skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We operate on the second derivative of cash-flow which has gone negative."

Your engineers are smart enough to understand this.
I wish I was this skilled and focused on a project when I was in high school
Not everyone wants those things though. In fact, I could see it being detrimental because then you'd attract a lot of people who only care about those things instead of science itself.

I think we should celebrate scientific achievements as a community. Because the failures are as important as the successes. We shouldn't idolize individuals imho. That is toxic.
Should CTO own company shares?

In my unorthodox and unpopular opinion C-Levels should absolutely have shares but should have a longer vesting period than non C-Levels. This gives them the incentive to help the company prosper and could encourage more critical thought into longer term decisions and ramifications of said decisions.
To be fair I'm sure Pichai would be happy to get paid the amount of equity that early founders did...
If you're comparing only solar panels, then maybe. I'm comparing the whole system - batteries, transmission, gas usage when it's not enough sunshine for a third of the year here, etc. Our electricity got more expensive mostly thanks to renewables, not cheaper. Now we're building reactors to have it cheap again.
hey - don't forget PeerTube !

https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api-rest-reference.html
Just wanted to make sure, it wasn't clear to me if you just liked their modifications or you weren't familiar with the quote at all :)
I remember when Google was small and scrappy

He joined Google in 2004, the same year as its IPO. The company had 3021 employees at the end of that year.
They didn't say they have no fun at work. They're simply saying that work is not a source of fun in their life--perhaps they find true joy from their family, hobbies, outdoors, etc. If their work suddenly implodes and goes away they will have no sense of loss or concern, it was simply a place to trade labor for capitol and nothing more.
Spent last night migrating a Discord bot from Heroku to Fly as a result of the upcoming closure of the Heroku free dynos. Overall fairly painless, though I opted to provide my own images rather than use a source-to-image pipeline and discovered one little quirk: images require a Docker V2 formatted manifest. I use Buildah and Podman in my workflows which default to the OCI format. This was simple enough to solve once I figured it out, but I only found one or two forum posts on it and spent a lot of time trying to figure out why the deployment couldn't find an image that I manually pushed to registry.fly.io.
Optane SSDs had been great! They have the fastest write latency which made them e.g. perfect for databases or the ZFS ZIL which is a write of any new block to a special space (on that optane ssd) that will later be rewritten to the slower ssd.
And yet this is the company that pampers them and gives them everything from massages to daycare. Cry me a river.
Go over to r/cscareerquestions and see how many are interested in CS because they “get paid for their hobby” and how many are willing to “grind leetCode” for months on end to “get into a FAANG” because of compensation.
Those are supposed to have lower fluorine than tap water. According to the CDC, babies who only drink formula with tap water can develop dental fluorosis, faint white lines on the teeth.[1].

It’s not always possible to breastfeed.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/faqs/infant-formula.html
Typing Cyclist
I think you could say this about a lot of games. IMO, Apple doesn't make it easy to port a game from PC to iPad (app store guidelines in particular), and I doubt there are as many iPad gamers as there are other platforms.
That Milwaukee one is exactly the mask I bought. :) I found the similar 3M version to be quite a bit more comfortable for me, but I don’t know why. I assumed you were talking about the reusable ones like https://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-OV-P95-Paint-Project-Reusable...

Yeah I think I probably was having just a touch of eye stinging from the smoke. Now I’m really curious what it would be like to ride a bike with a full face like https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/c/ppe/respiratory-protection/r... Maybe the sweat issue would be easier to tolerate if it’s around the outside of my face? :shrug:
The stakes are high for primetime network television in general in the US. Only about 20% of new shows are renewed for a second season, and showrunners desperately want a multi-season TV show to put on their CV.

To add more perspective - of the projects a network picks up in a given year, only about 18% will go on to produce a pilot that same year. And usually if a pilot isn't greenlit for a project in its first year, it's effectively dead. So the fact that the IT Crowd (US) got a pilot at all is already remarkable.
I remember when my old company cut the "swag" to the tune of about $100,000 a year. The CFO was proud of himself but the work environment wasn't great before that, which lead to a few key people leaving. They had stayed not for swag but the social parts of the job were keeping people happy. A few more followed them. It wasn't long before half of the tech team had gone.

At the time we were spending about 40k for recruiter fees to replace each engineer. During my exit interview I asked the CFO if he thought that math worked out. He had some regrets.
No. Encryption means the data is scrambled. Essentially unrecognizable from noise, save perhaps for some headers.

If you can discern meaning from noise, then your theory would work. But discerning meaning from random noise is obviously impossible (i.e. what if there is no meaning?).

If you leak information than you say, then the encryption is worthless. Harmful, even, because you think you have protection when you do not.
Ahh so the progressive wind also blows over you :). Another MD with an opinion, wether you are vegan, vegitation, pro or anti seed, carnivore. There is always an MD who knows and fully understands everything.

