skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life expectancy of a child born in [1][2]:

Baltimore, MD: 72

Greenwich, CT: 89

Djamena, Chad: 53

I cannot argue that the children born in those three places have the same potential, everything else being equal.

Even children born in the same place, the biggest predictor of "success" in the USA is not ability but wealth of parents [3].

Can we escape the geography and parental endowments of our birth to maximize our potential? Yes, that is the exception not the norm. On a good day, I would argue that escaping the constraints of our birth and maximizing our potential is the goal of civilization. But not today ;)

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

[2] https://qz.com/1462111/map-what-story-does-your-neighborhood...

[3] https://www.wnpr.org/post/georgetown-study-wealth-not-abilit...
And Brave does not protect against a single one of them but actually makes fingerprinting easier
It's not obvious to me that testing IQ is a bad thing. Maybe it's not a good indicator for job performance, but that seems like something you'd need to discover empirically.
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I originally thought the same, I've tried using Python as my shell because I really love programming in Python, but it never felt smooth. I stopped and since then I've been getting better and better at bash and it is becoming more apparent to me that bash is the best tool for the job of a command line. Being able to glide between programs and pipe output without having a python API just makes things faster.
I recall Linus saying the same thing about waning numbers of linux kernel developers, so it seems like that is a problem affecting both kernels.
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If you can't impress a recruiter, you are going to struggle to get a job at most companies. That's the starting point. It's great to think about what to do beyond then... but if you can't get past the starting point you're going to fail.
Well that is a pretty understandable error code from winerror.h:

0x8007 - warning in facility 7 (WIN32)

0x04c7 - 1231L - ERROR_NETWORK_UNREACHABLE

// MessageId: ERROR_NETWORK_UNREACHABLE

// MessageText:

// The network location cannot be reached. For information about network troubleshooting, see Windows Help.

#define ERROR_NETWORK_UNREACHABLE 1231L
The Ferrari in question is a Portofino, which does have back seats, cramped though they are.
It seems to not support going in the reverse though, e.g. giving a vector in a low dimensional space and inverse transforming to a hypothetical generated document. Closest to this is the context starting text but it's not the same.

To be clear, I'm describing using transformers as autoencoders
Except that people actually used microservices and microservices are actually additive and helpful.
We need to talk about GitHub: the problem with hosting monoculture
It is local company from Czech republic called Freedomky. One example: https://www.dwell.com/home/freedomek-no.061-ce8de0e1
Sure, everything can be done serverless with a bunch of workarounds, that's one of the reasons it stalled IMO.

Serverless makes somethings easier and other things harder, so it's advantages over good old fashioned servers are clear cut.
Licensing and copyrights prevent hospitals from repairing their own equipment
> I'm not sure if you're being somewhat ironic

I'm not. But the kind of "protecting safety" I am talking about is narrower than what you appear to be assuming.

> large parts of the US have put someone in power primarily in the name of 'protecting their safety / way of life / jobs' (i.e. making themselves great again)

I'm not talking in general terms about things the government does that affect people's safety, way of life, jobs, etc. (At least, I'm not talking about such general things in this particular discussion.) I'm talking about a specific thing that many people appear to want the government to do: dictate what individual people can and cannot do, at a very detailed level, in the name of "protecting safety", instead of allowing individual people to use their common sense and discipline, which is what is supposed to happen in a free country.

Lockdowns in response to COVID-19 are just one example of this thing; the US is full of nanny-state laws that micromanage people's lives in all kinds of ways in the name of "protecting safety". (Actually, as P. J. O'Rourke pointed out many years ago, "nanny state" is much too charitable a term, as "nanny" implies at least some amount of actual empathy and compassion; a better name would be "Nurse Ratched state".) All of those laws have as an underlying assumption that people in the US do not have the common sense and discipline to act in their own best interests. That assumption is incompatible with a free society. If the assumption is actually true for a majority of people in the US, then it is a very, very bad thing for the US, since the benefits that everyone wants will also go away if the US is no longer capable of being a free society.

