skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can always buy someone else's grape right now. Monsanto has already sued farmers that own land next to their farms because their patented pesticides drift into the other property. It's not at all unreasonable to envision a future where Monsanto (or some other company) tries to sue hundreds or thousands of farmers because one of their patented strands of some fruit has overtaken larger populations.
Individual contributor.

Obviously there's a spectrum of management that an IC can undertaken, but this is typically based around their good will and soft powers, but the wider point is they're not supported to have direct reports.
So you're rich and want to get richer but the poor people you're exploiting are starting to hurt your margins? We're here to help you legally discriminate against MPoCs! /sarcasm
Mice can get through small holes, but they won't adapt to fit through pin holes.
Yeah... The "1GB of data transfer --> 3kg of CO2" is high by orders of magnitude.

Computer systems and network equipment have a fixed install and fixed operational costs. I think the incremental energy cost of transferring 1GB across 5000km is on the order of 1000 Joules of energy. I think 10Gb optical transfer requires less than 10W per 100km... this probably a really high upper limit (equipment electrical power plus cooling power).

1000 J is roughly equal to 0.0003 kWh
1 kWh electrical power generation produces about 200-500g CO2 depending upon the electrical grid.

So that would work out to about 0.15grams per 1GB of data, at the most. The fixed upfront equipment costs and carbon footprint do need to the factored in as well but they are not going to amount to much.

So yeah... we talking about less than a gram of CO2 per 1GB.

I don't care to run the numbers further than this...
I don’t make any claim of being a material scientist, I just wish to note that there is something with the name “single atom transistor”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-atom_transistor
Backend is django with graphene, frontend is vuejs with vuetify and Apollo. DB is Postgres. DB and backend is hosted in AWS, frontend is netlify
I've only played with Rust a little bit, but I think something that often goes under-remarked is that its ownership system doesn't just give you "static GC" -- it also guarantees no data races for multithreading. This is pretty awesome.
I'm well aware of the logical contrapositive in the form: if A implies B, then Not B implies Not A. I've used this fact, unprompted, in a variety of contexts.

However, there's something about the way this guy asked the question that makes me unsure whether I would have correctly answered it on the spot. It's somehow detached from both application, and the logic that underlies it.

If the question had been asked as: "Is there any relationship between Not A and Not B" I would have instantly gotten the correct answer.

...But the way he asked it, it comes across as a question about whether Not A implies Not B which of course does not follow the given. I realize none of those words are in actually in there, yet the phrasing of the question somehow leads my brain into filling in the gaps in that way. My suspicion is that this is actually a common thought pattern and perhaps those being interviewed may have fallen into a similar trap.
Yes, I know. nix-shell on macOS works fine for me, but vlc fails to install because the Nix package is not supported on macOS.

I was just sad that I couldn't use the cool Nix magic to view the stream.
What is your definition of "government adjacent industries"?
The US does great on educating the kids it cares about. The many kids that are written off (poor and/or non-white usually) drag down the average. If we spent on family stability instead of prisons, we'd turn things around quickly, but that might benefit the "wrong" people.
Reminds me of The Great Masticator Horace Fletcher from hundreds years ago.. "Nature will castigate those who don't masticate."

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

Franz Kafka chewed his food excessively to the extend that people refused to eat dinner with him.
Open source development doesn't have to be more costly than closed source, except in this case it might be if you end up believing the people who tell you that the best way to be successful is to cut off your ability of ever again getting a commercial contract out of the kinds of organizations who want to build proprietary apps on your work by publishing under a permissive license like BSD or MIT.

> What would be strategies in case of Kickstarter campaign will fail?

Publish under GPL and don't listen to those who tell you that "open source" means anything other than offering your code to folks under an open source license. Just do whatever you're already doing right now, chuck code over the wall every now and then with an appropriate license attached, and ignore anyone who isn't paying you but insists that you owe them something.
Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
Yeah, of course, I'm not looking for perfect code. Concurrency is hard, and as I mentioned, it's probably the most common problem spot I see in interviews, so if I were a hard-ass about it I'd never hire anyone.

My expectations are that a candidate can identify that there is a concurrency consideration to be made in the first place, and have some knowledge around how to handle concurrency issues in their language of choice, since different languages take very different approaches.

For JS/node that could mean identifying that the main execution is single threaded, so you need to use async/await or callbacks for asynchronous tasks to prevent blocking all other execution. In go that could mean understanding that passing messages is generally safer than sharing memory. In java that could be an awareness of the concurrency primitives that the language has like atomics and concurrent data structures (I could never expect a candidate to fully grasp the concurrency nightmare that is java).

