skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who just set up a matrix server for my friends last month, I'm very pleased to hear this optimism!
Hard to read that with a straight face. What counts is what people use.
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The federal state of Lower Saxony actually, and it's only about 12% [1].

[1] https://www.volkswagenag.com/de/InvestorRelations/shares/sha...
They use the same mining hardware, but they are not the same chain.
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It's both true that the NSF a whole is getting an increased budget and that the NSF reduced its budget for this particular instrument.
Um, having trouble understanding what you mean...?
Most radio astronomers would rather see the money spent on the SKA instead (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array). Looking at the epoch of reionization is where the excitement is in low frequency radio astronomy these days. I know the SKA can't replace Arecibo's radar capabilities, but the SKA will do more interesting astronomy.
I self-host a Matrix instance and it's great. It's just the network thing where you need your friends to hop on it before it gains much value.

In the meantime, Matrix makes it possible (not trivial, in my experience) to bridge to other chat services. Bridging requires a fair bit of technical know-how.
Out of curiosity, did you have retries on the GETs?
I wonder if the stock market likes it because it's a "purer" speculation than some other automakers.

Tesla tracks one clear proposition: the future of personal transport is electric. If you buy the premise, it's one of the most precise bets you can make on it.

In contrast, GM or Hyundai or Volkswagen are inherently hedged. If petrol drops to twelve cents per litre, they'll pivot back to V8 boats and Tesla goes bust. But that means they'll pay out less if the future is electric-- they wasted resources and time that could have been in retrospect better spent going whole hog on electric vehicles.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is part of the reason firms like Nikola can still get market traction with way more vaporous fundamentals: they're also positioned as a pure bet on that proposition.

(Disclaimer: long TSLA)
Reading this on a Fairphone. It's worth trying for something better, dude, even if you aren't ever likely to get to perfection.
Well that would explain why I've only encountered them in C.
For cost on AWS, use S3. AWS price local storage on VMs to make HDFS not competitive. If you want the HDFS API but S3 storage costs on AWS, use HopsFS-S3 - https://www.logicalclocks.com/blog/hopsfs-100x-times-faster-... (disclosure: work on HopsFS).

HDFS provides POSIX-like API, and now has atomic metadata operations that S3 doesn't (mv/rename, chown, chmod) and append for files.
It was about to be demolished anyway: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/19/936677582/world-renowned-arec...
... yes it is?
Strictly speaking, it wasn't until the second cable broke about a month ago that its high risk of collapse was expected, and the engineering report itself took two weeks after the second break.
EC2 is hardly the main service that people decide over. EKS, ECS, Fargate and Lamba, Aurora and other managed DBs, S3 eliminates a lot of the setup skills and time required to setup something even remotely reliable and on par in features. Sure if you need a reliable VM there are cheaper options perhaps.
I think the question is: is an arecibo big dish observatory still a better choice for future goals than arrays of smaller dishes or maybe even some other technology?
Hemingway and Fitzgerald hated each other.
> If your primary operation is inserting at a random location in the list, linked lists are faster than arrays at large sizes. You avoid having to move all the memory after the index you are modifying (to make space for the inserted element).

This is false. Big O notation says it should be true, you'll get marked wrong if you say arrays are faster in your algorithms & data structures final, but when you're running on actual hardware the array is faster at all sizes of n and as n becomes larger so does the gap in performance.

Here is a talk[0] by Bjarne Stroustrop (Creator of C++) that even includes imaginary graphs demonstrating this phenomenon. If you want a visual for what the missing graph was supposed to look like, here's a similar one.[1]

Here's another video[2] by Scott Meyers (Author of Effective C++) that goes into more detail about why this happens.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQs6IC-vgmo
[1]: https://airspeedvelocity.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/pasted_...
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIkqP4JbkE
It all depends on the scale of not only the app, but the organization too. We have enough people to click buttons in RDS. We don't have enough to mess around with replication, backups, etc. The cost isn't just for the hardware, but the services that we'd otherwise have to hire someone to do.

I used to work at a place that would borrow hardware from one client in order to handle the load on another. It was for seasonal stuff, a few days a year when we knew someone would melt down if they didn't have double or triple the capacity, but they didn't need it the rest of the year.

