skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bear in mind that the United States manufactures a fraction of the manufactured goods it consumes.
Agreed, until you raise it at the right level at the right time. People do not find me for nothing... Usually after the initial launch euphoria dies down and someone looks at the books and asks why such a large % of the expenditure goes there. People start looking around online and see things like ‘our application serves 200k requests/day with one 50$/mo server’ and compare that with their 30k/mo setup barely serving 50k/day and start poking around. It is usually apples and pears, but more often than not there are massive issues. Most of them I would consider beginner issues but they are not made by beginners; many senior programmers I meet simply do not know about normal forms, proper types (all are stringy), proper indexes, O(n^2) etc; they trust cloud scaling to solve it all. And it does! But it costs...
I think it does
(We’re four and a half years after 1.0, not six)
A quite bright bachelor's student of mine did something similar for his undergraduate thesis[0]. Conceptually, he represented neural networks as functions from input to output, and connecting two networks required that the output of the first matched the input of the second, and produced a new network. Now, to enable gradient descent or other kinds of optimisation, the networks were not literally functions, but rather pairs of functions for running the network forwards and backwards. While limited in some ways (e.g. no recurrent networks), it was quite convenient, and close in performance to TensorFlow on a single GPU.

[0]: https://futhark-lang.org/student-projects/duc-bsc-thesis.pdf
In the same boat. Each dollar I move from equity to cash I feel a little safer and a little more foolish.
> Lovers of [...] heavy jewellery will be thrilled.

Presumably not? Lovers of gold jewelry, who don't like the weight may be, however.
Yes you can properly compost human manure, to make it safe... But the process is more complicated and involves processes which cannot be skipped. I would rather do less work and be safer.

This means I simply don't use human manure on my agriculture crops, I use it in my forested areas.

That said, I do use urine in my grass/leaf compost, and recently I started charging biochar with human urine. Urine is much safer that feces.
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> you again misinterpreted my intent. And again now

Words have distinct (non-interchangeable) and broadly accepted meanings, independent of either intent or personal preferences for what the meaning should be. I have merely interpreted your words according to the broadly accepted meanings, have I not?
According to William Finnegan in Barbarian Days [0], people who start after age 14 or so have close to zero chance of becoming proficient.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Barbarian-Days-Surfing-William-Finneg...
It depends on how safely one can cycle elsewhere. I wouldn't know, so I won't recommend it (but if it is possible, definitely!). But there are other options, such as rowing, running, Nordic skiing, swimming, etc.
Ask HN: are there any roguelike games that can be played (collaboratively) by two players on remote connection?

Mac OS would be a plus because both me and my friend use mostly Apple stuff at home.
Honestly? I used to jabber on about this with regards to the still distant future of actual nanotechnology ... we need to find the guys who wrote videogames for arcades in the 1980s and press them for their secrets before so many brilliant tricks will be lost to time. They did so much with so little!

My guess is that we will slowly approach this wall and spend a lot of time trying for incremental gains, trying to avoid the inevitable, which would be the design of new chipsets with new instructions, sets of new languages explicitly designed to take advantage of the new hardware, and then tons of advances in compiler theory and technology. On top of it, very tight protocols designed for specific use.

I think we have layers upon layers of inefficiency, each using what was at hand. All reasonable things to do, in the short-term, based on the pressures of business. But in the end of the day we're still transmitting video over HTTP, of all things. Sure, we did it! But you can't tell me that it is efficient or even within the original scope of the protocol's concept.

Naturally, I think the whole thing would run about a trillion dollars and take armies of geniuses, but it would at least be feasible, just ... it would require a lot of will. And money.
Ask HN: Which GT OMS Cybersecurity required courses are most interesting?
I am applying for Georgia Tech's Online Masters of Science in Cybersecurity. I am wondering if any people who have completed the program or are currently in the program could weigh in on which required courses they enjoyed the most or paired well with their selected track as a Flexible Core course.

For context, I am applying for the Information Security track and have been looking into other tracks for a Flexible Core course. Based off the course description, Data Analytics and Security (INTA 8803) seems like it would offer me the most but curious to read what others experiences have been.

For more information, see the courses offered here: https://pe.gatech.edu/degrees/cybersecurity?section=curriculum
And yet when you see a car commercial they use an old song.

You’re not accounting for the value of nostalgia and cultural significance.
These are old stories. Given pg's statements on Twitter it's likely Lambda School was at least at the back of his mind when he wrote the piece but I don't think it's the sole reason.
I doubt that. HTML itself has the same problem. Browser vendors can't fathom the idea that content is not displayed on the website. Drive for centralisation, especially from Google.