I also usually give candidates a laptop and free use of the internet. I try to ask questions that are more grounded in the actual work we do and not just toy algorithms, which means letting people look up documentation, data structures, and whatever else they want. If we're being honest with ourselves, the ability to effectively search the internet is just as important to software engineering as the coding itself, if not more so.
Exposure to man-made chemicals influences aging, immune system and metabolism
The Horrors of Startup Company
OK. That is interesting. Every so often something incredible comes out, like this. I assume that this only relieves certain types of sources of Tinnitus, as I know there are several causes.

So, the question is, what percentage of people can be relieved with this?
Agreed. This argument about DRM and software rights and redistribution finds its roots in the failure of markets to distribute products that have infinite supply once they are created. Call it an "Idea Product". Information can only be duplicated, not moved. It can only be shared, not taken. And since this feature means that "Idea Products" aren't scarce, how to you price it?

The correct price is 0, just looking at it from first principles.

But we don't like that because then these "idea products" have no incentive to get made, so we pretend like supplies are limited, we limit them with patents, we limit them with DRM, we limit them with laws, pretend it's scarce so the market can price it.

To many, this is an acceptable result. Buuuut... must we use a market for absolutely everything? Even if it's clearly broken in this use case and we're just pretending it works? The fact that we are pretending is fine, even when someone's life is on the line?

I think we need something like bug bounties for information. I think we need a different kind of market for novelty.
ephemeral.run – A full application environment for every PR
Yeah I know, I plan to rebrand, I had no idea that existed
Yeah, it's called Bottom (⊥)

fun foo(): ⊥ {
return foo();
}

In Rust it's called !, and you can write

fn will_panic() -> ! {
panic!("uh oh");
}

This is actually useful for some embedded systems, where the main function isn't allowed to return, and gets declared with the Nothing / Bottom / ! type.

The compiler is also smart enough to say that an infinite loop has type !, so you can have

fn main() -> ! {
let setup = ...;
loop {
blink_led();
sleep(100);
}
}

and it'll complain if you put a break statement in the loop.
>Space Launch System is $20B with not a single flight. SpaceX comes along, get's no $1B/year base, get's paid a fraction of the "big players" - and has done 80+ F9 launches.

You might be conflating Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. Falcon Heavy is a more applicable comparison to SLS. Falcon Heavy had one launch in '19 and two in '20.

When it comes to infrastructure, I think there are a few confounding factors. 1) Our level of risk is lower. We no longer find it an acceptable risk to lose workers at the rates that were acceptable 100 years ago and 2) the systems are inherently more complex. Even so, we tend to oversimplify them when planning [1]

[1] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/project-management/
Anecdotally, as a SWE who doesn't have personal interest in coding, I would be more likely to code if I were a manager and didn't have to do it in day to day life (to get the satisfaction of actually doing everything exactly how I want it). After staring at a screen and typing all day, the last thing I want to do is put more strain on my eyes and fingers after work.
Variabilising all a company’s costs is every CFO’s dream: it makes all projections perfectly linear and totally eliminates any risk as zero revenue doesn’t create a loss because all costs also go to zero.

At least, in the start-up phase of operations.

Later, when economies of scale kick in and break-even has been far overcome, one seeks to negotiate smaller unit charges, primarily to capture more of the added value for oneself, and partially to reduce visibility of one’s revenue.
I reckon it's harder to get people to always practice safe sex than it is to wear masks.
Addressed in the article
Given the other options, it's a vote with my wallet for the kind of world I want.
You can ask yourself why something is as it is infinitely until the cycle regresses in on itself. Like the child that keeps asking `why?`. The lie we've accepted is that somewhere beneath this pile of whys is a foundation that makes things as they are for a reason. Something solid. An un-moving axiom.

That's something to consider.

Furthermore we can apply `Why?` to the widely accepted belief in the axiom that our identity begins and ends at the thin layer of air that separates our flesh from the "outside" world. We can see that there is no reason for this belief other than that we have been caught up in the memeplex that we are separate individuals for so long.

What are the repercussions of that? Does that imply, for instance, bending spoons with our mind could be a thing? I mean, if our identity extends beyond this flesh and can be aligned with the will of the universe, then maybe that's a thing. Maybe that's a thought we can entertain.

It's becoming apparent that our consciousness can extend further than we previously believed. We can manipulate systems of our own bodies with our will that we previously thought were 100% in control of us.

When presented with a consensus belief in our limits of awareness and willpower, Wim Hof asks `Why?`, and is able to extend his control further.

I'm excited to see how far we will push our abilities as portals for the universe to see itself through.
Reviving a space program in particular into terraforming Mars is scientifically absurd but worthy goal. Should keep everyone nice and sharp.
Fantastic analogy: tipping is a vestige of a culture of patronage and servitude and a practice that doesn't exist (in the same form) in most of Europe for example, where servers rely on an explicit obligation of payment rather than "whatever the customer feels like giving."

