skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is still plenty of space between the individual stars in the Hubble Deep Field image. From that point of view it just confirms the paradox - even with a powerful telescope stars don't fill up your entire field of view.

I think a more fitting example of "an empty void yet a bright flush of light" would be the microwave background. With eyes sensitive to longer wavelengths the entire sky is indeed bright.
What do you mean by "most of the spike encoding is from a South Asian fish"?

As in, that's where the virus evolved/stole it from?
I think "maintenance" somewhat mischaracterizes it. In my experience, it's often that an engineer can build the typical use case over a weekend, but will have to continue pouring in more dev time while it's in production to handle a huge number of edge cases that weren't properly handled originally. That work is only "maintenance" because you already claimed the work was completed, and finance has it marked as having been put into service, so you can't capitalize further costs against it.
> It's the outliers who become wealthy doing what they love. No illusions there.

More than that, even if you love your work, there will still be moments you hate it. That's why we get paid/need rewards.

People generally love an idealized version of their work, where everything works the first time, there is no grunge work, people are pleasant and cooperate with you.
In that phrase, “Yes. It’s because of who he is.”, I am not referring to the validity of his argument. I am explaining the fact that his posts receive a lot of attention.

There is simply no appeal to authority being made.

The rest of your comment isn’t clear, are you saying there is something wrong with people finding PG’s pieces interesting?
Roll the dough over shallow rectangular moulds. I did this over triangular molds when making croissant rolls. Rolling the dough over the thin mold ensures an even thickness, rather than cutting shapes out of an uneven hand-rolled blob.
Funny enough I do the same thing with PayPal as I do with DO, deposit money in there, don't tie it to my bank account. Any problems, at least my losses are limited.
I don't know about NL or elsewhere, but I'm pretty sure this can get you in trouble in Spain for several reasons:

1. Check your ISP contract. If it is a residential connection, it probably says you are not allowed to share your connection with people outside your home (and it could be argued that you are doing so by running this).

2. Check your laws. In Spain, if your connection is used to conduct illegal activities and you willingly gave access to the attackers (which is what you are doing here) then you are a "necessary collaborator" and would be found guilty of these crimes.
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:( I just get notifications when my dependences have vulns on github and I update them with pip install -U <package_name>
Convolutional Neural Networks in APL (in 10 lines) [pdf]
The nature of the threat posed by our current level of emissions is a time sensitive one. Further, "economic growth" doesn't mean anything at the level of individual companies, if your product necessarily implies high emissions (e.g. coal) then your company will experience the opposite of growth even if the overall growth from the green sector eclipses that loss.
> But it turned out later he showed some nudity.

Wait, the guy from dragonforce exposed his penis live on stream?
If you read the rules carefully, it does not require fiber all the way to the home, so of course the telcos will use HDSL, ADSL etc. for the last kilometer. They lobbied hard for the 25Mbps broadband definition so that they can use the old copper plant. 25/3 is pretty easy to do with bonded DSL and they have plenty of pairs. I would not expect them to do a log of new build, most likely some fiber to a hut perhaps and then bDSL from there to the customer. Even doing it that way they will need subsidies for that to be profitable at the $30 price point. Cost to build in rural is a lot less than urban but there are more customers in urban, so rural needs government support for anyone to do it profitably.
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I think this essay would be more effective if the author defined what they mean by “earnest”. I think based on the essay, they mean seriousness + sincerity. But there is also a sense that the author considers “correct” as part of the definition:

>“when you call someone earnest, you’re making a statement about their motives. It means both that they’re doing something for the right reasons [my emphasis] and they’re trying as hard as I can”

So why assume that “interest in the problem” is intrinsically good? Do we really believe it’s not possible for a politician to be addressing the problem of “improving people’s lives” via the intermediate aim of “gaining political power”? So why wouldn’t that also be classified as “earnest”? If a gang leader is addressing the problem of “keeping our guys safe”, and therefore murders members of a rival gang who pose a threat to them, wouldn’t that also be “earnest”? Is it just because the author holds people working individually on a certain class of problems to be admirable, while having a much more negative view or politicians and criminals?

[Edit: I forgot to mention that I think there are some good points in this essay, and I agree with many of them, but I think it leaves some important areas unexplored]
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> or engineering (and other) talent will look elsewhere.

The term for this process is 'The Elves are leaving Middle Earth'.

Coined by Steve Blank in 2009 about when the coffee and sodas aren't free anymore in the break room. When the bean counters look at the line item that is free coffee and soda, they see a big old number to cut. But it causes the staff to have to run over to the coffee shops to grab the joe, taking a lot longer time than the break room commute. Meaning that management isn't really thinking hard anymore. The talent notices this and starts to quietly put out the CV again, as they know that the company is going to go into stasis or downhill altogether without intelligent bosses.