Mozilla corporate BSed their way out of RSS. Their source for their claim that "nobody uses RSS" comes from their telemetry. Not one thought was given to the idea that maybe RSS users simply disable that more often?
> because Telegram is decades ahead in terms of UX/speed than any other messenger

I'm curious in what ways you feel Telegram so far ('decades') ahead of others? Honestly in my experience Telegram / WhatsApp / Messenger / Line / Kakao / WeChat (outside China) are all at feature parity
Video games for improving physician decision making in trauma triage (2017)
2020 Affiliate Marketing Master Swipe Review, Legit or a Scam?
That isn't actionable advice. If you think you can reliably identify thoughtful people then you're a fool. Everyone likes to believe that they're good judges of character but we're all very fallible.
No, I'm already taking Uber Black. I'd like to offer them more money in exchange for better service. How do I do that?

Or are you saying all Uber Black drivers are exactly the same quality and provide exactly the same service?
I'm going go assume you're not providing medical advice to cancer patients to fast during chemo. That would be... insane. If you have cancer, talk to your oncology team including doc, nurses and nutritionist that they will provide.

However... as a stage 4 survivor who fucked up my cancer with 18 weeks of chemo, lots of healthy eating, exercise and an amazing support system....

I currently practice intermittent fasting in a 16/8 cycle. I only drink black coffee and water during a fast 8pm to noon. I've found it has improved my energy levels (which were already awesome) and mental acuity. And consequently my productivity and appetite to take on more work.

So yeah, post chemo I'm a fan. But I only tried this years later and after my body had healed up.

And yoga. Which is amazing. Every day.
Related essay:

http://blog.omarkama.li/the-market-decides-your-project-scop...
I guess we're on the same page then and I wouldn't have written the reply had you been more specific.

Having said that, I do find the situation with Python/PIP/PyPI today is far better than a few years ago, especially concerning binary packages and the Python2/Python3 divide.

I'm not experiencing a substantial quality difference between pip and npm, at the same time I prefer venv over node_modules (while detesting both).
It's actually kind of brilliant. Mercuriadis et al are getting some of the rights to well-known intellectual property through the presumably underpaid, behind-the-scenes contributors. His competitors say he's paying too much, but is that just because they've been paying too little?

I was biased against the guy when I started the article, but if the status quo ante was other execs paying pennies to songwriters for their rights, and then doing little to nothing with them, maybe Mercuriadis is onto something.
Five Seconds Could Change Everything
You're absolutely right. I removed the error.
I'd love to see an "app store" of fully (non-obfuscated) open source & vetted browser extensions.
Linux and BSDs hardly care much about desktop stuff and they already have all the drivers for the relevant server stuff.
we're going to make this scale even more
Gradient Infill 3D Printing
I honestly haven't met many scrum masters who don't just preach the scrum guide. Even if the team is struggling with the way we do Agile, the scrum master will just continue to force the scrum guide onto the team.

What I currently see is that our scrum master has sold the business on the agile way, so if a developer complains about it, there's something wrong with the developer. It's probably just a bad scrum master, but I've met multiple of those.
Do we not expect a disconnect between stated collection and what's dumped? Why wouldn't they collect everything, state minimal, and dump (on request) the minimal they state?
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> figments of the imagination and thus not real

Physics doesn’t have exclusive domain over the term “real.” Dreams and hallucinations belong primarily to Psychology, but they are real phenomena that we can and do study.
Although I get where you’re coming from, I disagree with the assertion that this makes it “not really ASCII art”. At the end of the day modern terminal emulators use a graphics API at one point to render characters on the screen. You wouldn’t say that iTerm2 isn’t a “real tty” because it has a metal backend (in this case, iTerm2 is also using a custom shader to render ASCII/unicode — more complex than this game of course). Where do we even draw the line? Is ASCII art only legit if it can render natively in a traditional terminal? How about only one without hardware acceleration? POSIX compliant? Further down the rabbit hole we could draw a line in the sand at tty’s with no window manager.

It would still be trivial for the developer to add an “textshot” feature to export a frame to .txt, so I’d still qualify it as fitting the ASCII art aesthetic.
Ask HN: What’s the best business you can start with $250k?
It’s critical for a lot of scientific and industrial applications. Too many things just can’t be done without a supercomputer.
i was often buying them more for the act of buying them than anything else

Shopping is just the current idiom over culturally ingrained hunter-gatherer behavior.
Show HN: Istio App for k3sup 0.7.2
Isn't working alone part of being self-taught?

My school tried to teach good habits. Many of the professors are out of touch with what good habits are though, so they usually teach to books of varying quality or practices specific to how they learned a few decades ago.
Is a monorepo more than just semantics?

At that scale I need tools to manage the monorepo. What about making tools to manage many repos together?
> almost 30k$/mo

That's like, a couple full-time developers, AIUI? Maybe even less than that. Perhaps the people who say "people are more expensive than hardware" have a point - at least in the Bay Area. Or you can move to the Rust Belt if you'd like a change.
> When you invite scrutiny upon yourself by being shameless seller in chief it’s your own doing, not because people suddenly decided they wanted to come out of the woodworks and bash your work.