Just as tipping is a shitty system and the explicit & transparent European model is better, so is using a license that clearly spells out (requires) the type of attribution you want better than relying on vague implicit expectations.
I did buy a new car a few months ago, and the best possible driver assist features were a priority for me. I bought Chrysler Pacifica minivan with their "advanced" driver assist package. It's just an adaptive cruise control plus warnings when I drift off out of a clearly marked lane. It does not offer a lane keeping ability.

That's a $50k 2020 model with all premium features added. I haven't tried Comma, but from what I can see it can actually drive itself in the most routine situation - staying in a lane on a freeway. My Pacifica can't do that, even though it has 8 cameras and a radar.
It seems to my untrained eyes that this was a poor choice of OSS license. See a recent discussion from earlier this week about how Plausible switched licenses for this reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24763734
I think the analogy just drove off a cliff, or maybe into a firewall.
Thanks! This worked:

nix-shell --packages mpv --run "mpv https://dash.nixcon.net/dash/master.m3u8"
HN is a constant reminder that the bane of the smart person is to be blinded about their ignorance by their own mind.
Yes, and a pin is required for an ATM in the US.

The only time a pin is NOT required is if it goes through visa/mc. And you have protections.

Please read this:

https://www.daveramsey.com/blog/debit-card-fraud

The truth is this:

Merchants WANT you to be able to use your card - without thinking, with little friction and often. They make lots more money with this state of affairs than fraud takes away.
The film camera magazine had a capacity of up to 10 minutes, so Hitchcock could film the scene all in one shot.
I get this sensation in my sinuses - but only after having had surgery - I think you're feeling the mucus membranes shifting around - they can get larger/smaller based on blood pressure, I believe the membranes are called nasal turbinates. I had some removed. It's a really interesting feeling.
A Deep Analysis of Russian Trolls Using Apache Pinot
This is a little tangential (and I'm NOT trying to claim the author is a bot) but wouldn't the first thing you'd do as a bot being called out as non-human be to proclaim "how dare you call me a bot!"?
Not only that, but there is no mention of the original author on their press release. All they say is "Amazon launches CloudWatch Synthetics Recorder".

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/10/amazon-cl...

I wonder if FOSS licenses can be modified such that if you are claiming in press that you are "launching" something and it is substantially based on something open source you must state the original authors prominently in body of the press release.
Another resource for finding footpaths/routes is

https://www.strava.com/heatmap

They've aggregated tons of bike and running routes so you can see where other people have ran/biked before. Good to use in the woods when the trails aren't very obvious, just use the 'find me' button on the map and then you can see where you are and which trail goes where.
I need to change the tag line to make it clearer internationally, and the product name because, as someone has pointed out, it’s actually already taken
"The proper way" is not an objective thing and to present it as such is disingenuous.

The best managers I've ever worked for have all, without fail, worked daily to keep as much nonsense away from the team as possible. The worst have either only been concerned with their personal advancement, or would just make the team basically fend for itself.
I personally respect OpenAI, Love the data link on cars. I think we should never be frightened of hacked cars, we should definitely be hacking our cars (and trucks, forklifts, lawnmowers, combines, papershredders, robots).

Just wanted to add many comments on Can and obdII:

In the United States the obdII port is required beginning in model year 1996.
The obdII port and the CAN is analogous to rj45 and cat5, 5e, 6, etc.

Should note, the can bus is anything but bog standard.

However, in 2008 the United States required that all vehicles provide an iso15765 interface as the basis of the on board diagnostics. Iirc, 15765 is a subset of Can that's for cars and not forklifts. Can is controller area network.

There are a large variety of protocols talked across Can, far too many to list as you have noted. There are schemes which are serial, parralel addressed and not, and even analog signaling cohabitating this generic breakout port.

Where it differs between cars is the capabilities of the DLC, if the vehicles isn't equipped with a sensor suite, there will be no correspondent ecu subsystem to query, but for the most part you can send control messages to anything you want on a DoT approved vehicle, unless it is locked away behind a specific gateway and the car manufacturer is still hiding the method to control access to the device.

None of this applies to infotainment devices or comfort features.

Consumers should rue the day we return to the age of mystery subsystems requiring special protocols.

The reason I say this (and I suspect but, can't remember the 2008 iso 15765 mandate rationale) is that you probably want your mechanic to be able to fix your car, right?

Anybody who might be interested in the wild and fun world of automotive Com protocols such as this I can recommend to you this good and recent resource from 2020: https://www.csselectronics.com/screen/page/simple-intro-to-c...
The Codeless Code: Case 115 Pain
Basic microeconomics teaches that demand is a schedule of what customers are willing to pay at various price points, and that businesses need to apply "marginal" analysis aka calculus to optimize profit. There is nothing about the basic building blocks of microeconomics that makes it incompatible for the analysis of luxury products.

