skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New computing architectures like quantum computing could simulate these systems far more efficiently than classical architectures -- in theory. The engineering still needs more work though.

Also, new AI techniques are good at finding good enough equivalents to exactly replicating human cognition for many things, but that might get harder as the problems become even more general.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote (CONUS and related TZs)

eCommerce company seeks Devops expertise to help stabilize an older production environment based in AWS.

Skills sought:

- automation expertise (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, whatever - we're agnostic so long as it works).

- CI/CD expertise - we're currently using a mix of 'git pull' and Capistrano, we'd like to modernize a bit.

- monitoring/metrics - our current Nagios system is noisy and long in the tooth. We'd love to upgrade to 'something different' that isn't waking us up on a regular basis for nothing.

- Rails expertise - our platform runs on Rails. We suspect having some modicum of expertise in that area would be helpful for our purposes.

- containers/kubernetes? We're curious if our business would be a fit for a straight-up kubernetes migration. Bonus points if you can help us figure that out and perhaps implement!

Please email Jack (jahodges419 - at - gmail.com) with why you think you'd be a good fit. TIA!
>There were so many times where an engineer would start blabbling big terms to avoid doing something or an PM spouts MBA Bullshit...

Well that just tells you everything you'd want to know about FB culture, regardless of his actions in those situations
Can't edit the albums more than 12 hours after posting unfortunately, take it up with Imgur's website design department lol. I didn't expect these to be read off of Reddit so I didn't make that convenient (until recently).
This statement is logically unsound. The addition of ethanol is as an additive to reduce emissions, just as other petroleum-based additives are used. There's no constraint that such additives be net energy positive.
Great achievement! Muito bom!
You can actually separate the ethanol and be left with the gasoline (google it).

But the irony is that the gasoline that is mixed with ethanol is absolutely the lowest quality. The octane will be much lower than 87 and the gasoline base also appears to corrode metals as well as eat rubber. People complain that the alcohol is what destroys, but in this case, it is the pure alcohol that is actually making the low quality gasoline stable enough to be put into a normal car.
> They needed to move off of the punch-card system ASAP, but they couldn't afford to

Sure, but moving money around to deal with that problem is easy (and mostly doable intrastate, but, a federal role isn't unreasonable.)

But this isn't a problem calling for novel technology. (As has already been demonstrated by the move to e-voting that happened in many places after 2000, though some people got the wrong message and decided that we just chose the wrong technical solution—but a lot of that is due to lobbying by the people selling technical solutions.)
>Anything that plods along slowly cannot be considered an explosion

That's a pedantic distinction (not that I mind). I wasn't going for "explosion" as in "suddenly tons of people had one", but as in "suddenly there was a boom and a new viable market had emerged".

How hard is to get my main point?

Mobile got some kind of kickstart in the early 90s (I called it an explosion, but I could not care less if it's not that, that's not my point), and it never stopped going. Perhaps you'd agree if I'd merely called it "a bang" in the 90s? A starting point for big growth?

That was my point in a throwaway response I made at someone's comment that "mobile was like VR" at the start of this thread.

Whether that can be called an explosion or not, I could not care less. In my country, that's what we'd call it. There was a market that started from almost nothing before (some flat numbers in the US, almost zero in most of Europe). Unlike early 90s VR, which was a short hype in 1990 or so that then stopped.

From 1990 onwards, every year we had a big boost in the sub numbers. As I wrote, from a few dozen in 1990 (~16M globally) to ~1 Billion in 2000 (~ 800M to be precise).

That's explosive growth in my book, and I've lived several others techs that never seen such rapid growth. The only comparable thing would be the internet itself (from mostly academics in 1990 to a huge economic force in 2000). To contrast, it took 5 decades of development for PCs to get to the same point.

In any case, my focus wasn't on it being an "explosion" part, but on it never have been an "hype/unhype" cycle like early VR was. Unlike 90s VR hype (and other hypes) mobile merely went from strength to strength.

>Not the same thing. The tech simply didn't exist.

Sure, but that didn't stop the media and companies then to hype it for a couple of years. And then forget about it for 15+ years.

