skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Counterintuitively, America’s lack of a generous welfare system tends to destabilize traditional gender roles.

I don't think that's so counterintuitive. Generous welfare systems give more people the opportunity to pursue the work lifestyle they would like to rather than the one they would have to to make ends meet if the generous welfare system didn't exist.

That's a totally different scenario than gender roles being enforced by religious or cultural restrictions. That also promotes traditional gender roles but doesn't give individuals a choice in the matter.
FWIW, I would consider all Land Rover vehicles luxury vehicles.
Have a professional psychologist participate. Personality profiling is a moral and legal slippery slope, and not something random interviewers should be doing. Good luck with the ADA and discrimination lawsuits. It’s bad enough that the nonsense Myers-Brigg profiling “test” is used seriously in professional settings.

Can you even define “low ego personality?” Seems like a subjective assessment, as colored by your perceptions as the candidate’s performance. Can you show with data that “low ego” correlates significantly to job performance? That the people you hire are clearly lower in ego than those you don’t? If you’re not referring to clinical categories from the DSM you’re just judging people with no objective or scientific criteria in an artificial and stressful situation.
The landing mode theory doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

I'd recommend reading this article about it: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/fly-by-wire-the-crash-of... :

> This camp believed that the A320’s computers had detected that it was in a landing configuration at low speed approaching the ground and had entered landing mode, preventing Asseline from going around. This wasn’t how the landing mode worked, (landing mode is not a flight envelope protection and can be easily overridden by the pilots using the TOGA switches) and investigators had conducted live flight tests to show that the computers wouldn’t go into landing mode anyway

The pilot was flying low and slow, over a different runway than they had originally planned, at 30ft instead of 100ft, without knowledge of the trees at the end of the runway, with a flight full of passengers, right at the edge of the flight envelope. It was incredibly irresponsible and dangerous, and that's why they crashed.

Another choice quote:

> the A320 went on to be the second most popular airliner ever built, and not one has crashed due to a failure of the fly-by-wire system or an erroneous activation of the flight envelope protections
Well, it can't be that we have to either support women OR men to the exclusion of the unsupported one. It cannot be a zero-sum game, no?
Windows Home doesn't haven proper access to Hyper-V, but installing WSL 2 is relatively easy (and documented); Microsoft made special provisions for that. You can't use Docker to run Windows containers, but Linux containers (using WSL 2) seems to work fine.
> ML breaks down such classifications. Finding a fruit without having already figured out that it's a banana is pretty hard.

Can you elaborate? If I train a fruit detector that just gets the fruits bounding box vs a fruit detector and classifier, are you saying the latter will work better?
IIRC it’s electron. I bet you could just swap the libs out for ARM ones, if you’re feeling brave.
I don't think Uber can compete with public transportation. It is still an order of magnitude more expensive. Maybe some edge cases like airport/train station rides, but that's it.
I've always understood this to have been made on assay grounds that the antibody count post-infection wasn't as usefully high or maintained.

as in this: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article-abstract/73/12/2366/616...

this quote from the abstract is what I think i was told: we recently reported that 61.1% of mild SARS-CoV-2 infected patients became seronegative for IgG anti-N within 6 months after first positive PCR [2]. Anti-spike (S) antibodies, in contrast, remained positive up to 7 months in an estimated 94% of participants.

It just doesn't last long enough to be counted as useful, compared to immunisation. If you think the 6month window has some efficacy at scale I guess you have a basis to disagree, and we'd be in the Linear Optimisation problem space. This is why I have always believed we needed O/R people to help determine why the decisions fall as they do.
For a single server, SQLite, or boltdb[0]

I've never had to scale horizontally. I develop in Go and you can get very far along with just vertical scaling (aka beefier hardware).

Therefore I can't give concrete examples of a distributed db-as-a-library.

But all that you need is to extend the functions that fetch data to not just fetch from disk but from "peers" as well. For this to work you need servers (instances) to know about each other, and as you add more they also get added to their peers - sort of like a bittorrent network. I don't think it's difficult to do.

