skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where did the assumption that the 22 year old is poor and the 40 year old is rich come from?
Well, we're running a giant experiment on this: the EU recently banned them. In fact they've banned several of them and the worst uses of them since 2013.

My bet: bees might do better, but the over all insectopocalypse is due to something else.
Only a few decades ago navy ships would have been oil fired boilers with steam turbines. Adjusting throttles wasn't a case of moving a lever. A valve had to be moved by hand, changing the flow to the turbine. This had to be done in concert with the guys in the boiler room. Doing so may have required lighting up a number of extra burners in the boiler or changing the size of the nozzles in use.

Of course modern diesel engines are more flexible. You might still have to fire up the gas turbines on a modern navy vessel which would at least require checking oil etc.

The systems in use likely haven't evolved far for a number of reasons.
Even if humans were to colonize the entire Milky Way, the interactions between two neutrons 13 billion light years away would still be completely outside the scope of the simulation, because those interactions would have no hope of being detected by a human. So you'll always have massive savings versus simulating the entire universe.

It's really human computing where it all falls apart.
Shared it here. https://fullstacknews.com/s/7mpi3o/tony_on_tech
Thanks, this is helpful. I'm building a similar system to Talon but based on Deepspeech (I don't have an OSX device, and I'd like to use it on Linux without having to run dragon in a VM which in my experience is an absolute pain).
That conclusion is surprising to me. If the drive has a source of reaction mass then it works kind of like a jet-ski, it scoops reaction mass from the surroundings and shoots it out accelerated. In a way it almost has to work and it would take effort to screw it up.

Sure the performance may be awful but it should be possible to get it above zero, unlike reactionless drives which violate established laws of physics.
I work at a Navy research center. We don't try to be profitable but take DoD clients to cover costs, trying to break even yearly. The point there is we are mission or tax funded but work for customers.

The projects in my department take customer data, process/develop it in some way, and push it back out. Since we don't deal with the display at the end, there is a constant push for slides, demos, etc., from management to help sell it.

Hacked up demos by non-ui software engineers then became the product, and we have million dollar contracts coming for a mobile app and something that works in the browser.

The center's selling point is it's way cheaper than a private company or contractor, so subcontracting a UI designer isn't an option. I'm sure we'll have a working product, but it will probably be something like you describe. We shouldn't have taken it on, but when someone with money says, "I love it! How much?" it's hard to say no.

This is not an uncommon situation.
Hmm. That might be it. I don’t think the power gets cut when you reboot; the processor just resets itself to its starting state.

I think the reason this hasn’t been addressed is because, from my understanding of the problem, people don’t reboot to a different OS running at a different resolution, so the problem was never noticed
It was a joke on how young people think about age difference.
See my response to the sibling comment. You don't need to simulate the entire universe. You only need to simulate those parts that can possibly affect a human being. There's no need, for instance, to simulate photometry for stars in the Andromeda galaxy because we lack the resolution to measure the movement of those stars.
The days are long but the decades are short – Sam Altman
it never left. you've just been blissfully unaware of it, and now that you've discovered it, you think it is new for everyone.

everything in this article is what I do as a sysadmin.

part of being a sysadmin is practicing devops. not the other way around
Do you recall which ASICs? I was way more familiar with the guts of the 6500 than an end user should ever be.
I am surprised this essay does not touch on Wells' last and most pessimistic book, Mind at the End of its Tether, where he prophecies that "The end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot be evaded."[1]

[1] - http://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/HGWells/NonFiction/MindAtT...
Honest question: Why don't modern cars yet monitor humidity in and outside the car and make the correct decisions to keep your windows clear? Why are we focusing on self-driving cars while our cars are too dumb to do this much on their own?
I think it is a naive view to think that the United States doesn't "speak over them."
I'm fascinated by this sub-genre of "political correctness has gone too far" on campus. Parts of this could have come from a script to generate these.

In particular the bit about how some elderly academic was a liberal, and therefore anyone who disagreed with them must be some dangerous extremist.

Always seems more likely that as a youth they would have been similarly distant from a "reasonable" moderate of a similar age.

A couple of years ago the big trope was that this this was the new face of fascist authoritarianism, that republicans were reasonable moderates and people trying to push veganism, or fight climate change or whatever were crazy extremists. The rise of Trump seems to have muted that a little and rendered most of it ridiculous in hindsight. (Well, it was ridiculous at the time too, but got carried by the same media that would then support Trump).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIlgTCVInOE
Google (Alphabet subsidiary Wing) is already operational with their drone delivery service in Australia and Finland. The drones don't land, they lower the order.