Now I deal in auto scale groups and don't care how many servers we use or need as long as it isn't wasteful. "Hardware" that isn't ours is so easy to swap out, try a different size or scale that is hate to go back to metal.
It is one of the fun things about graphics programming. Bugs can also sometimes be funny enough to dispel the frustration.

But when you've been futzing around with quaternions all day, and your camera finally stops acting like a hyperactive husky who hasn't had a walk in days...well, I imagine that's close to what it felt like when they got the internal combustion engine to stop being an external combustion engine.
If you're on Twitter, I'd suggest you follow David Perell (https://twitter.com/david_perell) and explore his works.

Also, do you already have a tool for writing? A good tool allows you to structure your content better and allows your thoughts to flow much easily. I'm using a tool called Ulysses (http://ulysses.app). Unfortunately, it's only available for Apple.

Hope it helps.
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There's not even 44 hours of downtime in a year for 99.5% SLA, so I have no idea what you are talking about.
You, sir, are on that list.

You just don't know it yet.

Yiee.
This makes me wonder what’s going to happen to the partnership between Atlassian and Slack.
Excellent approach to making a mobile friendly text adventure. Did you invent this tap/log pattern, or is it common in the IF world?
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I LOVE Front. 'slackifying' is such a bad reduction. Cross-channel communication, multi-seat enterprise support, CRM and automation would be better buzzwords.

My experience:

I spent a good amount of time thinking of ideas and building a plugin for our clients/use case. I think the concept would be killer if we can execute and get our clients to scale.

THENNNNN FB changed their rules and now I can't use Front to message outside of 24 hours.

I wouldn't bet/invest FB won't block all access to Messenger api once tools like Front are just gaining traction and or they have time to copy the best features into their own messenger tool.

My experience with the Front plugin api is kind of not great and missing basic features that were in version 1 but not in 2, and 1 is not supported anymore. And I think the RxJS doesn't help and like if you have to 'hack' a settimeout anyways to get and cache the state then what's the point...
I have started working on this actually (the vfs being developed in Rust). The design was complex but now this simplifies a lot.

The vfs will also have snapshotting capabilities i.e. you can have multiple versions of sqlite db.
Disclaimer: I work on Emailio (https://emailio.com), a YC company that is a direct competitor to Front. We help you build healthy email habits.

Slack is detrimental to team communication in several ways, and bringing it to email is a mistake imho. Slack combines the stress and urgency of text messaging with the importance of email. Your Slack becomes a Facebook or Twitter feed - another infinite feed that addicts you to some level. Since it's a chat, the conversations are shallow and disorganized.
For example, search never worked properly in Slack for me. Furthermore, synchronous communication has proven poor for wellness and work-life balance.

I know Slack just got acquired and its the hot new thing but email is great as it is - its our ways of using it that need to change.
minor unwarranted tip: you don't need "|" between letters in character sets in regexps. grep "[r|R]elocate" would match "relocate", "Relocate", yes, but also "|elocate".
You probably want
grep '[Rr]elocate'
or
grep '\(R\|r\)elocate'
or just
grep -i relocate
And that latency means that some reads won't see the latest write, right? Do I understand this correctly?
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>Similar things happened during collapse of the USSR. Major scientific projects just got left behind to rust.

It's fascinating to think about it. Some projects like advanced rocket engines were salvaged by people who care and other projects like the Buran shuttle were left to rot and destroyed by petty stuff like rooftop collapse.

At the end though, maybe it's just a natural selection process. Arguably, saving the Buran might have turned into an expensive mistake considering the fate of US shuttle program.
> Even for me, I'd be fairly annoyed with a gift to a charity I don't think is very valuable (looking at you, Make a Wish).

I'd be very hesitant for people giving money on my behalf to charity as well. Many charities seem to mismanage money in a big way, for example by spending lots of money on marketing and paying the leadership big salaries. From other charities I might find their agendas often questionable (Oxfam Novib, Amnesty) or I don't agree with their methods (Greenpeace).

Of course there are some decent charities to be found as well.

Other people might object giving to charities for other reasons [0].

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[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcqinGqHQCg
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Love it

But jesus fucking christ, my eyes
Yea, I figured as much. But I guess it's just habit born out of many other "message board" type sites. Thanx!
Maybe it's not useful to you, maybe if you kept an open mind you could find some use!