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
Stockpiling IP addresses is already forbidden (although not really enforced). AWS is using these addresses for EC2 VMs.
> Censorship and sanctions are less preferred because: 1. They create even more distrust and encourage conspiracy theories

Do you have evidence for that? What if you're wrong and your suggestion is making it worse? It's bold to claim in the age of social media that you know the best way to control it when we're in new territory.

It's not like the 80s or 90s when the only way to get and spread news was gated through a small number of newspapers and TV channels. If the media at the time refused to publish a story because of quality or trustworthiness issues, is that really so different here?
TLDR:

HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME
THAT WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW
WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME
I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER
BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONER
BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME
WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE
SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH
I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW
LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE
DEATH IS LIFE
That is why likes of Office 365 are popular, each component individually may not be best, but you get dozens of apps that are active in one go, for most parts are integrated well and have a simple billing.
To extend this analogy a bit... wouldn't 'street addresses' be DNS and lat/long coordinates be IP addresses?

Can you elaborate a bit? Where do you find frustration with IPv6? I've been using IPv6 for probably close to 10 years now, and I can't say it's been frustrating
> it sounds shady so it probably was

c'mon catch people a break.
Maybe they were a former alchy giving AA advice to troubled kids, maybe they don't like talking about their religion online
No I figure independents are split. The 35% value makes me think that half of them lean liberal or progressive.
there may be no options. For example, I (profitably) ran a small cloud. My supervisor kept questioning me "why don't we just use openstack instead of your software"? The answer is even in this article!

> Most enterprise systems require an engineering team to keep them running.

If we wanted a team of 3+ to run the cloud then we could buy openstack, or cloudstack, probably 2+, but that's also without pushing features. And suddenly we wouldn't be profitable anymore. I left, so I guess they will find out.
One of the most powerful things you can do as a senior engineer for juniors is to show by example that it's OK to ask questions and to not know all the answers. Especially if you can see that someone else isn't sure but dares not ask that question.
Progress on online learning builds on progress on offline learning, because it's the same optimization procedure.

I don't really agree with your stance on it, but I was not objecting to the claim that people should focus more on online learning. I was objecting to the claims “super computers can't even compete with the intelligence of an ant”, which is false, since the impressive behaviours an ant displays are not learned, and the learned aspects aren't competitive with what computers can do, and that “[the] way we do AI can never achieve that, since it always relies on human intelligence to decide all of those things”, which is also false, because online learning research exists and works, if imperfectly.
you make them pay with BOTH.

as mass exodus is slow to start and looks like churn when there are no comments or nonkudos given, there should be a sanction received so there is real motivation to not do so bad
My job involves a lot of integration work so I'm probably biased, but I find successfully cracking open a poorly documented API and extracting all the data in a usable way to be deeply satisfying, especially if you can be confident enough in your edge cases that you think it'll run until the next unannounced and undocumented change comes along.
> I don't think Bush/Gore undermined anything.

That's because in that case you had the infamous butterfly ballots in one large Florida county, where a very poor UI led to a large number of people voting for both Gore and Buchanan. You also had a large number who voted for Buchanan but for all the other offices voted for people that it was very unlikely a Buchanan supported would vote for.

For those not familiar with them, the ballots listed Bush at the top of the left page, with Gore listed second on that page. Buchanan was listed on the top of the right page, with the list on the right page vertically offset so it was like this:

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Bush | |----------
-----| | Buchanan
Gore | |----------
-----| | McReynolds
Browne | |----------
-----| (and so on)
Nadar |
(and so on)

You voted by punching a hole in the center column next to your candidate. So to vote for Bush, you punched the first hole. To vote for Buchanan, you punched the second hole. To vote for gore you punched the third hole. McReynolds the fourth, and so on.

The ballot was wide enough that you might not realize that there were Presidential candidates on both pages.

It is very hard not to conclude that many people who wanted to vote Gore saw he was second on the left page, and so punched the second hole, and some realized their mistake and tried to correct it leading to both holes two and three punched.

That's why the challenges there did not undermine anything (other than confidence that whoever designed those ballots was competent). We had actual concrete and sound evidence that a large number of ballots did not reflect the intended vote of the voter, and there were enough of these to affect the outcome because it was an extremely close race.

The 2020 challenges so far have failed to include any concrete and sound evidence. Its all been things like that surveillance video that they say shows extra ballots being sneaked in late at night, which when you look at the whole video instead of just that short clip you see that those were ballots that had always been there--when counting stopped for the night they were put in their standard ballot storage containers, and what the clip is showing is those ballots being removed from those containers when counting resumed.