Here's what I'm referring to:

https://www.pcmag.com/feature/343351/the-wacky-world-of-vr-i...
I know very little about compilation, but I'm going to look at the link later, and get back to you. Thanks for the links!
Wow! I was impressed to start with, but then the article and the build kept going, and going, and going .....
Is it really ironic when pretty much all voting is done with paper? Of course the rigged voting would have been through paper ballots when that is what we use.
Shake Shack Tests Four-Day Work Week Amid Tight U.S. Job Market
I wouldn't doubt it was written by a human if I saw it on stackoverflow.
The most dangerous function in the C/C++ world (2016)
Google gave up on fiber and this is the version that is running on fumes. I worked on Google Fiber until early 2017. I was informed that it was cancelled and that I had to find another team. I did, and didn't like the new team, so I quit. Many of my coworkers on Fiber did the same. Of the people I've remained in contact with, exactly zero of them currently work on Fiber.

I now work at a different fiber ISP. The industry is fine, it's just that Google sort of gave up. Even if they went full-on "we changed our mind" after I left, it's not the original team anymore. A lot of knowledge has disappeared into the void. You hear "invest in teams, not in products," around here a lot. That's not what Google did.
I'm mostly guessing based on what I've read over the years. They've published a hefty corpus of work regarding their deployment infrastructure and greater code review/quality approach.

Here's a few examples:
- https://code.fb.com/web/rapid-release-at-massive-scale/.
- https://www.quora.com/How-does-Facebook-release-deploy-proce...
The case of 737 MAX: An old design with modern complications
I was a tad skeptical when I saw the title. But it looks like you really pulled it off. It took Atari engineers like 4 years ;)

Is it fast enough for multi-input / multi-player?
We don't hand children meth so that they behave, but we do with mobile games.
Missing from that history was India developing nuclear weapons in the late 90s - I imagine that changed the politics immensely.

Today they are an even more important and influential geopolitical ally, and the pollution argument you raise is as important as you say, but the concerns about a power supplying them with nuclear weapons ala the alleged Israel/US history is no longer a part of it (I assume).

...then again, I could be completely wrong in any of this. Comments welcome.
>>> The emails should have specified the expiration date in the text of the email document from day one.

That doesn't avoid the issue. Similar emails are collapsed, it's not about being identical.

For example, two orders listing the (different) products you bought might get collapsed, despite being fairly different.
Don’t get me started about corruption in India: PM Modi is a thug and a murderer[1]. The BJP use Hinduism to just further their nationalistic, xenophobic, autocratic nature. And the RSS (the enforcement arm of the BJP) can is the reincarnation of the gestapo. I’be first hand experience of what being on the wrong side of the RSS means.

[1] you think even the Supreme Court of India is impartial enough to find the then PM of Gujarat responsible when non-Hindus die at the hands of a Hindu mob? Hah didn’t think so.
Ironically(?), Google Contributor is a thing:

https://contributor.google.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
That link is full of half-truths that I don't have time to address, so I'll just add your one point.

E10 is not regular gasoline with some ethanol added. E10 is a lower grade of gas with ethanol added. That lower grade of gas degrades in a few months.
eCommerce | Devops | CONUS | Part Time/Full Time/Contract? | REMOTE

eCommerce company seeks Devops expertise to help stabilize an older production environment based in AWS.

Skills sought:

- automation expertise (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, whatever - we're agnostic so long as it works).

- CI/CD expertise - we're currently using a mix of 'git pull' and Capistrano, we'd like to modernize a bit.

- monitoring/metrics - our current Nagios system is noisy and long in the tooth. We'd love to upgrade to 'something different' that isn't waking us up on a regular basis for nothing.

- Rails expertise - our platform runs on Rails. We suspect having some modicum of expertise in that area would be helpful for our purposes.

- containers/kubernetes? We're curious if our business would be a fit for a straight-up kubernetes migration. Bonus points if you can help us figure that out and perhaps implement!

Compensation - Negotiable

Please email Jack (jahodges419 - at - gmail.com) with why you think you'd be a good fit. TIA!
I completely agree with you, which is why I think that telling people to "just install next.js" is a terrible advice. If they are JS devs, experienced in next, sure, go right ahead, but I don't think that's the case here.

I'd be fine to just use Rails for something like that since I'm quite familiar with Rails, but I would never recommend it to someone who doesn't know it.
Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages
I see, I missed the part where it was veterans. I'm not informed enough to know why that program's success is so much higher than the ~37% success for manufacturing workers or Michigan's No Worker Left Behind (30% unemployment vs 40% for those not retrained).

If I had to guess, it could be because vets are younger and more able to learn new things, or it could also be that measuring graduation rates is different than measuring employment (plenty of college grads don't find employment in their field of study).
This is so badass! Not only are you a good hacker, but your writing was a pleasure to read. I wish that I could upvote this more than once.
SMB Exploited
It's very easy, apparently, to take them down by a configuration change. Happens several times a year and takes hours (and untold millions of dollars in productivity loss) to recover from.
This article is great, but is CGI and static servers really the pinnacle of technology?

