skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is sort of a note-to-self that it's actually possible to perform material joining with plastic once the plastic has already been set (using nitrogen apparently).

I don't know about you, but until I saw this article, I didn't think that was possible.

There's sort of a greater theme here, from a tinkerer perspective, which is "all of the ways that two materials could but cut, and all the ways that two materials could be joined together."

Think a hacksaw and crazy glue (two of the simplest methods).

But, from a materials science perspective, I'd like to know (or eventually one day compile) a spreadsheet or something like one which contains like every material, every other material that it could be connected with, and how to split them and how to join them (or at least the best ways).

Sounds pretty crazy right?

Well, I think that if someone wanted to build a spaceship one day (well, cheaper than Elon Musk anyway), then you'd want to know all of that...
Okay, now what does Kubernetes have to do with ORMs? Why does it even have a say in what applications we're running on top of it? Am I missing something?

In another tangent, I still use raw SQL queries in most cases over ORM. That's just me. May be I'm a control freak or I just dont know how to magically use the abstraction of ORM and still get the most optimised results.
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I'm not sure what you're saying went wrong in that process. You were the one who wanted a compliance mandate reversed, so who should have talked to the compliance department about it if not you?
Yeah the correct shortcut is actually Alt+F4.
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The language does support laziness, it is just not the deafault.
Related: my university started supporting students in doing all the things I dreamed of (drones, rocketry, rovers) a few years after I graduated. Trying hard not to be, but I'm really jealous.
The fun thing is that being a good CEO/board tweeter is not that difficult. Some guidelines and judgement would probably be good enough.
....yes? Considering that's what we have right now?

So if you have a magic law that force businesses to pay 5 times the normal productivity for free, then you must have a law that force businesses to pay 5000 times the normal productivity ? There must be something wrong

You're forgetting that the people

Yes I agree but then we need to look at new prices for consumers goods and services that will be lower. I don't think talking about median wage is very meaningful without comparing what you can buy with it
Yes, but genius should be not synonym with exceptionally talented. Although anything useful including natural perseverance or optimism and motivation should be called a talent.

An idea can be called genius. Often it requires knowledge and experience and coincidence for a genius idea (innovative idea, wise idea, disruptive idea).

Often it requires many years of efforts to create or to discover something new or great or genius.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius:

A genius is a person who displays exceptional intellectual ability, creative productivity, universality in genres or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of new advances in a domain of knowledge. Despite the presence of scholars in many subjects throughout history, many geniuses have shown high achievements in only a single kind of activity.[1]
"Readers have much to learn from Gladwell the journalist and essayist. But when it comes to Gladwell the social scientist, they should watch out for those igon values."

I didn't know Steven Pinker was tactful!
The solution is niches. Super Mario speedrunning, Demoscene, extreme knitting, and so on. Once you found a niche (of a niche, of a etc) that fits your interests, you're golden.
Let me imagine the same story as Apple:

Musk is fired by his own board, sells his stock, goes to create a 3D music company, Tesla falls in dismay, BMW takes ownership of the electric car market and is under monopoly action, to the point that BMW has to invest $150m in Tesla to prevent competition from falling, Tesla board implores Musk to come back, Musk buys all his stock back for A SINGLE DOLLAR (good job Steve), and entirely transforms the electric car market by conflating 3 products in one: a music device, an electric car device, and a planet, named the tPod, and in the end Musk is king of the world and makes billions.

Wait, he’s already king of the world.
I'm using it on Android and it's not killing the robocalls I often receive. That's what I came for.
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What does it give me over a bare VM?
Of course RISC-V impacts ARM and to a lesser extent Intel. Most costumer that goes to RISC-V would have picked ARM.

Of course changes like that don't happen in 1-2 years. RISC-V is still young, 2015 is when it actually went public with the foundation.

Not to mention that back then many things we not frozen, so now basically everything you need for a Linux stack is frozen.
One thing wonders me - why angel investors bet on the fact they occasionally find the right team for an idea which already exists and proven in their heads? I can understand when you don't really know where to put your money and spend all day deleting emails with weird pitch decks pdfs, but if you _do_ know what's the problem which needs to be solved?

Is there a need for "outsourcing founders team" thing?
I just right-click on the element and select {uBlock} "Block Element" from the context menu.
My friend who was goint to quit the warehouse job and become AI researcher is now not going to quit because the wage increased.

So what's the net effect? A low income trap.