1. There is $14.17B of value locked in DeFi, so it's clearly useful to someone(and scams don't account for the majority of it).

2. USD is not my primary currency, I'm fortunate my employer agrees to pay me in USDC. The fees are usually around $1.5, previously when I used PayPal fees used to be 5.5% deducted from my side.

3. I keep most of my money in USD, which earns interest around 8% APY monthly on yearn.finance/earn. Contrast with the savings account on my bank which gives me 3%.

I don't trade, I don't speculate. I own a small amount of ETH to pay for fees. If you are from TradeFi you will find it much more useful!
I think it's more of an acknowledgment that Gödel's incompleteness theorem applies to any system of reasoning or knowledge. Even known true statements can't be proved all the way down --- at some point they have to rest on axioms that are assumed (or taken on faith).

We could take it a step further and discuss what establishes objective moral values and duties, but that plants us firmly in a discussion centering around worldviews and their truth/falsehood.

All to say, I believe there is an objectively true worldview upon which objective moral values and duties rest, upon which an objective jurisprudence can rest, upon which good (though inescapably subjective) judicial opinions can be issued. Maybe I'm being overly pedantic, but I'm frustrated with what seems an intentional departure from objectivity (and an originalist jurisprudence to boot) as the goal in certain circles.
It's likely the same reason that much of the US (particularly news orgs) value sportball above things like ethical government or better educated voters.

People are 6 year old children. Not exclusively but non-critical reactions drive a big chunk of our behavior.
They have a contract with an IT professional to handle that sort of thing for them, same as they would have a contract with someone who uses Heroku or Amazon to fill their IT needs if they were using those servers instead.
I have no doubt you're right. I have read through several appeals court rulings, but they all ruled on the merits (if they didn't I stopped reading, haha).

Guess I'm speaking more about what I believe is the ideal.
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Everyone loves to preach ethics and accountability but I think lots of people in tech secretly dislike the constraints. Or not so secretly if they work at fb.

For everything you do, you should consider "what if this is used by the worst person to target the most vulnerable people?" Stalker exes, online scammers, insurance companies, 4chan wieners, toxic MRAs, data brokers working for PIs etc. Assume an open S3 bucket with data from 5000 users. Imagine how much identify theft and intimate partner violence that could enable.
OTOH, we don't really have evidence to show that memory safety is effective in kernels/drivers because no memory safe language has ever been deployed at scale for that purpose.
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I would check out Michael Genesereth's course on general game playing [1] -- I don't remember if we specifically implemented a chess engine, but it's more or less exactly what you're looking for. Once you've mastered that, I'd move on to Mykel Kochenderfer's series on decision making under uncertainty [2], which extends to more state of the art approaches to the problem (ie. MCTS + deep Q learning + better encoders, which is basically what got us AlphaGo, AlphaStar, Atari agents, etc.). Once you've got that down (or before), you should start reading whitepapers.

Genesereth and Kochenderfer also have books on the subject; Kochenderfer's is extremely good (I haven't read all of Genesereth's).

[1] http://ggp.stanford.edu/

[2] https://web.stanford.edu/class/aa228/cgi-bin/wp/ and https://web.stanford.edu/class/aa229/cgi-bin/wp/
I would be interested to know more about these AWS Slack channels. Are the official? Do you get them with a particular support plan? Where can I find out more information on this?
so I can look at them like
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Yes, but the GP comment was saying the NSF's budget was growing (which is also true) but the GGP's comment that NSF was reducing support for Arecibo is also correct. So for context I thought it might add a bit more depth to the question of "whether or not NSF was funding Arecibo or trying to get rid of it / defund it" idea.