SQLite might not be suited for being distributed (although RQlite[1] claims to have done it).

Making a distributed data storage based on boltdb[0] is probably more feasible.

Whatever the case, there's no reason why a data storage engine can't be a library, even if it's distributed.

[0]: https://github.com/boltdb/bolt

[1]: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite
Lookup uBlacklist, your internet search experience will jump back 10 years.
I finished my onsites with a FAANG company. Recruiter comes back to me and says every interviewer gave you the green light but the hiring committee wants another interview with these specific questions asked.

By this point I had already spent 8 hours with them. Told them to beat it and stop wasting my time.

It's ridiculous how disrespectful these companies are to our time.
> We are told america is the best place on earth with all the doors open to you to be rich. That all other forms of government are flawed and we have excellence here everywhere you look.

What other countries are great compared to America? With all its flaws America is the only country where you can dream of building spaceships, create multi billion dollar tech companies in less than a decade.

Any ideology that forces individual to be less ambitious for the prosperity of the group only gives more power to the enforcer's of the ideology. As an insider you may not realize how powerful America's culture of individual freedom has impact on other countries.
Ping Monitor Analogic Clock
its open source, everyone exposed to it protects it through advancement following environmental release...

i think you may be asking about, "hurting people for money who use code written identically in a non-changing ascii implimentation native to electronics manufactured we cant prevent from being produced, update to a universal free standard protecting all future generations exposed to it piece of dated hardware thats cheap enough to afford everyone can get one, tinker with, but others want to fuck em for cash requiring enforcement of backward idiots propoganda that human pets with badges swing off on their betters to keep the wheels of the justice system turning for."

solutions to problems dont need protecting from the people who craft them to solve problems, but for those who do so to ensure problems still exist after they are used.
While it's not exactly the same, Elixir + Phoenix is really all you need for full-stack development.
As a Russian person raised in Russia and interacting with other Russians around me in the Bay Area, I think you vastly underestimate the prevalence of superstitious beliefs among Russians. That includes professionals and their families, spouses, and elderly parents.
Thanks :)

I can't recommend any SVG pack because I don't use one.

But, it is important to use the tools for their intended purpose. For example, this is how Slack and Google looks without webfonts:

- https://paste.pics/FY9VR

- https://paste.pics/FY9Y6

It's unusable, I block sites like this.
Toradex, a leader in embedded computing, today announced the opening of its office in Tokyo, Japan. This move reiterates the company’s commitment to the Asia-Pacific region. Toradex has partnered with key distributors in Japan over the years to enable the widespread availability of its products.
> Subsuming the individual to the social unit is at the heart of the worst excesses of racism, nationalism, etc.

Is it though? I don’t think I’ve found more individualistic societies to be less racist or nationalist.
Interestingly enough, both the names are Tamil who form the minority population in Sri Lanka, not from the Sinhalese majority.

Under British rule, a large part of the administration and educated class came from this community who were favoured by the British as part of their divide and rule policy and I'm sure the effects carried on at least 1-2 generations beyond independence.

The Sri Lankan civil war resulted largely from of reversing this policy in the opposite direction after independence.
Is the plastic film this uses actually safe for food?
And now you also know what kind of company google is.
I took to mean how to avoid jerks that are difficult to work with as they think they are always right.
I’m puzzled as to why the web server didn’t (apparently) allow for setting of arbitrary headers…
What’s even funnier is that if I read it right, it’s ipv6 only, and WSL in Windows doesn’t support IPV6 routing over WireGuard. The kernel is missing some important CONFIG flags when it was compiled to route the packets properly.
Bioweapons are increasingly more likely to be the end of humanity. With fancier tools like CRISPR you're getting closer and closer to having one person in a basement making something that can propagate across the whole world. Nuclear weapons are inherently limited by the fact that you need huge institutions to generate and deliver large numbers of them, and without large numbers of them you can't destroy humanity because of the large size of the planet.

https://cco.ndu.edu/Portals/96/Documents/prism/prism_4-4/Str...
I mean it's a company that looks up to rich people, no matter how they got there. Scamming is legitimate if it makes you rich, right?
I would assume the interviewer is potentially under a non-disparagement clause on their employment contract. So the criticism question might not be a good one.
Maybe because we don’t get long-term immunity after infection from other coronaviruses.

