skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do that with 2 Ubiquiti Nanobeams 5AC gen2's for $130 each and get a ~650Mbps link (source, I've done this a number of times!).
This. Also the longer the better to a degree. If you find you’re in the habit of glossing over things you’re unsure about, expand on those things in writing until you’re sure you understand your own position on them.
It's probably fair to say experts as a group are failing their duty, and americans are losing trust in them.

How America Lost Faith in Expertise:

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2017-0...

There are a lot of failures affecting the public trust going on.

Top economists fail to predict inflation (wall street bets didn't get it wrong)

https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/3259197-nobel-economists...

Pollsters got 2016 so wrong, articles were written about the polling crisis.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/polling-ca...

Psychological Science doesn't replicate, and is probably all garbage.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22360363/replication-...

No evidence that depression is caused by low serotonin levels, finds comprehensive review (Apparently Tom Cruise was right about psychiatry)

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220720080145.h...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eymr9NZpna8

Alzheimers research had some high profile fraud caught recently.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/fraud-scientific-rigor-and-...
What interests me is that if there is only the point, there's no external system for reference. So the point has no coordinates, no observable properties... right?
I like where you’re coming from, it’s just this specific example - should we rewrite stuff in react - really strikes me as something an engineering manager shouldn’t be asking. “I heard about this implementation detail and wonder if we should be doing it like that.” Just much prefer a boss who can parse those questions himself
I don't want to be the guy that doesn't read the entire article, but the first sentence surprised me quite a bit:

> Despite vector graphics being used in every computer with a screen connected to it, rendering of vector shapes and text is still mostly a task for the CPU.

Do modern vector libraries really not use the GPU? One of the very first things I did when learning Vulkan was to use a fragment shader to draw a circle inside a square polygon. I always assumed that we've been using the GPU for pretty much any sort of vector rasterization, whether it was bezier curves or font rendering.
I think you have it backwards. Highly profitable companies with high growth can afford to be wasteful. Being wasteful isn't what made them successful.
This isn't a consumer choice issue. People love morphine too, it doesn't mean Amazon can sell it to them. If Apple enforced its own rules in this case, Facebook would just have to act like any other developer and find some revenue streams that comply with established privacy norms.
I suppose this kind of thing is fun to think about, but this kind of claim, which appears to be the main one, is metaphysical, not scientific, in that it appears to make no testable predictions, as far as I can see:

> "Mathematical truth implies the existence of all computations. The existence of all computations implies the existence of all observers. The existence of all observers leads to a quantum mechanical reality populated with all possibilities and ruled by simple laws."

Extra points to the author for including a link to Eugene Wigner's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" (1960). For convenience:

https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf
Fucked Up Mockups
It’s all a form of resistance training, just a matter of how much
The key to limiting one's efforts is that the problems need to be temporary ones, and the 'assistant' should take on a supporting role, not a leading one.

Sounds like we agree, actually. At a certain point, one must leave others "to their fate" good or bad. In certain matters, we can only help. It's up to them to actually do the work, if they can or if they will.

In other words, it's not healthy to be committed to controlling that which one cannot control. Especially if it's another sentient being.
The next time you go into a grocery store, look at the front and see if you see a dry ice storage box

I get it all the time for camping trips
American lawyers, as a profession, have one of the highest rates of alcohol abuse and mental illness in the country.
How we built project updates – Linear
That's a valid point, but I'm not sure, the following problem has a technical solution:

> Clear indicators the owl author didn't know the domain
Since I already had a ryobi drill, I bought a ryobi battery powered vacuum that uses the same batteries. It's not going to be stronger than the ridgid or shopvacs but it definitely gets the job done for cleaning my car.
I'm sure this has gotten better as people have become more used to smartphones, but I worked on a popular app for a big company a number of years ago, and we would send people out to Safari to open links. The number of customer service calls we got from people who couldn't figure out how to get back to the app after that was ASTOUNDING. We eventually gave in and did an in-app browser. Not only did it get rid of that category of call, but it also noticeably helped our key metrics because fewer people were leaving the app to never come back again.

I realize that doesn't address the appeal FOR USERS, but it is why we did it as developers.
Right. Employees hate the training and it isn't very effective. WebAuthn should be a no brainer.
A team building activity has 10x the priority than some standup. If you need a standup to get stuff done or to motivate people then you’ve already lost.
I agree. I see single-digit million ARR startups list Google, Facebook, Visa, etc. as customers. Do you think they actually went through the process of getting permission to 1. list as customer and 2. use their logo on the website ?