Or things like that statistical argument that was in the Texas Supreme Court filing that said there was only a one in a quadrillion chance that Trump could lead in the evening and then behind after more ballots were counted overnight, which completely overlooked that in-person ballots were counted before absentee ballots, and that Democrats were far more likely to vote absentee because of COVID than were Republicans.

That's why 2020 challenges are undermining in a way no previous election challenges were. They aren't going to force any strengthening against fraud because they are failing to point out any fraud to strengthen against.
I have a fish function to open StackOverflow in Lynx. I can just do `stack how to write a function in fish shell`.
I guess I say irrational here because it's not just that they say a false thing. It's that they have a lot of trouble understanding when you say a true thing, or try to reason about the topic.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who shuttered at that sentence. A better one would have been “as a camp mentor in my 20s”...
Everwhere I've read said that if you bid on gigabit it has to be gigabit to each customer and there's a blog post linked in this thread saying that the FCC isn't even allowing gigabit DSL. Citation needed.
Looks cool! Some thoughts:

- Could you make the cells link to something? Ideally something readable like MDN (but if there’s no article available, then perhaps the spec itself)

- The two blues are so close together I can’t distinguish them

- Why is Facebook on here? And why is its date 2020 when it’s been around 15 years?
Sorry but no.

It’s cost dependent and you should carefully study both options.

It’s part of the engineering: study fixed and variable costs.

Outsourcing is cost effective when the market is mature enough.

You should maybe not rebuild cloudflare’s core services to operate a website.

Depending on your scale, you certainly should build your own ML stack for instance.
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No. At no distance "R" from the earth does a start becomes a point. A point does not have a surface area, a star does (even if it is very far away).
Sometimes patients rip out their own tube after coming out of anesthesia early and that is REALLY painful for them! It's very natural to want to pull the tube out early because as they're coming to the first thing they subconsciously think is that the tube is suffocating them and something's in their throat and they need to get it out. It is one of the things ICU nurses constantly monitor for but still manages to happen.
I think all four points in the article are deeply wrong.

1. It is easy to run your own services. You should be investing in internal developer tooling that makes this easy, and in fact that developer tooling should sit in front of any vendor solution you ever buy so that the way it integrates with your alerting, monitoring, data exporting, etc., is completely standardized to be uniform with service delivery in any other system in the org.

2. and 3. You do need complete control over what the application does because it absolutely always is unique and special on a per-use-case basis every time. A good example is search. Anyone who thinks search is a commodity service you can just throw ElasticSearch or Algolia in front of is sorely mistaken and dangerously naive. Every different search use case is going to have different success criteria, different data privacy concerns, different timeliness and freshness concerns, etc. and you need business software to control these elements in ways that fit into standard internal product management and QA procedures.

4. Vendor lock-in is a critical problem. If you choose GCP vs AWS, you are defining culture and you are defining experimentation and exploration that you cannot do. You’re essentially cleaving away many future possibilities from even being testable. It’s much worse than just having a crufty old system to maintain, it’s about brittleness and lack of ability to appropriately empower engineers to consider whatever part of the solution space they decide is needed. Companies that “get it” will prioritize “ease of swapping” so that you can constantly improve and leverage autonomy without needless parochial constraints on what can be considered. Thinking, “yeah but just buying it solved our problem today” is such a death knell of weak leadership who cannot fathom strategy or how to leverage real solution ideation from their staff.
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> The desire to build custom versions of everything seems to come from a few places: 1 [...] 2 [...] 3 [...] 4

There are personal reasons as well:

5. Innate curiosity and excitement about technology

6a. Get experience

6b. Resume talking point

Many of us picked a career in IT because just like building things out of Legos is fun, building a streamlined full CI/CD pipeline is fun, building a full stack application is fun, etc. Speaking of career, one needs to acquire experience in the new technologies to pad their resume and it's convenient to do it on company time.

I'm not justifying putting your interests ahead of your company's, but understand that's what some of us do. I'd say #5 and #6 are often stronger drivers for decisions than #1-4.
UniSoft? Cool, what parts of A/UX did you work on?
"Earnestness sounds like a boring, even Victorian virtue."

Well, that's because it's even in the title of a Victorian book: The Importance of being Earnest, Oscar Wilde.
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Companies spying on people has existed since the beginning of business. You call it spying we call it market research.

Sam Walton of Walmart would record everything about his competitors legally and illegally as well as clients yet you never see that in the news, why? Because it’s not sexy, it’s not about the internet.

