skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I did this for my Patreon as well (some people donate less but it's not the majority) https://www.patreon.com/henryzhu (I also quit a few months ago to do open source on Babel ). Maybe also depends on audience and type of Patreon (open source vs video/content creation)? I also tried to get a little creative with my tiers based on I what I liked: it's hard to justify making rewards for people when you already provide a service through working on open source already without it turning into more of a 2nd job though. Lots to talk about with that.
I was thinking of taurine, but apparently it's not actually a stimulant and the research is mixed as to whether the other ingredients in red bull have any additional effect to the caffeine.
Lawyers are a bit like nukes, if other people have them then it is wise to have some about just in case.
I'd love to be able to think of a side project I'm actually enthused to work on. I don't know if I'm burning out but nothing really seems interesting enough to me to put the effort in.
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Protecting foreign "interests" you have control of?
Bending foreign countries to do your will?
Out right stealing of lands?

Britain did very well off the back and resources of foreign countries due to their military from southern Asia.

See Spain in Latan America. France in West Africa. US picking up the pieces of the remnants of the Spanish empire.

These things were not accomplished due to the kindness and beneign-ness of the dominating force - regardless of what the home country was told (Britain: civilising the natives, US: bring democracy etc etc)
Why would I want to bother going to HQB when I can just order from those guys on taobao? The consumerization of the electronics market is sad for those into browsing.. it's fun. But really, if you want to prototype something it's way easier to order online and if you actually want to produce something then random stuff from HQB or taobao isn't going to cut it anyway.
Having lived in Europe for two years now, that’s a very common perception of US Americans
Edit: Should have clarified it's a web app
"change the world", "disrupt the industry"...

Builds another social network
Ah, I misunderstood the context, you are right to clarify this.
On an octopus, it is!
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I agree, I think they should focus on filtering quality not censoring based on content (as long as mature content is gated off). They should be policing broken games and asset flips.
But GitLab has an open core and GitHub is closed source.
>Fortran is simple enough for domain specialist to write bad code and achieve good results with it.

I don't understand the idea behind this statement. Nobody but the specialist can produce efficient algorithms to solve a domain-specific problems, and Fortran isn't any simpler than C.

If the writer argues that the implementation of the algorithm is bad when written by non-programmers, then you might be surprised to find out that it's usually the opposite.

Computers are still incredibly simple in their basic design, so unless you hire a hardware-specialist programmer (like an x86 or CUDA/OpenCL specialist with background knowledge of the chips you'll use), knowing basic latencies in RAM operation, L-cache sizes and the ticks required for executing basic operations like floating point additions and XORs, is enough for the specialist to write better code, because he understand the algorithm, he can tailor it the hardware, and he actually cares, unlike most programmers/software engineers.

Knowing how to use hundreds of libraries might be helpful when you're writing long "consumer" applications, but this kind of expertise has nothing to do with scientific and high-performance programming.
I wasn't aware that C++ could do this. It's come on a long way since I last looked at it! How far can it take these dependent types?

Can you specify a function in the type signature that is called by the compiler that can determine the type of the parameter?

Something like :

stringOrInt:: Bool -> Type
stringOrInt True = String
stringOrInt False = Int

doSomething:: x: Bool -> StringOrInt x -> String

doSomething can then be called like :

doSomething True "Ook"
doSomething False 4
Interesting, why there is still no chat-on-blockchain thing. Sounds like an obvious idea for an ICO.
> That means the "servers" hosting it are distributed across a wide network.

This is a strange way of saying "you're looking at this site through one centralised server hosted at ipfs.io".

Don't get me wrong, IPFS is great. I have released an application that works over IPFS. But I don't think obscuring the difference between a gateway and a node is beneficial. I think the difference needs to be highlighted front and centre, at least until we reach a point where every user is running an IPFS node without realising it.
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I think they are waiting for 10nm in order to reduce massive power consumption/downclocking needed when one runs AVX-512. So in a way their manufacturing process is holding them back. AMD completely avoided these headaches by castrating AVX in Ryzen, allowing much lower TDP (65W).

I am also curious why would 4FMPAS be useful for Deep Learning when all the major performance improvements lately come from half 16-bit/quarter 8-bit-precision floating/fixed point math (you don't need precise boundaries).
serverful, then?
Many people here have some edgy anarchist vibe to them. Fight the power, brother.
You should tell that to my house.
Well, it's surprising. Don't know what it means but it does mean something.
I thought the title was some metaphor for explaining what modern JavaScript developers do when making applications
Swearing and profanity is an art form. Habitual swearing is bad style just like habitual use of smileys and LOL's.