Available food payload is 1.2kg for now - which is on the "slightly limiting" for a dinner for 2 people, but many cuisines can work quite well.
There are millions and millions of 22 year olds out there surviving just fine without dating a 40 year old. If that is literally the only option for literal survival then that's probably rape. Needing to get a job does not mean your free will is impaired.
I've had hits and misses. I think in general it's easy to not notice good UI because it just blends into your expectations, while bad UI stands out.
Backing this. I use Unifi extensively and like it. There are some quirks, but I've had better experiences with it than Meraki.
Lightweight Static Guarantees
Why 9 out of 10 startups keep failing after wasting time, efforts and money?
The complexity and variety of biology vastly outstrips anything like DNN — the many types of cells, the chemical gradients, the types of connections, all the massive varieties of support glues like Myelin sheaths and their effects, the connectivity to nerves and our organs, our relationship and feedback loops with bacteria... it goes on and on.

Just because DNNs are hot right now doesn’t mean much. If you follow machine learning long enough, you’ll see hype cycles for various techniques. Neural nets used to be hot in the 80s, until they weren’t, and now they are again. Something else will come along soon enough. We use the techniques we do usually because the math works out, not because it’s anything like how our brains work.
I think of it this way: We are already running simulations of the universe with very simple models. Imagine 1000 years from now what type of models we could be using. Perhaps models where every known law of physics is precisely modeled. Then let it run from Big Bang and fast forward 14 billion years. Maybe the simulation would create some lifeforms. Even if that was not the intention.

If that's not too far a stretch then maybe some civilization exists where their top notch model will create the world we experience. Maybe they don't care or aren't aware that the simulation simulate life. Maybe they just care about how the universe evolves, and we are a biproduct of that.
Lord knows I was part of the 3% who had not canceled the DVD portion of the subscription until this Spring. Had 4 DVDs just collecting dust for way to many months.

Anyhow... was one of the folks who actually still did DVDs. I've got one gadget that can read a blu-ray, and the rest are either computer systems or have an up-scalar built into them. The newer format is crisper... but man, the endless unstoppable previews really took away the luster. With streaming... the DVD quality is about the same all things considered. I use to fly frequently, so ripping the movies to a tablet or laptop on the weekend, hop on a plane Monday, back Friday, and swap out for the next set was really easy to do with DVD.
Hardware electronic musicians understand this well. :)
This exchange seems interesting. I'd really like to learn more
Why would they do that? I'm renting VPS for around $1/month and it can serve 5-10 VPN connections (well, not very loaded I guess, but it works just fine for average users). They're asking $2.62/month. So their margins are massive.
Wish granted. Enjoy your 200/2=100 IQ! And thanks for the kidney.
At this point is “manual” even accurate, as these controls are gradually not linked to anything ? (thus allowing to move control around, or input adjustement for instance)

Also (from 2016):
http://www.boeing.com/777x/reveal/touchscreens-come-to-777x-...
The quality of the service is unrelated to current discussion about workers' rights being dismantled by the gig economy. Minimum wage is only one aspect of workers' rights.
Commodore had done other Z80 products I seem to recall some expansions that allowed running CP/M as well as that native PET OS

Apple Had a z80 card for the Apple ][ as well I rembered
> As if megacorps weren't terrifying enough, now we expect them to extrajudiciously decide which laws they think are "just" enough to obey or not?

They decide that for themselves already and are fined routinely for this.
This is often repeated but not the complete picture.

Modern, knob based, vehicle climate control systems actually bury a lot of functionality. For example Toyota's "automatic" AC you can either pick between fully automatic or a subset of manual controls. That's because they ran out of space/complexity headroom for more controls.

Touch screen climate control integrates better with voice (which you should be using while driving), offers better fine-grain control, more information (like CURRENT interior temp rather than just outside/target temp), and can offer new functionality (like profiles/pre-sets, additional automatic modes, memory climate, linked seat heat & cool/positional vents, etc).

I dislike several touch screen based climate control systems I've used. But that's because they're BAD. Car manufacturers are bad at making touch screen systems. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. There's a lot of good reasons to go that direction, car manufacturers just need to work on UX a lot.
In many disfunctional orgs with disconnected managers, showing one’s value isn’t necessarily about getting a promotion, but remaining employed.

Additionally, being respected by your managers isn’t just about a better salary. It is about having more power to choose tasks you want to do.
Ask HN: What did you do in your first year after school?
A year has passed since I finished my engineering undergrad, and am curious what the people of HN did in their first year after school?

Was it a transitional period of reflection, did you travel, jump straight into a degree or work?
If the reasoning there is sound (and it makes sense to me), the closer analogy is trying to propel a canoe by rolling a cannonball along the bottom. It will work for a while, but eventually the cannonball hits the back of the canoe. No dice.
Notice how the this obsession with "mass murder" is yours.

