skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An office max 15 minutes from me. Ok I could do 40min if I can start at 7am and leave at 4.

But I'm working for a nice US based company from my third world country... I'd love to have a few colleagues in my city.
10.

Assuming a straight line and assuming 1G is your max acceleration: you accelerate for 10 years, reach your maximum velocity then flip and do the same thing in the other direction. You'll reach your destination with 0 velocity.
How many decades of domain expertise in music do you suggest one acquire before just waltzing into the subject?
Why should we "create" categories. There should be an algorithm for determining level. Input 1000 miles an hour, you get a category.

Earthquakes don't have an upper limit. It's just a function of energy.
"Automation" also is a good way of hiding manual human moderation that is done for reasons beyond those they're willing to admit to publicly.
College - we knew each other casually for a year or two. We discovered we had a sport we liked in common, and started doing it together. After a few outings, went back to her place to make out.

Been married 30+ years.

Like others have said, find something that lets you spend a lot of time with people (sports, volunteering, religion...), and meet frequently. Don't worry about age, a fair number of my happily married friends met in their 30's and beyond.
Having lived in all 3 of those cities, I, too, am amazed it hasn't reached that state yet either.

What's worse is that at some point a lot of the restaurants that have made the current iteration of those cities what they are will not be able to weather the economic storm their own cities are putting upon them. Their voters will vote to increase wages arbitrarily, add on fees, regulations, taxes, etc. And then when their pad thai or poke bowl costs $27 for pickup or $38 delivered, they'll just stop patronizing that restaurant - whether out of financial necessity or some misplaced feeling that they are now getting ripped off from the price hike - until it goes out of business. I can't count the times I've heard "<insert restaurant/brewery/coffee shop> is just not worth it anymore." The bigger chains will be able to take the losses until they can absorb the entire market.

There will always be 3 Starbucks and a McDonalds in Times Square.
IBM tells managers to come to the office or leave their jobs
>They never made any money, the same way Titanic, Avengers, Lord of the Rings never made a cent.

No, they never made any money in the old-fashioned sense that their revenues were less than their costs. This is not hard to look up. GrubHub was doing so well last year that it canned 15% of its workforce.
I am curious to hear that you dont see any value in bringing software workflow to hardware. I found in previous jobs we spent a huge fraction of our time dealing with things like release, version management and reviews. Thanks for your thoughts!
Time travel seems so easy and we could do it with the tools we have now for the most part. Maybe we’ll never go into the past but relatively contemporary humans are going to be all over the future in all kinds of places.

After the first time it happens people in the future can start to expect a human from the past to keep visiting every so often.
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You wouldn't literally turn around.

You'd probably move your rocket engine over to the other side (or have both a front and back engine in the first place).

Most of the mass of your spaceship will be fuel (like 90%+). You can use that as shielding.
You say "it's not societies' job to support bad companies" and " Give the people who don't have a job now government support and training to get a better job".

Do you not see the contradictions? Who is paying for that "government" support and training? Taxpayers have money for taxes because they work for a profit - else they cease to exist, or to appease the economically illiterate the politicians run societies into such debt that everyone (including those dastardly "exploitive companies") ceases to exist.
And the people who want to discriminate against Black Americans are just using "discriminating against Asian Americans" as an excuse, their actions are also political and ideological.
Yeah, that’s the best description I think
It comes in a couple common flavors. Most commonly it is people just rolling their own implementation and using a PRNG or similar. Not every environment has a ready-made UUIDv4 implementation, and not all UUIDv4 implementations in the wild are strict. A rarer horror story I've heard a couple times is discovering that the strong RNG provided by their environment is broken in some way. Both of these cases are particularly problematic because they are difficult to detect operationally until something goes horribly wrong.

The main reason non-probabilistic UUID-like types are used for high-reliability environments is that it is easy to verify the correctness of the operational implementation. It isn't that difficult to deterministically generate globally unique keys in a distributed system unless you have extremely unusual requirements.
We truly live in a golden age of physical and mathematical discovery. To get here required many thousands of years of technological development.

The developers of the transformer, as a group, should win some sort of significant prize; it has had more impact in a short time than anything I've seen before. Will we find better architectures in the near future?
There are 6 million monthly users for Quest after a decade of releases. If Apple does 10X that in their first decade of AVP, highly unlikely, this will still be a huge failure of a platform with fewer than half of MacOS' users.

