skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> automatics have better mpg than manual

modern automatic, the 7-10 gear kind with a high end smart enough controller, and even that is not a given. It's basically an epicyclic gear train + a torque converter sloshing in oil (basically using fluid as a clutch that never wears out), which has big loss overall (because fluid dynamics), and the added gears+smarts in control offsets that, but they're generally less efficient mechanically than a simple manual gear train.

That said, the "automatic" moniker these days covers a whole lot of varying technologies, including CVT, and automatic (single or dual, wet or dry) clutch+gear change, which are basically manual gearboxes except stick and clutch are not mechanically user operable but driven by servos. And there you get the benefit of the more efficient gearbox and the smart control (a.k.a shift to the higher gear possible ASAP when little torque is needed instead of having the engine stay at a higher RPM, which means more travel, which means more friction)

All things being equal, MPG ratings are usually (there are exceptions) a dead giveaway of the kind of gearbox.

(Oh, and I wouldn't be surprised the least if tomorrow I learned that gearbox control programs would be "tuned" to get good MPG tests with flying colours, the VW way.)

But all of this doesn't really matter, parallel hybrid (e.g Prius&al) basically requires a more complex drivetrain involving an epicyclic gearbox+torque converter (thus auto) (+ IIRC some kind of differential gear train) to mix the two mechanical power sources that can rotate at different speeds (including not rotating at all), and serial hybrid is basically an EV, except with a power generator on board, and EV means either no gearbox or low-count gear one that is entirely driven automatically.

So, manual is going to die anyway as we're being pushed towards low emission vehicles.

Also, a factor of stick being popular in EU is also that in most countries its product bracket and image used to be placed as luxury/high end, and thus used to be subject to higher taxes/insurance premiums for some reason, which pushed the market towards the cheaper option.
And even then there's a public entry that you are the owner, there are no anonymous LLCs in Switzerland.
I think my assumption with pumped hydro is that there must be something holding it back because it's been mature for a long time, so if it were as useful and scalable as you say, I think it would have been scaled a lot more by now.
They might believe those things are in the persons interest though (I don't have an opinion either way other then... it's subjective).
I don't know what your account is specifically, so I can't say for sure.

But if I had to guess? It's because we've been ramping up a feature that is increasing the amount of outbound on our site by a very large margin (currently almost an order of magnitude) from where it was a couple of months ago.
> And in those contexts you can't exactly cut the pauses out, either. They're live; pauses and other "imperfections" are unavoidable, expected, and an intrinsic part of the performance - and if your next thought is "but what about the recording of it?", I can think of few things worse to do to the recording of a live performance than utterly butchering it for the sake of tiny pauses.

Doesn't seem any worse to me than watching at 2X speed, which I frequently elect to do.
It harms thousands of researchers who read them and base their further research upon.
The early history of NFTs, part 4 – Game sprites on the blockchain: CryptoPunks
A great thing is that they’re very seldom not also in one of the app menus. Memorizing cmd + ? (Help menu search, sorta like Spotlight for the app and can find any standard menu items) is often a lot easier than remembering a bunch of other commands, and great for discovering them.

Another great thing is they’re generally quite consistent across apps, so memorizing one is usually applicable system wide. And another great thing is that if you don’t like the defaults (or have a menu item you wish had a shortcut in the first place), they’re almost always configurable.
I'm thinking about using this for internal videos where I walk through code and stuff. Sometimes I need to take a second to think, you know?
My tax money goes to schools that I don't send children to.

My tax money goes to building roads that I won't drive on.

My tax money goes to police dealing with crimes I'm not a victim of.

Do you consider EVERYTHING funded by tax payers to be the result of people "work for free to cover someone else's expenses"?
Seriously? Sex trafficking & abuse especially of underage people isn't a "live and let live" thing.

Neither are co-workers assigning hundreds of thousands of dollars in vendor contracts to themselves or their organization. If you think the author was too far removed from sex trafficking allegations to make an issue of it then this one is still very much appropriate to raise a red flag over.
What you described is just how Google (and others, in the before times) conducted onsite interviews. TripleByte got you a recruiter’s attention, maybe; but the rest was standard fare.
Thank you for this. I’ve lost (fatally) a dear friend to a polyamorous relationship between herself and her direct manager + manager’s wife at Google.

I’m not trying to claim it’s endemic at Google, I truly have no idea. But mini cults can happen inside corporations.
Off topic, but I just realized that I've been calling it "Citrus" for years.
I have heard of hospital insiders giving precisely such advice: Don't even start to pay or they will hound you as if you can.
Exactly. The complex part about it is that our survival strategies often express themselves as some of our greatest strengths too. For example, to feel safe in my home as a kid I learned to actively, constantly monitor the emotional state of the people around me. That strategy as a child makes me really good at therapy or therapy adjacent roles, because tracking someone’s emotional state is a skill I’ve been practicing for decades.