I've suggested a no-deaths-whatsoever, totally legal process: make guns illegal, and have people hand them in to police. Peacefully. (In fact, to sweeten the deal, I'll now add that they will then get their money back (the price of the guns), plus a lollipop).

To which you obsess that "Most/millions of gun owning people will never hand them in, even if it's made illegal to have a gun" and then pretend that the only alternatives are "gun ownership allowed" and "mass murder of millions".
>That setting meant that any crew member at another station could take over steering operations, and when the crew tried to regain control of the ship from multiple stations, control “shifted from the lee helm, to aft steering, to the helm, and back to aft steering.”

There's some parallel here to Air France 447, where crew fed opposing inputs to flight controls, with reportedly zero tactile feedback, as it pancaked into the ocean.

>https://news.aviation-safety.net/2012/07/09/bea-issues-final...
If you want to be a gatekeeper, expect everyone more powerful to force you to do gatekeeping for them.
I learned MX and JunOS mid-career. Routing protocols are solid and I much preferred the configuration over Cisco IOS especially for things like BGP, ISIS, routing policy, prefix lists, etc.
The Feedback Log
Because when the sensor goes screwy I don't want my car to start flipping shit like the defroster on when it's not needed? Because manual controls make such automation totally unnecessary? Because even if the automated system were designed to be "fail safe", the state that's 'safe' is actually context dependent, therefore manual controls will be necessary anyway?

It ain't broke, so stop trying to 'fix' it.
It’s a respectable goal but a broken implementation.

Only one side of the story is presented, without opposition, without fact-finding or evidence. A court that worked like that would be obviously broken. The consequences here are only validation, but the decisions are equally broken: virtually always, the poster is declared "not the asshole".

And even if the story is presented even-handedly and thoroughly, Reddit's algorithm guts responses. It filters out thoughtful comments, nuanced stances, and minorities like experts and older people, it promotes split-second judgements, and over time it drives away people who resist those biases. Besides normalizing feedback, presenting only a single opinion instead of revealing that different types have different takes, the mentality it normalizes on is pretty immature. For example, tit-for-tat behavior is reliably supported (I've seen them OK destroying a man's life because he repeatedly spoke to the poster disrespectfully), and marriage is treasured only about as much as a second date ("other fish in the sea" comes out the moment somebody raises their voice).
It's still pretty shallow and generic if the cited example occurred when my parents were still small children.
The Beautiful Power of Ta-Nehisi Coates
I'm glad you picked up on that, because yes, I DO trust Signal more than Telegram. I trust Signal and distrust Telegram for many solid technical reasons. If you want to misinterpret that as "appeal to authority", then go nuts. But frankly, your own argument reeks of government-friendly "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" nonsense.

So long as Telegram's developers refuse to implement mandatory-and-default end-to-end-encryption with a properly audited protocol and implementation in all clients, I will not use it. And I will discourage friends and family from using it.
When to Shut Down a Startup [video]
It's easy on relatively short term. But for anything long term wouldn't it become cruel and unusual punishment? Not to mention very expensive. With no obvious and immediate reason to do this the logistics and image of this would be a nightmare.
Another examples are dictatorial coups in Latin America supported by USA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...
Well, I think that if we ever get to find out that we are in a simulation run by some advanced civilisation, gods or whatever, it doesn't mean that they automatically will shut down.
There's some value in knowing what people would do if they realize that they are in a simulation. At least I would like to see how people change how they live or how they are trying to contact.
Sounds like a great book if you're more interested in the ethnicity of the author than whether it's a good story or not.
It's very obvious why: HN hates Russia/Russians. Go on the Telegram thread right now and check out how many people say they don't trust Telegram because the founders are Russian.

Regarding Facebook in the US, HNer say they should have consequences for doing something completely legal, selling advertising. Google in Russia, HNers say Google should disobey the law. People pretend to be principled, but really they just want to push their worldview on others.
FYI, Dropbox (DBX) is now trading below its IPO price.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DBX?ltr=1
You're drawing a false dichotomy. "Don't be evil" isn't at all the same as "wokeness."

Just as one example, some of us would never build an unconstitutional mass-surveillance system, and it has nothing to do with "wokeness."
It only looks like that when you view it one-dimensionally.

In truth, there is a kind of Grand Unified Law, of which we are still working out the details, which we (whether we realize it or not) want companies to follow. It is law based on ethics and morality, and no legal infrastructure in any country today is entirely accommodating of this law.

The fact is that we live in a world full of corrupt politics, and most of the time when companies have to "play ball" with requests such as censorship, it's a bad thing. We are working on the GUL but we do know that it includes freedom of speech.