And personally I was surprised that for $8M a year you could fund the program (presumably that was with a bunch of clearly needed maintenance being deferred). It really is too bad that some billionaire didn't just fund it. I'm wondering if Paul Allen helped out when he was alive.
Folks who were around during the first dot-com boom might remember Zaplets, which tried to do this 20 years ago. https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2000/0612/6514218a.html

"Combine the Web, instant messaging and e-mail, and you get Zaplets...You also get a fistful of nifty features--from live chats and instant polls to real-time snapshots of your stock portfolio"

It was created by a company called FireDrop that raised $100 million and then suddenly flamed out. Bad timing, maybe, since this was around the time of the crash. I can't remember anyone I know ever receiving a Zaplet but they sure generated a lot of buzz.
Congrats at enabling the vulture-like destruction of society. I could've hit it in under 4 at one that offered to let me design my own role in any department, but I chose not to destroy society for money. "Don't be evil." pffft.
Please tell me you're hiring! :)

But seriously, I find including someone's boss on the first email to them (I'd imagine to just prioritize the sender's task and make the recipient look bad if they don't follow through) is highly passive-aggressive. In general, my boss is concerned in what I accomplish for/with my team, and it sure would be nice to do whatever thing you're foisting upon me, but I'd just like to tell them to add it to the ever-elongating queue of other teams' requests. I've got my own job to do!
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>for IT there's no reason they can't be fully cloud.

Without even taking other aspects in to account, I think you overestimate the availability, reliability, and speed of internet connections for much of the country.
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Mining Massive DataSets (MMDS) from Stanford professors.

Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLssT5z_DsK9JDLcT8T62...

Book:
http://www.mmds.org/
Slightly tangential, but does anyone have recommendations for pop sci books on modern genetics / epigenetics? (Not specifically molecular cell biology/biochemistry).
Unfortunately termination of the Buran project also led to discontinuation of the Energia rocket [0]. It was quite a marvelous rocket and could've been used without Buran in the Polyus configuration. And in the late 80s there was even a modification in development with airplane-like reusable boosters.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energia
> Forward an email to a special address. Ex: ryan29@todo.example.com (the TODO address for ryan29@example.com).

This should be possible with ryan29+todo@example.com though .. in conjunction with filtering. I use this for bookmarking and some basic categorisation.
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I assume that due to the rotation of the earth that when Arecibo emits a radar beam that other radio-telescopes on earth collect? Otherwise only objects within Arecibo’s relatively narrow FoV (that are also very close to earth) would be detected - so wouldn’t a purpose-built (and steerable!) radar emitter be more useful?
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Building and storing indexes is not free. If you already understand your access patterns and they involve retrieving large quantities of data to be aggregated the index is less effective than just writing everything down in order and looking where you know the data is to begin with. In a way the storage becomes the index.

Said another way: in analytic workloads the hard part is not finding the data, it is reading the data.
But it was unplanned, unless you buy the theory that Frodo had already ordered Gollumn to jump into Mt Doom if he betrays Frodo, and that this order is what caused Golummn to dance backwards towards the edge rather than dance in place.
The U.S. is NOT one of the governments supporting the SKA.
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Yes. It's called "Sum of the parts" valuation. Companies sometimes break up because the market values the separate pieces more than the whole. https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/va...
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Increase of 14db would be an increase in perceived loudness of ~2.6x
I'd also like to add that internships are all about learning the corporate world, right?

Well, way back when, as someone who likes to do a good job, but quickly (Personally, I just don't like a backlog of work,) as a bright-eyed intern, I learned very quickly not to ever 'be nice' to anyone not on your team.

It was 'just another internship-learning-experience,' but it sure opened my eyes to the two Iron Laws of corporations:

(1) If it breaks, and you touched it last, it's entirely your fault.

(2) [This was an extremely hard lesson to learn as a 'naturally helpful' kind of person:] If you help someone with something, it's your responsibility. Forever.

Needless to say, I learned quickly. I learned that corporations are more or less perversions of regular society where everyone tries to punt work off to whoever else seems most suitable or exploitable.
> because you couldn't rely on them to do their jobs. So they would not be selected for.

Wouldn't a 20% chance of a novel, useful interaction and 80% chance of no effect be almost as good if you are producing a lot of them?
It boggles my mind how anyone could condone personally attacking Scott Atlas instead of his arguments, the resolution just makes vague statement about how his views “don’t align with science” without specifically mentioning what they disagree with or what’s he’s said. How convenient...reeks of political wokeness. Also there are plenty of other scientists who hold views similar to his from Stanford and Harvard as well just look up the Great Barrington declaration.
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> Furthermore, asynchronous communication has proven poor for wellness and worklife balance.

I think you meant "synchronous" here ;)
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