skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sense I mean this in is "layers for no reason".

In GTK+ everything has a clear purpose:

* glib: Portable OO and data structures for C

* gdk: Interaction with the windowing system

* cairo: Drawing

* gtk+: widgets

An application touches each of these directly according to its needs.

Nobody in their right mind would say "we need a wrapper to abstract glib". Which is a suggestion here for boost. Pretty senseless.

But I think the subtext of this discussion is that all the javascript kids expect 20 layers deep and the top ones get rewritten every year or they're considered obsolete, meanwhile the bottom 18 or so are "too close to the metal" for a reasonable person to work with. A C and C++ person of a particular mindset will seek to avoid such a thing. You want to be able to have the whole picture in your head.

From this angle it's a very weird complaint to say "I counted how many layers there were and it was too small!"
"This is what most people misunderstand about Columbus. He did not discover America, he discovered the way to go there and back which required sailing first South looking for passat and returning by sailing North and then catching western winds."

You seem to take for granted the presence of New World in the mind of Columbus and that the only problem to be solved was securing the access. That is wrong. Columbus was looking for India. He descended to India's latitude and went looking for it westward¹. I'm not aware of any initial plans to return back to Europe on a similar manner, i.e. (this is a mere speculation but I'm inclined to believe that) he could have returned back by some well-known route, to minimize risks if he could find an actual Indian trade post, or anything familiar, really. Given the "unknown part of India" he'd encounter, only later it became a safer bet to attempt sailing back north-eastward.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbu...
Assuming you're healthy, the best algorithm in my opinion is to park far away from the door. Less risk of damage to your car, easier time getting in and out, more exercise from walking further.

I don't even think you save time parking closer to the door since you frequently have to wait for others to get out of your way.
Trust me, I know they can be serious, but

>> jurisdiction that doesn't take DUI seriously

That describes where this was at perfectly. Which is why I had put

>> It was his first offense and this state is very lenient on DUIs.

I probably should have used a different word than lenient, but it is what it is.
Our "common sense" has been shaped by the experiences of thousands of generations before us, and it has worked out so far. I wouldn't dismiss it so quickly.
I have been looking at this all day trying to decide how I feel about it. At the very least it is temptingly informative, which I think makes it a success. I appreciate that the summaries are manual and if bias concerns you (it should and apparently does) then just acknowledging a potential bias would be taking an appropriate nod from the scientific community.
"DTrace has a C-style high level and powerful programming language that allows you to dynamically insert trace points."

Yes, that would be the D programming language :)
The people who say faxes are easier than email are like the old mechanics who complain about how EFI is complicated and carbs were so much simpler.

It's not actually any better, just a lot of people learned how to use it 20 years ago and don't want to learn anything new because they're wastes of space.
Interesting that you can use this for two-man rule...especially since this api is real-time. I'm having trouble thinking of scenario where I would use this feature at my company, but cool nonetheless
A Guide to Mentorship for Makers
A History of Tokyo in Eight Dishes
Nobody can front-run the field of artificial intelligence, progress is too incremental, slow, and insanely well-funded by Google, Facebook, Baidu, and Microsoft. Not to mention the source of so many improvements coming from CMU, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and that's just in the US.

Edit: Remove Oxford, because originally I was making a full list .. but then realized I couldn't remember which Canadian school was the AI leader.
HackADay is a hardware engineering site. The aim of the site is to explore hardware designs.

The ChaosKey is a standard back-to-back transistor-amplifier, likely using Shot-noise or maybe Avalanche Noise as its source of randomness. Nonetheless, I find it to be not too useful, because any modern chip has RDRAND or RDSEED assembly instructions (which the Intel and AMD CPUs use a simple RNG to generate true randomness to those instructions).

So the only reason you'd be building a hardware RNG is because... you're building a hardware design to begin with. The cool thing about this post is that it requires ONLY the microcontroller (no need for the ADC or back-to-back transistors that ChaosKey's design has).

ChaosKey looks like a standard white-noise generator hooked up to a USB Stick. Learning of other methodologies (like what is discussed in Hackaday) is kind of more interesting.
> From our analysis, with a competitive (to public charger) pricing of $3/hr, hosts can expect to make $190-$270/month in profit with just 3 rented hours per day.

$3/hr * 3 hours/day * 30 days = $270. However, this doesn't subtract the cost of electricity to the provider.

My local utility (San Diego Gas & Electric) has a (rather high) standard-rate of $0.51578/kwh in summer (beyond >400% of baseline, which I assume I would hit if I was powering EVs 3 hours every day) [1]. Nissan Leaf's Level 2 charging is 6.6kw [2], so my cost calculation for this service would be:

$0.51578 kwh * 6.6 kw * 3 hours/day * 30 days = $306

So my napkin math says I would lose money ($36/month) providing this service. Am I missing something or would I have to charge more than $3/hour to stay out of the red?