Lambda School hasn't been under criticism for literally years because Austen sells too hard. It's because they've done some shady, unethical and outright illegal things.

Their refusal to pay license fees while publicly claiming they did has jeopardized every dollar of revenue they're set to collect. If I were an investor, I'd be pretty mad about that.

Their decision to operate as a high pressure environment has created a string of negative stories on Twitter and Reddit about how pressured students felt.

Their wage disputes with their former educators meant they had to switch to relatively unknown and unverifiable teaching staff, which makes it a lot harder to take them seriously.

The idea that it's LS's presentation that has failed seems like it underestimates the problems at hand.
It's a real pickle for practitioners, that is why consent is a HUGE deal with the medical field.

ICU Psychosis is a 'good' example of what kinds of things can happen with patients undergoing lifesaving treatment.

https://www.medicinenet.com/icu_psychosis/article.htm

Here is a story about undergoing ICU Psychosis: https://icupsychosis.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-own-story.html

Even in countries that have functional medical systems, medical treatment can be very de-humanizing. It's not something that may every go away, as medical practice fundamentally clashes with most people's idea of selfhood.
Second paragraph:

> 10 miles west of the Suez Canal—you would see bountiful forests of eucalyptus, teak, and mahogany trees limned against the orange sand and blue sky of the Sahara?

I see no reason to use anything but native plants.
I wrote this post because I struggled to understand why I was annoying my wife despite doing the hoovering.

A little bit of research into the very basics of mental workload made me hope someone builds a wearable that tracks how hard you are thinking.
Steam has a remote play feature now that allows another player to join a game, even if they don't own it. It's been semi-spotty.

I highly recommend Children of Morta for a co-op roguelike.
That phrase "fake news" is very disturbing, to me. I don't think this is problem at all. We've always have and will be served of false stories. That's when we can differentiate between good and bad quality sources.
The polarization is a problem, but we are just in the beginning of that big world wide (the first one) technology. Hopefully we manage it.
Well, employment would mean social interaction at the workplace is privatized.

Unless its government work. Then it would be fraternizing.
Is he arguing that or just asserting it because it’s uncomfortable for him to have to hear consistent criticism from people online in a way he was previously shielded from?
This is why in starting up my own little IT services company I'm planning on not serving medical clients.

"HIPAA? I'm sure we're just fine, and no you can't take away my Windows 7 PCs."
Mirroring only allows dependencies in one direction. Let's say package A is only in the monorepo and package B is mirrored into the monorepo. A can depend on some snapshot of B, (of, say, a client library) but B can't depend on packages from A, because outside of the monorepo B has no knowledge of A.

Also, one main advantage of a monorepo is you can make changes across many packages at once. The canonical textbook example is changing the API of my service: I can find all the instances in the monorepo of where that API gets used and change both the API and update all the calling instances in an atomic operation. You can't (or at least, shouldn't) do that to mirrored projects because the mirror in the monorepo is downstream from the source of truth for the project.
Chrome could change their extension policies and put a severe damper on the business overnight. Consumers would have the option to use a different browser, but it's likely that many of the Honey users did not affirmatively register for an account and are using the extension passively. Enough of a relationship exists between Paypal and Google, and the Honey extension doesn't particularly bother Google to begin with, that this is probably an acceptable risk for them. But it was notable to me that such a healthy premium was paid for a business built almost entirely on a browser platform.
Because you can't get water out of a stone. The gurus aren't worth suing.
Funny, I didn’t realize we saw an incredible number of jobs created during the Great Depression.
Unsustainable agriculture is one of the reasons for desertification. Deforestation, sedentary cultivation of lands that normally only support pastoralism, groundwater depletion, these can trigger desertification. The most affected are indeed the areas that have a more precarious balance like drylands. But this comprises almost half of the Earth's freely accessible land surface. Being in a rainy region covers up for the issue, gives you a wider margin for error.

> life finds a way

That's not a good reason to screw with it wherever and whenever we can. This is more appropriate to say in the context of humans being gone because otherwise we have so many ways to let life only find the way to extinction.
Pity the guy stole the name from Storm Thorgerson's design studio. Kind of a dick move.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipgnosis
I like to think you're on a quest for cooking the perfect sausage
French, Chinese and Nigerian are nationalities, not races. If you think China is ethnically homogeneous, you're quite wrong. Just look at a linguistic map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/China_li... The government does classify 90% of the population as a single group "Han", but that's partially a political move to discourage local separatism. Despite increased mixture between regions since the introduction of faster transportation, cultural differences are still visible, such as northerners eating more noodles, while southerners eat more rice.
They’d need to acquire more and more music as the years go by because they are always competing with other hits and the more that hits the market the more competition they have that cut into their returns. It depends how good they are at squeezing dollars from each music.
I hear you and I’m sure it’s frustrating, but I’d be curious to know if the security team has any reasons for sticking with SMS 2FA. I’d be willing to bet money that the reason they blow you off is because it’s a sore spot for them. They probably have tried to implement other MFA methods but were reprimanded by the medical staff because anything other than SMS is too complicated (I’m harping on doctors a lot, but I legitimately do cringe at the thought of even asking a typical MD to download an MFA app or carry around a physical token).
I can see it going both ways, depending on how narrowly you define "new thing."

