https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55274833 says more than 75% of 40-49 have had 1 dosage.

Imagine if 100% of a population has been vaccinated. We know breakthrough cases are possible. Everyone that gets Covid after that will be breakthrough! And this graph would have 0 cases of the unvaxxed, and a non-zero bar for the vaxxed, and you're going to interpret that as "The vaccination gives you Covid!". The quoted emails try to explain why this graph is bad and liable to misinterpration, but the Substack author is misleading you by telling you there's dodgy stuff going on.

If the vaccine efficacy drops down after 6 months, then, boosters should be prescribed and even made mandatory. But boohoo, more crying from the other side.
I have two pairs of Beyerdynamic studio headphones. The other pair is now 16 years old, still sound great and are in daily use. I've replaced the cable once, it was easy and cables are common to find.

This is what I call value.
"The end result will likely be unrest and blood in the streets."

"We enter a new era of cyberfeudalism, which probably involves some blood in the streets."

What hyperbolic nonsense. New account with the hot takes.
I'll bet that's thanks to the mining market buying cheap cards and overclocking them into the ground. Very annoying for the wider market, certainly...
This is something I noticed as well. She always has the same exact haircut too.
I don't know if this is still the case, but in California the DMV form has a box asking for "Apartment or box number". I had a PMB (private mail box, like a PO Box but at a third-party business) so used my PMB number & street address.

DMV mailed me a licence with street name and "Apartment <my-PMB-number>" even though it wasn't an apartment and I lived elsewhere. That address worked perfectly for years - banks, passport application, etc, everyone accepted it. Online ordering from sites that specifically said "we don't ship to PO Boxes" also worked no problem.

If I ever move back to California I'll definitely do that again. I was 100% truthful on the DMV license application, it's just that they chose to interpret my mailing address as a residential apartment.
> This is inconsistent with record case numbers in highly vaccinated countries across the globe.

Let's see your data then.

> Publishing literature critical of vaccines is social and career suicide.

Ah yeah, of course, when you don't like the statement, the messenger is part of a giant lying conspiracy. Where's the science to prove otherwise? (Hidden by the money and power, I guess?) The studies that Jenny McCarthy and her doctor Andrew Wakefield[1] made up about vaccines = autism have been debunked. But I guess that's all because the powers that be have decided they need to be made pariahs, right? Sigh, I'm glad I live in reality. But hey, maybe I'm the one who's been brainwashed, and you're the clear thinking one, right?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136032/
If the work-from-home thing goes wrong, this will be why.

A huge amount of institutional memory is tacit knowledge, things that don't go in an explicit document. Your corporate Wiki is great for concrete things like where the different logo files are, but you'll never be able to rebuild the business from the documents alone, even if they're very good.

Those idle moments when you roll over to a colleague's desk, or when there's a crisis and you all huddle together, that's when you learn a thing or two about how the sausage is actually made.

With work-from-home it's not impossible to make up for this, but it does require the business to understand that finishing the documents is not finishing the work.
"The world is ending, they said to themselves. Why the hell not?"

The world is ending?
> Little's law

I guess that's the OP's point that you can't escape from talking about queues and which you sort of validated by bringing up Little's law.

Queues are literally everywhere around us in the physical world. It needs to be understood at a basic level -- Little's law is good enough and only requires primary school math. If execs aren't able to understand such a ubiquitous and simple concept then I don't know what to say.

Average flow rate is indeed useful but please explain that along with a queue and show whoever needs to know how queues can grow unboundedly if output rate is consistently less than input rate. And if needed explain further the upstream consequences of unbounded queue growth.
Itt: lots of people complain about their non-apple headphones being shitty.
Conspiracy theories about who bought it? I can imagine Apple being very interested in this to see if they can copy it or, more likely, stop it?
>My benchmark for yaml/JSON alternatives is "how would I feel explaining it to a busy, sceptical client?"

My benchmark is this: can an autoformatter do its job every time without breaking something that's technically working right now but possibly formatted wrong?

Every data format that cannot comply with this contains in it a huge waste of time. Even as a python programmer, I extend the same rule to programming languages.
1. Raise interest rates and stop printing. Crazy inflation stops, but asset prices crash and we enter a major recession or depression. The end result will likely be unrest and blood in the streets.

There's zero historical indication that this would happen based on interest rates from the past. In '74 the interest rate was 12%, in '81 it was 19.8%, in 1990 it was 9%. Even going as high as 6% nobody is getting out their seats. If you want to incite violence you need to race bait and then dress it up as "economic anxiety".
Ah so now you have changed your position from "it's competitive" to "it's not competitive but it doesn't matter".