I think NodeJS accepts that no single webserver is capable of scaling to millions of concurrent users. So the solution is to just run more instances of them...
1. Personally, I do. I think Jobs was a magician, but he was famously not the most personable guy.

2. Even if he wasn't, the fact that we're making the comparison reflects how important he was to FB.
With a modular monolith I need one debugger, probably something like trace points as well.

With microservices I need one debugger instance per microservice taking part on the request chain, or the vain hope that the developers actually remembered to log information that actually matters.
Because voter fraud is exceedingly rare in the US. Now election fraud is a different issue.
Ethanol has been energy positive for many years. The myth persists though.
Why virtual DOM is not a part of browser APIs is anyone’s guess at this point.
Does APL Need a Type System at FnConf18 [video]
Because load increased across all of them at the same time such that they all hit some (different) submerged iceberg scaling wall?
Some is deliberately auto-generated, like https://twitter.com/choochoobot ; but yes, there is definitely an awful lot of auto-liked auto-shared fake engagement out there.
It is! They call it the DOM, for short.
Yes, but those are all reversible relatively quickly. They aren't something that I would think ought to take almost an entire day to resolve.
I'm curious about this as well. From her Wikipedia article[0] and experience in online sales, maybe it means this:

> Author Shoshana Zuboff called Sandberg "the Typhoid Mary of surveillance capitalism."

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Sandberg
That's silly. Error rates show as elevated on https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ until 11pm Pacific yesterday. The @facebook Twitter account sent out a statement basically within an hour of the start of the next business day.
The condescending tone you have does not help you. And you seem to be more concerned with looking at my account history or brushing me off as “fud” than actually addressing the substance of my comment. And yes, I do so completely believe in what I’ve written that I have opted to not have children until it is clear that a solution will be implemented.

There are two parts to my argument: the substrate for AGI to spring from is basically here or around the corner. Human level ai is fundamentally incompatible with human society. Pick the one that you think is wrong and tell me the chain of logic that proves I’m wrong.

It is obvious to anyone that AI has the potential to be more dangerous than anything humans have ever encountered or created. We can come back from viruses and nuclear bombs and colliding with interstellar columns of gamma radiation. AGI is the first thing ever to pose the threat of truly wiping out humanity. And then there is the question of how the economics would play out of it didn’t destroy us, which I have shown informally to not work out very well. At the bare minimum, this demands caution and proactive, defensive measures. The burden is on YOU to prove it’s safe. So please save your “fud” and anything else that does not address the core of the matter.
Sorry, this ship sailed about 25 years ago. These days, emails are primarily a facility for notifications and other unidirectional messaging. Some of it is not spam. A lot of it is. I delete rough 20 emails every morning, unread.
Thanks :)

Well nowadays there's a lot of material online, I did find a book interesting, though: "Make: Electronics", it teaches the basics in a very nice way.

Aside from that the key, I guess, is to start small and incrementally go for more and more complex stuff going towards things you like (video games, robotics, etc). If you consistently achieve small victories I think it's enough to stay motivated.
Everytime I managed to overcome something, I took it as a victory (generating the video signal, getting a program to run on the CPU, etc) and this helped me get to the next problem to solve.

I started with discrete logic and an Arduino, went on to programming microncontrollers similar to the one on the Arduino and moved from there to CPUs, RAMs, FPGAs, etc.

Also Youtube channels like EEVblog and GreatScott! are great learning resources.
I get your point, but in the US, I don't think military leaders would ever let that happen. Being in the military feels like living in a heavily socialist country within a heavily capitalist one. The experiences could be amazing (good and horrific), but what I most noted was how different it felt from being a private citizen. It is a strange dichotomy.
No, but I'm loving this song. Thanks.
It’s also easy to design paper ballots that are really hard to use.
So, do you read this quote as a very mild-mannered 'fuck you' to the current facebook modus operandi? I obviously know nothing of Chris, but the message doesn't feel that different from the grand but empty proclamations that Zuck spouts in his posts. Also, he has worked there for fourteen years and in the most senior leadership positions, how can he be not complicit?
It has not been proven that you can get those speeds consistently. You typically need line of sight, no trees, even no rain for the really small bandwidths.
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• Integrate with REST APIs or other back-end frameworks.