I think this was studied and the results showed poor post-infection immunity. Not getting the result we’d like is not the same as ignoring.
Did a comet airburst destroy the Hopewell?
Very interested to hear the outcome of this investigation. As a Pittsburgh resident, it's pretty common knowledge that our ~450 bridges are not in great condition, and this just confirms it. The last inspection on this bridge was done in September of 2021 - Although it was determined to be in "poor" condition, it wasn't deemed unsafe. Less than 6 months later it collapses. How many more of our bridges are this close to collapse?
Euler was Swiss
Clickbait is a charitable interpretation. Perhaps one less so would involve betting on related stock prices before publishing such a headline.
What do you mean, exactly?
The point is that it's hard to expect industrial processes for recycling solar panels now, since there is no market for them yet, and won't really be any for the next decade.

Also, the lifespan is 25-30 years, but after that time the panels will still maintain 50-80% efficiency - so they can be reused for different purposes (or shipped to Africa, where there is a plenty of cheap space, sunlight, and they will work well).
It's running its own TCP stack in userspace though so the hosting kernel's routing abilities aren't an issue.

I am both impressed and horrified, and I mean that in the best possible way.
There was a great article on HN regarding the super secret 'ripple device' which allowed a 99% efficient nuclear weapon if I recall correctly
You control which region your app and it’s volumes are in. Metrics, logs, and volume snapshots end up on servers in the USA. We haven’t addressed data residency for those platform services yet, but we might someday if there’s enough interest.
> In May 2021, a team of US evolutionary biologists published research on what an ancestor to Covid-19 should look like, and came up with two options. One had the same three mutations found in the samples.

Whichever way you boil this down, the following is a true statement: COVID-19 leaked from a lab in China.

Clearly, whether this was the 'original' COVID-19 strain or not (it appears to be the oldest mutation we're aware of so far), this particular sample that should never have had COVID-19 on it, did have COVID-19 on it. The sample was clearly infected at the lab.

If this sample had COVID-19 on it, why not another sample? And if we have virus samples travelling from sample to sample, it's not difficult to believe that the 'mover' here was the lab scientist/technician.

The real question is when this lab leak occurred:

> “The timeline matters a lot here. If they were sequenced in Dec 2019 then it’s exceptionally important, because [China] holds SarsCov2s not discovered until December 30 to 31.

Don't hold your breath on getting a true answer here, there is no way the CCP would ever lose face and admit fault, not in a million years. Be prepared for claims it was sequenced on December 32nd.
It's not really different than with condition variables having to re-check the condition after being signaled. Learn the rules of the API, hew to them, and you'll be fine.
It's a real pity. They are awesome beginner languages, and even when you are not a beginner any more, they go a long way. I also like their syntax a lot.

I haven't touched Ada in like 20 years and now that it seems to be having a small resurgence it looks like a good time to relearn it. It has potential to become one of my favourite languages.
Yes, except its not a 'pretence'. There are different values operating
in Europe. Protecting companies that represent those values is a way
of protecting the values themselves. We do indeed regard privacy
differently than the US I think. European people just aren't down with
the "Surveillance Capitalism" (Zuboff) view of the world.

We have our own equally twisted take on "socialist cybernetics", but
that's another story.
of course, the heavy motors/industrial equipment loves 3 phase AC. Higher voltages allow lower losses in the conductors, hence less copper needed everywhere incl. small motors as the current us lower through and through.
> You could have a general model which, eg. classifies an object as a "fruit" then passes it off to a separate, more specialised model which could classify that fruit as a "banana".