The downside is I don’t know how to turn that off. Or to put it in other terms, I don’t have the capacity to choose whether I track other people’s emotional state or not. Tracking people’s emotional state all the time is exhausting, and distracting. When I’m doing that I’m not in touch with what I want or need in that moment. Growing up for me (with the help of a good therapist) currently involves learning to put that down. And it’s terrifying.

Basically every survival strategy also gives us superpowers. But it’s ok - we get to keep those superpowers even after we’ve healed those wounds.
Having recovered from a high demand religion (which can be considered a modern cult depending on the definition), cults are very different from corporations.

I feel like the best definition of a cult is any group that won't let you dissociate with your dignity intact. Most corporations are fine with that. Some aren't. So this suggests substantial differences.
Of course you don't. It's blindingly obvious that they'd never say that. Instead they'd make up another excuse, or say nothing ... which they did. The facts fit the theory, which is not the same as proof but that shallow dismissal sure isn't disproof.
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Just to clarify: Federal law prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion.

Google cannot take action against religions (even cults) it disagrees with (even for valid reasons for disagreeing with them), unless it gets over a very high bar of impacting business behavior.

The other path leads to far worse outcomes.

Morally, we cannot judge what happened here without hearing from both sides. But if action is to be taken, it should be taken by a prosecutor, not an employer.
There’s also just an app you can launch like any other, and it works exactly the same way, no keyboard shortcuts necessary.
The quality I take from it, is that the cmd/option/shift behaviours as modifiers, are policed well, and its like emacs: there's an overall consistency to what they want you to do, burned into muscle memory.

You cannot realistically make every single cmd+<letter> mnemonic. They do the best they can inside the circumstances, and then having chosen a base key, they say "ok. what do we bind to the alternates via option/shift" so it makes contextual sense.

I regard that as seeking intuitive behaviour. You are invited to (subconsciously) consider CMD+key as the base to learn, and then CMD+OPTION or CMD+SHIFT variants as the obvious alternates.

The key here, is ownership of the UI/UX: they police this. Much though Microsoft tries, it doesn't police this well enough across the independent app vendors outside of a tiny core of functions. Between Gnome and KDE, there is no policing.

I said emacs, because the basics of modifying lines of text in most things now, are emacs line modifiers by inheritance: because the X10-> X11 -> XOrg uplift means that the web omnibar and text boxes are inherently derived from X, the keystrokes to edit text are inherited from MIT X which inherited from MIT emacs.

As a VI user I just had to come to terms with this: Sure, you CAN force override them to VI friendly form, nobody does:

we're all emacs keystroke users in this narrow sense. Emacs won.
I like to scribble down notes during meetings or calls, but not for the purpose of looking at them in the future. Instead, the act of writing them down on paper helps me remember the content far better than if it's just something auditory or visual. Typing doesn't have the same effect for me, so using software to help with note taking is a net loss. Maybe typing up after the fact would help, but that's a significant time sink. Opening a few more tickets in a tracking tool tends to be far more useful.
Electron, that's why.
That is such a cool but obvious idea. Takes me back to trying to clone the functionality of HyperDock
> No, the machine (if set to full security) needs a signed ticket from Apple specific to your hardware (ECID) to run.

Thanks. I see now that it's somewhat documented by Apple, except the plaintext aspect. So it seems that "Reduced Security" would be the workaround.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/startup-disk-securi...
Nitpick: software optimization isn’t an example of an externality. Externalities are costs/benefits that accrue to parties not involved in a transaction.
It could just be that they are still working on implementing this in a future update, maybe a minor update to Ventura. I would imagine the software engineering team has its hands full every summer with more important things like readying major new versions of all of their platforms.
Gitlab and GitHub both let you upload videos (and probably more). I still use ffmpeg to convert .mov to .mp4 to get a better file size. But either run circles around the quality and size of .gif
> you have to be told or lookup CMD+Shift-5 before you can get to the full screenshot UI

No, you don't. You can either search in Spotlight or go to Apps->Utilities, and it is there, along with activity monitor(aka task manager)/terminal/etc.
Genetic discovery could spell mosquitoes' death knell
As if you are reading diffs over hundreds of files, applied in one go.
Js, php are faster; ruby, python not so much
How much work could it possibly be to add one setting and a corresponding if statement?
You're correct of course. I apologize, I got https://xkcd.com/386/'d like an idiot.

Waited until this thread is hopefully quieter to post this.
> however many people this helps, it will take just that many getting hurt in order for it to happen

This presumes that the number of people this helps is equal to the number of people this hurts. That's unlikely, given how wealth concentration tends to work in capitalist economies (that of the US included).

