skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The addressable size grows exponentially with more bits, not linearly. 2^64 is not twice as big as 2^32. It’s more than four billion times as big. 2^32 was only 65536 times as big as 2^16.

Going past 2^64 bytes of local high speed RAM becomes a physics problem. I won’t say never but it would not just be an evolutionary change from what we have and a processor that could perform useful computations on that much data would be equally nuts. Just moving that much data on a bus of today would take too long to be useful, let alone computing on it.
Instead of having another thread improperly manipulating your pointers and scribbling all over memory, now you can have an entire cluster of distributed machines doing it. This is a clear step forward.
I cannot imagine working as a CTO w/out equity unless the comp is stellar.

Perhaps you (unknowingly) are CTO in name only?
Former Mozilla engineer here: The Firefox team isn't as small as you are implying, and they are always constrained by inadequate resources.
Not that the industry doesnt broadly deserve this FUD take/takedown, but perhaps possibly maybe it might end up being really good & useful & clean & clear & lead to very high functioning very performant very highly observable systems, for some.

Having a single system image has many potential upsides, and understandability & reasonability are high among them.
Good article for engineers about user research and why / how to get involved in it.
My numbers, I believe, are for the entire US - not just California.
I don't think it's a penal justice trial, so it wouldn't go with a jury at all.
> They have this information already in the plaintext SMS Signal broadcasts in order to collect verified phone numbers of their users.

This assumes one is using the phone number attached to the handset running Signal as their Signal number. Personally, I don't do this: I have used Google Voice and even a basic Twilio number that sends SMS messages to me via Email to register a number with Signal. There are many reasons to do it this way, not least of which is that I can publish my Signal number without needing to worry about people direct-calling my phone. Until Signal drops the requirement for a phone number (verified by SMS) to spin up service, this is the most secure way to use Signal.
Yet lots of people seem to manage, e.g. by stating that adblockers will cease to function entirely.
The term "charging station" is hinting at a too big infrastructure. All you need is a power outlet per car. If the car parks for 8 to 9 hours, you don't need a huge amount of power to recharge it.
It is unaccounted. I know two people total who have ever drawn in self defense, neither reported the incident, they just got the fuck out of the area.

I myself have never actually had to draw but I have had to back up deescalate with a man aggressively demanding I tell him the time from a weak side stance with my hand in my pocket on a concealed handgun, and I doubt he was ignorant of that fact. Why would I report that?
Or interior mutability. Or sync+send. Or...

There are lots of ways to shape your solution.
> Pichai was asked, in a question that was highly rated by staffers on Google’s internal Dory system, why the company is “nickel-and-diming employees” by slashing travel and swag budgets at a time when “Google has record profits and huge cash reserves,” as it did coming out of the pandemic.

I find it hard to believe that workers of Google caliber can't fathom the golden rule of capitalism.
At least some companies recognize there's little difference between the amount of value provided by a top engineer vs, say, a law firm. I think the gap needs to be closed even further, I plan to double my rates again over the next 1-2 years.
I worked with a guy who was previously a big state university buyer/administrator. He said that Oracle charged around 1% of retail prices to the university.
> It's sad that Firefox engine is so difficult to embed and we could have seen more projects using it.

Not on Android, it isn't. https://geckoview.dev
(wrt some comments in this thread)

Is it so hard to believe that Meta is snooping on WhatsApp conversations? Meta, a company of unprecedented size that was built over monetizing your private data? A company who's been caught in plenty of scandals (like Cambridge Analytic) about this exact sort of thing (violating their users' privacy)?

Someone from this community, which generally means educated, tech-literate and sensitive to these topics shares a perfectly plausible observation, of something that has been experienced as well by plenty of other folks, me included; and then some people come and try to make up the most convoluted explanations (candy boxes from Kazakhstan just happened to be trending that specific day, nothing to see here, move along!) to this phenomena and try to shift the blame away from Meta. Why do you do this? Are you Meta employees? A PR agency they hired?

It's just baffling. Apparently some people DO want to be abused.

Plot twist: we all get ads about candy boxes from KZ now.
> "1000x faster, 1000x more enduring, and 10x more dense than NAND"

Their claims were actually a mix of comparisons against NAND and DRAM; I don't think they ever claimed it would be denser than NAND, just denser than DRAM.

Also, the Optane SSDs were never locked to Intel systems, just their caching software for Windows and the Optane DIMMs.
This article does a poor job of explaining why there is going to be a problem and relaying the point of the study.

To model the grid and power infrastructure into the future, assumptions must be made about where the power is derived.

The article fails to provide the basic factors contributing to the problem, even though the study itself does a fine job.

So California wants to legislate electric cars. That means higher demand in a shorter period of time. Meanwhile Calofornia wants to legislate 'clean' or 'green' energy production. If that's a design limitation then the outcome is a shift away from what is the normal situation we face with energy use today.