Kind of strange you are going all the way back to primates. The last 200.000 years we've evolved to eat 60-90% of our kcals diet of animal based food.

The last 10.000 - 15.000 years we moved more to agriculture, mainly grains and rice. Which is not that long but allowed us to be better adapted to grains and other plants.

Overall the body seems to be very good at processing different kinds of food. From meat, dairy, eggs to plants. In these debates all sides invest too much in their moral positiion and have to resort to very complicated logic that doesn't have any backing in research but makes sense for them with a few graphs and 1 or 2 principles that they think define are the base of human health.

Meat & dairy come with its issues, but so do plants. They contain lots of antrinutrients blocking nutrient intake (which is main reason why iron is spinach is not taken up well). And plants are much less nutrient dense and are harder to digest. It's the vegans & vegetarians that need to supplement, which says something.
Yes... And do you need that in the same kernel that goes into your phone and your web server?
> I don’t want to work in a place where any budget cuts result in people saying there is no fun to be had anymore.

Small and scrappy is fun for many. I don't want to work in a megacorp with forced annual trips organized by a large HR department. I want to work on and build interesting things with smart colleagues who are similarly engaged and motivated.
Well, yeah, but that's not really a memory error - it's an error of not using mt-safe data structures for mt programming. It's no different than using int vs std::atomic<int> in an mt context.

It's a shame that C++ doesn't provide mt-safe versions of STL types in the standard library, although trivial to wrap them yourself (1 line of code per method, using std::lock_guard).

Are all Rust data types mt-safe? Does unsafe mode provide faster unprotected versions if you need those?
A lot of us have "enough money" that food and shelter became boring years ago. Diminishing returns happens pretty quickly. So, when money no longer matters as much, fun becomes pretty important.
> How about letting the at risk people decide for themselves what to do?

So I ask again, what would the circumstances have to be for "letting the at risk people decide for themselves" to be an unacceptable policy? What fatality level, transmission mechanism or whatever would have to be present for you to accept that some sort of centralized public health policy was required?
I believe that it's automated, they scan every message with some embedded piece of code (that you can't really verify and have to trust that's harmless), that looks for key words and serve ads. And don't forget that with judicial order you get 24h-real-time access to any whatsapp account in question.
> It allowed me to make many Nintendo Switch specific optimizations, and even some optimizations for the PC version

Are there significant CPU-specific optimizations that can be made for the Switch / ARMv8 that wouldn't apply to x86-64? I've never really dug into things at that level, I wouldn't know where to begin except for like vector instructions.
At the package level yes but NPM, Node, Express, etc. are the dominant choices in the JS serverside world.
I don't entirely disagree but consider the following:

1) To be useless to a top player, the decision tree needs to have only long term gains and be barren in terms of short term human-readable profits.

2) In the same vein, the metagaming pruning process you have described has to unfold a certain way, in the context of a game where most of the previous moves have been played by humans and not machines and where there is therefore much more of a chance of an unbalance compared to a purely computed position.

3) the above criteria of long-term, short-term, readability etc. must be defined according to players that are already 95% or so precise. The missing percentages mean that they always get smoked by machines over the course of a game, but can have a remarkable ability to see good lines.
> (Except placing solar farms in the desert, that is indefensible.)

You should blog or vlog about this. I've seen you write this enough times over the last few years(?), and linking to a longer-form argument may be worthwhile.

(I should do the same for the global power grid; there are some wrinkles I want to explore with that also).
Security against random searches is easy. There are plenty of ways to hide an app behind something innocuous, e.g. requiring a particular input sequence known only to the user to open the app.
I have that on my bookshelf. I particularly like that there's one chapter near the end on this new-fangled WWW thing.
> This is an excellent framing that's rarely expressed.

These folk express is quite well

https://norightsemployee.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

School is supposedly the best experience in life, and simultaneously the most frequent source of nightmares decades later. What a curious coincidence!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_direct_memory_access

Again, I'm not a supercomputer programmer. But the whitepapers often discuss RDMA.

From my imagination, it sounds like any other "mmap". You, the programmer, just remembers that the mmap'd region is slower (since it is read/write to a Disk, rather than to RAM). Otherwise, you treat it "like RAM" from a programming perspective entirely for convenience sake.

As long as you know my_mmap_region->next = foobar(); is a slow I/O operation pretending to be memory, you're fine.

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Modern systems are converging upon this "single address space" programming model. PCIe 3.0 implements atomic operations and memory barriers, CXL is going to add cache-coherence over a remote / I/O interface. This means that all your memory_barriers / atomics / synchronization can be atomic-operations, and the OS will automatically translate these memory commands into the proper I/O level atomics/barriers to ensure proper synchronization.

This is all very new, only within the past few years. But I think its one of the most exciting things about modern computer design.

