skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, what constitutes "worst" is a difficult question.

Signetics made the 2650, a nice processor with a highly regular architecture with a condition code register. After every arithmetic operation including loads and stores the ALU updated the condition code register.

The National 32032 processor was a wonderful part with a clarity of design that made it a great choice for a workhorse processor. Unix running the machine was stable and efficient except that every few weeks there would be disastrous crash. With a tremendous amount of effort the source of the problem was found: a race condition in the interrupt control logic that returned from the wrong stack and scribbled over memory.

The Intel i860 exposed the internal computational pipeline to the programmer. Context switching was complicated by the conflict of real-time operating performance requirements and a deep pipeline with no way to grab the context and drain the pipeline. Eventually a dedicated team got a Unix OS running on the part, but it peformed poorly.

The Maspar MP-1 was a SIMD machine. It was cool to test new library functions by seeing if, say, sqrt(x)*sqrt(x)==x for all floating point numbers. Customers wanted the Maspar machine to be timeshared, but the architecture made it difficult to do since the CPU state was very large and memory was not mapped.

Intel's 8048 (and simplified versions like the 8021 and enhanced versions like the 8051) did not perform as well in terms of speed or code size as many of the competing micro controllers. The competition offered very simple asymmetric complex architectures which could be programmed (possibly with external hardware assists) to accomplish embedded tasks with significant effort and several days or weeks of effort. The Intel part was not quite as efficient in memory use and speed, but could be programmed in an afternoon. And another engineer/programmer could look at the code and understand it without much deep thought.

The Motorola 68000 was a wonderful machine with a clear instruction set. But the original 68000 could not support virtual memory.

There have been all sorts of different architectures tried which seen strange today but came about because the architecture was thought to provide an engineering solution to an immediate problem. There was a time when register machines were thought to be a bad architecture, far inferior to a simple stack architecture.
> they're like... rare/anecdotal level terrible. They buzz loudly by once a few weeks

For you. I live in Dallas, and it happens every single day, every few hours.
I don't think so. The device I believe they are using is the same one as in France - the "medusa" technology by Bruitparif. This document shows the device picking up cafe noise vs construction vs street cleaning. There's some details here:

https://www.euronoise2018.eu/docs/papers/124_Euronoise2018.p...
Now we have an electric car, and it handles fast acceleration so easily. By comparison, gas cars seem to painfully lurch forward. Modifying a gas car to make it louder just draws more attention to the struggle. Like its driver... it's trying too hard.
Then you're just legally codifying that it's fine to create noise pollution if you're rich. Taxes do not solve negative externalities. The shitheads who intentionally modify their vehicles to be louder would most likely be perfectly willing to pay extra for everyone around them to know how much they spent to be loud.
> pollution levels are at their highest in a generation

Try looking out the window in a 1970s city.
Well, he met von Neumann a few times.
It's probably the other way around: they already knew about other clusters of cases before they re-approved the vaccine, it just didn't make it in the news. The virus might also have been present in monkeys but did not cause disease until the monkeys were stressed due to being locked in cages and used for research.

There's no need for conspiracy theories here.
This is not a South African thing :)

The written interview serves multiple purposes.

First, it is a response to a massive flow of applications. We can more fully and fairly assess those who show they are willing to do some work to be part of our company.

Second, it helps address bias. The written interview is not a resume, which a hiring manager would read through bias like "I recognise that university" and "I like that country". The written interview is anonymous work, which can be assessed more objectively. We get it assessed, twice, anonymously, in the common case. For my roles, more than 100 people at the company help me with this, and I'm grateful to them for the work they do.

Third, it helps us focus our resources. We have very light resume screening requirements - be a plausible candidate from somewhere in the world - but we spend a LOT of time on the written interview, and interviews. So for those candidates who show they care, they have insights, and they are quick on the uptake, we can spend a lot more time on them.