But you're wrong about me just having to live with being disadvantaged. Apple is built on top of a platform as well. It's called society. And society makes some rules that govern what advantages platform operators like Apple can enjoy as a benefit of having created a successful platform and what advantages are unfair and/or damaging for consumers. So we'll see about who has to live with what.
> This chart alone basically debunks the theory the Fed is solely responsible for lower housing affordability.

Have you looked at Japan's population, its "dead ass flat" while US population keeps going up.

https://datacommons.org/tools/timeline#place=country%2FJPN%2...
Thanks James! :)

Indeed that's the mission! I use Carrd a lot and it was also out of my own experience of wanting to extend it to do more.
What brand are the old IEMs?
Especially in response to another anecdote
The NOAA sea level measuring station in that region of the world with the most history seems to be the one in Visakhapatnam in India. It shows 1.05mm/year rise, steady since 1940. Very little sign of acceleration.
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station....

Here are some other charts with less history but that are closer to Bangladesh. They are also very slow and steady rates of rise with little sign of any acceleration.
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station....
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station....
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station....
"Where do baby programmers come from...?" Haha
> Something simple, like a subset of bluetooth, with easy discoverability

Sounds like a security vulnerability waiting to happen. I can image every 3D printer in range printing a dildo.
What about a wire only linking the earbuds to each other and providing controls and a Bluetooth transmitter ?
We don’t really know very well how many humans (including Neanderthals) lived in Europe. We have pretty good estimates of effective population sizes from genetic data, but these don’t tell us much about actual population sizes beyond giving us lower bounds.

What we do know, though, is that hunter-gatherer peoples have very low population densities, and that these low population densities are a result of resource scarcity, and violent inter-group competition for these scarce resources. Other hunter-gatherer groups impact you even if they are miles from you.

Oh, and we do know that anatomically modern humans met Neanderthals, at the very least because they interbred.
All of the 24P I've seen in DV is done using a 3:2 or 3:2:2:3 pull-down so for that you do still need to get the fields and do the inverse telecine.
Wait what? It seems to use WebRTC, how is this even possible without https?
It's the same thing but you don't have to pay 10x for your aws vps.
That didn't fix the issue for us in Europe, with out reasonable zoning laws.
Yeah and those things make you safe, huh.. are you sure about that?

Maybe you should read this (and feel free to conclude it's lying media):
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/30/fact...

A strong immune system might even be better for the virus: https://magazine.ucsf.edu/your-immune-system-could-turn-covi...

Sure it'll probably be around forever. But a higher vaccination rate will decrease the rate of hospital overflow. Currently in the UK no one else can get sick or end up in the ICU, and ambulances queue for hours. Suddenly we've gone to third world level of healthcare accessibility. Maybe the answer is expand the hospital network, but no one else is doing this either.

Good luck with your health... you'll need it, since you said everyone will get the virus.
This sounds like some different version of hell to me.

But hey, if you can make it work - and it sounds like you do - then all the power to you! :) I must admit I do like seeing the middle digit you're raising in their direction there.

(Edit: Even though CRs ought to be taken seriously, for the sake of your fellow engineers).
I was mainly thinking of ISP routers for residential/small businesses which seemingly make up a large portion of DDoS traffic.
not against giving people names to minerals per se, but at least chose a name that you can write in a phonetic language. davemaoite only sounds good if you read it in english pronounce
I'm incredibly absent-minded; I wake up in the morning, grab my iPhone and AirPods off my bedside table, and carry them around with me all day. Then, when I take off the clothes I've been wearing all day, I put them back on the charging stand. Rinse repeat. It's habit at this point, I haven't consciously had the thought "my AirPods are low on battery, I need to recharge them" in months.

> Especially not in something that's never supposed to be more than a few centimeters from the device it's receiving signals from anyways.

This sounds kinda like the opinion of someone who has never even tried wireless earphones. It is very nice being able to stand up from my desk / ride my motorbike / etc and keep listening to whatever I was listening to (or staying on the call I was on) without my phone being in reach.
Great hardware and competent design, apparently.

I won't trust the software too much, sadly. Say, Xiaomi used to make beautiful smartphones, and was also found to have spying and remote control code in the firmware.

I don't think that the smartphone makers are evil; the state forces their hand even if they aren't.
Try the airpod pros with an iPhone.
Backup cameras save lives, but also prevent property damage. And not just to the driver's car, but also to the parked cars they might have otherwise hit. The value of property damage avoided should also be factored into the 'pro' side of the pro/con evaluation.
Well, if life started from Africa then let's face it guys: Europe is not for humans unless you like hair because being naked in Europe your hair will grow back all around you body!
> The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven Skiena

And his CSE 373 course lectures: https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/373/videos/
> I got priced out of my hometown of Seattle. So I moved to a small town in rural Oregon and I couldn't be happier.

Idk. I grew up in rural Oregon. And I hate Seattle with a passion. But I don’t know if having meth heads for neighbors is really the way I’d go.