I have never written a program in Go but could probably pick it up through reading, because I have years of experience with other languages. But I pity the poor programmer trying to set up everything for the first time, alone.

Or my first try at home repair was daunting. But now that I have fixed a few simple things I have a better feel for it and might be okay learning the next thing with a book.

I think this is partly why some people like watching Youtube videos and others just want an article.
> I'm mystified why this story is getting spammed so far and wide? Is this a recruiting advert?

It ticks all the boxes of becoming a viral story:

- "A teenager discovered a new planet on the third day of his NASA internship"

- "Teenager" > relatable to people who share most on social media

- "discovered a new planet" > woah, aliens/space

- "the third day of his NASA internship" > Wow, what a accident/savant
Full control means you can recompile the kernel to match the proprietary module version, or try to reverse it.

I should know ; I have a HW accelerated NIC too. Works wonder until the max speed of my optic fiber.
Yes! I’m chatting semi-regularly with a bunch of SSB people over Twitter, but I would love to chat / help out more. SSB is a much bigger project than Aether so I’m sometimes at a loss who to talk to since I don’t know the project structure or who the core developers for certain features are. My email is in my HN profile, please do reach out.
This all blew up on Twitter and Reddit a few nights ago.

I actually ended up in chats (directly and indirectly) with a few different LS alumni who didn't know what to do, as they were unable to find work and afraid to speak out against LS for not doing a good job.
The US consumes 3.3M trees, 9B gallons of water per year to make paper receipts
I think that believing in "haters" is a great way to embed yourself in a reality distortion field. You don't need to dismiss someone to ultimately dismiss their criticism of you.

Graham probably won't read this, but my advice to him (from a moderate admirer, not a "hater") is not to do this to himself.
What a great attitude. What, are you entitled to subsidized taxi rides even if you live 50 miles away? Geez.
And yet an unlucky blow to the head can alter you forever. It’s not black and white.
Study Confirms Climate Models Are Getting Future Warming Projections Right
Sure, but my point was that they cut that bill with 20k PER month by giving me 5k one off... They gave me 10k runway to poke around but 5k was enough to fix it; it was simply that bad to start with. The low hanging fruit in most systems I see is really trivial to fix; they just have no one to do it... I bet other people here have seen that before when thrown into an existing project (and I read Spolsky at an impressionable point in my career so I am usually the one against rewriting the whole thing outright).
You can definitely inspect the changes that have been integrated into a perforce branch with filelog and changes, it's not worth pointing out exactly how, you can find examples online (much like git). And if you don't like how p4proxy behaves when it runs out of space, just wait until you experience git with a full disk.
I disagree. I did my masters' on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and I'd say that a large fraction of supercomputer use (in fluid dynamics at least) is wasted. Mostly because people take naive approaches and end up computing the wrong thing, set up their simulation poorly, reinvent the wheel, use HPC on something that can be computed by hand, etc. If they read more of the literature they'd have a more solid grasp on things and use the software much more efficiently when they do use it.

My philosophy at the moment is to use HPC only when I've exhausted other possibilities. I think many people jump to HPC prematurely. The simpler approaches are so much cheaper that I think it's usually worthwhile. I'm skeptical of the argument that it's cheaper to use HPC than it is to use more efficient methods in this case, because the more efficient methods are often something like a few days spent reading to find the right equation or existing experimental data vs. at least that much setting up a simulation and longer to run it.

Edit: Bill Rider has a bunch of blog posts that make similar points:

https://wjrider.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/we-have-already-los...

https://wjrider.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/the-unfortunate-myt...

https://wjrider.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/hpc-is-just-a-tool-...

https://wjrider.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/a-single-massive-ca...

https://wjrider.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/why-algorithms-and-...
PG's definition qualifies "uncritical". These examples of dogged hatred are extremely critical with merit.

I think we're all saying the same thing just fighting on semantics.
In particular,

> the real number is not given by an infinite sequence that is actually written down anywhere, but rather as an algorithm, or a black box, which accepts a number n and outputs the n-th digit. At no point do I manipulate an infinite amount of information, yet I can look at any digit I want. Of course, I cannot look at all digits in a finite time, which is sort of the point of the post.