If Linus would habitually curse in the kernel list, it would have no emphasis effect and it would be a really bad style. Linus using cursing in a rant equals [for wider distribution] and it works perfectly. I can't remember a single discussion linked to HN that didn't start from cursing. It provided the opportunity for people to be offended. For technical people it's a challenge (like a glove slap).

Example:

* his opinion about hardening: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/356

* previous message that collected the attention: "Those security people are f*cking morons." https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/17/767
Some gum makes the right decisions a little easier.

A list removes the need to decide at all.
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Just a small clarification,

The chiller is rated at

1.7kW thermal while consuming

1kW electrical
Any current or former employee will all tell you the same; Intel did NOT forget to mention this.

After the fiasco with compilers and chips in the past, they have to go through rigorous approval for any marketing claims. This was 100% planned by Intel.
Ah, a voice of reason.

I'm no MS lover; I've been off their products both at home and work for over 15+ years, at home since basically forever except for some apps that only ran on Windows.

The MS of now is a far difference MS a decade ago, even five years ago. Things change--sometimes people don't.
The chiller unit consumes 1kW of power

and produces 1.7kW of cooling
Could you explain further please? American English most definitely has a distinction between "I ate" and "I have eaten".
> Sounds like an obvious idea for an ICO

I hate this mindset
Godot has a patreon page, in case you would like to help the project with money: https://www.patreon.com/godotengine
I'm learning C# and .NET at my summer internship and I feel like I'm falling in love. Visual Studio and Resharper just make it an awesome experience. We do WinForms at work but I want to make a side project for multiple platforms so I'm hoping Xamarin can do the job (I'll need arbitrary 2D graphics drawing so I might use CocosSharp).
Next time contact management and let them know. That would probably be more productive then bottling it up and posting it on a random forum months/years later.
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I agree with that. What I am contesting is that what you and OP describe is such a bad thing wholesale. Holmes should definitely be punished, and the engineering/dreaming trade-off corrected. No question about that, it seems she was outright lying, not just "chasing dreams".

My point is that hype and chasing (improbable, stupid, exploitative) dreams are a spectrum, not a binary. Calls for appreciating "real value" (WTH is that? who defines?) and "removing hype" bring painful memories — it's not just a philosophical point for me, coming from the Eastern block. These feedback cycles are shorter than you think.

The objective function of what we should optimize for is unknown, but I'm sure 100% "honest engineering labour" and "good at engineering" and 0% hype would be a terrible, short-sighted, deadly idea. We need dreams and inertia to escape local minima, we need the collective goal correction.

That's the silver lining in this Holmes case too: the public debate brings about such correction. I voice the dangers of over-correction.
IMO lack of knowledge, lack of technology (e.g. affordable electric cars), bad contracts, conservative politicians (and voters) and corrupt politicians.

Corrupt in the sense of personal profit (including lucrative talks and positions in companies and donations by companies) and profit for established national companies.
There's a bunch of these things, regrettably.
That's also the only thing that stops tens of thousands of people from walking into my house, murdering me and leaving with my possessions. It is working so far.
This is a problem all over the place with Google. Them giving away VP8 and VP9 for example. SPDY and so many other things.

I hate it but they should just charge for things instead of giving away. Act more like a typical tech company.

They give away more IP than any other company I am aware of. But they do not get any benefit and get hammered constantly.

Just charge for things and end the open source and problem solved. Look at them giving away Android that is used on majority of Amazon hardware yet Amazon has banned all companies on their market place from selling Google competitive products.

That is just insane. They created SPDY and gave it away to the standards committee. Who then changed it to create http2 and they had to go back and change their code with additional cost.

The normal way is when you own the client and server you just use your own way to do things and use as a competitive advantage.

Borg was a huge competitive advantage and they just give away K8s. Which is just silly.

VP8 and VP9 they not only give it away but also even offer patent infringement protection to anyone that uses it. That is just insane.

It is great because the MPEG-LA was extorting money with license fees and Google giving away caused VP8 ended that.

But Google giving away just gets them hammered anyway and get no good will from doing it.

I have zero idea why Google continues to give so many things away for free and not just charge.

So charge per phone and then credit them if they include the Google services.
I end up buying cookies when I'm hungry (I don't usually buy them)
The solar! Obviously Home Depot gets a cut of this. It's amazing to me that they think it's a good idea to have people prowling their stores to harass their customers. Every time I have to tell these people to leave me alone.
Also set theory vs type theory (in Math) is really just dynamic typing vs static typing (in CS). And we already know how that played out in CS.
There are news stories like this all over because it was an ongoing saga. But the DOT's investigation showed that folks were hitting the wrong pedal:

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/its-all-your-fault-the...
One circumstance where insults might be justified is where one party has ignored valid objections to his position.