This tech cannot evolve to something mainstreamable and was best left in the lab. This is Apple shipping a slightly improved DynaTAK when people need at least a StarTAK and people would actually like an iPhone 1. Jobs would never have released this. He's have done what he did with phones, waited until the tech was good enough that regular people could at least imagine a few versions improving it enough to love. AVP is two or three decades away from that.
A hyperscale (cloud) datacenter uses about 2000 m3 of water per day [1]. That sounds like a lot, without any frame of reference. But if we compare with the average golf course in the South-West, that uses 459 acre-feet of water per year ([2], Table 2) which comes to 1550 m3 of water per day. There are more than 200 golf courses in the South West. You can draw your own conclusions.

[1] https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-water-usage/

[2]https://usgatero.msu.edu/v11/216335.pdf
E-Bike Battery Fire Hazards Lurk Where New Yorkers Live, Says FDNY
Do you have any sense why this is true?

I get preferring (10x or 0x) to (1.5x). I don’t get preferring a near-certainty of 0x to some recovery of their capital with a pivot to selling a smaller-but-sustainable business.

Is it something like they’re measured by LP’s (or someone?) on only non-zeroed investments?
Nah, most of the random atoms floating around in space are going to be travelling very roughly as fast as the things (stars, planets, etc..) around them -- because anything travelling much faster is likely to eventually bump into something and lose some of its momentum.

There is the occasional weird exception though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle
Shelter, food and health are social issues that should be addressed much earlier in the pipeline. Well before a student applies to college.

For example in 2022, 63% of black children are born in single parent homes vs 16% of asian children. Having two parents around is an advantage in the doubling of resources.

What policy actions would you recommend to change what outcome?

https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/107-children-in-sing...
> Hurricane Ike was a cat2 in 2008, which did significant damage to the Houston coast because of its large storm surge.

> Harvey in 2017 was damaging due to its consistent rain over the area as it stalled.

The outsider impression that I took away was that a major reason why Houston got so rekt by a mere Cat 2 hurricane was in large part driven by property developers building communities in low lying areas that the Army Corp of Engineers had designated as "emergency spillways"[1][2]...the Army knew about the risk, the city turned a blind eye, and the devil in the details weren't disclosed to homebuyers.

Perhaps there's more to the story?

> While I'm not against a cat 6 or higher rating existing, for the sake of human communication "cat 5" means "get the hell out of there" already.

I agree, but skipping town isn't always an option even if you wanted to; experienced two such events[3][4] on Guam as a kid.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/22/us/houston-ha...

[2] https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2021/how-houston-f...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Omar

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Paka
At the beginning of my career, I incurred some hundreds of dollars in losses with BigQuery and Google Cloud Function. The problem with these services is that they are easy and intuitive enough for a beginner to use, but a nightmare to maintain.
It's untestable. You cannot experimentally measure qualia, so there is no real way to differentiate between these theories. But any one of them fully explain the phenomenon, without resorting to nonsensical quantum woo.
Oh, 'relativity' might not have a preferred speed. But our universe absolute does.

It's the inertial frame of reference that makes the cosmic microwave background look most uniform. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoving_and_proper_distances#...

> A comoving observer is the only observer who will perceive the universe, including the cosmic microwave background radiation, to be isotropic. Non-comoving observers will see regions of the sky systematically blue-shifted or red-shifted. Thus isotropy, particularly isotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation, defines a special local frame of reference called the comoving frame. The velocity of an observer relative to the local comoving frame is called the peculiar velocity of the observer.
I'm with you, @urband311er, really would enjoy seeing a video of it booting and running... It'd be infinitely more satisfying to [nearly] experience what the finished product is like.
Maybe this is a way to get rid of a lot of employees without explicitly firing them. Looks very likely that the recent advances in AI will drastically increase the productivity of developers, operations, BAs, etc. so companies like IBM will need a lot less employees to do the same amount of work.
I would love to read the Telegony. Homer did such a good job with episodes I and II that I'm really curious how the story ends.
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When the system has a bug and they call this person back -- I hope they require a basis point of every trade for ongoing maintenance.
Compilers also may even spill data to stack from memory, even when the original location is still available, as can be seen in this issue: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/53348

I vaguely remember that it could allow high-end CPUs to use something similar to register renaming, i.e. stack locations like [rsp + 96] could stay in physical registers during code execution (high-end CPUs often have more physical registers, than logical ones), but I couldn't find a good reference confirming that such optimization is indeed used in practice.

Unfortunately, I think more often than note it causes performance regressions and in some cases it may even cause unnecessary stack spilling of sensitive data: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/88930#issuecomment-...
You forgot, treating Tesla like piggy bank. That company has a rusty frame. Still looks shiney.
Looks like OP did get a lot of fun though. Now it's time to gather everything and apply for the next hedge fund job -- as a contractor.

Oh and I hope OP didn't get the time to pick all bugs for the ex company so maybe that's on his contracting list too.
I liked that one.