This is why Equifax which was a much more horrible data breach isn’t thought about, yet everyone gets their panties in a bunch about Facebook
important to note that there's little choice for men or women in the "happy multi generational example"
Yea, in software development, it’s always work in progress. There’s not a clear finish line.

The word “maintenance” can’t perfectly capture the meaning of all the continuous development, small incremental improvements, bug fixes, operational tasks...
I apologize if this was misleading, my point was to emphasize that the population involved in the "one third" proportion was not Republicans. (It's a third of Americans, not Republicans.) Thinking a third of Republicans think there was widespread election fraud would be concerning and somewhat surprising (at least to me, given "widespread fraud" is far from being in evidence) so it felt worth emphasizing that was not the population, but it in fact includes polled Democrats and Independents.

In fact, it's much worse than that: a third of Americans believe it (which shows its appeal to centrists and/or the depth of Republican belief), and if you dig into the crosstabs, the number of Independents who believe it (approx 1/3rd) and Republicans who believe it (approx 3/4ths) is quite concerning. For such an extreme question ('widespread fraud') I would have expected this to be a fringe belief. The belief that would have made these numbers less surprising would have been questions such as "do you believe there is some evidence of targetted fraud" etc. Given that I'd suspect nearly 100% of Republicans believe some form of fraud occurred. If so, the entire losing party believes they were cheated to some degree. This isn't a recipe for reduced conflict from here. It means that the radical end of the party is large enough to be meaningful, and it means that large parts of the population will be less likely to condemn actions they take given the widespread shared beliefs.
The answer here is not so simple as "always buy". It depends heavily on context.

I think there are some things that do make little sense for anyone to build unless it's super core. These tend to be low level, cheap developer tools that do a couple of things well.

Trying to "buy and then integrate" larger pieces of software is often more work. Lots of people "buy" because they don't understand the problem. It's a mental opting out. This leads to disjointed experiences internally and externally.

But it all depends on your situation.
The Cruelest of All Pains
This doesn't account for vendor incompetence at basic customer support, which is far and away the largest reason to avoid renting commodity services. Being able to debug and fix things on demand without waiting on another party is massively valuable.
It's Vidkun Quisling.

The lack of feudalism as a contrast to other nations and the excess of Lutheranism were mostly a long time ago as was the Hanseatic league. And while Scandinavia looks homogeneous to outsiders, especially to those from far away, the three countries have distinct characters and distinct histories. Part of how each behaves has to do with the climate and topology of each country as well as the accidents of history in recent centuries. At least one Danish king was famous for picking fights with his neighbours which is one reason why Denmark is so small, Sweden had a French king for a while which left its mark on the language and the structures of society. Norway for a long time was simply far away and difficult to travel in which means that decentralisation worked as there was almost no choice. Towns only 10 km apart on the map might have very distinct dialects because there is a mountain in the way meaning that it is a 100 km trip from one to the other.

The glib answers, as I suspect you were saying, are usually wrong or very partial (in both senses of the word).
> Progress on online learning builds on progress on offline learning, because it's the same optimization procedure.

I disagree with this assertion, treating online learning like offline learning means you aren't making any progress. The main difference is that online learning lets you interact with the problem and seek more information, offline learning doesn't. Offline learning doesn't help you at all solving that problem.
The New England Primer
Don't tell the Japanese.
>I'm on a cellular network in the UK

>My phone get an IPv6 address only, no IPv4

Please tell me which network so I can immediately switch.

Three unfortunately still don't use IPv6, and I'd prefer if my phone were IPv6-only than IPv4-only since everything else in my life is IPv6 capable -- all my servers, my home Internet, my email provider, etc...

EDIT: So it seems some people have gotten IPv6 addresses from Three last year - e.g. https://twitter.com/Mythic_Beasts/status/1195292901191892992 - so perhaps I just need to wait for Three to enable it for everyone? Not going to wait forever though...
Lex Fridman is really good, he came to the States when he was 15 I believe and sounds totally native.
Except iPhones have supported HTML/CSS/JavaScript for 13 years, well before they supported apps.
the service regardless of payment was withdrawn to your detriment without notice, thats the thin edge. the body of the wedge is any financial damages.

You cant sell or give out snake oil for free and have no repercussions, caveat emptor only goes so far.
I dunno. We got Office 365. If Slack was significantly better than Teams I'm pretty sure we'd pay for it.

As it stands it seems to be the other way around, at least for the features we care the most about (meetings, screen sharing, voice calls).

So I think it's possible to compete on quality, but it's definitely harder as a lot of people will get by with a lower-quality offering.