Energy use at night with a highly solar derived power system requires significant storage and efficiency loss. Charging all of California's electric cars in 2035 will be a demand that far surpasses anything seen today. These things that we see causing rolling black outs and brown outs, like AC use spikes in summer will be a blip compared to the consistent vehicle charging demand.

Interesting, though, the electric vehicle adoption basically negates the storage problem if a parallel infrastructure of charge back from homes at night is implemented. Charge your car at work in the sun and use it to power your home at night.
Then why are they employed? If they perform any function that helps to materialise that revenue they are indirectly responsible for it.

Unsure why the HN crowd is so hyper-focused on direct attribution. As a worker in a corporation you are part of a machine, this machine uses you as a part of it and the machine as a whole generates revenue. You might not be the main piston firing and generating power but you are still part of the mechanism. If someone hired you even though you won't be creating any value it's not your problem that the machine is dysfunctional.
Off the Mark
Maybe bubbling the air through water or a mist/air counterflow like scrubbers in coal plants? Throw in some UVC light source to keep germs from growing in the water. Are there UVC LEDs yet?

There also are electrostatic filters but they produce ozone.
> This isn't an article about why you should use Rust, it's about strings in Rust.

Well, the article literally has more C code in it than Rust, so it sure seems to be about comparing Rust to C.

Why the author thought it would be useful to compare Rust's strings to C, a language that literally doesn't even have a string type is beyond me. Kind of like saying "Look how fast I can run! Even faster than a walrus!"
That's a political question, not a warfighting question and it doesn't help the soldiers on the ground fighting the war. The fact is that they are there, now what can they do about it?
The press release you linked to is about cars catching fire after they crash.

Can you give a source for how many cars catch fire spontaneously when they're stationary and charging?
I prefer bookmarklets for a few reasons:

Compatibility:
Bookmarklets work on all devices. Deskop, iOS and Android.

Security:
I can easily read and understand the code.
They only run when I invoke them. While extensions have access to everything you do an any page, bookmarklets only have access to the page where you invoke them.

Flexibility:
They are easy to change. For example in this one, I will probably update the array of Nitter instances regularly.

Usability:
I can organize them just like my other bookmarks.

Sharing:
I can put the bookmark in just a line of text in a text file with an explanation. As I did here. No need to dabble with extension repositories of Firefox and Chrome, as you would have to with extensions. I don't even know how it would work for other browsers.
Well if they port it to Apple Silicon macs making an iOS build shouldn’t be crazy difficult right? (Famous last words)
What if you take 24 hits from the same joint but you're high and forget you're smoking a joint and it keeps going out? Is that the same session?
Electric bikes are more akin to scooters and mopeds. A quick look at Asian cities and comparing them to Copenhagen and Amsterdam shows the difference between the two.
Riding old-fashioned bicycles would do most Americans some much needed good.
What is TRIZ books?
Accusing him of cheating is not at all what we were talking about.
Yep! The person who started swc is doing just that:

https://kdy1.dev/posts/2022/1/tsc-go
As America raises rates, the rest of the world bears the pain
I am curious to know this comparison as well.

I moved across town two years ago, into an expensive house (it's not a nice house, just an expensive house) that's directly adjacent to a road with lots of traffic, and I think every day about air quality now.

I also started riding a motor scooter around Denver (and across the country to British Columbia, then to Seattle, and back) and I wonder about protecting myself from road pollution while riding, especially in rush hour in cities.

I wonder if an n95 would improve things for me, and I wonder how much damage I'm doing to myself by breathing vehicle pollution (emissions, brake dust, tire rubber micro-plastics), eg: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/car-tyre...

I'm 33, I'm already resigned to not-great long-term health outcomes based on environmental contaminants in food and the air.

I avoid most meat (that gets me out of the factory farmed meat harm universe) and avoid most processed food, and am generally "healthy and active", but I despair of the world, for many reasons.

Ugggghhhhhhhh.
Oh yeah, this for sure depends on what you mean by "resident". Countries do issue IDs to residents on paper but alas they don't issue IDs to de-facto residents.

