skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The plan, IIUC, is to use PongoOS[0] as a bootloader which will then be able to load XNU/macOS or Linux. PongoOS already works on M1, so once the Linux support is done there will be a GRUB substitute.

0: https://github.com/checkra1n/pongoOS
Their job was not to make AI more ethical, but to protect Google from government regulation. Seems they fundamentally misunderstood that.
All my experiences around this have pounded into my brain that if I ever run my company or if I am an executive I will do everything in my power to make sure all the employees under me have the best tools to do their job. Labor is one of the most expensive costs, not empowering your employees to be the best they can be is just stupid and wasteful.

My dad ran a software consulting company eons ago and he had a new programmer start but he didn't have a laptop so my dad took him to Best Buy (that's where you bought computers back then) and told him to pick out a laptop. They guy picked one and my dad was like "How about this one, isn't it better?" and the guy said "Yeah, but it's more expensive". My dad bought the better laptop and gave it to the guy and told him it was his now (as in not the companies). That guy was over the moon and my dad told me that it was the best money he ever spent. Not only did he effectively "buy" a ton of loyalty with that move but he would make up the cost of the laptop in a week or so off that programmer alone (difference between what he paid the employee and what he billed them out at).

I also remember going to Sam's Club with my dad to buy snacks for the office. He kept snacks, candy, drinks, etc well stocked at all times and told his employees they could have as much as they wanted, no limits. Happy employees are productive employees, why more people don't get that I'll never know...
In the joke, $1m was offered. I don't know when he made that joke, but since he died in 1948, that's somewhere over $15m now. And houses were ridiculously cheap by modern standards, so that would have been retirement money for sure.
Point taken, though there's no reason the package manager couldn't change the environment variables based on the directory it's told to use for the install. The pieces are there, but nobody's really taken the time to put them together. For the filesystem, some simple bind mounts would probably suffice, though you'd still run into some permissions issues I imagine.

EDIT: It seems to be significantly easier on dnf, to the point that it could be trivial to add full support for home-directory installs.
That’s a better way of putting it. It’s a good argument for ASIC resistance and CPU dependence because it’s a lot harder to control General-Purpose CPU supply than ASIC supply.

Meanwhile my regular joe laptop can earn double its electricity cost in Monero (before it thermally locks up).
It does, thanks.

I wanted to know if the temperature sensor could function like MAX6675 by connecting k-type thermocouple to a terminal; Should have checked the datasheet prior or made the question clearer.
Chriskiehl/re-wx: A library for building modern declarative applications in WX
How? That command doesn't even hit the network...
I thought it was illegal to fire people based on them joining a union in the US...?
"Unkill" was largely a Reddit India creation, where it runs rampant. Sounds like it has escaped the confines of Reddit and run amok.
Security settings are stored per partition, not per machine, so you can have a Linux partition where SIP is disabled and a macOS partition where it is not on the same machine.
>(I'm also not 100% clear on when a 64 year old with no underlying conditions and no front-line worker qualification will otherwise be eligible.)

It depends on the state. But in Massachusetts, that 64 year old is part of the general pool, i.e. they're eligible at the same time a healthy 20 year old is. It depends on how many people are willing to get vaccinated and whether vaccinations can be tamped up above 1 million per day (so 2 million jabs for the 2 dose vaccines). But it could easily be 6 months out, though hopefully closer to early summer.

Added: Though Biden is only promising to get 50 million people vaccinated in the next 100 days.
Put all the MBAs in one place, or put all the HN comments in one place? :-)
Vaccine passports for COVID are a pretty different situation. It's not "get this established and well-tested vaccine so that you can go on a safari adventure in Africa," it's "get this very new vaccine that you might have read horrible conspiracies about on the internet so that you can go back to eating at restaurants and attending sporting events."

The incentive to forge proof of a COVID vaccine is way higher, and in some jurisdictions there may even be political and/or media cover for doing so (because it's about your "freedom").
You seem to assume there is a choice to be had, but the lawys of physics say otherwise The single thread Von Neuman model is almost out of steam. The costs to push this model 2x faster are likely to break Intel.