[1] https://www.sdge.com/sites/default/files/regulatory/3-1-19%2...

[2] https://pluginamerica.org/understanding-electric-vehicle-cha...
Its a security risk. Allowing a felon access to the company network is irresponsible.
Fully juiced. haha.
Well, I think many people are jealous of you, me included. I actually live in a single family house, but my electric panel is all the way in the backyard. I don't have a sub-panel in the garage. The quotes I got are all around $2000 total to install home charging for me. I wanted to install one and share with people, but so far haven't been able to pull the trigger.
Leaving aside the absolutely monumental if that's in that sentence, how does this square with the original OpenAI charter[1]:

> We commit to use any influence we obtain over AGI’s deployment to ensure it is used for the benefit of all, and to avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power.

Early investors in Google have received a roughly 20x return on their capital. Google is currently valued at $750 billion. Your bet is that you'll have a corporate structure which returns orders of magnitude more than Google on a percent-wise basis (and therefore has at least an order of magnitude higher valuation), but you don't want to "unduly concentrate power"? How will this work? What exactly is power, if not the concentration of resources?

Likewise, also from the OpenAI charter:

Our primary fiduciary duty is to humanity. We anticipate needing to marshal substantial resources to fulfill our mission, but will always diligently act to minimize conflicts of interest among our employees and stakeholders that could compromise broad benefit.

How do you envision you'll deploy enough capital to return orders of magnitude more than any company to date while "minimizing conflicts of interest among employees and stakeholders"? Note that the most valuable companies in the world are also among the most controversial. This includes Facebook, Google and Amazon.

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1. https://openai.com/charter/
Here: https://12factor.net/ - Some considerations which will not be found in the 12FA:

- If you wanna change configuration on the fly, in parallel, your app should support something like Prometheus reload: SIGHUP or http://<ip>/-/reload - rolling updates might be time consuming (you need to separate between boot config and dynamic config)

- Add feature flags to your app.

- Use proper secrets management from day one. Something like Vault or Credstash could go a long way.

- Perform migrations to the CD system, don't use init containers

... these are the ones I can think off the top of my head now, but there are more.
The problem is salaries are usually highly regulated, so you get capped pretty quick, and it's usually based on your degrees rather than your job performance.
We built some of this functionality internally 6mos ago. Wish I had seen this then...
He is a huge risk taker, it is probably the reason he is rich now. All the people I know in my life who have the most wealth got there through risk and luck. It sucks because I know I am risk averse and I know I shouldn't be.
Microsoft tweaks Windows 10 on Arm64 to play nicely with KVM
That is fundamentally not how banks work - they lend money to the manufacturer or the driver, meaning the latter two pay the cost and carry the risk. Banks are not paying the cost.

Tesla has issues with cash and liabilities at the moment, and I highly doubt that any type of scheme like you're describing would be floated by them in the near future.
I think it was worded correctly considering there are two languages called D.
This small library [1] let's you use hooks in classes. Probably has some bugs but may be good for a transition period

https://github.com/kesne/with-react-hooks
Similar thing happened to dexamphetamine, an ADHD medication. It's not quite as bad (also because people need insulin to live, but dexamphetamine to function), but it just shows how tremendously STUPID this whole business is. Note that dexamphetamine is an old, very well-known medicine, just like insulin, none of the bullshit about pharma-startups business plans and research costs apply.

So, basically someone bought the rights to the 5mg tabs, and now those are uninsured and would rack up 100s of euros per month. So instead you get the same prescription but in 2.5mg tabs, which is available as a generic brand and therefore just about free under Dutch healthcare. This may seem like a small difference, but we're talking about people with attention-deficit disorder, having to count and not get distracted twice as many pills, right at the moment the previous dose wears off. Taking them at a very precise regular schedule at the right dose really can make a huge difference in effectiveness. You don't want to get it wrong.

Sure it's not insulin, and it's mostly an inconvenience, but it's just so STUPID. I mean who the hell obtains the rights to 5mg dexamphetamine tablets? How? Why? And could the same happen to paracetamol?
As an aside, I've done work with United Nations Online Volunteers previously. That is one way you can use your skills to the benefit of organizations in need.

It doesn't help with your systemic problems directly, but it can provide valuable service to groups that need all the help they can get.

Often this includes groups like children's mentoring organizations that provide access to education and other extracurricular activities. In that way it can indirectly help dig at the root of a variety of problems.

https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en

https://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/opportunities?f[0]=fie... (development tasks)
I had the opposite experience.
While I agree the typical American lifestyle is hugely consumerist, by numerous measures Americans do not have the largest economical footprint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ecologica...
Ask HN: Ask Romanian: Does Highschool Matter?
What is your experience in high-school-university/college?

What do you think highschool is important for Computer Science domain?