If they did go through that process, I wonder if there's a written guide somewhere, on how to go about it.
Familiarity with a tool is also important. If you're comfortable using a 10 yo version of Final Cut Pro and it does everything you need it to do then you're going to be more effective with it than you might be trying to use a new version. (I have never used Final Cut Pro so I'm not sure how much the UI might have changed over the years, but extrapolating from other software that has changed a lot of the years)
Not to defend either of them as CEOs but isn't that what they're doing? Part of addressing a problem is surfacing it in the first place.
This is about empathy more than contribution, same thing with Quantas right now getting executives to handle baggage. It looks good (see how much we care?), and can be actually positive if it makes senior leadership understand what employees go through, so I think it is valuable for Zuckerberg to do an on call rotation or try and push a documentation change for these reasons
I might not be connecting the dots, but I don't see how this is related to the GP's gripe that these interview questions aren't good tools for hiring engineers.
Good book on this topic by Jim Holt:

"Why Does the World Exist? (An Existential Detective Story)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Does_the_World_Exist%3F
I think the OP's point is that we should understand our current models of natural phenomenon to be just that, models. Outside of their predictive capabilities we should remain humble about how much "truth" they contain and be skeptical of their ability to tell us what's "really going on".

Kepler and Newton's models produce better predictions over a long period than Ptolemaic models, which is great. But it's a bit of delusion to think that necessarily means they are analogous to the cosmological mechanisms that produce orbital mechanics.
I don't think people care for definition of "social network" or "social media" . In case of "no more FB" they will just migrate to another application that allows them to communicate with each other, share photos, videos, etc.. Any app that can handle half billion of new users without crashing too much will do.
Cannabis is a gateway drug... to gardening.
One model we could use is the hedonic treadmill plus normal distribution of baseline happiness across IQ. That would lead to uncorrelated happiness vs. IQ.

But I think I find that second assumption hard to justify.

Thanks for the thought pattern about "well-defined" vs. "ill-defined" intelligences.
This is the basis of the "ultraviolet catastrophe" and lead to the discovery of quantization of radiation. The "catastrophe" being that as classical laws for light implied a potentially unbounded amount of energy as wavelength decreased.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe

https://youtu.be/rCfPQLVzus4
Epicycles had low predictive power and was needlessly complicated compared to later theories, but it wasn't "nonsense"; the predictions the theory made about the relative positions of the Earth and planets were pretty accurate.
I struggled to keep reading after the author suggested "wrong answers only" was a useful element to integrate into an engagement feed. Are the target users children?
The idea that Ukraine would reduce the capabilities of their armed forces after 8 years of war with Russia in the separatists and constant training with NATO is nonsensical. They wouldn't have spent 8 years preparing for this war if they would just throw it all away. Clearly those years training weren't wasted because Russia has barely made any gains in the past month. Everyone was speculating the whole government would collapse in 24 to 48 hours. Now, 5 months in, and they've lost up to 80,000 soldiers for 20% of Ukraine.
The battle for control continues. I started noticing this personally when using social media and took note of the fact that the browsing was still being done within the app when clicking on an external link.

The war on control of data continues on.
I would not consider putting a logo on my company site without having the permission of said company.

At best, it would be presumptuous, at worst, a cause for legal action.
Doesn't this just completely dodge/dismiss the original question?

If I asked how biology worked, you wouldn't say "Survivorship bias: if biology didn't work, you wouldn't be here to ask the question."
Gas prices doubled in my area (Southern California) for a short period of time a few months ago. Some of our gas stations were just a few cents short of $7. They have now down a bit (in the $5 - $6 range), but at one point it did get to double. I don't have any receipts to give you the exact dates and prices though.

I would say that you can't just look at average prices for the US. Look at the California version of that chart [1].

July 2021 to July 2022 is an increase of about 38%.

If you look at June to June it is 50%.

While not double, it is quite a bit more than 30%. Depending on the area the person quite possibly did recently experience double the price like I did.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=E...
A Billion SMT Queries a Day
It would have to be. Apple's main bugbear seems to be anyone embedding Chrome or Firefox on iOS.
That's wild. For me, 1/2 gallons of milk is up like 15%.
Err... I've been using the manufacturer's recommended (extended) oil change intervals since, well, when did Ford introduce the "bubble" Taurus design? Mid-1990s? I've been using the vehicle's "oil-change-ometer" since I first got a vehicle with it, which means 10-15K mile intervals for me. Admittedly, that is a small sample of 4 vehicles (said Taurus, 2 Ford F150s, and the 2002 'Vette I used to use for commuting).

I've never had an oil-related failure.

And before you ask, yes, they're all high-mileage; for a while I was doing 25,000 miles/year.
US Dollar to Argentinian Peso Chart
According to the article some forms of "adversity" can be violence. You disagree with my view and expressed it.

If I make the claim your post caused my blood to boil, that could be considered a symptom of inflammation mentioned in the article.

As the article points out, that can shorten my life and as such is tantamount to violence.