If I legally reside in your country for a long time, do not use Russian financial system or pay taxes to Russian government, do not plan to return to Russia, haven't had a Russian customer in my freelancing career (not working in your country, that would be illegal, but working with customers in other countries) I know I'm a Russian tourist in your eyes and the eyes of immigration officers but no matter how you spin it legally in reality I've been a resident of your country.
Yeah it is. I hate having to have a process in my brain thinking about optimizing everything. So I bought solar panels and batteries. Now I no longer care. The grid can keep getting more expensive and less reliable without causing me grief.
Nvidia’s RTX 4090 Launch: A Strong Ray-Tracing Focus – Chips and Cheese
“spend all the wages they earn and enjoy themselves while they can appears to be evident from the number of families that, upon the failure of any great manufactory, immediately fall upon the parish,”
- Sir Thomas Malthus

Who predicted that we'd all be dead and the collapse would come hundreds of years ago, and said letting the Irish potato famine kill them off was natural, requisite and just. Yet, here we are still defying the Malthusian imperative, just like when everyone said the world was going to end when the Gulf states controlled all the oil, then we figured out how to make shale oil work, or before that when we invented the iron plow, or a dozen other things that have shown Malthus wrong time and time again. Meanwhile the people protesting scarcity and the need to reduce the consumption of resources have consistently been behind the greatest man made famines in history.

We figured out things before we will figure it out again, I have faith in the ability of humanity to innovate, to adapt and to overcome.
Nope. I have to rebuke these false arguments every time they spring up like weeds on threads like these. In California it was absolutely not climate change that caused the worst fires the state has ever seen during covid. It was Governor Newsom who slashed the fire fighting budget and then lied about it[1]. In addition he closed a large percentage of firecamps that use prisoners to help fight fires making a already bad situation much worse[2]. In addition serial arsonists spurred by either severe lockdowns or other factors contributed to many of California's biggest fires[3]. But don't trust my comments, look to a actual scientist(USGS) to explain whats really going on [4].

[1] - https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/newsom-wildfire

[2] - https://www.firehouse.com/operations-training/wildland/news/...

[3] - https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2018/08/15/arsonists-ca...
and
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/us/california-wildfires-g...
and
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/redding-man-pleads-guil...

[4] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/11/04...
We also need a faster language server. Inference (e.g.[1]) is one of the greatest features of TS, but we're told not to use it.

[1]: https://trpc.io/
Humans can find engine moves, especially when they have hours on the clock like in classical chess. If you can consistently spend the majority of your time on the most critical moments when game-breaking moves could be found with enough calculation, that's enough to tip the scales dramatically over many games.

Sure, the human won't find the move every time, but it's still a huge edge.
I think your position comes from a lack of understanding of energy markets and pricing mechanisms. Powerwall owners are paid roughly $2/kwh when called upon to support the grid in California. Compensation is absolutely available for discharging and charging at specific times.

If you’ll charge me a fraction of the cost to charge off peak or when there are excess renewables on the grid, and you’ll pay a premium to pull that power back if the car is parked and I can set a minimum state of charge to maintain, yeah, I’ll take that deal any day. I’ll come out ahead in almost all cases based on EV battery longevity.
Except for the random choosing of instances it's easy to do with Redirector:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/redirector/ocgpenf...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/

Userscripts don't work too well for this, because you have to either check all links everywhere or delay redirection to only after you reached the page.
you need to provide a systemd service for a docker image as well, the restrt policies leave a lot to be desired for a host that itself can restart.

glibc doesn't support static linking, so it's probably going to be musl. Running a musl binary on an otherwise glibc system isn't an issue.
For a small company, networking can be the first time people hear of the company. For a company like Google, I wonder how often networking translates instead into chances for other companies to hire away their people (without really helping much vice-versa, everyone knows about Google's hiring process)

No matter how much that actually happens, I wouldn't be shocked if it gets echoed and magnified internally as a problem.
I would truly love that. My email is in my profile.
I'm sorry, but this feels like a highly irresponsible FUD post to me. (And I am not a fan of Facebook in any way at all, so let's put that out of the way.)

For years and years and years, there have been people claiming their voice assistant (for example) is listening in on their conversation to show ads, and so forth. And it's always anecdote, never any hard data.

And the thing is, if this were the case, it would be relatively easy to prove with a controlled experiment that other people can replicate. And yet, somehow, magically that never happens.

Sure, Google used to algorithmically read your Gmail to show you relevant ads, but they were totally open about that, and then they stopped because it weirded people out anyways.

If Facebook were mining Whatsapp messages for ad topics, they'd probably be as open about it as Google was, out of pure self-interest. Because right now so much of their advertising is about how Whatsapp is trustworthy because it's E2EE etc. So if they were secretly analyzing messages, it would blow up the reputation of their main marketing message. There's a good chance it would be business suicide for Whatsapp. A profit-driven company probably isn't going to take that risk.

To be honest, this post feels social-engineered by a messaging competitor or something. I'm not saying it is, but the personal touch ("silly little game with my wife"), the innocent questioning ("Is... or am I missing something silly?"), and the total lack of any objective evidence (e.g. screenshots of messages and ads) are all HUGE red flags.

If Meta really is doing this, it's pretty easy to prove with hard data, and that's going to become a front-page news story on the New York Times. The fact that that hasn't happened leads me to think it's much more likely there's nothing here.
that is the best answer for almost anything in life "sometimes" or "it depends"
I have experience in similar situation, not sure we are talking about the same project.