But yes, we need to address the root of the problem - the root of the problem (as applied to housing) being the fact that land is treated as ownable property in the first place. That's fine and dandy, but that produces rather nasty externalities that are long overdue to be internalized - specifically, via land value taxation.
Tesla can't make enough parts to fix things, its a two fold problem. No techs and no parts.
Nice, that explains the lobster logo too. Thanks for sharing :).
> … the sort of spit & polish that doesn't happen, IMO, anymore, because everything is an MVP feature, before the agile scrum PM moves on to the next MVP feature. "Polish" just accumulates in the JIRA graveyard.

This is the #1 complaint about Agile I've heard from customers, engineers, and The Business. "The team under-promised, under-delivered, and told us 'that'd be in the next sprint.' We've never seen a .1 release of anything."

It eats away the trust and collaboration that get good work Live and adopted. IYO, is this an indictment of "Agile," or more of that org's approach to it?
I would say that this is evidence of discrimination on the basis of religion.
The West's movement away from an Abrahamic worldview has certainly helped with the acceptability.

There's no doubt that there's an aspect of the expectation of acceptance and safety that makes self-identification more viable (certainly more so than the expectation that your family is about to throw a bunch of rocks at you).

However, that does not mean there's been no change in the underlying rates - it just means that the data is noisy.

We've dealt with noisy data before.
Clarifications like these are helpful to people like me who tend to read the comments before making a decision to read the article.
I think the plant in the pic is catmint not catnip. Prettier. Lesser high.
I never said a good job, I said a minimally correct job. You can't evaluate whether someone can trim around the ears safely if their haircut is so bad they don't trim around the ears at all. I'm not sure how else to say it.

I'm not trying to convince you that a hairdresser needs 1500 hours of training to give a buzz cut.

I'm not trying to convince you that your barber needs to be able to do every possible hair procedure to give you a buzz cut. We could have barbers who are only licensed to do buzz cuts. We don't have them though because no one wants them to exist, not the barbers, schools, salons, public or government. Consider that being a barber who only gives buzz cuts is like being a programmer who only writes web-scraping scripts on freelance sites. They could exist though, theoretically.
“every Tweet that Elon sends is a de facto public statement by the company.”

Which company? All of them? Elon has no individual identity or voice any more?

Elon on twitter is obviously speaking as and for Elon, not representing a specific company.
>Also why does a Tesla even need service other than a quick safety check.

Because the initial build quality of the cars is still so poor they come broken, or quickly break.
or perhaps your cat was on dead tour in the 90s and needs something a bit stronger to get its kicks nowadays
No comment on the other points (I also prefer Wasmtime), but:

I believe the linking proposal is dead for now and replaced by the component model: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model

The wasmtime implementation is in progress.
Shit performance is what happens when every response to optimizations or overhead is immediately answered with "premature optimization is the root of all evil."

Or the always fun "profile it!" or "the runtime will optimize it" when discussing new language features and systems.

So often performance isn't just ignored, it's actively preached against. Don't question how that new runtime feature performs today or even dare to ask. No no no, go all in on whatever and hope the JIT fairy is real and fixes it. Even though it never is and never does.

There's a place for all the current tech, of course. Developer productivity can be more important at times. But it should be far more known what the tradeoffs are and rough optimization guides than there are.
50% more quantity?
Thanks for responding.

As far as I can determine, the last deliberate interaction I had with Triplebyte was in May 2020, when I got an email with your name and address on it saying that my profile was about to be made public, and I replied the following day asking you to delete my account. (I assume you never saw that email, and in any case I never bothered to follow up on it through other channels.)

(EDIT: on closer inspection, the reply with my account deletion request went to candidate.support@triplebyte.com, not to you personally.)

I don't recall ever logging into my Triplebyte account between then and yesterday, and I couldn't find any evidence of doing so in my browser or search history. I guess that's your word against mine, but if you have reason to believe I'm mistaken, you're welcome to send it to me privately.

> The support response you received was incorrect

I'm very curious as to where the incorrect information came from, then.
That’s a tiny as hell microbenchmark though, where rust likely was able to vectorize even. The difference won’t be as drastic for larger (more meaningful) applications.
Elon Musk knows more about manufacturing than anyone alive on planet Earth. How do I know? He said so himself!
Agreed, left a glowing review!

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Part of the problem is we use unintentionally vague terms like "performance." What does that mean? Bandwidth? Reliability? Scalability? Something we can fix later right? That's what all executives and—frankly—most engineers hear.