Therefore you have committed an act of violence towards me. I would ask you to please turn yourself into the appropriate authorities and inform me of the court date so I can testify against you.
It looks like they're juuuuuuuuuust the right length so they perfectly match up to pedal stroke.

i.e. - Your push stroke unwinds the string to its max extension length, and then the rotational inertia of the wheel does the job of winding the string
up again.

EDIT: Scratch that, disregard the above. Looks like they're using a spring to wind up one side while it freewheels.

As for assholes? Yeah, they're going to be able to slice those with a pocket knife in a few seconds. Even Dyneema and the like would likely be quickly frayed with a few good knife swipes to the point of being in danger of snapping from a hard pedal push when taking off from a stoplight.
The thing I can't really understand if this is the argument is where the money is actually going? With an on paper 11% profit margin it's certainly isn't shareholders, and even if the executives rake it would still be a blip in their total revenue.
Thanks for sharing your insight.
Article about the product: https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/10/spotify-starts-selling-liv...
Casinos print money too and farms don't. The amount of cash a business throws off is only somewhat related to how much work it requires and how useful it is.
They tried to ban peeing in porn, they didn't get it through!

Side note: a bunch of kinksters turned up outside parliament and starting peeing on each other in protest - gotta love the UK
In a vacuum with no matter or radiation, presumably the laws of physics still exist, and therefore it will be emptiness forever. As King Lear said, nothing will come of nothing. But if the laws of physics themselves did not exist, then nothing could indeed come from
nothing - what’s to stop it?
LV2 audio plugins use RDF/Turtle;

https://github.com/lv2/lv2

curl -H "Accept: text/turtle,application/rdf+xml" http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/lv2core
curl -H "Accept: text/turtle,application/rdf+xml" http://lv2plug.in/ns/ext/atom

Some hosts also use it for saving audio graphs;

https://drobilla.net/software/ingen.html
http://drobilla.net/ns/ingen.html

https://github.com/moddevices/mod-factory-user-data/tree/mas...
https://pedalboards.moddevices.com/
TIL that MSX-DOS was CP/M compatible.
Oh I see. Hmm... I wonder what OP meant?
There is no such word as "perq" in American English.

https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=perq

Perhaps, it is British English.
i was getting new phones mostly because my devices were getting bogged down by android updates and capabilities. the os allowed developers to do more and more things, and offered more and more customization, faster than the pace of hardware improvements supported, to the point i'd have to get a new phone if i wanted something both up-to-date and fast. if i kept a phone longer much longer than a year, i'd have to worry about software updates as well, OR replace the OS and deal with instability.

and i'm not talking about bad phones here — htc one s, nexus 4, nexus 5, nexus 5x. admittedly, degradation of shitty NAND is still a factor in higher-end android phones, so it's not all about the android ecosystem being a free-for-all

an iphone xr will still run everything fine, including the latest version of ios. hundreds of dollars saved and a whole set of problems avoided over the life of the phone. i only replace my phones when they're smashed to bits now

anecdote: someone in my family just had to replace their android phone because a software update caused the radio to stop working for calls. so the ecosystem issue is not just a userland thing
Good to know there's a whole set of actions you have to be prepared for if you list a company's logo -- discounts, set up reference call, etc. Thank you.
What are test engineer roles like at Google? I’ve basically only spent my time in startups on critical systems (defense, finance) so have no idea what it’d be like at a larger company or team.
I am not sure why you are so aggressive, nor reading my words charitably. I do care about solving the technical challenges to fulfill the goals in the best way possible. I don't care what the goal is "about," if the business wants to target a specific vertical or wants to grow internationally or wants to prioritize backend tooling. I care about knowing the goal and then doing the best work possible. This is the opposite of trolling.
NOR is more durable than NAND (but smaller, more expensive per bit), but yes you have to be careful with logs. In most recent case, it was in the 10s of small records per day.
It's not surprising, but it's not obvious.
This is unrelated from the rest of the project, but why do open source projects in general have such inexplicably bad marketing? To the degree where you can't believe that somebody actually thought this would work? To the degree you can't believe someone with no marketing experience could be this inept?

What is /e/? How is it pronounced? What does it mean? How do I tell people about it? Does it stick out in a Google search (which it does not)?

But on that line, why do we have GIMP, GNOME, Everything starting with the letter K on KDE, KDE itself, Hector Martin's "Asahi Lina" nonsense, and on and on...
I love the writing style. Technical blogs take notes
> The real benefit of 5G for the phone networks is the higher frequencies means the signals don't penetrate as well, cover a lot smaller of an area which means they can have more radios - to provide more capacity without overlapping.

