skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every dev is allowed to spin up their own service. Teams can self organize and self govern around business problems they feel like solving. The best teams are the ones that produce the services that product owners rely on the most to get things done.

Can't emphasize this enough. The only way to tackle complexity in tech organizations is by introducing at least one degree of freedom for innovation per employee.

Where would Uber be without three thousand microservices for three thousand engineers?
Quatom mechanics doesn't really have a concept of space-time. The notion of space-time is entirely a construction of relativity; and the two theories have yet to be unified.

Collapsing the wave function doesn't bring a system into the domain of relativity. That happens at a fuzzy point where a system become massive enough for relativistic effects to become significant.

In thoery, we would probably expect to see some relativistic effects in entangled systems; but predicting what those effects are requires a theory of quantum gravity.

There is semiclassical gravity; which essentially says that the quantum fields described quantum mechanics occurs in the curved spacetime of relativity. This is (by design) just an approximation of the still unknown theory of quantum gravity; and we don't have good experimental evidence telling us how accurate of an approximation it is.
Nah. You were referring to the phenomenon of conspiracy theories and the ease with which they could be dispelled by logic, were they of such little grounding as we say Qanon is. You weren't referring to HN, or any debate in particular; that's a rhetorical sleight of hand.

Had you been referring to HN, you'd still have been wrong: "destroying" with anything, facts and logic included, is opposite to the spirit of this site.
Acid was fun, don't get me wrong. But it felt shallow. I don't know how else to describe it. With mushrooms and other natural hallucinogens, i've felt more of a connection with things and had more of an introspective time. Especially at high doses.

With acid, it was always just fun. There wasn't really much introspection about it. It just made everything feel profound and fun. Whereas, especially mushrooms, but also a few other plant based substances, the trips always led to more self reflection and more positive changes post trip.

I like acid more. I wish i could get some acid as nice as i had years back now, but when i want to deal with real life issues or emotional problems, mushrooms are where i turn to. Acid is more for those times when i just wanna take a vacation for a few hours and go on a magical journey.
What you say is true, but why do you think the present system is better? Arbitrarily weighting different people doesn't really make any sense unless you think it somehow gives more weight to correct or better people.
As the renewable fraction of power production increases, the amount of greenhouse gas released in production of new renewables decreases.

Something similar might be true of nuclear, except that emissions per ton of concrete are not going down.
He could have just uploaded a copy of Big Buck Bunny to an empty YouTube account just for tests...
Is going permanently remote, still a bad career move?
My company is allowing us to apply to go permanently remote. Seriously considering doing it, but concerned about the ramification as I am still pretty junior. Thoughts?
I'm super grateful he dedicated his life to spreading such anti-mainstream ideas about intellectual property. He wasn't the first at all to think outside the actual box that is the mind prison living under a copyright regime puts you in, but he had profound impact on so many to break us out of it. Technology would be nowhere near where it is now if not for the millions of us that gave the sweat of our brow to free software. Which also coincidentally created the largest concentration of wealth and power in the history of the species on the backs of that collective labor but I digress.
NASA OSIRIS-REx was so good at grabbing asteroid rocks that they’re overflowing
(There's an option in the settings to turn videos off and just play album versions of songs.)
Love Is a Joint Project
If you're dealing with a situation in which errors occur at a rate high enough to see random collisions in even CRC16 you need FEC if not spread spectrum techniques. CRCs can provably detect errors in up to n bits of various configurations depending on selection of the polynomial... And CRC dates back many years and is far from the state of the art. MD5 can produce collisions with as little as 6 bits in error, far less than the 128-bit length would suggest.

Cryptographic hash functions are designed with different objectives and methods and are often less well suited, and almost always less well analyzed, for simple error-detection situations.
It seems you've written c² in units of Wh/kg? But the fact that per arbitrary mass, you can theoretically get more energetic reactions than by fission or even fusion doesn't mean comparing the productivity of fission to oil is silly. The issue is realistic ways of efficiently liberating and harnessing energy from matter.

One better than fusion not impossible option is carefully feeding small black holes and extracting their huge output of energy. The feedstock for the black hole might even be lifted from the sun. In the meantime, fission is a productive and practical option to add to the energy mix that will more than serve until we've worked out fusion.