Fourth, it helps avoid repetition. We can share a written interview with interviewers later in the process, and they get a lot of context on the candidate very quickly. They don't always read it before meeting the candidate, but they can and they should.
> Most jurisdictions even have 3+ different definitions for murder alone

In other words, most jurisdictions can't just leave it at a simple common law definition of murder; for example: "At common law, murder was defined as killing another human being with malice aforethought." [1]

This is not a matter of edge cases. It's a matter of the legal system getting out of hand even for what should be basic common law crimes.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/murder
I wonder to what degree they have actually had problems with memory safety, vs. worrying because people are always telling them they will have safety problems.

Reference counting is useful at all extremely rarely, making its poor performance characteristics usually not a bother. Most usually, simple moving, and destruction when the thing with the pointer in it (unique_ptr, most commonly) goes away, does exactly what you want. But he must already understand this.

Maybe he wants a language for his, let us say, more casually skilled participants to keep them out of trouble, in less demanding corners of the system. Sort of what Google meant Go for.
Interesting, I would have opted for clang build with better safety defaults turned on, but it is Andreas and the community decision to make.
A negotiation need not be adversarial. See my example of buying bread.
If you live in a town with great outdoor dining near a main downtown-strip you will quickly notice that the same dingalings rev their modded cars trucks up and down the strip over-and-over-and-over-and-over again. Especially on Friday and Saturday evenings. It’s beyond obnoxious. Why grown men think this makes them look like anything other than petulant children I truly cannot fathom.
I’ve been paranoid since before you were born ;) Here is what I did long before the current downturn.

* Cleared up credit card debt (actually all debt) 25 years ago

* Paid off mortgages

* Sold office and bought farm with year-round creek

* Stored lots of freeze-dried food

* Bought precious metals

* Kept my coding and writing skills up to date

* Moved some investments to cash positions so we have 1 year of expenses (arguably not smart due to inflation)

* Made friends with my neighbors

* Guns, duh

* Did massive infrastructure work like new plumbing, electrical, generators, roofs, decks, etc. before prices went up too high
For those who want to explore these ideas in Python, see the nth_combination() and random_combination() recipes in the itertools docs¹ or just install them from more-itertools².

# Find the 48,001st combination from 32 choose 8
>>> nth_combination(range(32), 8, 48000)
(0, 1, 2, 5, 11, 21, 27, 28)

¹ https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#module-iter...
² https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Famously, paraphrasing, "my apologies for the long letter, but I did not have the time to write a short one" :)
> But the law doesn’t doesn’t compel law enforcement to issue tickets, nor does it require police cars to be equipped with decibel readers.

Couldn't this be enhanced to operate like camera speed traps, just take a picture of the car passing by? The same tech used to determine gunshot location could pick the specific car if there are multiple.
‘Extortion’: Why Web3 is making a lot of software developers angry
Some cities by the ocean have enacted similar ordnances. I know at least one in my county does enforce this.
The bricks in the story are made of sand, too.
I wonder why some NK people really great about hacking/computer science/rocket science despite the country is poor. Looks like successful of education.
> On top of that, the city’s noise code specifies that cars of 10,000 pounds or less aren’t allowed to make sounds that a person can hear from more than 150 feet away. For heavier vehicles and motorcycles the distance is 200 feet.

That seems ill-defined. You can hear a bicycles tires rolling on pavement from 200 feet away on a quiet windless morning.
Did anyone get when the ETA is for impact and predicted location?
least useful possible link for the material

abstract/purchasing link: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/EE/D2EE0...

university press release: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-create-reliab...

not clear what the clock rate of the M0 was, or the actual power consumption. clocked low enough, you could run one of those off of happy thoughts.
>"as they would rather vaporize than give an inch of their land to russia"

That was the statement. I replied to. By taking Crimea Putin had taken a great deal more than "an inch"

>"Nobody believed it was happening,"

Nobody believed the Crimea was taken?
Bran is cheap and should last a long time.
I know I'm getting ahead of myself and there's a lot of work on this space but please consider something similar for phones too
But why are they stopping development? Google is not the only place. I prefer f-droid if an app is available there.
I love this and I love the response!!