Concurrent programming, like it or not, is the future.
> However, being a top company in a winner-take-all market requires the top engineers. The only way to attract and retain them at scale is to offer high compensation. I'm hoping that's part of what's happening here.

Anyone remembers Blackberry?

That's pretty much what killed them. Going there typically meant you weren't good enough to get a callback from Apple.
"Calling me a moron is one thing, but accusing me of having an MBA is really too much."

-pg, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10670
:) Why is it that MBA types always end up on top ?

My pet theory is that they just have more time to spent scheming, and influencing others. While engineers are busy trying to get shit done.
Sure, but accountants will not know the likelyhood of success of a new product or service, how the features will affect sales, the likelyhood of making large sales, the state of strategic relationships, etc. etc.

Yes, they may have models and estimates, but the real information will be in the hands of those involved directly.

Even things like refinancing and the options for doing so can be affected by things like letters of intent from potential large clients, industry validation, etc.

Just knowing numbers and dates isn’t enough.

I’m not saying accounting isn’t important, but it just isn’t the only source of truth.
Cloud venders also help by keeping all the network chatter internal and you not paying in/egress fees to connect to your external object store, to your external managed database, to your. The bandwidth costs can be a significant chunk of hosting.

Thankfully, I've never had a popular enough service that made the bandwidth a meaningful cost.
Nope. Here it is, the Ryan X-13.[1] First VTOL jet. Landed tail-first and hooked itself to a raised platform. As a demo, one was landed at the Pentagon in 1957.

If there had been a need, a fleet of VTOL-fighter carrying submarines would have been built. The USSR never built a navy which required something like this to counter it.

I came across this in my days in aerospace, and an ex-Navy fighter pilot at work said he didn't see that landing as a difficult task.

[1] https://youtu.be/xT38UcpHFXY
I bought a mechanical switch that is installed on the negative terminal of the battery.

The radio drained my battery in 2 weeks, an absolute horror in Covid times when the car is in "long term storage".
The most depressing thought I had recently was that there aren't any extraterrestrials with the capability of space flight. Pretty sure they exist, but just imagine if we're the most advanced ones? Kind of embarrassing/sad. Can you imagine traveling to another planet? The aliens gaze at us expecting some technological geniuses, and who walks out but Frank Dunce in his MAGA hat and "I'm with stupid" t-shirt?
N501Y is an antibody escape mutation (paper)
I would include lawyers and accountants in the same bucket. Those three groups tend to put innovation and design/engineering excellence low on priorities.
It does, but that's also the point. The past is fixed in this model. If you go back in time, that's not new. You always did that. How the present looks now is a function of you having always done that. We know that you didn't shoot yourself, because you didn't.
A more important figure to watch out for is iOPS and burst VCPU . Things are running fine, and when you get a small traffic spike, suddenly everything hangs (IO and cpu time). Then you reluctantly upgrade to solve the problem, leaving you over-resourced for most of the day. Next bump, next upgrade until you stair-step your spending into 6 figures
Do you know the acronym ABM?
If you're not a native German speaker, probably not.
Arbeitsbeschäftigungsmaßnahme.
Docker, k8s ... it's all there to employ the unemployed. Also to make something simple complicated so Cloud providers can monetize even this part and lock you in and bill you 10fold for something that really isn't that expensive
Would the economic incentives not remain unchanged as a function of unit price of BTC? It feels like in the terminal state there’s going to be a high stakes game of chicken between attackers and holders to see who’s willing to pay more for control of the whole network. This is likely exacerbated by a move to layer 2 networks to avoid the 7tx bottleneck isn’t it? I’m not sure personally this is just something I’ve been noodling on.
What a hangover taught me about fake meritocracy
I think the argument is that while ants are indeed interesting to us as a subject, not every single anthill gets our attention. There are probably lots of anytime anthills in out of the way places that have never had human interaction.
How does this not run into major copyright issues?
History says that you’re likely correct. But I’m going to be optimistic and hope that genuine good comes out of all of this. If this shows US military/police that they have a problem with extremists in their ranks, it might turn out to be a very good thing for the country. Again, you’re likely right and I’m likely naive. It’s not like that’s a new thing and nobody has learned it in the last century...
No they aren't mutually exclusive. In fact sound money should be both a good store of value and a medium of exchange (in other words work
well for payments).