If these people would be layed off instead and goveement offers a minimum wage + housing. They could as well be acquiring skills like programming, AI etc... And making millions.

But Bezos will not let them be millionaires or billionaires.
tl;dr if you're a team of developers sitting around a table shouting at your monitor because K8s isn't working, hire someone to do the job right for you. I think you'll find it's pretty easy and utterly worth every penny invested in it.

> Edit: this does not mean k8s is bad, but rather that we are probably not the right use case for it!

Or it could mean you're not the right people for it?

Do you have a dedicated individual or team that represents infrastructure engineering? Are you a team of developers trying to play the Ops game? More often than not people/companies that struggle to get K8s going or use it are a team of developers who's expertise is code and not infrastructure/automation.

K8s is hard when done from scratch (there's a book and a video course about that by THE K8s guy.) It's not hard when you use Kops, Tectonic (discontinued, I believe), EKS, or one of the other managed services. Implementing a YAML file and launching it isn't hard. Also, you don't have to understand it inside out; you only have to understand how-to use it. Can you tell me how every component in your microwave works or do you just get on with cooking your food?

And to say you're not the use case for it - that's highly unlikely. I mean, it's possible, but it's unlikely. Your work loads and software solutions would have to be highly unique and or specialised because hey, it's not like Google's setup is simple, right?
Wavebox is a great tool. One thing we focus on is making switching between apps easier and faster. We have a feature called the Quick-Switch that allows you to easily switch to a different channels on Slack or search information across applications. It's still a work in progress.

As for monetization we do not plan on charging the end user but rather charge for team functionalities but we haven't yet worked on that. We are focused on the end-user experience first.
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What do you mean by "infinite circle"?
Well, I also admit that it is better to say that it will be as strong as the lath behind it.

Drywall on other had is stronger by itself for the equivalent thickness, and MgO board beats any other wall panel on that.
Are you serious right now?
You don’t, behind the scenes they use orchestrations like kubernetes or service fabric. So much easier deploying a docker container as a Azure Web App, so easy to auto scale based on thresholds of certain resources, so easy to debug what’s wrong since they give you all the tools. I use that in my current projects today.

But Azure Kubernetes in my last project was easy too, it comes with a sophisticated monitoring solution, it integrates nicely with cheap Azure Load Balancer, but still too much overhead than Azure Web App.
The problem is that you need one guy in the company that pushes the vision forward. Constantly. For years. Somebody who is intrinsically motivated to bring that thing to life.

In my experience, you do not find such a person for hire.

To an outsider startup ideas usually look like barking up the wrong tree.

Good luck finding a talented, motivated CEO willing to enthusiastically bark up the wrong tree for years.
I had a team a year ago in SV where I had to walk-off the gig for a couple of days.

They were putting in 60+ hours a week, sleeping at work.

I tried to counsel the CEO and CIO, both of whom had been quite successful previously and were determined to "win at all costs" this time around.

They both resisted the procedure.

So I left. I told them that once they came back to being sane again, I'd be happy to come back and help them not do that again, but I wasn't going to hang out and assist them in this insanity.

My guess is that it depends on whether you count by companies or developers. By companies it's probably quite prevalent. By developers? Not so much. But these are the kinds of things companies don't admit to themselves or others. On the flip side of this, there's a ton of apathy in this business as well. Neither extreme is healthy.
Why did MTA agree to it? They were involved in writing and bargaining the contract too.

I doubt a private sector union at Amazon would have the power to get such a deal.
and SLAs. once you get big enough your client contracts usually have penalties for failures of any kind. that puts the pressure on getting it right on the first try or at least within contract terms, instead of working toward the goal incrementally.

partners that allow for some agile, iterative back and forth becomes rarer as they increase in size, especially since often their own system lack the flexibility for continuous integration or safely rolling back changes/data.

that's why you get requirements, specifications, architects and solution managers in the enterprises. people love to mock them for being dysfunctional and some truly are, but once contracts get into the millions and lawyer get involved mistakes are no longer "learning opportunities".
I'm surprised in all of these posts about k8s on HN the Nomad project (by Hashicorp) rarely comes up. I've found it an absolute joy (yeah, I said it) to use and a breeze to setup. Unless you're setting up a container orchestration system where you want to customise every single aspect while you're setting it up, my guess is you're better off with Nomad at first. At the very least you'll learn what you need from a container scheduler and can make a more informed decision if you re-evaluate your options down the line. Nomad also integrates perfectly with Consul and Vault, so you're never left wondering "is this is how I'm supposed to do it?" which is something that happens if you're just starting out.

