skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, for me, "Jessie and Bryan are going to start selling computers" is enough for me to get excited about it. I'm not sure I could give you an in-depth rundown, because well, I'm not privy to any information, and obviously this announcement is a bit light on details. Some quotes from both of their posts that I think are important:

> hardware and software should each be built with the other in mind.

> even as the world is moving (or has moved) to elastic, API-driven computing, there remain good reasons to run on one’s own equipment!

> Over the last year, I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time talking with folks who are currently running workloads on premises. The consensus from all my conversations has been that everyone setting up infrastructure themselves is in a great deal of pain and they have been largely neglected by any existing vendor. All these folks have very good reasons for running on premises that include security, strategic reasons like latency, specialized workloads, or the reality that the unit economics of running at their scale in the cloud are unsustainable.

> the world needed a company to develop and deliver integrated, hyperscaler-class infrastructure to the broader market — that we needed to start a computer company.

> Hyperscalers like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have what I like to call “infrastructure privilege” since they long ago decided they could build their own hardware and software to fulfill their needs better than commodity vendors. We are working to bring that same infrastructure privilege to everyone else!

> could we find an investor who saw what we saw in Oxide? Fortunately, the answer to this question had been emphatic and unequivocal: [yes]
No worries! We’re improving all the time. The problems we solve within organizations revolve around connecting APIs together (like Stripe and Slack), but the system we’ve built to manage that is effectively a fully-functional API registry and module management system you can use on your own :).
Sure, but it's official unsubstantiated information. ;D
aiopg is also great and has full SQLAlchemy support
Those are the towns that will survive. The ones with industries that dried up won't.
Bending the Supercomputing Cost Curve Down
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I like it, doesn't look very enterprise to me (think Liferay style of CMS), but it surely has lots of good work put into it.
Istio Traffic Routing
Lead/lead-coated vessels were used in preparation and/or storage to deliberately affect the taste.
AWS Announces New Quantum Computing Service
Last I checked, patio11 is now working as a regular employee with standard salary and benefits.
Have you used windows recently? It sounds like you have. I installed it last week for the first time in ten-ish years - afraid I have to describe it as disgusting and completely undoing all the supposedly open work pr they've been getting. I'm on the phone so can't rant, but the install was endless info requests, some sneaky eg can we have your location, no, would you like us to find your device if stolen, erm. Open the browser, news thumbnails riddled with adverts. The timeline, extend beyond 30 days by giving us info. On and on. Sorry, they looked as though they had changed direction, but that surface laptop now runs Linux.
> More prior art: pfrazee.hashbase.io has been working on this sort of thing in unwalled.garden, but was last seen going off into the weeds to focus on yak-shaving and schema-polishing.

As far as I can tell right now the author is mostly working on UI/UX improvements right now, what gives you the impression that he's yak shaving?
Well, would you say that the pivot from a dating app to what YouTube is today is a joke? Is that just a refined product? Same for games turning into social networks or productivity tools.
This is a project I followed a while ago that does this: https://github.com/danfang/me-api

In addition to providing you a profile/bio, it can pull in your content from various social media sites into a single central API for you to use.
>I guess it must be extremely expensive

Any quantum computing hardware I see is covered in gold, so I'd say yes.
Thanks, yes I'd heard it was more mixed. If you had to guess the proportion of construction which was new floor area (not just building 3 stories, but replacing a 1-story thing, etc.) would this be 10%, 50%, 90%?

(I would blindly guess 90% for the US.)
This looks great, was kinda disappointed they didnt have a DOM demo for the calculator, woulda really sold it even more honestly. It looks great otherwise. I wish Go had more efforts like these, Fyne is as nicely a UI as I could find for Go thus far. I think every modern language should really produce a UI library as part of the STD lib even if it's rather basic.
>>Amazon said it has invested more than $270 billion in the United States since 2011 and created more than 400,000 jobs.

It's not that simple: How many jobs were lost in other companies due to Amazon taking over?
Where did the fuel come from?

A: US Government enrichment facilities built to support nuclear weapons programs. https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
there isn't a "textbook" for a lot of these. AS a resident, we basically used a combo of pubmed, uptodateonline.com, and a lot of it was the time spent w/ older docs and gleaming bits and pieces of info from whichever patient happened to roll in or were scheduled that day. Haphazardly stochastic way of learning, but there it is....
>It's nearly impossible to sign up for any Chinese website without giving your mobile phone number to complete the sign up.

No wonder the robocalls and phone scams are overwhelming.
It's been 10+ years since I signed up for a cell phone. What is required today when you get a new account at the major carriers today in the US?
Well, you know, we still are in the 2000s. Maybe when we hit the 3000s, we'll all trust MS.
Books May Be Dead in 2039, but Stories Live On
War and pissoirs: how the urinals of Paris helped beat the Nazis
The Maltese language is interesting: It's fundamentally a variety of Arabic with a lot of Romance language influence.