And I'm glad you went to the lengths you did in your explanation!

Those specs are _insane_. What was your stack other than S3?

Do you have plans on PaaS/SaaS-ing your tsdb?

I've kind of taken it on as my life's work to study the software development process when it comes to "Product vs Platform" solutions. It's something I'm passionate about, and I'm forming strong opinions, loosely held for now.

So often in my (still short) career I've encountered so many "we couldn't find the right fit and so we built our own"-isms, and with very, very few have I ever felt like it was necessary.

Here is the rough draft of my opinion on internal solutions vs 3rd party/FOSS solutions. It's in the heat of building a series of internal solutions that aren't necessary, given the constraints and resources available.

https://mikercampbell.bearblog.dev/build-tech-or-product/

I'm currently working on a blog post that explains how (this time with more tech than just opinion) 95% of tech problems could easily be solved by 5% of the technology out there.

With the traffic and demands you have, you are of the 5% of tech problems where it isn't improbable that you couldn't find a tech to meet your needs.

I just need more experience in the field of tooling before I feel confident putting my foot down anywhere and drawing the line. So I'd love to talk more if you're open to it!
Pike and team meant Go for that.

Their anecdote for creating Go in first place, was not wanting to wait for C++ builds at Google.

Google at large keeps being an heavy user of Java and C++.
> Shinto Kami are approachable spirits of nature

Sounds a bit like Carlos Castaneda and shamanism in general, no?
There's also an interesting open source project called NAML. As I understand it, it can be a replacement for Helm.

https://github.com/kris-nova/naml
I'm certainly no expert, but from what I've seen the scientists are pretty firm in their belief it has nothing to do with obesity or other societal factors. Most of those are fairly easy to control for.

Apparently it's happening in dogs too: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160809095138.h...

But not necessarily in farm animals.

We know for a fact that phthalates have an effect on embryo development, and good luck avoiding those.
Far from an expert but I found it really forced in trying to create parallels between Middle-Age Chivalry in Europe and Bushido in Japan.
Do you have a link to the study? My understanding from the material I saw at the time was that the C-Series jets were quieter than the Q-400s, and the 'real' objection was having any airport on the island at all.
Just like you (presumably), I'm all in favour of water markets and emission taxes / cap-and-trade.
I went the route of geoarbitrage. A few months ago I moved across the world, where cost of living are -70% from where I earn my salary. Financially, I couldn't be in a more stable spot, recently also changed jobs with a 80% salary raise. Every month that I work, effectively is a budget on which I could survive 6+ months on right now, if I really had to cut down my spending, I could survive a whole year on two months worth of salary.
> They are legal judgments that in the end, if the case goes to trial, get made by juries. They are only "subjective" in that no person can truly see inside the mind of another, so everyone has to make their best judgment based on what they can see.

It's really nuts to me that "legal" And "subjective" are concepts you're trying to draw a hard line between. Of course all legal judgments are subjective - that is both obviously inherent as well as being a desirable feature. Yes, you nailed it, the jury system does indeed require a judgment based on the information as it is presented to them...

> Nobody even pretends that enforcement of speeding laws is a reasonable use of discretion on the part of law enforcement: enforcement is based on using such laws as a revenue source.

I mean, how does this support your case? Speeding laws are extremely black and white, there's very little legal discretion, the discretion is in terms of enforcement ie: are you getting pulled over. But it's not like you sit in front of a jury and present the facts, it's much closer to what you seem to be advocating for - a system with less human intervention.

> since fraud is already illegal, why should using a computer to commit fraud be any different from committing fraud some other way? Why not just enforce the laws we already have against fraud?