URL: https://www.nomadproject.io/
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> And good times did not necessary created men who create hard times, they often created men wanted to keep things good.

But did they? Looking at the world today, I feel that good times create men who take good times for granted, not understanding what made those good times possible in the first place, and who through inaction or cluelessness work to undo those things. See e.g. our generation working hard to undo all the improvements for the workers, ones which our great-^n-grandparents paid in blood for.
I remember the first Surfaces, not the best machines on the market; however, they have really come a long way. Would love to give one a try.
It seems to me that most commenters are missing the point, which is that results like these usually remain unproven until the end of 2-3 course sequences that are mainly taken by math majors. What the authors are doing is to reduce each result to something that can be verified by a high school calculus student (even if it does not provide very much insight). These are not elegantly concise proofs; they are maximally elementary proofs that you can give to a curious kid. I think there’s value in that, even if that’s not what mathematicians do with their proofs.
Thanks for being open. Can you tell the channels you use to find clients?
Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks
In a complex environment, that will not always work.
We use an ORM at work for all simple CRUD stuff, but when you want something more complex and performant, we end up writing sql anyway.

(On a db the with millions of daily transactions)
> I don't necessarily automate my job, but I depend on things like math and theory, to solve problems that the other engineers tend to solve laboriously through brute force and trial-and-error.

What sort of work do you do?
how often do you update your nodes?!
Some vendors do that (look at recertified disks) but the failure rates aren't great.
Oh I completely agree that welfare should be there to help you to have at least a survivable standard of living.

But I don't think it is in anyway moral that a company pay their employee so less that they need public benefit to be able to survive.
A motivated and experienced product owner with shares in company, won't this make a deal?

Again, isn't it easier to find an experienced person who likes your idea, than find a person who both has the same idea and experienced and motivated enough?
While this article is interesting, it does start from a pretty strong assumption: that the problem is specific to one branch (or family of branches) of Academia.

I remember at least two similar scandals in very much non-social-justice-related branches of Academia. One was in postmodern studies, if I recall correctly, the other one I think in epistemology. In one case, the paper had been written to deliberately mean nothing, in the other one, I seem to remember that the papers had been generated with Markov chains.

So, based on the same data, my personal conclusion is that some fields of Academia are vulnerable to bullshit, whether it's sophistry or simply using the right lingo. It is a pretty bad sign, and I suspect that it is correlated with fields in which results are hard to check/reproduce.

It may also be correlated with ideology (I remember that this was the accusation towards postmodern studies), which doesn't mean that it is correlated with any specific ideology.

In other words: promising research, but the starting hypothesis and its possible limitations need to be expressed more clearly, and much more data needed.
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It wouldn't surprise me if you found out that some work is useless in the first place. Many people lack the bigger picture of what the purpose of operations really are.

That's what easy to miss when thinking in terms of "automation". Automating existing work doesn't move us forward very much. Making the work unnecessary is.
Really pleased to see this kind of work being done. My experience of desktop Linux has been on a downward trend in recent years, with so many little graphical glitches and oddities popping up at every opportunity. I believe the root cause is the deep stack of components that it takes to draw on the screen, with little mutual understanding across boundaries, and some black boxes that cannot be understood by OSS devs anyway.
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The point is, at most there's a male over representation - but there's not a white over representation. The majority of Googlers are non-white, it seems dubious the country would have a white monoculture.

Not to mention, we're being pretty ambiguous as to what we're really referring to by a "white male" culture. I'm going to hazard a guess that the >60% of white men who voted for Trump have a very different culture than the average white person at Google.
If you're trying to get me to take you seriously you've failed. Do you think that condescension mingled with evidence free assertions are the way to support an argument? Is that science in your eyes?
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From my experience it's quite expensive, at least in GKE. As Kubernetes takes a lot of cpu & memory by itself.
I run a pool of one node n1-highcpu-2 (2 vCPUs, 1.8 GB memory) and it costs me about 72 euros per month.

kube-system is taking about 730 mCPU of the node's 2000 mCPU.

The issue is that the kube-system is deployed on each node of the pool so (tell me if I misunderstood/misconfigured something). If you have a pool of 3 nodes which have 1 vCPU each, with kube-system taking approximately 700 mCPU on each you have only 300 * 3 = 900 mCPU allocatable.