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Also, 'many people had trouble accessing our apps and services' is some ninja-level gaslighting: https://twitter.com/facebook/status/1106229690069442560
Voter fraud of that form basically doesn't exist. You are already marked as voted at your designated polling place. A purple finger is just for show, even in other countries. Its like a "I Voted" sticker.
The tractors and other farm equipment still run on fossil fuels and then there is the carbon cost of transporting the ethanol.
Trusting Driverless Cars
.* It's ok to just say you were wrong you know.*

I just did that re: the numbers, above, you know.

Explosive, we have to agree to disagree. I'm not a native speaker, but it seems to me a perfectly OK use of the word. In any case, it wasn't my main fucking point, which was simply that unlike VR in the 90s, mobile never had a hype/flat period: the market got on, and never stopped growing until almost everybody on the planet had one. I already wrote that like 6 times. Do you disagree with that?

Amazing how someone can go into such trivia and miss the main point I was making and in a thro-away comment of mine at that... Jeez...
I just read the whole thing and it was a very strange experience having 90 other people there while I was doing it, sort of like a library or something. At one point someone did a ctrl+a which startled me because I thought for a second I had to be careful not to press a button or I'd delete everything. Some people had been pointing out typos in the first couple of dozen pages but that stopped once you got further.

Oh and the document is quite a good summary, some points get repeated a lot but I guess they are very important. To be honest I'm not sure if these lessons do much for people once they reach a certain threshold, similar to reading about procrastination, it's interesting at first but then you know the concepts and the jargon is just shifting and all you need to do is apply them instead of reading yet another explanation of what monads are or whatever.
If you use macOS, you can do this: https://gist.github.com/a7madgamal/c2ce04dde8520f426005e5ed2...
Ethanol does not "gum up" (note I am not defending anything here). Just open up your bathroom cabinet. I bet you got a bottle of isopropyl alcohol in there. Its probably years old too. How "gummed up" is it?

The gumming up of ethanol mixed fuels is due to the poor quality of gasoline base that is used.
Faster also === cheaper, so "shallower === faster" implies "shallower === cheaper" anyway.
Wow! What an achievement. Putting it all together, including the YM3438 FM chip, great work!
Is that because its a nuclear project, or because its a large civic project? With everything from the California High-Speed Rail project to New York's public transit system to the F35 fighter jet I don't really think the US is going to be getting any major projects done again without absolutely demolishing anything resembling a budget, at least in the near future.
Web standards could specify an API (which is very simular across all virtual dom inplementations) and let browsers chise their own implementations and optimisations.

Since the browser has full access to the entire object model, and memory layouts, and dom optimisations, and..., and..., it’s a shame that we have to write code that is the prerogative of the browser.
I can't believe anyone was unable to see through the bullshit on FB from the very very beginning. Does ANYONE there now, or at any time in the past, have any real belief that what they're doing is connecting the world? It's a money making machine, plain and simple. (Money making machines are not bad, as long as there is never any dog and pony show about being some higher form of existence)

I think that the people leaving also knew this all along, but now they are finally coming to terms with the impact that FB has really had on people, the world, privacy, and the way it has desensitized everyone to this type of behavior.

Facebook hasn't changed, that's not why people are leaving. They're leaving because they've finally been able to look in the mirror and realize that this isn't worth the paycheck anymore. That's gonna be a tough pill to swallow for most.
Google also has all that and now and then their network explodes anyway when they do configuration changes. :)

Certain configurations at a big enough scale are dangerous, just because you could hit a terrible corner case when you rolled out the change on 50% capacity, and lose all of it so fast that your magic automatic rollback is pointless because your infrastructure is burning.
Retro gaming in general is about re-enacting the consumption of games, I have never though that you can also re-enact the development/production of them :) Good work!
Simplified SCP (David Mazières et al.)
The side-effects of such a thing might not be as easily reversible.

I've had to sit around waiting a couple hours for a Percona database cluster to re-sync after a major networking whoops, and it only had a few hundred gigabytes of data.
Because scale matters
"Maybe he really just wants to do something else or spend more time with his family..."

...said everyone ever who was asked to leave or decided to resign because of irreconcilable differences with the organization.
Is there a reason why advertisers don't like ads next to adult content? Is there an actual study that shows ads in this form are less valuable?
What's wrong with RPMs?
Why? Some of the most venal, greedy, and ruthless people in history made their money then turned to philanthropy to improve their image. I would argue that it was downright predictable, and so would Alfred Nobel. In fact using charity to either improve your public image (as in Gates and many others) is probably only matched by people like Jimmy Saville using charity to give themselves license to continue committing crimes.

What’s surprising to me is that it still works!