I mention this here because kristianic made the valid point that you have set up a false dichotomy, and you replied with a statement that keeps it going. Is the habit of not paying attention to the actual issues also part of your superior Northern European culture, and, in fact, is it perhaps a reason why insults are apparently such an important part of it?
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It’s really hard not to be cynical.

Like when I realized that I could drive 10 minutes to a local oat farm and buy 15 kg of oats for $2.50 (the commodity price of oats) Or, I could drive to the market and pay almost 100x more for oats in the form of cute little Os.

Yes, I know - I’m leaving out many, many, many important details, but still - that’s quite a ‘value chain’.
They are optional, but only in the sense that if you can't exactly represent e.g. uint64_t, there can't be a uint64_t type. So the example above is kosher in the sense that it's standards compliant, even if it isn't perfectly portable (for reasons unrelated to memset type punning; that you're using uint64_t in the first place).

If an implementation can't represent uint64_t exactly, it can still have a uint_least64_t type of whatever width works.
I second this - it really helps to be on good terms knowing the client by having worked in the same location for a while before starting something.

Remote work relies a lot on trust.

I'm about to leave a startup after 9 years where I've been remote for the entire time of their existance. I've only visited their office twice (but daily standups via video). I had the benefit that I was friends with one of the founders and all the other founders went to the same University as me. But there's definitely been some difficult moments that were made worse by being remote.
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Well then itemize the things so you can chose what to include with a big credit if you chose all.

There is almost 2 billion Android phones sold a year. So just a $1 is a lot of money and then almost all goes to the bottom line.

Part of the problem is Google giving away stuff for free and being different. Instead just become more traditional and charge people for things.

I hate it as love how much Google gives back but it is clearly hurting them to give away stuff for free.
> Left to their own devices, Graeber points out, people tend to do work like students at exam time, alternately cramming and slacking. Possibly, they work this way because it is the most productive way to work. Most of us would assume that a farmer who started farming at 9 a.m. and stopped at 5 p.m. five days a week was strange, and probably not a very good farmer.

Smart! I never thought of it that way! I'm a remote part-time engineer and I totally do cram-and-slack. It should be a management style.
For now, at least [1][2]. See the rest of that thread.. llvm guys really don't want asm goto, and kernel really wants it.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/14/724
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/14/157
I'd expect we'd need either fast reactors or thorium reactors to cover that much usage. Either would be about 100x more fuel-efficient. There are two fast reactors operating commercially in Russia.

Extracting uranium from the oceans is about 5x more expensive than mining it. Since fuel is a small component of nuclear cost, that's not a big deal; we don't do it right now because mining covers our needs. With fast reactors, it wouldn't be a problem at all, and would cover our needs for many millions of years, even at much higher consumption rates.

Storage adds quite a bit of cost to solar (other than hydro, which is geographically limited). If we get storage technology that makes storage+solar cheaper than nuclear, then sure, that might be better.

However, we're already nearing a planetary limit on land usage, after which we seriously impact biodiversity. The vast solar arrays this would require wouldn't exactly help.
Doesn't change anything. I still would take the method that produces no air pollutants as my number one choice. I also care about localised pollution from cars etc and not only climate change.
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>I'm just asking this to see if this culture is one way or goes both ways...

That won't tell you anything about LKML culture, either.

If you want a better sense of lkml than social media hot takes can deliver, go lurk it for a month.
> So charge per phone and then credit them if they include the Google services.

That's unlikely to change much if they don't get rid of the criticized policies at the same time. The problem is not that they charge for inclusion of Google services!
There is no work-life balance, just life balance
As a side note, I find the lane markings in the US confusing. The "gore sections" in Europe are filled with stripes, so there is really no way to mistake them for a lane.
I can understand that explanation, but equally it would be a lot more healthy all around if there was better toleration of these trivial mistakes.
People are people, not perfect content robots.
Yes, or just nothing, as that's the default anyway.
I would think you're unlikely to produce sufficient bile to metabolise an entire kilogram of peanut butter at once. Most likely you'd get really nasty, oily runs at best, and quite possibly throw up.
(and before anyone complains, yes, thermal pumps can have greater than 100% "efficiency" - that is: heat transported per energy spent)
> I'm pretty sure that in the UK the massive increase in higher education

The increase in numbers going to higher education reduced those available in the workplace. Rather than everyone aged 16-65 being available for work (say 50 million), half of those ages 16-22 went to university, meaning about 2-3 million were taken out of the pool of available people.

> and the introduction of tuition fees

Tuition, when Labour first introduced it, was charged upfront - albeit at £1700 a year (in today's money).