One place I think I agree with you is that phrasing it as energy density, rather than focusing on efficiency of a given unit of mass or fuel at yielding energy can be a bit obscuring. That is, it's better to focus on sustainability of fuel source. Energy density (J/m^3 and J/kg, specific energy) are units more appropriate for talking about energy storage and bombs.
Youtube is far from the only thing ytdl is useful for. I have a particular hate for youtube and basically don't go there, but still make plenty of use of youtube-dl.
If you like that, check out this interview with Amazon’s second employee too. Lots of early startup lessons in there.

https://www.raddadshow.com/episode/paul-davis
Azure notebooks looks like it's being retired at the beginning of '21.
I learned from the book "There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings" that all the renaissance science around magnetism and static electricity started out as parlor tricks -- dazzling each other with strange feats of attraction and repulsion.
Sometimes, I think of throwing up my hands and saying, how can you fight this? There's only so much you can fight against what people want -- because by our actions we're saying we want it.

What do I mean? Facebook is just a manifestation of something that has gripped us through technology. People want to read about their family/friends little daily stories, they want to engage in arguments about politics, they want to hear gossip and news, they want a platform to promote themselves. And they've found a way to do it.

Someone will insert themselves into that stream to manipulate others, entice them to buy things, seek publicity for their causes. Yet we still (collectively) keep opening the app and logging on because we feel -- consciously or not -- that it brings more value to our lives than takes. So every minute, Facebook (or whoever it would be to take their place) gets the reward signal saying, "these people want what we're selling". And on net people aren't abandoning it out of concern for the side effects.

Maybe all you can do is create your local island of sanity and protect yourselves against whatever it produces. Maybe that's us for a decade until someone figures out how to manage this new dynamic, or Congress does its job. How much can you fight when every person's minute-by-minute choice produces a force that's uncontrollable?
There will be a lot of smart people in this thread saying nuclear doesn't make economic sense, and honestly I don't know how accurately quantify the price myself, but if you look at a map of all nuclear energy projects under construction, they are not happening in "rich" countries, but nations with huge populations that are on the verse of emerging from mass poverty. I assume they have done the math.
No, not bigger. Maybe same order of magnitude though.
Was over-exploitation really the key factor in North African elephants going extinct? I always thought it was due to increasing desertification + the expansion of human settlement in North Africa, but that's just idle speculation
> Also, does the fact that YouTube doesn't supply a download feature constitute a "technical protection measure"?

The law is so vague on this point so as to include practically anything. Here is the text:

> a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
Unfortunately, SSB uses far more JS than they really should.
> firm low-carbon energy (geothermal)

What? No. Geothermal is proven to trigger earthquakes. Not firm or viable or scalable at all. Not even low carbon.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsmark_Nuclear_Power_Plant#J...
I'm in the same space as the founder of NightCafe Creator [1]. It's been running at a (substantial) loss for the last year until September which was my first break even month. I'm hoping to turn it around and have made great strides so far. The biggest expense (95%) is GPU compute time. It runs on Algorithmia which was super convenient to get up and running with, but is now very expensive. Switching compute providers is a big opportunity. Unfortunately I suck at devops.

1. https://creator.nightcafe.studio
Bugs can also be technical debt, but then it has to be that people make a conscious decision that the bugs are not that important - like John says this will have a problem if people do X and the decision is made that X is an edge case that won't happen and John should work on something important.
You don't need to know anything else about hashing passwords after this
Employee does not take any risk. He says in the interview he was working with number of failing startups before. They failed, but they've paid his fixed project or hourly salary nevertheless.

Moreover, many of those people are willing to hire someone good who is available for temporary jobs, and hence paying very competitive rates, at the same time surviving on canned tuna themselves.

I've been #1 techie in many failed protects. Not depending how you think about that business ideas and personalities behind them, all those people should be highly respected for putting their neck on the line.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301436

And this sort of ordeal may be way more of a concern with a nuke plant.
My understanding is that it only requires you send the notice in good faith, meaning that if you think you own a copyright but don't (because, say, you own too many copyrights to keep track of them) you're still in the clear.
Yes this describes exactly what I meant, and is the reason I am a free software activist.

Today’s tech doesn’t allow humans to ask questions, and I’m sad to see that many aren’t even aware that there are a lot of awesome things outside of the dominant corporate systems/tools which is exciting and interesting.

I don’t consider the using of black box corporate apps to be tech literacy. Not even close.
The supreme good is like water,

which nourishes all things without trying to.

It is content with the low places that people disdain.

Thus it is like the tao.

...

Fill your bowl to the brim

and it will spill.

Keep sharpening your knife

and it will blunt.

Chase after money and security

and your heart will never unclench.

Care about people's approval

and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.

The only path to serenity.
The fact that Chinese businesses aren't bound by the Western intellectual property regime is one of their greatest long-term competitive advantages.