At many points it reminded me of
The Freeze Frame Revolution, by Peter Watts (https://tachyonpublications.com/product/freeze-frame-revolut...), which was also quite good in a similar way, if perhaps a bit darker.
It’s an extension of the Beaufort scale. The start of class 12 aligns with the start of cat 1.
That's true for the laws of physics, yes, but our universe does have a 'natural' frame of reference.

> A comoving observer is the only observer who will perceive the universe, including the cosmic microwave background radiation, to be isotropic. Non-comoving observers will see regions of the sky systematically blue-shifted or red-shifted. Thus isotropy, particularly isotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation, defines a special local frame of reference called the comoving frame. The velocity of an observer relative to the local comoving frame is called the peculiar velocity of the observer.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoving_and_proper_distances#...
Drone Warfare's Terrifying AI-Enabled Next Step Is Imminent
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoving_and_proper_distances#...
The problem is there are programs where the schemes don't show the necessary links between the programs data tables like foreign keys for instance.
I want to give you a thought to hesitate on any of the anecdotes you’re reading here.

The dating landscape has dramatically changed for single people around the age of 30. If you go online, you’ll see that there are two emerging patterns: men are spending way more time being single than they were before and online dating is the most dominant way people are getting into a relationship. You’ll notice most folks aren’t going to reference either of those things…

A lot of the anecdotes you’ll be reading are going to be for a different time and culture and environment. Where you currently live has a huge effect on your success as well and not everyone is going to share such things. For instance, I’m in NYC and SF. There is no lack of educated and highly paid men in these areas. How many people in this thread met their partners in such a competitive landscape and did it within the last few years? Probably few posting here…

Personally, I met my only partner through social dancing and that has been the only way I’ve ever met anyone for anything. But I am also uniquely ugly, short for modern standards, and incredibly weak looking thanks to decades long IBS constantly sabotaging my bulking efforts at the gym. Social dancing allowed for women to close their eyes and just experience how I made them feel. They didn’t have to look at my ugly mug, they could just feel something else entirely. I don’t have a nice feeling body btw, I just move well. It’s always something those few women would talk about - how I dance with them and make them feel in that moment. That said, I don’t recommend it as an avenue. It’s incredibly challenging to get good at as a lead to where you will impress women enough to get over your homely looks (and even then, that’s a shrinkingly small demographic in today’s landscape…) and requires immense time and dedication… oh and there is a ton of competition involved. Everytime an attractive woman walks into a venue, every man in that venue will be approaching and making a move. You will be in a competition and will have to be very crafty about it. You will lose 999/1000.

That said, I’ve dedicated 15 years of my life to it. It started to pay off around year 7-8 when I met my ex.

I’ve tried most everything else as well btw. Sports, rock climbing, hiking, parties, etc. I come back to the dance thing because everything else kinda sucks more and is more predetermined on your genetics even more so. Most anyone can dance short of some disability. Just cause you’re short or ugly or don’t have great muscle building genes doesn’t mean you can’t dance. So, that’s a nice part of it.
I just heard the voice of my instructor in my head. It is NOT a map. It is a chart. :-X
Until the 1970s, flight crews had four critcial roles: pilot, first officer, engineer and navigator [1]. Technology improved, namely on-board electronics and satellite-based communication and navigation, and the navigator became redundant.

Until the 1980s, flight crews had three critical roles: pilot, first officer and flight engineer [2]. Technology improved, namely sensors and onboard computing, and the flighe engineer became redundant.

I don't have a strong view on making redudant the FO. But we've eliminated roles before without compromising safety. For ETOPS-equivalent flights in good weather, it strikes me as fine--if the pilot is incapacitated the plane should be able to land itself at the nearest airport.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_navigation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_engineer
Earthquakes are sort of naturally limited though. A 9.0 is going to be catastrophic no matter what, and while I’m not saying a 10 couldn’t happen it would probably be something like once in a billion year event.
I would be very surprised if Boeing doesn't covertly have people looking for issues with Airbus planes and we'll soon be hearing about some of those in the coming months.
Wikipedia gives Typhoon Ida (not to be confused with various hurricanes named Ida) a wind speed of "only" 175 knots (325 kph; 202 mph) which accounts for the largest outlier in the list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Ida_(1958)
> couldn’t protons in any reference frame be going quite fast relative to you?