If you have any tips on how I could reduce the costs of my personal projects I'm listening !
The reason they’re platitudes is because they’re true. Taken out of context they sound trite and they are but they’re well explained and just as true as when originally written. They may apply more easily to America than Germany but greeting people, remembering their name, taking an interest in who they are and how they’re doing work on everybody. You should not smile like an American in Germany. People might think you’re developmentally delayed. Equally you should not pretend to be eberyone’s best friend first time you meet them as if you’re from Los Angeles. But almost all of the book is relevant cross culturally.
I disagree. Our brains have expectations, evolutionary speaking. They don't care about the size of our communities, I think. Our brains still expect you to climb the dominance hierarchy; it will give you a dopamine boost when you do so, and a shot of cortisol when you degenerate.

I think that mediocrity is a bad thing and that the internet promotes progress. Yes, you have to be better now to be noticed, and yes, chances are that, now, most people give up, but isn't this a kind of social natural selection? If you give up because of, say, HN critics, you should improve.
Where I work we adopted DCOS and it has been nothing but a pleasure to use and we have been updating the cluster quite often. Always very smooth and no pain at all.

We thought about k8s a couple of times but it always looked too over complicated and no gain compared to our use of DCOS
Oh, I very much meant using the chemical technology, and just replacing the steppers in one of the lines with the maskless ones.

For the closed cell line, which problems are you seeing?
Any special use cases for making chips on a process that emphasizes uniquness so much? I mean, apart from maybe being able to do AOI after the front of line processing to hard-route metal around (presumed) defects, in order to reduce the cleanliness requirements for actual monolithic wafers. I mean like if you have a 2D, routing mesh of compute, and you need to worry about routers having defects that tank your yield in wafer-scale chips, you can design the front of line masks to allow wiring one or maybe even more clock delays into the mesh link (without significant cost to the attainable frequency/minimum delay) and also just not connect the link from one or more neighbors over (on the other side of the defect router) to the defect circuity, so that routing between the nodes around the defect one isn't impacted, and neither are any delay cycles. The one node is broken, but it'd just be something a compiler would have to work around.

Other things like hardwired crypto keys might be of use, or hardwired logic for these <15 ppi very, very wide aspect ratio LED screens that are anyway configured for some fixed text to scroll by. Or some analogue IC that is detuned from theoretical values to compensate for the not-precisely-manufacturable discrete capacitors (and inductors), as e.g. the needed Q-factor/voltage of the resonance doesn't allow mechanical trimming components to be used, as they'd induce corona discharge if close enough to not murder the Q-factor.

Digital control is in nowadays even for fast feedback loops, but you can't beat the latency of analogue PD controllers. Good luck compensating single-digit MHz vibration actively with a piezo and e.g. optical interference pattern contrast sensing with some photodiodes like done with 4 of the latter for a CD drive. I'm confident that the power driver is a harder part, given that you want it to follow lumped-element behavior and not distributed-element effects, so you can cope with random noise of sufficiently low frequency to fall within the bandpass range of the control circuity.
Seriously, there's an app for that? Do you have more details?
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> Chip designers fear that a foundry contracted to make 1 million chips for a designer might instead make 2 million and secretly sell the other half themselves, explains Winkler.

Is there any documented case of this for a reasonably complicated chip? I can't conceive of a situation where the risk would be worth it for the subset of customers it would even be possible for.
Rather that IT would have implemented a change even if they thought it didn't make any sense just out of fear of falling foul of some internal policy. What I say is that large organisation are pleagued by people doing things that are counterproductive either because they don't care, don't understand, or live under the fear of breaching some internal policy, instead of doing the right thing, challenging these policies when it makes sense.
> Looking at the history of religious thought in the US, it's not the Protestant work ethic per se, but in large part the "prosperity gospel" or prosperity theology [1] -- this belief that God will reward the right kind of Christians with material wealth.

> Except in case of disaster of course, and then maybe some kind of metaphysical excuses might come into play!

there's a particularly distressing variation of this kind of belief that, upon hearing news that a terrible disaster has stricken a distant country, killing tens of thousands, concludes that those victims must necessarily have deserved such a fate -- by not living life according to the well-understood principles, or not worshipping the correct god.

that conclusion is perhaps a reasonable and logical one given belief in enough axioms like "there is an omnipotent god", "if we live a certain way god will reward us", "the universe is generally fair".
Yes I agree with you. We are currently working on a V.2 of our website that will offer a faster way to get a tour of the different features through animations. We might not even need to keep the "Take a tour" part.
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