The problem is that Bitcoin's high fees has made it unsuitable for regular payments, so proponents only have the store of value explanation left.
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11 is 10 times more than 1. 10 is 10 times as large as 1.
I concur. Growing up in rural Ireland in the eighties, "mandarins" were quite exotic and a real treat. I still couldn't tell the difference between all the varieties you mention (I haven't even heard of nadorcotts). I've only recently noticed the supermarkes are now selling "easy peelers".
Referring Trump’s Suspension from Facebook to the Oversight Board
I have no way to verify the author's claim, but it strikes me as likely self-refuting to argue that life seems so rare because actually it's super common.
Hacker News: Product Proposal
"Art makes you think. Propaganda tells you what to think"
Everywhere is short on vaccine relative to population. My county is on track to have doses equivalent to about 10% of the population administered this month, so enough 2 dose vaccines for 5% of the county, not a lot. They aren't sitting on much if they get those doses administered.
There are really only 2.5 manufacturers, though.
The Germans also had the Fi 103R which their test pilots flew a few times but was never put into combat.

As for the reuse of drones, the first drone was a radio controlled de Havilland DH.82 (named Queen Bee.) This drone, and most subsequent drones until fairly recently, was a gunnery target drone. It's job was to be shot down in training, and was only made to fly once (like a drone bee, which dies after mating) The term 'drone' implied a single terminal flight until some years later, when it also came to refer to reusable unmanned aircraft in general.
I’m no fan of google but if their ethicists are found doing unethical things they shouldn’t be immune to suspension just because they have the word ethics in their job title - they should be held to a higher standard not lower
This is a joke, but this was a literal chat conversation that happened between Boeing engineers in regards for the 737 MAX 8.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/business/boeing-737-messa...
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Forgive me but Google Translate Exists (and not everything is reported internationally :)

And yes Germany is a weird mix of state and federal responsibilities and authority (sorta like the US just different). States are responsible for schools for example. But now Merkel wants to close _all_ schools in all of Germany. Some states object and want to keep them open. Bavaria introduced a requirement to wear FFP2 masks now, while no other state does etc.
I'm not sure I'd use as strong language as "mutually exclusive", but to the point: when was the last time you used gold to buy your lunch? Get groceries? Pay for an Uber? Tip someone?

I'm sure someone out there insists gold is a perfectly legitimate currency for day to day life, and it's not 100% incorrect. But gold is very inconvenient to attempt to use for quick transactions. You would typically exchange gold for some other currency to do day to day spending. The same is basically true of bitcoin now as well, which was (arguably) not the original intent at all.
MBA programs institutionalize that thought process.
Direct link to research paper:

[ The characteristic response of domestic cats to plant iridoids allows them to gain chemical defense against mosquitoes ]
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/4/eabd9135
I know people who were very upset that Mac OS X required login/password. The "personal" part of "personal computer" was important to some people.
I assume you're using Backblaze to host static assets you're rendering from your compute, and using Cloudflare to front and cache those static assets. You'd also use Backblaze for backups. Most network chatter would remain within your compute, and you'd want Redis, Mongo, Elastic, or Postgres as close to the compute (maybe k8s, maybe VMs, up to you) as possible, while shipping the snapshots to your object store. To your point about bandwidth costs, I recommend Backblaze and Cloudflare because they have an arrangement in that regard [1].

Reliably decouple whenever possible.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/ (Control-F "partners")
The use case I had in mind when I thought about escrow services not long ago is website trading. I assume the big players have something in place for the domain name part, but there's much more to it when you're transferring an entire service (accounts, documentation, etc). If you're going to pay $5k for a website, spending a $100 fee to make sure everything goes smoothly is probably reasonable.
>You're blaming BeOS's failure on the BeBox? Every release of BeOS that was marked as a "full release" (as opposed to a developer preview or a "preview release") could run on Intel hardware, and the BeBox itself was discontinued long before then.

Okay, that's fair - BeOS was a bad example. Let's say AmigaOS then, which largely seems to be limited to Amiga hardware. (Though amazingly it still seems to be maintained?)
"Now you have three problems."