Does it even matter? How much of school affected your career and future?
Sweet! Next stop, Microsoft should get officially have ZFS running on Windows (There is a port of it already)

There is some sort of a bitterness in the Linux community when people talk about ZFS or DTrace. But it's the consumer who is affected by it. For their sake, I hope they don't take the 'We have BtrFS/eBPF/X' path.
Try Blender v2.80 beta - it really is looking awesome, and much more usable for the average user. You will need to sit through a tutorial or two first though.
I think this is the decompilation that you used to be able to mail-order from the back of 2600 Magazine in the early 90s.

There were small pieces of RTM's original code in the famed "Cornell Report", which showed that at least this code is not RTM's original code.

Are other decompilations floating around? Did RTM's original code ever get leaked?
> Places where if you HAVE to do business with that entity for some reason, and the say "fax this to us", you're stuck hunting down a fax machine

I just head to the local copy center when I'm forced to send (or receive) a fax, so for me "fax this to us" means "pay an extra $2 for no good reason".
If they actually make a strong, general artificial intelligence, sci fi has a couple answers.

In one (I can't find the title), MIT students make an SGAI and somehow manage to keep it contained (away from the internet). They feed it animated Disney movies and it cranks out the best animated movies ever made. They make billions. Eventually they make "live-action" movies that are indistinguishable from the real thing. Then they make music, books, etc, and create an unstoppable media force.

They could leverage the AI to discover hyper-efficient supply chain methods.

They could sequence genomes and run experiments, and sell the data.

Possibly exciting things around weather prediction.

Very exciting things around any research.
you really need to read things before knee-jerk blaming everything on "moral outrage"
Faire (YC W17) Is Looking for a Lead Product Designer
> Generally its helpful in most headlines about [any large org] to substitute [Public Schools] and see if someone would bother to bat an eye at the headline.

Just because nobody would care doesn’t mean people shouldn’t care
Why I used Jekyll for my coding blog
U.S. Warned Jared Kushner About Wendi Deng Murdoch
Yeah, we have a lot of clay here in Denver too. I have a 5 HP, and running it is hard manual labor, for me anyway.

Honda is the best, no doubt. I did a lot of research before I bought this damn thing, and reviews and recommendations kept leading back to Honda.

I've heard of problems with Kobalt Li-ion stuff before. It's too bad they're giving electric tools a bad name.
> Uhh is this assuming that the US is just sitting still? Scrambling of fighter jets can vary and much is just speculation on how fast they can scramble

Even if they can scramble, it's still an issue if they don't have bases to fly back to to refuel and rearm.

I think it's interesting that the Swedes confronted this same issue, and responded by designing their air force to disperse into small, distributed bases in the event of a major conflict:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas_90

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_JAS_39_Gripen#Usability_a...
Kudos for Microsoft for not going the Linux NIH way.
This is really cool Tom! A couple of questions:

- I don't have an electric car charger, but my understanding is that the charger is usually located inside a garage, meaning that the host would have to let the driver into the garage/house. If that's the case, what kind of liability insurance would AmpUp provide?

- Does AmpUp provide pricing recommendations for hosts, or provide information on what other hosts on the platform are charging?

- Is there a internal ratings system for hosts/drivers like Lyft/Uber? Otherwise if a host provides a date/time for charging and doesn't show up and it becomes a major logic path, you would have to provide calls/text support anyways.

- Are you concerned about the possible gamification of prices and hosts on the platform, like that of Airbnb's, that may unduly affect pricing or quality of service for customers that would box you into a corner, and are there any game plans developed for tackling such behavior?

Best of luck, and hope to see greater EV adoption because of AmpUp!
Hands down the best libre video editor I've used, good enough to make some fairly dank memes
I think Pootle is a great project with a (much) longer history than traduora and it's very rich in terms of editing features.

While traduora will have a lot of commonly used editing features, I'd like the focus to be on enabling small and medium teams to easily translate their projects without much overhead. That's where upcoming features like automatic translations come in handy as they provide a good "starting point" for a lot of cases or also for example the ability to deliver translations over the air to your apps/websites.

I'm convinced that in open sourcing traduora, it’s an effective way to make the best product possible, while growing a community and giving developers confidence to build on top of it as a platform.
It is not low value, it is just variable value.

In the late 1970s there was a a panic over energy and Aluminum prices were sky high. With no bottle deposit at
all my dad and I picked Aluminum can out of dumpsters all over Manchester, NH and made enough money in a few weeks to
buy a new Aluminum bicycle.

Later on the price collapsed and it was not worth doing.
Davinci Resolve is good, however rather unstable on Linux in my experience. I've tried it on a couple of distros and kept getting random crashes every so often.
As long as this remains cleanly open, I'm not sure why you wouldn't run this if you want to self-host. I'm not sure how this will, or won't play out for Elastic company though. I'm thinking AGPL for server, and MIT for client libraries is probably the best way to go for someone starting any kind of *Server project.