The problem is that the distinctiveness of “fruit" vs “not-fruit” to a visual system is less than that of “banana” vs “not-banana”. Visually, we don't to top-down classification in an ontological heirarchy, and there's no reason to think that would be an optimal (or even reasonable) approach for AI, either.
They didn't get rid of env vars, they got rid of env vars inherited from the shell you started services with. There were various solutions to this on SysVinit, stuff like https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/envdir.html
EU is definitely not a synonym to Europe. That would exclude UK, Norway and other countries that are certainly in Europe. I've never heard anyone even thinking those two things are the same.
Obviously, they reverse-engineered the stolen Bitcoin black market.
Minetest has a mod Advanced Trains that allows (but doesn't force) fairly complex builds with automatable scheduling, etc. and works in multiplayer.

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=ZK1PM8jFRFo&t=18m33s
I am not sure why Ng seems to suggest he pioneered the use of GPUs for ML. It was pioneered by the Toronto lab led by Hinton, afaik.
I tried searching for it using the keywords "ripple" and "nuclear", but to no avail. Do you remember more details or happen to have the link?

Edit: I think I found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29037556
Technology is one part of it, but you also need to use it properly. The tools themselves cannot teach you that. I recommend that you read up on the concept of “OPSEC”.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220210061127/https://www.econo...
And cheese variety such as the Italian provolone. (It's weird that the cheese shelves in a big supermarket basically only contained cheddars.) EDIT: To be honest, this was Tesco Ireland some 15 years ago. There may have been cheese in other forms such as soft mozzarella and powdered parmesan, but definitely no provolone, gouda, manchego, emmentaler, port salut etc. It's just natural that you might not know a cheese if your supermarket doesn't stock it.

And African fish such as the tilapia.
I would probably interpret an amateur psychologist trying to analyze my level of ego in an interview as a jerk. The best way to filter out jerks is to look at their job history and talk to references, learn to read between the lines of a resume rather than focusing solely on programming languages and tools and “stacks.”

Engineers with such poor people skills that they can’t pick up clues from a resume, references, and interviews should not be trying to come up with probing questions to measure “low ego,” any more than psychologists should be writing code.

My practical advice is to get people who aren’t engineers to participate in interviews. Ask a sales or marketing person, or an effective non-technical manager who is good with people to sit in and get their take. Make sure your interviewers are more diverse than a typical programming team.

I don’t think the OP was referring to “ego” the way a psychologist would. Ego has a specific meaning in psychology. It doesn’t mean “capacity for jerk-like behavior.”

This particular problem — ego and investment in work among programmers — was explored decades ago by Gerald Weinberg in The Psychology of Computer Programming. Tom Demarco wrote a good practical book called Peopleware. Study of this topic dates back to the ‘60s and ‘70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoless_programming
> Consider, for example, the obsession in Christian countries with equality.

I think you are confusing “Western liberal democratic societies” with “Christian countries”. The latter are a subset of historically Christian countries (many are more accurately post-Christian, now), but plenty of Christian countries are not Western liberal democracies and those do not fit the mold you are trying to fit “Christian countries” into.
Interesting. In Poland, where I live, I researched this recently, for my mother's house - and it won't work. The heat is needed from October until April, and most of that time solar panels generate close to zero electricity.

In the end, my mother will have a significant surplus of power during summer (even with storage), and will still need to heat up house in winter using gas, or grid electricity (coal :/).

I read about some Nordic researchers developing long-term heat storage, which would be way better.
Print as many tethers as you want, it won't increase the supply of bitcoin.

I don't care how many dollars, or tethered dollars I can buy with my bitcoin. The dollar is on its way out.

A collapse of tether would be a boon for bitcoin. It would amplify the need for an inflation-proof money.
Kwanzaa is specific to African-American culture.
> kwanza and manicotti, I guess those are due to the Italian and Jewish cultural influences in the US.