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

> Although the original vocabulary of the language was Siculo-Arabic, it has incorporated a large number of borrowings from Romance sources of influence (Sicilian, Italian, and French), and more recently Germanic ones (from English).[45]

> The historical source of modern Maltese vocabulary is 52% Italian/Sicilian, 32% Siculo-Arabic, and 6% English, with some of the remainder being French.[10][46] Today, most function words are Semitic. In this way, it is similar to English, which is a Germanic language that had large influence from Norman French. As a result of this, Romance language-speakers may easily be able to comprehend conceptual ideas expressed in Maltese, such as "Ġeografikament, l-Ewropa hi parti tas-superkontinent ta' l-Ewrasja" (Geographically, Europe is part of the Supercontinent of Eurasia), while not understanding a single word of a functional sentence such as "Ir-raġel qiegħed fid-dar" (The man is in the house), which would be easily understood by any Arabic speaker.
One of PlayStation’s most important studios makes games about loneliness
On the full job listing link, we have bachelor and master intern positions listed:

https://jobs.cisco.com/jobs/ProjectDetail/Software-Engineer-...

https://jobs.cisco.com/jobs/ProjectDetail/Software-Engineer-...
Ok, we've promoted residents to doctors in the title above.
I'd say the big thing is helping us avoid reinventing the wheel. There's a lot of problems that every webapp has, and Django provides a system for solving most of them. I particularly enjoy their migrations and automated testing systems. When we need to integrate something that a lot of other people have, whether it be 2FA or SAML or LDAP or webpack, there's generally a reasonable library for it (or often, a reasonable way to do it built in, and Django's documentation is great so it's easy to figure that out).

While there are some land mines with any ORM, the Django ORM does allow us to write the vast majority of our database operations with clean Pythonic code, rather than going to raw SQL. We need SQL in a few performance-intensive code paths, but it's the exception, rather than the rule, and the ORM is constantly getting better.

And in contrast with some other ecosystems I've worked with, the libraries generally are well-written, well-tested, and stable, so even if they're not well-maintained because the old maintainer changed jobs or got busy or whatever, it doesn't feel like a burden to fork or adopt the library.

I'm not particularly happy with Django forms or Django REST framework with how they organization validation code. For the former, I think the problem is just kinda messy; we mostly solve it by only using Django forms for the authentication code paths where we can reuse its libraries. For the latter, we have a framework we built that I'm very happy with and we plan to spin out for other projects to use when we have a bit of time. There's some documentation here: https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/writing-vie... for those curious; though that doesn't cover cool details like the mypy integration we did more recently.
Imagine giving a billionaire money for something being offered freely from a peer.
I'd be worried about a doctor that didn't use all online resources available to learn about the areas they practice in.

Around 2010, I started noticing medical professionals had less information about what I had come in with than what I could find in my own research.

Not every time, but part of the time I've felt like I did not get valuable information gleaned from obvious experience.

Other times, I've found treatments I can handle on my own, saving copays and deductibles. For example, the procedure for draining blood from a fingernail after slamming it in a car door.

More recently, I had ankle sprain that seemed to recur, and a medical visit for $65 came back with "go to PT."

Which was going to be $125 per session. So I watched youtube videos and got therabands and have been doing the exercises for "free." And it is working.

There is unquestionable space for medical professionals, their treatments and the gates they create between people and prescribed medicines.

However, just as YC has turned expensive legal processes into simplified documents "anyone" can use online, some medical diagnosis / treatments have been similarly decomodified.
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An AWS keyboard and it’s not one with Cherry MX switches... fun timeline.
I remember that case, and I am surprised criminal charges were not considered against the school officials.

Back to the matter at hand, I think the installation process can serve as a litmus test. If the software requires effective ownership of the device for initial installation, it would be of limited use as malware. Typical DRM software has characteristics of malware.
The headline sounds reasonably neutral and factual to me. If someone wants to suggest a better one, we can change it.
Endless economic growth is only a convincing argument if you don't understand basic math.

Things that appear exponential locally usually turn out to be logistic or cyclic.