For like a million reasons lol I feel like this is just "I have no idea how the legal system works, but in my mind this whole thing is so simple, why not simply apply the law objectively?".

I mean god I don't even know where to start. Different types of fraud are going to have jurisdiction in different agencies. We fundamentally require different agencies because we have a federal and state legislature (and many other very good reasons) - so I guess if you want to remove states and "simplify" things, maybe you could start moving towards a single "fraud" construct?

There's also expediency and practicality, but that's more nuanced and I feel like if I have to explain "there's a federal and a state government" we shouldn't jump into how a law is made.

> But with the CFAA, it is. And we're supposed to be so pleased that now the prosecutors will be less draconian in making such judgments than they were before.

Multiple things can be true. The CFAA is broad and shitty. Also, the legal system is not some simple thing where you can just "objectively" enforce the law, nor should it be. If you want to say "the CFAA is overly broad" ok, cool. If you want to say "this isn't a good thing because this is just a policy, not a change in the law", ok sure.

But saying "We should have a singular objective definition of fraud" and acting like that's simple or achievable is plain naive, and this whole discretion argument almost feels irrelevant.

At this point I don't think you even know what you're trying to say, I'm gonna disengage. I would suggest you disentangle your points since it seems like you're trying to say a lot of different things.
Are there any patent issues to deal with for that?
For the open question on bounded number of choices, the idea is still "count the number of smaller combinations".

Given a k-combination C, we first count the number of all possible combinations of less than k elements; this is binom(n, 0) + binom(n, 1) + ... + binom(n, k-1).

Then we simply add the number of smaller combinations that are of k elements; this is the N calculated by the formula in the blog.

The final answer is N' = binom(n, 0) + binom(n, 1) + ... + binom(n, k-1) + binom(C_k, k) + binom(C_{k-1}, k-1) + ... + binom(C_1, 1).
So it is something like HolyC but for Serenity?
Or, to combine two horrible things: car alarms that get set off by loud exhaust!
> no LinkedIn for a guy this high up?

First step after leaving the dinner would be to scrub any online presence (to enable this exact comment). Not calling you out specifically, it's the right play.
Makes sense. Although I would be surprised if pure carbon, of all elements, had a negative effect on our ability to live ROFL.
Did a bigger school project in m4, learnt it for the task, only later realizing that PHP which I already knew would have been much better.
Roll out the laws, 'cos this got stupid quick.

I just googled it because I knew there was a purpose, and there was… it's called 'anti-lag' and it's a way of kicking the turbocharger into super-high RPMs through letting the exhaust explode with unburned gas. I remembered it from the launch of highly tuned rally cars, and it's a real thing, though it's a racetrack thing… I thought. And it's a turbo optimization thing.

Nope! Apparently now they do it on NA aspirated cars where it's about as useful as trucks rolling coal.

Even on turbo cars it's not NICE, but to tune NA cars this way is just ridiculous. Roll out the laws. This is deeply stupid.
What a shitty thing for you to say.
That's not a great answer because as a society we should be encouraging by all means the use of transportation that takes very little space (both while moving and while parked) and is very efficient.

Pushing even more people into giant SUVs isn't good.
Oh this made me laugh. I worked at a startup for a year where Chris was actually a guy called Chris. Oj the stories
Lots of people won't do this work, it's true. But the ones who will, are much more likely to make phenomenal colleagues. They care, they are focused, they are diligent. Things work better when you are in a team with more of that. Try it someday.
Bluetooth audio is a burning dumpster of monkeypoxed clown corpses.

I have two sets of BT headphones, and I avoid using them b/c of the unpredictable pairing behaviors.