Kwanza is an African American holiday.
Standing treadmill desk for maybe an hour or two when answering emails

i have two medium weight kettle bells. i do a little bit of mobility / resistance training between tasks

i have a trx system hooked into my front door, so when i use the bathroom, i do a few reps of something

long time vegan so, more fiber, less hunger (morning cereal, salad lunch, dinner a crap shoot)

massage gun everywhere before sleep

looking pretty good for my age
Over 200 years after the end of the Renaissance. During the Renaissance, the French were too busy conducting the second deadliest religious war in European history after the 30 years war.
If you want to lose faith in humanity, start asking people which is farther away, the moon or the stars. Most people have no conception that the sun is a star, and would have trouble processing it.
> A lot of 1940s/50s/60s/70s views of what left-right means, have been broken for decades.

I've always considered those terms useless unless discussing the Jacobins and Girondins
Agree, just tribal signaling, “thing I thoughtlessly think is bad is bad”

I feel the same about every bad weather event being “caused” by climate change in the media. The models predictions are so vague people could blame anything on climate change. Not saying climate change isn’t happening, it is, but blaming everything on it is intellectually dishonest, costs legitimacy, and can lead to poor policy.
Thanks for your comment. After trying it again, it has worked!
https://web.archive.org/web/20110805101637/http://www.nation... is a very well-written review by him.

It's the only piece by him that I have read, I think, and when I read his name it immediately jumped to my mind.
>“I always believed Apple would draw a line at outright lying — but they continue to lie about what selling software was like before the App Store. They lie about what the review process does and about how developers are treated equally. As a developer, I find this profoundly disillusioning.” — Brent Simmons

I really like the word disillusioning here. And this isn't the first time we caught Apple outright lying. Cases on Qualcomm, Imagination, Ericsson, Nuvia / Gerard Williams and possibly many others over the years.

And it is not a surprise Apple is acting that way. Software developers are a minority, and not every dev agrees with sideloading. If you look at macrumors and 9to5mac comments from users, you will see

"Apple should pull out of a small country like Netherland, it is Apple's IP no government should be allowed to touch it." or

"Apple should threaten to pull out of those state or countries that try to make them open up their platform and steal their IP."

"Apple spend $8-10bn per year on App Store for Xcode, hosting, reviews and delivery. Software developers are just greedy AF."

Yes I am not making any of these up.

It is the reason why for the first time in nearly 15 years of using an iPhone. I watched the Samsung Galaxy Unpack Event live yesterday. And...... it wasn't very good to say the least. But at least I am now looking, hopefully I could switch away from Tim Cook's Apple soon.

I really like the Steve Jobs video [1] "Steve Jobs on the greed and outlandish profits that ruined Apple", from Apple product Repair, Apple Retail Store investment, Apple Store employee KPI, I could go on and on. The is sort of the reason why having a product CEO is so important. So we dont have to wait 4-5 years before a fix on the Keyboard fiasco.

And I didn't even mention China.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-2v8GVsL1Q
Another anecdote: Jordan Peterson helped my brother too.

Went from being raging mad at his family and others to start taking responsibility for his own life.

I still disagree with him but we can now speak together.
That video made me laugh. It almost sounds like a parody of a reset procedure. Every time you expect it to be done, he comes back with another cycle of off for 2 seconds and on for 8 seconds.

It's also unfortunate that the dislike button stopped working on YouTube because I'd love to see how many people disliked that.
Nuclear war seems like a plausible dramatic end. That or a big asteroid, or some nasty volcano stuff. But I feel like it's gonna be something with a long decline and no dramatic ending. Like we kill off some important ecosystem and it takes 20 years to realize and then 80-100 years to wind things up. Or like bacteria starts digesting copper or steeel and we can't do anything about it and there goes industry.
> newer database engines that use inductive indexing are on another level

Can you provide me some resources where I can read more about this? Google is not helpful