For example, as the events of 2020 have starkly shown, many people in the US are harassed, or worse, by cops and other government officials for no good reason. But the only reason the cops and other government officials even have the ability to harass people that way in the first place is all those nanny state laws: any cop that wants to mess with a citizen is going to be able to find some law that citizen is violating. Giving the government the power to micromanage people's lives, whether it's in the name of "protecting safety" or anything else, is giving government officials the power to mess with citizens, and that power will inevitably be abused. The only way to avoid the abuse is to not give the government that much power in the first place. And that means that every adult citizen needs to take responsibility for having the common sense and discipline to do the right thing without having to be micromanaged into it.
I wouldn't get too hung up on the term for the group as long as we both know which group I'm talking about. I used "the mob" because cancel culture behaves like a mob (a group seeking extrajudicial justice), and because it's silly to use "the public" to refer to <13% of the population (only 13% of US adults say cancel culture is not a problem, but the statistics don't differentiate between people who are indifferent about it and those who actively support it).

https://today.yougov.com/topics/entertainment/articles-repor...
> I have yet to see a human being thats happy about Microsoft edge that's getting shoved down his throat every other windows update

I absolutely hate Edge, and feel the same away about being unable to uninstall Safari on iOS/macOS.

> directx12, because why support vulkan when you can just continue locking as many programs to your platform as possible

They've invested decades into DX, I see no reason they should abandon that IP.

> Also both telemetry and forced updates impose a giant problem for all administrators

Windows 10 has group policy controls for IT admins to disable forced upgrades and telemetry. This sounds like complete dramatization.
Platform politics is not business. Business can work without it, as I explained above.

And yes, I find platform politics to be disgusting and anti-user in essence. Stadia isn't huge as desktop Linux, not even close yet. And potential is all abstract. Linux has also a lot of potential, if these would release games for it. They don't care.

It's not about potential or size of the market, it's about being paid extra incentives by the platform owner. I.e. dirty platform politics.
Part of the problem is that the hobbyist market is overwhelmingly PHP, which Lambda doesn't support natively.
> Android mobile gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry. Guess what isn't? Linux desktop gaming.

Again, focusing on the current state and not what some eventual steady state might be if Linux were better supported.

> Selection bias. I'm guessing you know a lot more Linux users than the average person.

Definitely true (and I had already explicitly called that out), but the fact that those people exist at all lends plausibility to the idea that the set of people who want Linux but want Windows games might be non-negligible and points to the logical flaw in using the current count of Linux gamers to determine what that market might look like if Microsoft weren't interfering (if they are, not sure on that at all -- taking ancestor comments at face value for now for the sake of argument).
What was the breakdown for prefab direct cost versus transportation cost (if you don't mind me being nosey)?
Has the noisy neighbor been solved when running serverless?
Years ago my daughter read about eating acorns. We saved a bunch, went through the leaching process, ground them to flour and had pancakes. Blech. It still goes on my “last resort” list.
There have been a few attempts at communicating deep learning methodology for procedural generation specifically within the roguelike community to use a specific example. While there is typically some high-level interest, the interest quickly fades and developers go back to using traditional procgen methods.

One of the hangups that I've observed is that many of the introductions for procgen deep learning (and deep learning in general) use SL, USL, and AL which require datasets containing many examples. The (time) cost associated with gathering or creating these examples is not appealing to procgen devs. Procgen devs continue using the procgen equivalent of symbolic AI. RL in procgen is largely avoided for the same reasons that RL is rare in other domains.

Despite this, I believe there is a connection between the fields through the lens of optimization problems. Typically procgen practitioners have a handful of parameters which they hand-tune to arrive at their desired results. The number of parameters is kept low so as not to exceed the cognitive capabilities of the practitioner. I'm a believer that by turning many of the current discrete procgen algorithms into continuous-valued generators, the number of generator parameters can be increased a thousand or million-fold so long as an appropriate loss function can be crafted (in practice this isn't very hard and proxies can even be used in tricky cases). In a lot of ways this becomes a reparameterization in a way that makes for more salient generator parameters.

For me one path forward is crafting continuous versions of existing discrete generators and using autodiff tools like JAX to optimize procgen parameters. This whole rant is pretty specific to the roguelike domain and probably doesn't carry over well to other spaces. Huge YMMV disclaimer.
His point is definitely worth considering. I'd argue, though, that part of the 95% is about putting slack in the system. I don't want to have to wait for an Uber to show up when an emergency arises.

The tail case is often the only case that matters.
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To implement serverless, you'll need to re-architecture your entire infra. For that itself, I don't think it's worth it; because serverless is pretty much all event driven (which many things might be, but might not be able to fit on serverless; even it does, it might just be easier to plop it on a simple instance).