This is very separate from things like regulations and safety measures, which are obviously in place for a reason and which would also exist in this hypothetical GUL.

You simply cannot break it down as "sometimes you want them to follow the law and sometimes you don't", because the law is imperfect and does not currently reflect the best case scenario. I would resist censorship in another country and I expect Google, et al. to do the same on the basis of putting ethics before money.
Yes, that’s the magnitude part. But Uber relies very, very heavily in RSU compensation and those expenses will show up every quarter going forward.
This is absolutely one of my favorite posts by Sam Altman. I reference this on bad days, when I want to try to get things in perspective. I usually share it at some point with friends and people I am closer with perpetually...

I also cannot agree more with "14) Summers are the best."
I particularly agree with the scripting nature of the role. I’ve played a major part at my company using many of the tools you mention to set up IaC/CICD/etc. However, day-to-day I’m in script land, which is where I want to be really.
How to Estimate Programming Time
Practical Coilgun Design – Barry Hansen
I feel like you're making some very false choices between smarts/voice compatibility and physical controls. Physical buttons and dials for users to interact with that still can be changed by the system are wholly possible. For instance, a rocker switch that sits in the middle can be used to issue on and off commands, while being separate from say, a status light that lets you know whether the device is on or off.

Which is to say, I think you're significantly limiting what you believe is possible with physical UX.
Many organic pesticides are synthetic. The organic label in the US doesn't mean much.
LinuxCNC (at least Axis) can be controlled by keyboard - F1 is especially handy to stop the job in progress if anything goes wrong. Arrow keys can be used for jogging, with shift it uses max travel speeds but dedicated CNC pendant for jogging is on my TODO list as well as standalone DRO with 7 segment displays.
Now with the advent of software such as Rundeck, the majority of tasks and automation can be consolidated into a singular control panel. Now I focus more on project based work and reduce time fumbling with random annoying tickets.

It makes it more manageable to juggle the diverse work we are responsible for in a "DevOps" role.
knob... colder... done. you're an idiot. no one needs to know the temperatures inside or outside or otherwise. just make it colder, you dumb fucks.
I use the good parts of awscloud, while filtering all the distracting hype
In my opinion, we need an open protocol for this. Every government having a separate digital identification tool is a poor solution.

The simplest solution I can imagine is to mimic the solution used to digitally identify companies via HTTPS (certificate authorities), but modified with the intent of identifying a person rather than a company.
I’ve been digging through resumes in the last few weeks. I’d much rather see one of these brag documents than a boring list of jobs.
GitHub Polls: Request feedback from community members
While some of us intuitively get it, a clearer word here might be “transparent”.

The business stats (income generated, views, etc) are available publicly, the business practices and choices might be available, the customer data is of course not available, and the service is not required to be free.

Think of these as very valuable learning tools for how to run your own business (and IMHO a pretty great marketing tool for them).
I respectfully disagree. I think good work and humility speak for themselves.
> The only thing that seems weird to me is how society was so easily convinced that soaking all our food in poison is OK and not a problem all good thumbs up. That’s really weird.

Not really. The alternative was having all our food eaten by insects and not having enough left over for ourselves. It's kind of a no-brainer in the short run.
Like it or not, vernacular changes. Today, in most contexts, "sysadmin" suggests (at worst) a Windows pusher armed with a mouse and (at best) a heads-down computer toucher (which is also what this "devops consultant" document seems to outline, really, so you're not wrong!).

You're totally right in that sysadmins can certainly practice (part of) devops, but anywhere I've ever gone it's less the rule then the exception and "sysadmin" is a career-limiting classification, akin to calling oneself a programmer [0]. Ends, not means, etc.

[0] - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
If we remove alcohol from the equation I think whats more pertinent is the death of the “third place”. Churches are dying. If the article is to be extrapolated then smaller local bars are dying. Where do people go other than online to socialize. Thats important to understand.
I'm sure the vast majority of FPS players are using controllers...
They could charge to allow people to use private clients equivalently (or maybe even more) to what they make per client selling that track data. Either way things go they'd win that way.
I think the correct and productive term for someone who uses chemicals in furtherance of feeding the world is “farmer”.
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> the post-war United States.

This might be a bit of a tangent, but the US is still at war and has been (in various stages of "hotness") for many decades). The war in Afghanistan will turn 18 in less than 2 months. More on-topic -- quite a bit of research still gets funding from the military, because of their massive budget (not that I think that this is an overall good thing -- I've heard really worrying stories about the sorts of discussions you have when doing military-funded research).
Er, the first couple listed were created by the same guy. Did that same guy create open-startups.xyy and/or is OP?