I only ever talk about "latency." Latency is time—you can't get latency back once you've spent it.
I'm not really sure where Toptal fits into this. Triplebyte is not a consultant agency
I'll certainly consider it. Are there any in particular you'd recommend?
The comment section is muddying the waters by gathering all sorts of organizations or company cultures (OMG working at Facebook is a cuLT) or cliques under the 'cult' umbrella. I believe the comment is very valuable and should be at the top so that HNers who don't read the articles don't get the wrong impression about what this is about.
There’s also the built-in Grab app that does this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grab_(software)
That knowledge is often not required to earn a living, so it's not surprising to me at all. My only realistic advice for people lamenting the common lack of this knowledge is to teach it (so you feel like you're making a difference) or put yourself among people with similar interests. Making performance knowledge a requirement to earn a paycheck these days is going to take a hell of a lot of change.
Their browser doesn't block Microsoft tracking scripts (but blocks everything else) due to a contractual agreement. IMO DDG did a poor job of explaining this, choosing to hide behind marketing buzzwords.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490515
Yet it interrupts my music when a non-video ad shows.
Thanks for making this point.

"Cult" as a word is used so often that many folks can lose sight of how actual cults can be such a huge challenge for some individuals, as well as those people's former friends and family.

More precise terms are "high-demand group" or "high-demand movement."

A group of passionate people may naturally spent a lot of time together. But a "high-demand group" will require that its participants cut off relationships with others outside of the group, commit their finances, and take actions that intentionally cut off bridges to the rest of the world.
I think he's overstating the impact, but external factors absolutely impact how people present themselves.

There aren't to many openly gay Saudi Arabians.
They said "over the the next year" in November 2020. It's now June 2022. It should have been in Monterey, which shipped October 25, 2021.
What is confusing? What are you lost about? It sounds like you disagree with me and believe that being trans is likely caused by a hormone imbalance in the the first way I ascribed to the original commenter. That's something you're allowed to do, though there was a reason I tried to focus the conversation on the gay issue. The fact that that situation is more resolved makes the whole thing more obvious, but it doesn't have anything to do with my comment being confusing and I don't care to have the argument you seem to want to have
C++ isn't user friendly.

Have you ever tried Rust? Compared to C++, it's like lawyer speech vs poetry
What's the point of an acquihire in a world where employees seem to hop around every 1-2 years?
Priority as dictated by business needs rather than raw work effort is usually what determines when things get done. At least on my team.
There are a lot of cults in tech I would say, some more powerful than others. Early in my career I was invited to one by a friend under the pretense of a dinner with tech people. His sister was heavily involved in it. Surprisingly, I saw one of my senior colleagues who would later become my manager. The whole mood was…off in the house of one of the cult members. The leader was your stereotypical elder Australian dude that may or may not be a literal Satanist. They specifically send out very young girls to entice you, one of them would constantly put her hand on my leg after having just met me. She couldn’t have been older than 16 but claimed she was a freshman in college. Whole thing made me uncomfortable plus the forced positivity and artificial grins, I politely thanked them for dinner and bolted out of there.

As long as you don’t interact with them negatively you should be fine. If you should become one of the “goyim” to these groups then they will make your life miserable, and can even influence your career negatively for many years to come.

Many of them are also involved in occult practices that are horrifying.

They use children as a medium for occult rituals, but really it’s an excuse to sexually abuse and molest said children. It’s sickening but not much can be done to stop them.
LOL I may have thought I was an adult, but the perspective of age has shown me that I definitely was not, other than perhaps legally.
The power of a Union is entirely in it's ability to negotiate with the company. Your typical union you hear on the news has the power it has because of the contract their members entered into with the Company. In the case of AWU they have not negotiated a contract with Google and as a result have no legal recourse. They only power they have is PR activity.
You bring up a good point, and I think what you're describing is more a type of coercion inherent to the teachings themselves that occur at a societal level. Distinct from the explicit, aggressive actions of members against other members typically found in cults.

However, what you describe certainly does create the conditions for that kind of behavior to occur organically. Lack of inclusion by nature will result in members being shunned. Personally I think religion in any form has zero business being exclusionary. The counter-argument there I suppose, would be that human group cohesion is—by and large—exclusionary in nature.

Perhaps morally there is little distinction, and organized religion has just had time to establish itself and exert power upon individuals in more subtle ways.

Circling back to the original topic: members of a small cult are far more likely to act—in unision—contrary to the interests of an organization that employs them.
Lot's of people do get worked up about scientology and I know people who won't watch Tom Cruise in a movie.

Besides, "$X group also does bad things" is a shitty cop out of an excuse to avoid doing something about another group.

There's probably not much Google can do about sexual assault/trafficking claims but they can do something about the hiring/firing practices along with crooked procurement practices.