Most product are not luxury products and a large portion of the world lives in poverty, so naturally most Econ 101 discussions of microeconomics will deal with commodity products e.g. bread.

Like anything worth learning, it is far more important to understand the basic principles of the subject than to learn details about specific applications. That is memorization over understanding.
Companies/industries that exist because of government outsourcing work to them. Defense contacting being the obvious example, but there are a wide range like education outsourcing text books and testing services. As a rule of thumb if the industry suffers when efficiency increases, things get worse.
The official budget in 2010 was around a billion kroner with less than 900 employees.
and online music and movies, low-end smartphones, operating system software, ...

Is it extremely rare for supply to crush prices? Or is it more that we stop thinking about valuable things once they become super cheap commodities?
Really enjoyed your observations on Pismo clams and Moss Landing crabs. Silicon Valley has always been about abundance.

CC Morse used the fertile Santa Clara Valley to build the world’s largest seed company. His land gave birth to the original VC and investment in Fairchild semiconductor. As long as there is opportunity there will be abundance. https://twofeet.weebly.com/walking-blog/charles-copeland-mor...
Take a good look at the pictures floating around on twitter depicting a french school teacher beheaded near Paris today, and tell me with a straight face that Islamism has nothing to do with such acts.
I am not sure who are worse, them or the apologists. I refuse to sit idling while my kin is killed by the sword. And people who can't see through this NGO bullshit deserve every bit of hell they bring upon themselves.
Blizzard: Starcraft II Update
You have severely misunderstood Keynes and Marx, if you think they "disproved supply and demand."
Is it hard? It seems to me he does it quite plainly. I feel like people who reach for defense of this man are having to face their own biases and demons and it's ugly.
You could found a consultancy for app development, where Sciter is a key part of your internal stack. Fund the tool with what is built by it directly
Frankly, the whole article just seems like a shill for his book pitch at the bottom. The arguments rely on anecdotal examples, ignoring depth and complexity. Using bold type on each paragraph's first lines just adds to my sense of this being yellow journalism.
It's a Comcast IP address but really I think it comes down to the fact that I own my own CM and I don't trust it as my router/firewall.

You can ask but posting the actual IP address here would be like wearing a cell phone in a belt clip at BlackHat/DefCon.
Maybe an atom can be something more powerful than a transistor and be able to emulate the properties of a transistor.
This guy has about 100 days on them all by himself back in 1968. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitessier
> Immersion in ice cold water is extremely unpleasant and non-trivial for most people to do regularly.

No kidding, living in Australia as I do, sometimes even our cold water taps are hot. I would have to produce or buy ice for an ice bath every day. With electricity prices as high as they are, it is not viable.
Yep, that's what I'm experiencing. There isn't a requirements analysis or design review where he doesn't insert himself into the low-level details, right down to class/data specifications and even lower. Instead of bringing his knowledge of how our stuff has to integrate with other teams' work to inform the design, he acts more like an IC colleague participating in its construction. Then, when engineers come to design reviews with designs that are relatively under-specified (knowing he'll just start making decisions during the meeting) he complains.

It's a bit grating to be told that "you're the expert, I expect you to decide these things" and then have every detail nitpicked over and argued with anyway.
I actually worked on one as part of a school project -- there are many, many, many pieces of landlord software. More than I would have thought possible.
A lot of folks new to the area don't appear very familiar with its history, but make strong proclamations of its fate all the same.
NanoAdblocker / NanoDefender is malware now
> Official government statements should come through more secure channels than a privately owned and operated web site

This can be done today. An application communicating via an open and federated social protocol can be stood up on government infrastructure/DNS namespace. These systems already exist and work.
With the economic expansion over the last 8 ish years, instead of paying skilled employees more, companies hired more employees at the same lower wage. This led to reduced skill overall as more large businesses adopted this strategy and competed for top talent at low pay.
Trite and robotic.
I haven't lived in Silicon Valley, but I've visited enough times to know the weather is a hell of a lot better than Detroit. Its access to natural beauty like the ocean and mountains is also considerably better.

If Detroit and San Francisco were equivelant cities (culturally, cost of living, etc.) I can't see why anyone would pick Detroit.
This article states the opposite: when researchers chose which object the babies held, their preference went away.
Hmmmm.

Let's assume that the baby has a perfect ordered ranking of blocks, 3 > 2 > 1, but that the experimenter doesn't know what it is.

There's three scenarios for what the new, third block is: 1, 2 or 3.

If it's 2 or 3, then the rejected block in the first round has a score of 1, and so we'd expect. So we'd only expect the baby to switch in a third of the cases, as opposed to 50% of the cases where the blocks are assumed to be equal.

"However, in the critical test trial that followed, 16 of 21 infants (76.2%) chose the new block (block C; Fig. 1)"

I can't work out the p-value vs. 66% compared to 50%, though...
More than 99% of species that have ever lived are now extinct.