By the laws of physics, yes. But most of the stuff in our universe, and definitely in our galaxy, tends to move roughly at the same speed.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comoving_and_proper_distances#...
Also, the sims can introduce error and distance matters (too far away and you won't receive the VORs signal --- mountain in the way, you won't get the signal). Like in a real plane.
Ash, not lava.
https://archive.today/zXSmh
That just sounds like marketing non-speak. Couldn't you have said exactly the same words about Quest 3 when it launched? All these discussions come down to something to the effect of "Apple will be successful because Apple". But... I don't see it. They're a follower in this space, not an innovator. If there was magic dust to sell a billion headsets Meta would have found it by now.
> so c relative to what?

it's either "relative to any observer." or "relative to any inertial reference frame". no matter where you go (on the ship, on a planet you pass by, on another ship) you will never see the apple travel as fast as the photons coming out of your flashlight. Depending on where the observer is, they will see the apple accelerate to 0.5c (if they are aboard the ship) or they will see it gain mass (or rather, see you throw it more slowly as if it had gained mass), contract in the direction it's thrown, and slow down (due to time dilation...relative to the moving frame).

The case I don't know how to answer is two apples thrown at each other, each with a speed greater than 0.5c.
> How does a single pilot flight allow the only pilot to visit the lav?

Autopilot becomes the first officer. When the pilot goes to the lavatory, they hand control to the autopilot. (Same in case of incapacitation.)

In practice, I assume the first flights to test this will be on short routes. The pilot needing to go to the bathroom would constitute an emergency.
I hope they were paid by the hour or at least learned this lesson.
When adjusted for usd returns might not be that great. Indian currency have been depreciating a lot against usd.

On the other hand my own portfolio has a mutual fund that invest in US stocks for more diversification.
I am skeptical of this paper. If you go to Wikipedia's list of most intense tropical cyclones[1] and sort by barometric pressure, there doesn't seem to be much correlation with time. The biggest and most intense tropical cyclone is still Typhoon Tip in 1979.[2] If you read the actual study[3], it looks like they do a lot of data manipulation and simulation to come to their conclusion. They subtract 15 meters/sec from wind speeds measured before 1973, claiming a bias in measurements from that time. This causes a huge step up in lifetime maximum intensity in the 1970s. Their estimates of future category 6 probabilities are from simulations that they admit don't simulate current conditions correctly.

I think it's more likely than not that tropical cyclones are getting more intense, and that they're hitting places that didn't typically get hit in the past, but I don't find this paper convincing. It really feels like they cajoled the data to fit their conclusion.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_intense_tropi...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Tip

3. https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2308901121
Why not just use an EFB?
Honestly I didn't even think of it when I first wrote the endpoint. Our founder asked me "Is there anything we're sending over the API that might clue someone in when someone signs up? Are we sending a createdAt field or something?" and I said "No, but we do have a timestamp in one of the IDs..." -- well, we removed the field and this behavior stopped soon after.

Anyway, the arc of the universe bends toward justice: this (former) competitor got sold for parts a few years later.
I doubt it in the short term (like the next five years). All the use cases with low enough stakes for it to be adopted quickly it is too expensive to be practical, all the use cases where it is critical enough to warrant the costs, it is too dangerous / unreliable. The technology holds revolutionary promise but the costs for most businesses to implement it will be higher than is practical or efficient. We're not there yet. There are also fundamental issues like copyright, hallucinations, the ability to move toward generalizations, LLM poisoning that need to be solved. People talk about having automated fast food order systems but is it really cheaper than someone being paid minimum wage? The costs need to be scalable to be practical. There are venture back AI startups that are throwing in the towel over costs, what do you think most public companies that operate on quarterly earnings will do? There are some cool use cases and proof of concept products but to be as truly revolutionary in the next five years as the AI hype machine makes it out to be, costs will need to come down dramatically like tomorrow and it will have to solve all the hard open questions in the next year.
>EU Engineers for just as excellent quality…

There is a group of highly intelligent people who want to go into lucrative careers that won't pick CS in the EU, and they do in the US because of the pay.

I think it's pretty apparent that, while there is fantastic talent in the EU, the density isn't as high as it in in the US.
How is it pedantry if it directly addresses your concern in a very valid way? I literally pointed out that beaches in Mexico are _above_ 40C
Yep, just use GPT-4
I mean, I also watch closely at any electric 3-ton and heavier vehicle — they’re all going to instakill me in my 1-ton vehicle! — but Tesla in my region has an especially high chance of being driven (or autopiloted) unsafely, so I take especial care; the Rivian drivers are totally chill so far. If I was in another region like one of my family is, I’d have to watch out for big trucks “accidentally” trying to sideswipe me so they can pretend they’re Nascar drivers and zoom off without a rear plate, but that doesn’t happen much here where I live. Local circumstances always vary from nationwide statistics.
At long last, humanity has discovered a more useless use of energy than Bitcoin.