Yes, its slow. But its consistent and accurately modeled by all elements in the chain. Atomic-compare-and-swap over RDMA can allow for cache-coherent communications and synchronization over Ethernet, over GPUs, over CPUs, and any other accelerators sharing the same 64-bit memory space. Maybe not quite today, but soon.

This technology already exists for PCIe 3.0 CPU+GPUs synchronization from 8 years ago (Shared Virtual Memory). Its exciting to see it extend out into more I/O devices.
Agree PAYE and NI should be merged – the distinction between earned and unearned income in the UK benefits those with capital rather than people who actually work

To me dividends escape employers NI in the sense that if they were paid as salary then they'd attract employers NI and contractors can choose whether to take income as salary or dividends

As a contractor I've always disagreed with the argument that "it's unfair that contractors pay employers NI" and think many contractors see their company's income as their personal income when it's not
Yeah, there is only so much that's possible on the language side. Though static analysis in compilers can catch some instances of some problems. But looking up your name, I guess you probably already knew that :)

I'd love to see hardware having a "offloaded memory guard" flag: Mark in-use memory with it and get a OMG trap on any memory access with the flag not set (of course totally transparent with hardware acceleration). Too bad this is only simple on paper, where there is no such thing as (among others) memory latency.
Seeing Google SSO and not Microsoft SSO that comes with dirt cheap plans is so last year. :-)

Now that Google Workspaces costs $12/month/user (for anything over 15GB storage) it makes more sense for most small businesses to jump on the O365 platform:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/compa...

Included with these dirt cheap plans, there's an Azure AD included that supports unlimited SSO to arbitrary third party apps.

At the very least, have a "Sign in with" button that supports Microsoft Accounts including Work/School not just personal.

Don't take on liability for user credentials and password management, there are plenty options to just accept a pre-auth'd identity:

https://www.xsplit.com/user/auth

And any business doing it right wants one account to work across SaaS providers, even if the business is only 3 girls in a garage just starting out.

Don't charge an SSO tax, it's good for you and your customers.
> (comedy option: 32-bit int, 128-bit long, and 64-bit `unsigned middle`)

Or rather than keep moving the long goalpost, keep long at u64/i64 and add prolong(ed) for 128. Or we could keep long as the “nominal” register value, and introduce “short long” for 64. So many options.
Thanks for actually answering the question.

So what do you think your threshold is? If a new airborne transmitted disease with a 30% kill rate showed up, would centralized public health policies be OK?
Is the tech party over? End of crazy salary and benefits

Not in my opinion. I am not an economist but I will offer my opinion. The economies operate in cycles and fluctuate around world events. There will always be ups and downs with varying degrees of predictability. Wars bring money into specific industries and take confidence away from others. Climate change may spark entirely new industries and flatten others. And so on.
The Department of Agriculture would beg to differ - clearly the oversight of server farms should be their responsibility.
They acquired Marketo, yes.
Hilary Mantel: why I became a historical novelist
Ah, well. I have the impression that the Ukrainians concentrate on blowing up bridges, trains, trucks, headquarters… anything the Russian soldiers need for supplies, communication or command. So we may hope that they end up as prisoners of war rather than corpses.

https://nitter.it/NeilPHauer/status/1573282674847932416 BTW.
Easiest explanation would be your keyboard leaking data, what keyboard your wife and you use?
Which is exactly why professional users use desktops.
Don't forget all the shady bundleware installers that tricked people into installing Chrome via Adobe Flash, Avast, etc.
https://imgur.com/gallery/WWZxj
Oil.

You owe credit for your civilization to oil.

One gallon of oil contains approximately one thousand man hours of energy potential.

Add up the oil used in the production, acquisition, and maintenance of everything you depend upon, and consider the equivalent army of servants necessary in procuring these things on your behalf.
Shoot, with today's modern CPU core counts, the old school per-core licensing would make one Scrooge McDuck diving into piles of money rich.
Google hasnt made a great product in longer than 7 years though. He took over a listless ship. It's been a lot of freefall and coasting.... being kept afloat my an advertising monopoly. Now that the monopoly is starting to unravel a bit Google has realized things will need to change, fat needs to be trimmed and innovation must return.
I'm a sucker for a free shirt, hat, or jacket. Any other swag (like posters, pens, notepads, etc) is fine I guess, but I could take it or leave it.
LoL, does that include his (early) stock package?
The paper says the testing protocol was 50 contractions per minute for 130/270 minutes sessions per day.

Not nothing.

But something that you may integrate into your desk sitting for the day (I'd assume some benefit to even less activity, e.g. 1/2 hour sessions).
I figured that might be the case, thank you for the information. I think I would struggle to adjust to the Japanese work culture in order to establish residence within these constraints.