I do see a big potential for small and simple projects though. No need to setup instances and worry about networking: just deploy it and go.
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More than 0 is too much
Splendid! This is much more flexible than various static if aproaches like in D or modern C++.
An article about prefab residential construction without mentioning Sears houses[1] has failed the literature-review stage of the background work.

Flatly stated, prefab has always been about cost control, and people regard housing as an investment, and nobody is interested in "investing cheap."

1 - http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/1908-1914.htm
I agree, this was the real reason why the project failed. Moreover, it was not clear at all that fractionation would bring any lifecycle costs savings, neither that any of the alleged extra flexibility (and maneuverability, resiliency, maintenability, and other -ilities) would result in any added value for the missions.

Fractionation is very hard,it introduces a lot of complexity in the design and interfaces, and it requires lots of coordination between multiple vendors. Project Ara by Google (a modular cellphone similar to Phoneblocks) also vouched for this idea of fractionation (and in fact was also led by Paul Ermenko) and was also cancelled.
When you talk to someone you waste maybe 50% of your time/energy talking about what you do, meaning you effectively have 20 minutes instead of 40. Doubling the time you have available will make more people pass, yes, that isn't evidence of anxiety being a major factor.

Edit: Also looking at the data people spent more time on the problem in the private setting than the public. Their stats could therefore be as simple as the students not caring about the result and therefore they quit earlier in the more uncomfortable environment instead of doing it properly and checking their solution. This wouldn't be a thing in real interviews since there a lot is at stake so people wouldn't quit early, at least in my experience not a single candidate I've interviewed quit early.

Edit Edit: For example, their very impressive "All women in private completed it, all women in public failed" stat can also be described as "Women in private spent on average 16 minutes on the problem, women in public spent on average 7 minutes on the problem". Maybe if they had more at stake and therefore more stress they would have spent the entire 30 minutes and therefore done just as well?

Anyway, my point is that just because the abstract says they have clear evidence that stress is hurting performance these studies are still mostly garbage. Don't take it as proof just because there is a study.
Its unusual for there to be exactly "one" correct solution for a given engineering problem.
Yet at the same time it was apple and app store policies that apparently drove the decision to ban porn from Tumblr. If Reddit ever goes on a similar decline, I could see Reddit being suddenly held to those guidelines too.
> Corporate travel will never return to pre-covid levels, and credit card miles are a big part of this as well.

One example - The last several years, I probably charged in excess of $120k / year on one particular airline card. This year, probably $1000 so far, mainly recurring bills I haven't bothered to switch to another card.

Since cards had become a significant revenue driver for airlines, this is going to have some medium term negative financial consequences as well.

(I'm probably not even in the top 20% of business travelers, either)
Old news. They're not doing this anymore.
Honestly, we've had a lot of fun with OpenFaaS and services that can publish to it.

You'd be surprised how great it is to pass a parametized query and have it turned into a function quickly.

Doing stupid things on AWS is really easy and sadly billing can be up to 24 hours delayed.
Ironically, the biggest argument in favor of IPv6 adoption is the massive debacle IPv6 has been. It's virtually guaranteed that we won't ever get a successor to IPv6, and since IPv4 exhaustion has pushed enough adoption of IPv6 that we can't get rid of IPv6 either.. we're stuck with it.

Yes, I do wish we'd realized this 15 years ago, when it might have still been possible to throw IPv6 away and start over. But we didn't, so here we are.
Aside, there no reason that this comment should be downvoted.
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Yup. javascript: URL (either pasted or typed into URL bar) are long gone as self-xss precaution. The only way you can run javascript: URL is bookmarking it and invoking resulting bookmarklet. And AFAIK there is no way to re-enable it again. You have to start web developers console to rund ad-hoc JavaScript code in pages' context. (I see this as an end of glorious era of "you can do pretty much anything in URL bar".)
TinyML is a decent book as an intro to ML models in that size range.
Yes, they are, but I'd think the area has grown more than the weight per area unit has shrunk.
> It can be built almost months faster than traditional construction

"almost months" so, 7 weeks?
They gave the world ActiveX too, and the world is better without it.
Shouldn’t Airbnb be in a pre-IPO quiet period now?
Yes I think the whole problem for procgen is that it's hard to find an optimisation problem to optimise related to it. if everything goes well with a "symbolic programming" there no reason to change.

Its almost
I agree, i was exaggerating a bit but there is a spectrum between, say, Brendan Eich (on one extreme) and an average code camp graduate (on the other extreme). Think about those in the 75 to 50% region.
Not that long ago, I provisioned a VM for myself and started doing some development there. I wanted to compile a fairly large project, so I stopped the VM, changed it to a much larger instance (32 CPUs, 128 GB memory) and ran make -j32.