Open-Core as a business model isn't something that the likes of AWS, Azure or GCP can really tolerate if they want to integrate SaaS that the customers want. DBaaS in particular is one of the bigger advantages of cloud providers in general.

Discloser: A family member of mine does work for Elastic, but I have no knowledge of their internal practices or policies or reaction to this.
> Work was less worried about the near-term risk — he thinks China and Russia aren’t eager to try anything right now — and more about what happens 10 to 20 years from now. But, he said, “sure, $24 billion a year for the next five years would be a good expenditure.

Sounds like the Military Industrial Complex wants to lock in their profits before the next presidential election.
If you want to run a computation on more than one of those AI (and scientific linear algebra) chips, you need some network to connect them. The higher the bandwidth and the lower the latency of that network, the less likely the network performance limits total system performance. See NVLink as an example of Nvidia’s related work. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVLink)
This is just not true as a blanket statement. I am as cutting-edge tech-wise as anybody (it is my industry, after all), but that doesn't blind me to the fact that there do, in fact, exist use cases for which the fax is the best solution.
> But why is my own intellectual curiosity more important than whether someone else gets to eat?

It's not, but unless you are working on something that is directly impoverishing someone to this point, then the economic or social system that allows people to go hungry and without basics is more to blame than your particular role.

People don't go hungry anymore due to lack of societal resources. It's due to either a lack of sufficient collective concern, or even a belief that it is largely acceptable that this occurs.

That the effect of your inequality inducing job is hunger for someone can only be countered with policy and incentives that work at societal, not with individual choices to disengage from jobs that optimize productivity.

It's similar to the fallacy of asking Warren Buffet to cut an additional check to the IRS vs raising tax rates, or the fallacy of thinking that an individual's choice not to eat meat has any meaningful effect on climate change.

> I don't want to just donate to charities, I want to end systemic problems that lead to charities needing to exist in the first place.

This is actually a great way to think about it, and if you have the personal means to pursue the systemic issues without having to worry about your own survival, then go for it. But know that this will almost certainly involve spurring on the collective human will to act towards that goal, not inventing a technology as an individual that will fix the problem.
What’s the difference between containers and virtual machines?
If you're using RHEL why wouldn't you default to using Red Hat's build of Docker? I definitely prefer it to the official builds. Red Hat in general seems very annoyed at Docker and carries quite a few QoL patches like being able to add registries to search.
I think they mean that for the most part developers spend their time complaining instead of doing.

In the end, someone can always rewrite something that's successful to fix performance issues, but what's the point of making something performant (or focusing heavily on architecture) before you even know people want your product? Performance matters to a degree (after all, performance is a feature), but the product matters the most.
Related: SDG&E offers a special 'Electric Vehicle' pricing plan with much lower rates ($0.09/kwh), but this special rate is only available midnight to 6am [1].

Most residential EV users will enjoy the reduced overnight rates, but probably not useful for public-service charging which usually takes place during the day when time-of-use electricity rates are at their highest.

[1] https://www.sdge.com/residential/pricing-plans/about-our-pri...
IIRC, most of that infrastructure is/was Oracle based and much of it going to another DB. I'm not sure if Elastic is even in the mix, or how well it scales to Amazon's levels.
But the "doing" of being a therapist is actually seeing patients! Get out of here with your motivational poster level wisdom.
Indoor farming looks pretty promising, but we shouldn't be building indoor farms in the middle of dense cities.

If you live in a high-cost city, the best thing to grow in your backyard from an environmental standpoint is probably an ADU (backyard cottage for someone to live in), and the best thing to grow in your spare bedroom is probably a roommate. Displacing walking-distance housing to do farming is a huge loser from a climate perspective.

Of course there is more to life than emitting as little CO2 as possible, but to the extent that urban farming has environmental benefits, it is in exploiting niches caused by shitty land use decisions in the past and present.

(By way of illustration, the average car commuting 20 miles each way every weekday for a year emits 4.6 metric tons of CO2, so according to the article you could grow and transport something like four and a half tons of greens for the same carbon footprint. Maybe I'm weird but that's a lot more than I go through in a year.)
Did not know that. It makes sense though, because a lot less people are malnuiroshed than before.
Title should be changed to "Google Cloud Console is down". Still a big pain...

The status has been updated here: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/developers-console/...
>It's not working. Anyone can spend $1 to make $0.50.

Citation needed on how this statement is applicable to lyft. At least go look at their financials to see how, again, their billion dollar revenue is growing much faster than their operating expenses.

And a subscription model charging the drivers is a terrible idea unless you're trying to squash growth. In two-sided markets you don't charge both.
Looks like they changed the link along the way:

https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/food/vertical-farms-raise...