I would like to say that I'm surprised that an economist doesn't understand math, but I can't.
Homelessness has been increasing rapidly in recent years across North America even while GDP growth has been adequate. You actually need to devote resources to fight homelessness.
Oracle still has plenty of ex-Sun on their Java team, which blog seldom, but still blog.
I prefer CCTV. Then we can actually go look at the footage and see what really happened, instead of arguing pointlessly and having no neutral reference.
article thread is a dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21661075 (?)

could / should (?) be merged.

as for all the doom and gloom, I think the main thing that makes this so bad is that the ad was hard to close - the X was not very visible / easy to click, some said clicking it still brought you to ad site...

to me the bad thing was that the ad was moving / not static. Might be time for a checkbox, 'allow plugins to show disounts / partners / third party ads' - some of them are helpful / wanted.

when a plugin hijacks your next screen, like wp-statistics does after an update sometimes (others too, eg all-in-one-seo sometimes )- I hate that even more than what this yoast ad did.
Thanks a lot for tracking that down! I would also say the change of some metadata in a non-static page is fine.
Don't forget Mullvad.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy/
I've not met a professional that doesn't make internet searches for information when necessary.

I'm a professional physicist, and I search for specialty-specific information multiple times per day, every day.
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> If this was true, you could create infinite wealth by just building more and more "luxury" housing.

I mean, it works until the bubble bursts. But the last time that happened, the federal government bailed out everyone participating in it -- they carefully re-assembled the bubble, like nothing had ever happened.

So, uh, until federal policy changes, this sort of does just create infinite wealth (on paper, at least).
My initial impression is a return to on-premise data centers but with cheaper, commodity hardware and a software stack on top.

They are doing for on-prem with hotswappable computers in a cloud what hot swappable hard drives did for on-prem storage.

My prediction is that their technology will be used by existing data centers more than it will be used by enterprises wanting to return to on-prem from their current cloud operations. They might help serve internal customers in the enterprise, like developers, and intranets, but the cost of pipes will be prohibitive for companies needing lots of bandwidth to serve external customers.
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It's amazing it has >400 upvotes at all.
What's more frightening is that we may be 10 years away from doctor "boot camps".
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I like the idea of a land value tax more than a property tax, but I feel like I'm missing something. If I sit on an empty lot while the city builds up around me, doesn't the unimproved value of my land still go up?
That's an interesting idea but unfortunately we're limited by the walled gardens of the devices and platforms we use. We'd need sufficiently strong outside sources to entice companies to give us raw access to our health and things like that.

Until then, this personal API concept is the best thing I could think of.
Perception vs. Reality: What IoT Companies Are Doing with Your Data
I think this is pretty neat as an inventory management tool, but I'm unsure I'd use it for my IT assets. Perhaps if my org was a lot bigger and I had a lot of concern about how much stock/parts were in storerooms?
Honestly, I find this comment hilarious.

Every time I've heard someone defending the Bay Area recently it sounds like utter normalization of the insane. You've been the victim of 'only' one car break-in yourself, have seen people shitting in the street, view the homeless and drug epidemic daily, and yet expect people to think these issues are overblown because they haven't happened for multiple days at points?

As someone from the outside looking in, I truly hope the U.S. gets their shit together, because it's looking pretty bleak at this point.
Sure, they spun off fabs to keep themselves afloat. It seems to have worked, and now they're able to take advantage of the agility.

I'm not saying Intel should spin out their fabs, I'm just saying not owning your own fabs has some advantages sometimes. Owning your own fabs also has some advantages sometimes; it's certainly been a historic advantage for Intel.
> If we cared about fights of the rich if you just were allowed to take previous assertions at face value and kept the process tight things would move more quickly.

> ie, if in previous cases / situations you claimed to have no control / no interest in an entity (liability claims / previous divorce claims / tax claims and structuring), then for purposes of current litigation that is what counts.

It sounds like you are getting at the concept of estoppel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel
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> wouldn't it be better to return to the original idea of the Internet with devices always connected and routable?

Yes. However, I'd still like to do something in the meantime. There's no telling how long an overlay network would take to implement and release.
I never thought of plaintext as a way of life, but I think I agree with it in principle (as many others on here probably do.) I didn't know I was part of a movement, but I did write my own simple (and open source) hours tracking/invoicing tool on plaintext principles: https://github.com/ses4j/ts
Sometimes I google home maintenance videos for information on a project, and I need to spend a lot of time looking for a certain level of quality of the source since I'm a complete amateur. I'll often want to confirm by looking for multiple videos and making sure the sources converge on some basic points since I have so little background.

But since I'm much more knowledgeable about certain programming or mathematical techniques, I can do much quicker searches to refresh my memory since my BS filter is going to go off pretty quickly, and I can verify the truth of a source based on a more extensive background.

The fear mongering in this article requires you to assume that doctors are much more like amateur carpenters clicking on links at random rather than highly trained practitioners with years of education in their field.
It's interesting to me how no one here has objected to the idea stated that "we are all digital sharecroppers."
Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielssen have a pretty interesting tutorial online about Quantum Computing https://quantum.country/qcvc
Maybe you should reread the comment you are responding to in order to understand why your objection is meaningless in the context of the discussion.

All mass shootings in schools are school shootings, but not all school shootings are mass shootings.