It remains to be seen whether the Chinese government will revert to intellectual protectionism once they reach technological parity with the West though.
Yes. There is no rational reason to expect fusion will produce a single watt of practical, commercial power in the lifetime of the grandchildren of anyone reading this. The most optimistic estimate of power density of a productive plasma is so low that a practical fusion plant would need to be tens or hundreds of times as large as a current nuke. Then, it would destroy itself in a short time, leaving hundreds of tons of more-or-less radioactive waste.

Fusion research is a jobs program for high-neutron-flux physicists, to provide a population to draw on for weapons work. There has never been an expectation of practical power generation, and its prospects fall as renewables continue getting cheaper.
How to pick productive coding side projects
Personally I'm not all that into the opera, but this article does raise an interesting point about the affect that the pandemic has on the future viability of a lot of different organizations. Not just businesses, both small and large, but volunteer organizations, sports, and various outlets of skills that usually require in person participation and engagement; especially with youth to keep going strong.

This is a challenge the Air Cadet Flying Program in Canada is currently facing, it's always an ongoing effort to continually get more youth involved with flying and have them stick around with the organization to become the next generation of instructors and program leaders. With the pandemic not only are near term problems being encountered (such as the entire force of flying members no longer being current, requiring a "cold start" whenever the flying operations start back up), but there are also longer-term challenges in that a large gap could appear if the constant ongoing process of drawing new interest in aviation and the flying program specifically is on pause for too long.
Man, I see that this conversation has gone a lot of different directions in the comments. Everything from work / life balance to Ivy League schools, etc.

Everyone from an early age is fed a lot of information regarding all this stuff. Your parents, the ZIP code you grew up in, to the public or private places you were educated or dropped out from.

The truth is, it takes all kinds and success is defined 8 billion ways by 8 billion different people on this planet.

I think one thing that is interesting about tech (I don't work in tech, and I'm not a programmer) is the entrepreneur / start up culture. Maybe it has something to do with the cap nature of the beast (all you have to do is code and rent a server) that makes everyone bananas to be "successful" or a "CEO," but I just don't see this in other industries. Sure, other industries have entrepreneurs and people who start their own thing. But is it SO much different in this tech world. It's a cultural phenomena. It's more or less a function of time. No matter how hard I worked, I could never start a chemical refinery or build a car company. A new app? Function of time and sweat.
I have that doubt. But is it not same as not hearing pitch? I would be surprised if I could train to cent accuracy. And what about Just Intonation vs Equal Temperament?

If relative pitch is correct every tone would be shifted. I can imagine picture made entirely out of unusual colors — no red, yellow, orange, but red-orange, yellow-orange.
Relativistic quantum mechanics exists and is a complete theory - the Dirac equation shows how particles move taking into account the speed of light limit, and in the limit of small speeds reduces to the Schrodinger equation.

Moreover, one of the most important results that confirmed entanglement is possible was the no-communication theorem, that proved that it is impossible to use entanglement to communicate faster than light. This is also suggests that wave-function collapse of an entangled system can't really be a physical phenomenon.
Acquired isn't defunct. The archaically named entity that owns your local telco cabinet almost certainly still exists:

http://www.centurylink.com/static/PDF/AboutUs/DoingBusiness/...
I don't think that's very compelling, versioning-wise (it's still independently versioned). Futhermore, the official node docker images come with yarn pre-installed, and there appears to be no way to bundle in a specific npm version in source control, like you can with `yarn policies set-version` (v1). That has worked wonders for us. Before yarn we used to have problems with developers using different versions of npm on their machines/build agents, and .nvmrc/"engines" doesn't help you there other than being an "error gate". The yarn executable acting like a shim delegating to the checked-in version is brilliant for versioning (especially CI).
> The intent matters. Browsers don't make it easy to get ahold of a copy of the file that you can share, youtube-dl does. Add that to a bad README and that's something that a court might treat very differently from a web browser.

I can't say for YouTube specifically (I haven't tried, I suspect they have the talent to make it actually difficult), but browsers do make it remarkably easy to extract most forms of media from a website. Even websites that attempt to hide it have to embed it somewhere. Whether you feel like it's easier to install Firefox and figure out how to extract the media, or figure out how to install Python and pip and then run youtube-dl is up to you.

There are likely even tutorials up by Mozilla somewhere about how to use the dev tools to pull an image (though I assume they're not stupid enough to do it on material they don't have rights to).

There are many reasons one might want to use youtube-dl. Furthermore, there are many creators that either don't care or are happy that you're downloading their stuff.

If we want to make analogies, every gun shop in America sells guns and human shaped targets. Do they have the intent to encourage people to murder other people? It is a tool that can be used for illegal purposes. They might even have examples of how you can do such a thing (as do gun manufacturers, lockpick manufacturers, security exploit announcements, etc, etc). Why would that make the tool illegal? The argument might hold if the only possible use of it is illegal; that puts it among the ranks of things we deem illegal to merely possess, like fully automatic weapons. I'm not buying the RIAA's argument that youtube-dl is so dangerous to society that we can't trust anyone to use it legally.