Nope, density is manageable in most frequency ranges. The advantage to the mmwave frequency bands is that they have larger channel sizes (up to 400MHz), which allows for faster speeds.
My experience is that the grocery stores around me with meats cheaper than Costco is not the meat you want to buy in bulk and save for later use. The quality is fine but the meat has been sitting on the shelf for a couple of weeks and is near or past the best by date, which is why it's marked way below market price. That being said the solution is to buy a whole bunch, cook it he same day and freeze that. Doesn't work well if you want cooked whole cuts (roast chicken, pan seared steak, etc.) but for the more processed recipes (stews, stir fry, etc.)
On the similar theme of "things we don't have answers to yet":

When I was five years old I asked my dad what was beyond the "edge" of the Universe. He said "There is no edge, it goes on infinitely forever. Even if there was an edge, there would have to be something beyond that, even if it was a vacuum right?".

I literally cried myself to sleep trying to visualize this.
Sure but since the App Store is human review, they can tell the difference between a web view and an external website. Or just require the app to only call web views on their own domain or a whitelist of domains they submit with the app.
As a consultant, I come around a bit.

I have seen many companies with very poor productivity, and in zero of those cases was it laziness of the employees. In fact they usually would have loved to be more productive. Nobody wants to spend their life being dead weight.

But as companies grow they install more and more rules and regulations that end up making sure nothing ever gets done. It is not unusual to meet "developers" whose company calendar is 80% filled with meetings. Well no wonder they don't get anything done!

Also remember that this is only half the problem. The other half is that agile makes you iterate through pseudo productivity before you actually understood the problem, accumulating cruft that you need to maintain and extend as you go on. I wouldn't be surprised if of the productivity that is left, more than half gets wasted on crufty software structures and writing code before you understood the problem.

And then nobody wants to throw code away that turned out to be not what we need. Wasting yet more productivity on working around bad decisions from before we knew what we are actually building.
How did you meet your wife with an ASN? Asking for a friend...
Due to more than a decade of Republican budget cuts, the IRS's computer systems are very outdated, and due to those same budget cuts their staff levels are the lowest they've ever been in the modern era.

Most of this $80 billion is going to be spent simply just bringing them up to adequate staffing and technology to meet their current needs.
> I've recently heard a number of "free speech" advocates try to expand that to be a right to be heard, i.e. a right to a captured audience & other people's attention.

You're confusing two different aspects: free speech as a guaranteed right and free speech as a principle.

As a right, it means the state shouldn't prevent you from communicating something. An example is the US's First Amendment.

As a principle, it means you support speech, even when you disagree with it. An example of this is "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

As a publisher, you have the free speech right to NOT publish something you disagree with, but you can't then say you support free speech as a concept.

It's quite an imposition to force someone to say something he doesn't desire to say. But the free speech advocates you speech of (like me) only want the law to be changed for quasi-public-square entities such as Facebook and Twitter.
In my experience, where the open source apps often come up short is not really mapping but rather turn by turn navigation. The first, most obvious indictor being the voice prompts. If they sound like a bad video game from the 90's, you can bet the directions are equally flawed/bad.
Dealing with period of low focus / energy
A key challenge at Meta is limited scope. There are many unification projects rather than expansion projects, and this is one of the reasons I left as it was just too hard to push new businesses.

So, here they are bitching about people not doing enough work when it is really a reflection of an inability to overcome the innovators dilemma.
Yes, it's like the article is trying to ignore why GPUs were invented in the first place.
I agree. As a millennial I am not making any savings and am completely content with the fact, that my retirement - when I can't work and running out of money to live - is a piece of rope.
Steven Wright said, "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

When I told this to a friend he answered, "Everywhere."
I think Seneca addresses this well in 'On the Shortness of Life'[0][1].

Essentially we are very wise with our money -- we don't just give it away freely, because it is of value to us. We aren't as wise with our time -- we give it to anyone that asks. If you're frugal with your time -- no longer giving your time to others except when you want to, your life suddenly becomes longer and more effectively used.

Of course there are a few missing puzzle pieces like what is worth spending time on, how do you motivate yourself to fill this time, etc.

[0]: This is what I read: https://smile.amazon.com/Shortness-Life-Penguin-Great-Ideas/...

[1]: Free online: https://www.forumromanum.org/literature/seneca_younger/brev_...
The difference is that Neptune is there, indeed, was discovered because it was exactly where Newtonian mechanics predicted it would be. The situation here is completely different because all of the plausible hypotheses about the nature of dark matter have been tested and falsified. The only thing left is "some weird stuff that is fundamentally unlike anything we have ever observed before". It is more analogous to the luminiferous aether than to Neptune. If that doesn't count as contradicting GR, at least potentially, then nothing contradicts anything because you can always resort to this kind of special pleading to explain any observation under any hypothesis.
Well, there’s is a lot of room to wiggle with ~1M revenue per employee. I’d be curious to hear about working habits of people at Apple :)