The build finished ten or fifteen minutes later, and I swapped it back out for a smaller instance. It’s nice.
The bricking shows how deeply integrated the remote control system is, and that it can brick the car.

And since it's remote control, it can be hacked (or Ferrari themselves can be hacked).

Therefore we can conclude that the bricking shows how badly the car can be affected by remote hacking.

It doesn't matter that wireless remote communication didn't happen here. The wireless remote control system was demonstrated. And the comment is making claims about the wireless remote control system. The only way the difference would matter is if you think they're lying about the ability to send signals to the system.
I’d be curious to see the data behind that claim that the hobbyist market is overwhelmingly PHP. I must not have any exposure to that ecosystem because PHP does not come to mind when I think of hobbyist development.
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My current house is a prefab, modular home. It was trailered up from Indiana. A crane put the pieces together in a day (two halves on the first floor and four dormers on the second floor). The cost of the crane was about $5000. The cost of the 1500 square-foot cape cod was about $130,000. The entire project was around $330,000, but the property was raw land in an unincorporated area, which means there are certain line items that really jack up the bottom line.

We didn't save that much by going with a prefab home. We also didn't save much time, because we got stuck waiting for a sub-contractor and inspector during the finishing process. If I'm not saving money or time, well, what's the point?

It's a decent-quality house; as good as anything built on site. But nothing special. One of the main reasons to go down the pre-fab path at this price range is because there are relatively few custom home builders who will bother with homes that don't cost at least $500,000. Their margins are about 20%, but regardless of the size of the house, they are completing only three or four a year. They need higher top line projects, otherwise the don't see much bottom line.
Yes. Look up the “Declaration of Helsinki.”
Take care that you don't fry that outlet cable and the power bank if that fridge is compressor powered. Peltier ones will only leech the battery dry in minutes, but compressors have huge inrush currents when turning on, and many powerbanks and converters aren't exactly built to tolerate overcurrent conditions.
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With Ubiqiti being "too enterprisy," I suspect Turris Omnia has long gone out of the window.
That depend on whether he interacts with his wife only for sex. There are obviously many other tasks a wife can do, which could require hiring the prostitute for basically all waking hours, and that's not even getting into the misalignment of interests with a freelancer versus having a partner. I think the proper comparison for rent-versus-buy should be a girlfriend versus a wife.
Teams is already there, Microsoft is bringing the others over, and you can do it today with: https://github.com/sirredbeard/unofficial-webapp-office
> FireWire --> burned out ports

Sounds like it delivered what it said on the tin!
is it, though? Every person I know with side projects writes them in either nodejs/ + react/vue or django/flask + react/vue/templates
The San Francisco Bay area is not all of "America".
"Easily"

Oh and the 15k are only for legal costs. Don't forget rent for 3 years on top of that. And all the money that you'll still have to pay for the construction. And stress (medical bills are not cheap).
Perf isn't a high priority for me, more about getting Fortran into the browser. I don't have insights into the aliasing.
I think it's more a case of it coming full circle.

People realising that it's just another tool in the toolbox rather than 1 tool that can replace their entire toolbox.

Much of the cynicism seems to come from that.

I do agree with jason though - open ended serverless things charged per use are no fun. Now you can bankrupt yourself at scale with that bug & the 1000 instances.
This. Imagine the mental toll of working a full time job but then doing "side projects" you don't love doing, to further your career? I can't even imagine how soul crushing that must be.
See also "manufactured housing".
A lot of this just seems to be that Kubernetes works really well. Serverless seemed more compelling to me 5+ years ago.

But nowadays, I just setup my K8 templates with auto-scaling groups on GKE, and it pretty much works just as well as serverless was promised. Compute demand gets seamlessly transformed into compute supply.

I almost never have to think about managing individual hosts. And the cost is cheaper and performance is more predictable than serverless. Plus it's mostly all platform agnostic.
The really scary thing about climate change is the time lag. The warming we are experiencing today is the effects of the carbon emitted 20 years ago. If we stopped cold turkey right now we’d still get another 20 years of warming- but we won’t. So 20 years from now, we’re going to look around and go, gee, this is getting bad, but at that point we will be committed already to another 20 years of warming after that.
Developers found out - There was servers involved after all.
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