I also pretty much exclusively have software experience in government contracting so the jump to commercial would be pretty big too.
World Wide Web (or WWW) is too long to say and "The Web" never really caught on, but the Internet is not quite accurate. It feels like we need a word to differentiate IP from HTTP. Though, since we haven't come up with one yet, I guess we will just have to live with the WWW being called the Internet.
> It's trivially true though? If you had a functioning justice system, the lynchers would be arrested and it wouldn't happen again.

That is explicitly not what the GGP argued. They were very clear, and it's incredibly disingenuous to suggest otherwise. You can make your own argument but don't misrepresent others'.

> It's also true in more significant ways, in that lynchings happened because people felt that crimes (or "crimes") were not being appropriately dealt with.

"I want to beat someone, hang them from a tree, and then have a picnic around their mutilated body" is not something that needs to be both-sides-ed as someone's personal beliefs on justice.

I don't know if this is the typical HN thing of "I know a few details, I can figure out the rest from first principles" but there's an incredibly large amount of historical evidence of people who very plainly stated their motivations that you need to reckon with before you can make claims like these. Like, it's not reasonable to claim the KKK was primarily an activist group primarily motivated by the need for criminal reform.
Google works on interesting things? I guess to PhDs into ML.

They scrapped cutting edge R&D and became a one-trick ad-pushing pony. When the companies trajectory has been away from interesting ideas into ad laden messes and Gmail UX refreshes, the perks are all people show up for. I could work on shoving 10 ads in a YT video? Sign me up!

I question whether Sundar is a good CEO. Google succeeded given the broader economic shift to tech, not his leadership. Pedaling nostalgia for a time when growth was easy suggests to me he has no idea how to iterate forward in interesting ways.
You're reducing the relationship to that of the proverbial cog.

"I provide the teeth, you provide the torque, I get money, you get profits. Anything else is wasting company resources."

...Where's the joy in that, and what benefit is there to rejecting company-funded efforts to inject joy?
Foreclosure is a common-law procedure, subject to the laws of the state that the mortgage was taken out in. When the government needs to foreclose, they file it the same way everyone else does.
Sounds nuts. Does anyone know how much power a 32GB DIMM draws? How much would a fully populated 64-bit address space therefore pull?

Edit, if a 4GB (32-bits used) DRAMM pulls 1 watt, the rest of the memory space is 32 bit = 4E9 so your memory is pulling ~4Gwatts alone. That's not supportable, given the other electronics needed to go around it.
That sounds surprising as someone from Finland. https://knowledge.leglobal.org/eic/country/sweden/legal-fram... & https://www.remotepass.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-w... are these incorrect?
Around that time is it the plan to move to iso/osi 7 level. Is there migration to that? Is a chairman of a little known committee called ietf …

That is my memory. There is some sort of gov standardisation towards that. Read some ietf papers in u and very confused by that direction.
UK VAT is 20% on most of the items it applies to

Most contractors are in a position to claim it back if they're also charging it
Thanks for the advice, visiting first would be my approach, but just trying to gather info as much as I can.
Covid was exceptional but in general I can't see how Google would escape the transition to a traditional corporation tied to stockholder expectations and macroeconomic conditions. This is just reality and whining about snacks and travel being cut is not helpful. Return to office, on the other hand, is a really interesting question and generally not handled well by leadership.
Are you implying that since most violence is committed by men, that a man who is victimized by another man is more deserving of it than a woman who is victimized by a man? Because otherwise I don't see how the gender of the aggressor is relevant.
Factorio is the game that taught me I am indeed susceptible to addiction. It has a near perfect infinite feedback loop where you're presented with a problem and can solve it quickly, only to immediately find that solution created another problem to solve. Solving problems feels really good.
We need a concerted effort to reduce chip power consumption.

Hopefully the energy prices in Europe will force chip makers to work on that. I mean, only if they want to sell something over here.
This can be true (and I think it is for certain individuals) and one can still be a proponent of the right to have a choice whether to be a passive victim or take responsibility for one's own physical security. Personally, I'd rather do the latter.

There's also a case to be made that mathematically, you're likely to have a short career as a mugger if one out of every, say, 5 individuals you target is likely to be armed. After all, why don't muggers target police officers?
Rust can do it with "unsafe" pointers, but the safe subset of the language lacks ergonomic and foolproof interface for it.
Ability to witness uninitialized memory is "unsafe" in Rust. A safe mutable reference is required to point to valid initialized object at all times, no cheating.

In practice Rust usually gets away with not having placement new and letting LLVM eliminate copies.
Good point. Seems like Google and similar companies are really filled with 30-40 year old children. Will throw tantrums if favorite food or TV shows are not provided when demanded.
That's a mislabeling. True facts were batched together with false conclusions, and should have rather been classified as disinformation since it was performed by people who knew better in many cases.
Your approval is of no value and your disdain is of no concern. If it helps you to create a fantasy in your mind of what my concerns might be, you are free to do so.