I suggested full rewrite and got fired in 3 weeks (actually it was a subcontractor role). I have been considering myself as be really good at presentations and persuading executive people to understand what I am doing and what I will be doing, but the situation was too much for me to take on. They didn't like this unrealistic 3-months roadmap to rewrite the whole thing, which does nothing on their point of view but still needs paying the whole team (even though I was the only one). So I told them we are gradually improving it, and did this full-rewrite underground on my own. It consumed me ~13 hours every day, but I was happy myself and was enjoying the birth of the product. Finally after 10 weeks, I gave up to myself and their frustration.

Regarding your problem, I totally suggest dumping your codebase into a git repo first of all, add some cypress/playwright testing to carefully probe the major functionalities, build ci for these, and start gradually removing old version files. After then, just forget how messy it was, what you thought in the first place, consider this beast as a perfect engineering gift (like linux kernel), then start making small changes then adapt yourself into it.
Guide the team to follow your methodologies to treat the code, and tell the executive team that the legacy codebase looks great but complex enough to move quickly as it was a brand new startup project.
There is multiple different strategies discussed by other countries and EU itself. The EU commission as of 9 days ago suggested a price floor of 180 EUR/MWh on all energy production except gas, coal and hydro, using the difference as an tax to fund lower gas and coal prices.

The Norwegian government will pay 50% of their citizens electricity bill of anything that exceeds ~€0.07 per kw/h, a decision they made last year.

The Danish government announced today that they will offer any citizen an interest free loan for electricity bills, and removed all the energy taxes for the next 6 months.

Germany stepped in 18 days ago to save the energy company Fortums with 150 billions euros of government money. Fortums had a lot of long term contract to deliver cheap gas, betting that the price would remain low, and lost that bet. The government intervention was said to be done in order to prevent an other 2008 crash.

The UK announced the "Energy Price Guarantee for families and businesses" at the 1st October. This price guarantee is done through a mix of lowered taxes and direct social support (government stepping in and directly pay part of the bill).

It is expected to see a lot of similar initiatives in EU until winter, especially as the energy price is predicted to significant rise when gas supply start to deplete.
It's also just a black screen on my android chrome browser.
> But I get rejected for a loan via WhatsApp and then used car ads appear for that model of car that I applied a loan for? That's a bit on the nose.

Aside from random coincidence, I could see this happening if you provided your personal information (especially email) for the loan application. It could have been shared to multiple underlying lenders alongside a data vendor who ultimately provided interest targeting (which can include car models) to an ad network.

Getting an ad for that specific model could also have been due to other online activity, such as checking the KBB.
A teeny tiny one in comparison.
EVs become carbon neutral after around 6 months of existing, taking into account emissions to manufacture them. Solar panels are between 6 months and 3 years. And batteries are highly recyclable, and only getting better.

The US doubled its solar capacity in 2021, and adoption is only speeding up.
In the early days of cable, one of the benefits offered was few to no ads[1]. The idea was subscription fees would usually cover the cost of the programming, and advertising wasn't needed for revenue.

I definitely expect the cycle to repeat, personally.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...
Most people wouldn't be commuting then, but this could be an argument for employers to supply infrastructure to facilitate charging during the day while at work.
I suffer from some pretty intense Analysis Paralysis at times. I've found that there are so many tradeoffs in each and every decision in software that you've just gotta pick what feels right and get moving. I guess that's the same as listening to my gut?

I've yet to avoid any/all hurdles as a result, but I've yet to reach one I couldn't figure out how to get over either.

There is no perfect decision and the line between "ok" and "great" decisions is verrrrrrry fine.
I always thought VPX is cool but then again there are no consumer products that use it so it is basically irrelevant.
Well from what I found, there is a blog post in June 2020

"All newly created Deployments now use vercel.app in place of the now.sh suffix – reflecting the new company name."

https://vercel.com/blog/changelog-june-2020
Oh, come on. It's called "end to end" but it isn't. Meta has to read them to provide the service. This is not a new revelation.
Let us revise the C4-model for software architecture diagrams
Governments can easily correlate GV numbers to mobile devices. I personally no longer trust Signal. Moxie's departure stinks like a canary.
Maybe, but consider this: when you join a company like Google, you get a top-of-industry offer, for sure, but they often low-ball you regardless, relatively speaking. The recruiter justifies it with perks like this (free meals! free gym! snacks! swag! off-sites! whatever). Then the pandemic hits and all that stops, but most of us understand. The stock however, explodes, and the executives go from 10- to 11-digit wealth. Then we come back to the office, at Their behest, and the second the stock (and THEIR compensation) starts to droop, they instantly cut everything.

Likely not many SWEs at Google are struggling for food; but wouldn't you be at least a little pissed off?