It needs to be replaced with something dedicated to audio-- because I think the attempt at generality (object data transfers, mice, keyboards, etc.) and backward compatibility has made for a standard that isn't capable in a multi-device world. When buying hardware, I look at Bluetooth as a feature, but at best, just for input devices. Audio is a lost cause.
I doubt that it's predictable that far out. Perhaps a particular band of land, but not some specific area.
I suppose that's probably more likely in a place like NYC where it seems every car is honking every 10 seconds.
In our case, we are remote first across 50+ countries, so not really in the business of trying to import colleagues to one country or another.
Mithridates of Fond du Lac (2013)
How does the body keep up initially? If the body got from viral load N to N/2 despite HIV mutating, then why can't it go from N/2 to N/4? Does the body slow down or the virus speed up?
You’re off by a few orders of magnitude.
I sincerely hope this article was written by a bot, or by pasting 'pumpkin puree' into a template, and not an actual person.
While I want to agree, it's also true that in a very high proportion of incidents where cars hits cyclist or motorcyclists, the excuse is always "I didn't see them".
I’m curious what sort of key words you see that make you think the person is not actually very good.
(1) Users can modify the chrome kernel code to edit their browser fingerprints, breaking the geographical restrictions. (2) It is used with proxy IP to simulate a real computer. Multiple accounts log in at the same time, and there is no problem of information disclosure. (3) Virtual browser simulates the browser configuration file inside the browser through certain technical means to generate multiple independent browsers, so as to realize the operation of multiple login of the account.
virtual browser
multiple browser
That is spot on to what I was thinking. I have encountered a few of these guys in my career and ohhhh man do they ever think they're the absolute best.
I cannot read entire story
In 2 months I went from “hello world” to writing APIs, training neural nets, hacking video games and reversing android apps.

When I made a post on Reddit, I was viciously attacked and the post was deleted.

It’s 4 months now and I am finding faults in nearly everyone’s code, standard libraries, bloatware etc. Yes its lonely being at the top of the bell curve.

The majority of humanity will always be petty and stupid. A few of us with sound reasoning and high IQs excel at programming and it indeed leads to a very lonely path. For instance I am one of the few people I know who programs in C. Everyone else has succumbed to using that bloated extension-extension that shall not be named.
It is difficult to work with graphene, for many reasons.
Analysis: True. Depending on a single client is one of the worst mistakes you can make as a freelancer
Editing a comment after the fact in a way that deprives a reply of its original context and makes it look stupid is, in most cases, a dick move. I think most users understand that. It doesn't make a difference whether the reply was by a moderator or not.
If you shoot at something that is falling... it's still gonna fall, even if you hit it, brrak it up, etc. Whatever matter is there before will still be there after the hit, but on a less predictable trajectory.

If you break it up into pieces before it re-enters the atmosphere, you may get a higher proportion of burnup, because small chunks means lower overall ballestic coefficient per mass... But hitting stuff in orbit is difficult, and we would have a very hard time predicting the results.
It wouldn't.

edit: It's obvious the quoted person had no idea what they were doing -- even a few seconds at arms' length from a fresh nuclear reactor core would be fatal. And quite a few satellites in that era were nuclear-powered.

It's not as if accurate knowledge of radiation was readily available, in the 1970's.
We generally discuss salary after we've got through early-stage interviews. By then we have a sense of whether someone might be great at Canonical, and we're trying to figure out where they might fit best. If a candidate has higher salary expectations, then that narrows the list of roles we could consider them for. If you had interviews after the HR interview, then I guarantee you that comp was not the reason not to proceed.
No, they're better for holding* (and buying). So long as you won't need to cash out during the recession, it's the ideal time to hold and to buy.

Conversely, a bull market is the ideal time to cash out.

aka "Buy low, sell high."

*Assuming they'll still exist after the recession. For example, I would be weary of equity in the subset of relatively young companies which DON'T have record lay-offs in the next two quarters. (Failing to preemptively trim more than just fat is a big red flag.)
Depending on how it's modeled, 2024 to 2027 (with earlier being higher likelihood), or 2023 to 2025. No way to predict location but it'll be somewhere between 52°N and 52°S.
Who you are, and what you have done, are of course two very different things.