> This is not far off from how it's legal to carry lockpicks but it's often not legal to carry lockpicks around with the intention of using them to commit a crime.

No one has demonstrated intent. The publishers have demonstrated that it could potentially be used in an illegal manner (depending on your jurisdiction). They aren't going after someone who downloaded youtube-dl and is trying to use it to pirate things. They're going after the lockpick manufacturer because they have a tutorial on using their lockpicks on their site, and people could use that to commit crimes.
> I honestly don't know why Google's Product Team has any positive reputation at this point.

They have a positive reputation?

I've been a loyal Googler for about 20 years. Nexus, Pixel, Chromecasts, GMail, Fi, Android TV, Google Domains...

I'm about done. It seems like every month they do something to make it more apparent that they're just an advertising company. Products fail to get maintained, they get upgrades that make them less useful, or they're outright cancelled.

I'm planning on de-Googling a bit soon. I may stick with Android, although iPhones or FOSS options are tempting. I feel like I can't stomach supporting Google when they continue to make misstep after misstep.
You can make and receive FaceTime calls from any recent Apple device to any recent Apple device (e.g. Mac to iPhone) which is nice, but FaceTime’s real advantage is call quality. It’s noticeably more clear and seems to handle poor/unstable connections much better.

I can FaceTime with people halfway around the world with more clarity than I can talk to someone on the same WiFi network using WhatsApp.
By spacetime do you mean like, in a general relativity sense? Because aiui quantum field theory is quite consistent with special relativity.
The author doesn't agree with you though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876815
my pleasure.
If no-one else has anything more recent, would you be ok to put yours online somewhere for others to grab?
Still looking to see what harm solar is doing that it is not paying for.

I'm surprised it takes 50 mines for uranium, that's far far more than I had expected.
Where do you use it? I didn't realize it works on other video websites as well...
Maduino Zero Canbus-1
Wish I could find the original clip
Python startup time is slow for you?? It’s basically instantaneously on every machine I’ve ever used, unless there’s some seriously poorly written imports.
Should everyone be able to see which ads targeted at their peers? Still seems like an invasion of privacy.
Can you further explain how this works?

1. FB does something wrong that affects 700k of its 1b users at the time
2. FB loses any moral authority to object to things that violate their terms of service.

That is a bit of a leap, but I am open to hearing what I’m not understanding about your thought process.
> few deaths

I have read that the technically correct number is "zero" deaths. There were, however, deaths from evacuation to avoid the lack of death from radiation.
Given how utterly terrible YT Music is, I have to think there is an underlying business reason they were forced to do this. Do they save on royalties and licensing by only having one channel for music?

If they didn't bundle YouTube Premium with the music subscription I would have ditched it and switched to Spotify. As it is, I'm considering getting a phone with enough storage and just switching back to mp3s. Google still doesn't understand what music lovers want(like not skipping to the next track abruptly if there is a momentary connection issue).
I’m so glad that Github is owned by Microsoft and that they don’t immediately comply with the takedown... /sarcasm
That's a valid point, but I don't think the barrier is particularly high. I've done the switch from npm to yarn once. It was a process measured in hours to understand the differences. It's not like Git vs Subversion or something like that.
Both can produce enriched nuclear material
That seems like an odd claim to me. In a nationwide popular voting system, what votes aren't worth the same?
> It could be argued that when you watch a monetized youtube video ...

Not sure what one of those looks like. I hear people talk about them, but I've not seem an advert on a YouTube video.

That being said, I do use a bunch of anti-ad browser extensions... :)
> This project really needs more attention. Would have resolved the issue we had earlier today. Some others ideas:

The author doesn't think so though https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876815
I am sorta writing a book "The Devmanual" - describing what I think is the basic set of "how we do things around here" - the idea is to procrastinate on writing the internal tools of my business empire before i actually hold my business empire !

The point I am trying to make is that all the tools for a business should interoperate and work with some degree of cross-programmability.

A list this long feels like it has broken past this concept.

It's not that gitlab does it get value from these but that there is more value in a programmable API level.

I think I mean that there should be a way to :

x = get_hr_people_from_hrsaas()
for p in x:
use_sales_saas.calculate_commission(p)

It's still a stretch but i feel there is something there beyond IFTT
In other words, they are in nations with high levels of corruption, minimal regulation, but just enough money.

The US has the most institutionalized corruption in the world, but the US just did it all earlier.
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