Going for more rural/less-expensive regions might be beneficial for some but there are some serious downsides and costs for people with children, people who like to be around educated people, for those who care about diversity, and for those who aren’t aligned with “conservative” or religious people.

It’s not really the same at all and it’s why I don’t move out to BFE. I hate dealing with meth heads and I think it’s one of the worst regions to raise children. But that’s my experience - native rural Oregonian having lived in Seattle and now living in SV.

Would not recommend. Simplest way to put it - it’s like regressing back in time 30 years culturally. Also total shit opportunities for those who aren’t working remotely. (This means opportunities for children too - the schools are real bad because they’re so culturally behind)
Too bad the reviews I've read about the QC45 have not been too flattering.
Well if you had access to kd/windbg, you could "overwrite" drivers at load time.
I wanted to say that this echoes my experience perfectly.

After interviewing several hundreds of people, two surprising things stood out:

- a large percentage of technical applicants cannot program even in languages where they claim multiple years of work experience

- this holds true for non-technical applicants too

I think this is a combination of poor applicants being overrepresented in the applicant pool (good ones get hired), the fact that modern job complexity has grown compared to previous generations, and the desire for people to "hit the ground running".

I don't know what's the solution. Fields that require certification don't seem to be suffering as much, but that has significant side effects too. What I know is the times where people would work for the same company for 30+ year, where they'd get taught what they needed on the job, are not coming back.
The App Store provides just that
Interesting, but that only goes to 2018. Emissions on the USA have been trending down since then and probably up in China.
ITT: people who didn't pass the bar
I say "disconnect" but I don't mean that the 802.11 PHY driver of the computer or the base station notices that there's a disconnection. Just that there's a time-correlated burst of packet loss on some/all channels.

This might not ever happen to you if you live in a bunker, or on a farmstead at least 500 feet from any neighbours. (Though I wouldn't completely discount the possibility; there's always solar storms.)

But if you live in a city, and like to sit near large picture windows (where the light from the window cuts across the straight-line path between your wireless devices and their base station), then every once in a while you're going to get what's basically a mini-EMP blast blowing through your window glass, on one random unlicensed-spectrum-interfering frequency on another: every time someone in the building across from yours vacuums with a 1950s vacuum cleaner with an ungrounded plug, or uses their shitty $50 freestanding microwave with underspecced side shielding; or operates their unlicensed AliExpress garage-door opener, or... etc.

If we could hear 2.4/5GHz, every day in a city would sound like Diwali: sudden short explosions, from every direction, at any odd hour of the day.

Remember, "unlicensed" spectrum means the FCC isn't policing those bands like they do with licensed allocations; so all the 2.4/5GHz "polluters" — the device buyers, and the manufacturers — never get told to stop.
Depends on where you are. May be in your area Apple usage is disproportionally dominating, so you simply don't see anything else.

I don't buy this whole "Apple made it common" thing in general. They just like to present as novelty what existed long before they decided they think their users should start using it. And their users start thinking it's common when Apple decides for them.
EU already ruled they have to start using USB-C for new iPhones starting in 2024
Also there is nothing comparable to AndroidAPS available in the market that allows you to keep crazy good balance. The price is the learning curve, but the documentation is good.
Java is at most longer than “short program” by a small constant factor, and that is mostly around project initialization.

Also, I have never really understood it — c++ is not the shortest thing either with duplicating headers/implementations, go’s error handling deserves a whole discussion in terms of verbosity yet these languages are not considered repetitive.
Adacord helps you store, get and share your data in a super simple way
As you mention, the services can already be provided at a fraction of the cost. I think the key problem is the trust/reputation that established publishers provide. There is massive demand for "trusted publication space" and the price develops accordingly.

I've been thinking about how to remove trust from this process and haven't come up with anything good yet, although I desperately want to believe that it's possible...

I do think that a good solution would be able to disrupt the current system though, the current scientific performance metrics (citation count, H-index, etc.) are almost entirely based on "real-estate" in trusted publication space (i.e. they only factor in publications in established sources) and they are extremely prone to Goodhart's law, so they become less and less useful to navigate the literature.
Yes, but are they high paying, high security jobs?
Video Analytics – Future of Analytics?
How does the author know this is due to specific issues at Facebook and isn't just due to the job market being as competitive as it has recently become? Perhaps it was difficult get people at facebooks to leave, but now, with the market as tight as is it and with compensation everywhere soaring, perhaps it's reached a level where even Facebook is seeing attrition.
> the 4k/UHD upgrade everyone willingly goes through

I looked for 1080p screens when I last bought a TV and couldn't find any. 65", and wanting fairly quality, but no 4k sources so why do I need 4x the pixels? (Sadly, the week after I bought what I bought, I happened across some 65" new in box Plasma TVs at auction... Oh well)