When they tripped it in 2005, to £4300 a year, it started being repaid on every penny over £18k (in today's money). However this came from the same repayment as the cost of living loans, which meant the treasury only got a return on the tuition when the graduate was earning a decent wage when they were much older (if tuition was £100k or £0k, you paid the treasury the same amount per year until you'd repaid your £20k of cost-of-living loans)

When Cameron changed them to £10k a year (in today's money) in 2012, the repayment threshold was higher - if you unless you earn an average of £40k (median salary is £27k) you don't pay a penny back in tuition.

Since Labour introduced the 2005 tuition increase, tuition has been a graduate tax in all but name.

> was intended to keep unemployment down and get people to take on the financial burden of keeping themselves off the dole.

The number of unskilled jobs will only decrease in the future. However undergraduate degrees isn't the solution. While jobs on a supermarket checkout vanish, and jobs assessing insurance claims, an even legal jobs, electricians and plumbers aren't going to be automated away any time soon.

A big problem is that there is still a mentality that you need a degree to do a job of a given level - even if you're age 40.

My own company seem to be doing well here, we employ apprentices at age 18, and giving them a lot of training and some university based education, and at the end they come out as a qualified broadcast engineer, with a degree. They've had 3 years of real world experience, but also have the piece of paper which serves as an insurance for obsolete companies in the future who won't look at a CV which doesn't have 'bsc' at the top.
Volume maybe, but Moore's Law definitely not.
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Our local IKEA actually has a free crèche too, so the kids don't get bored either.
>When we asked them how it could be more useful they shrugged their shoulders.

This is a massive driver for giving you "Bullshit Job" thoughts. If my end products are not being used, why the hell do they even exist?
When it comes to paying for support for software a CIO or tech manager is usually paying for “a throat to choke” in case something goes sideways. To them, Support is what covers their backside if someone screws up in-house and needs an ultimate subject matter expert to bail them out. This is why Red Hat charges Wondows Sever support rates for free software: because they promise to be there for the customer. There is also the perception that something is worth what you pay for it, which is why people continue to select Oracle over SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
But...doesn't congress maintain some sort of api for available bio data - possibly including photos - to avoid the maintenance issue brought up in the piece? A quick google search shows propublica has sych an api, and it seems to have originally been developed by NYT... https://projects.propublica.org/api-docs/congress-api/
It is the fact that it was overclocked because not every part can be overclocked the same.
I will keep this in mind, good info, thanks
I suppose a blockchain based social network could boast that feature.
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Ironic that the the production of this article was itself a bullshit job - summarising work that does not need summary, presumably to fill a contractual requirement to submit x articles per year.

David Graeber is great. Go read the real thing, either in the Guardian [0] or one of the books. His history of debt is mind-bending.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Debt-Updated-Expanded-First-Years/dp/...
> Though a woman, she talks the masculinized talk

I don't think that's accurate. It used to be that "he" and "man" were understood to be gender neutral in abstract and impersonal cases. Such as "to boldly go where no man has gone before" and "mankind" and "mailman". During Hopper's life, English language changed to expunge the ambiguity.
I have no problem with the rant, just question its emotional source (presumably negative emotion from other areas of his personal life)
Well, guess they will - over time - integrate more and more with Azure services, where they can. Thus open sourcing GitHub will still tie it to Azure and I don't see Microsoft OpeSourcing much of their Azure services ;)
(GitHub however open sourced stuff like Orchestrator to manage MySQL replication setups etc. which are key parts of their environment)
You can add "perpetually delayed 10nm" and "Kafka-esque badge engineering" to the long list of intel blunders. Apparently things are so bad now that Anandtech is calling out their press team for announcing products with zero information.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12878/intel-discuss-whiskey-l...
If you use Tor you can't really trust the machine it is on, all sorts of potential web browser vulnerabilities. (And please don't do GPGing on the same box.) At a minimum, run it in a VM so its upstream IP is an internal NAT address, and so it won't have unique phys IDs like MAC address, which can be traced through the supply chain.

Preferably use a VPN for the host machine's connection too, at least to first download the tor client (the subset of IPs which have downloaded a recent tor bundle is quite small). At the very least, firewall the VM so traffic can only go to a tor bridge IP; even then, https (non tor) from a compromised host can identify the tor user, as all tor entry point traffic is logged and possibly has active mitm boxes (varying packet timing, fingerprinting tor versions).

Given the overall complexity of getting it right, and the enduring consequences of a single opsec failure, I'm not sure tor is a great option. Sending USB sticks through the mail would probably be safer. (Even then, encrypt them, use a dedicated laptop, don't lick the stamp or leave fingerprints, don't be observed/CCTVed posting them, purchasing the USB sticks, etc.)