Domain-specific notation (provided it's good) is a barrier to entry for the same reason it's powerful: it removes ambiguity and verboseness intrinsic to natural languages.
If someone makes 50K one month and 10K the next, does the pricing dynamically adjust to the lower price? Is it month to month?
No, it's not that you're "right". It's that your techbro-ism is showing. Not a good look.
It's not much an aside - Biden did, too.
That depends on the context. If Google is suppressing the content of the leaked documents in order to hide unethical behavior, then there is a double bind.
I'm also skeptical about the proprietary client, I would have kind of thought that having a good Matrix client was more important than the bridges; I almost would have preferred to see the client Open and the bridges properietary.

But that is a very convincing comment that kind of sells me on the idea, and it matches what I've seen in other places. Cross platform play on consoles, region locking, etc... once you get enough momentum that something becomes a selling point, it becomes a lot harder for the overall ecosystem to ignore it.

So yeah, the argument you raise makes me feel a lot more positive about the service.
If researchers aren’t doing anything to quantify and assess these ideas around estimation, I don’t know what the point of that entire sub-field of research is, beyond cranking out papers.
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In Critical Defense of Front End Development
The robot can also sit around doing nothing without complaint and for no extra cost. So the robot need not be used 100% of the time. Even in SF the robot will not be used much at 2am.

Though I was referring to the small cities in Montana. Nobody will put a robotic burger joint where there are no people. However a town of 5000 has a lot of people who need to eat, more than enough to make it worth running numbers.
For those that don't see the point of this yet, it's like a database query builder (or ORM) but for constructing regular expressions. The best implementation that I know of is Eloquent for Laravel:

https://laravel.com/docs/master/eloquent

The idea is that the idiosyncrasies of a DSL like SQL can be abstracted away by providing a functional interface that encodes the bugs/features of the grammar. The simplest example might be how SQL requires the WHERE clause to come before ORDER BY. But in Eloquent, clauses can generally be attached in any order. The clauses are stored as an abstract query object until they're executed, but the raw SQL can be retrieved at any time with the toSql() method, which is similar to the toRegex() method from the article:

https://laravel.com/api/master/Illuminate/Database/Query/Bui...

You can also write your own methods to return clauses. Which allows you to write general queries like "select all of the articles from this user" and then append a clause like "limit to N results starting from X" when it comes time for a controller to run the query and return results to the user. I've found that composability is what makes query builders so exponentially more powerful than raw SQL.

Keep in mind that where Eloquent, this library (and most others) fall down is that they provide no way to go from a raw query (SQL, regex, whatever) back to a query object. Everyone is so busy writing software for writing software, that they forget that most of the everyday workload is in reading someone else's lackluster code.

I don't really know why I wrote all of this, but since I do most of my thinking in query builders now, I thought it might be a useful pattern for others to know.
I don't think this would work for a normal social network (e.g. Facebook); as sibling commenters mention it adds a lot of friction.

However I think this is a great idea to explore for "exclusive" / "high value" forums, say for trade / special-interest groups. I'd be happy to put down a $10 stake to participate in something like Hacker News, for example, if that would help to combat astroturfing and bad behavior. (Honestly for how much I post on HN I'd be prepared to stake more.)

There's been a lot of research done in this area by the Ethereum devs under their migration from "Proof of Work" to "Proof of Stake", including research on the game-theory of "slashing conditions" (i.e. when you lose your stake). You get some cool community-policing possibilities by allowing any member of the community to collect a bounty paid for by claiming part of the forfeited stake, if they can present an example of a member breaching the rules. For something requiring review this would perhaps have less benefits, but could still be useful; rather than moderators having to watch every message go by, they would just look at the "flagged" queue, and users would now have a financial incentive to add something onto the flag queue, perhaps also having to pay a small amount to take that action as well, to disincentivise spamming "flag" entries. I'm sure you could build this all on Ethereum if you were so inclined, with "admin moderation" being a call to an external trusted Oracle service where the moderators live.

Of course there are also substantial risks in turning a system based on community goodwill into a financial game; people behave differently when they are purely optimizing for a financial game vs. when they are not.
This is all ultimately arbitrary
A lot of thing are blackbox. There also things that we think we understand, but we do not, thats why we have methodologies like double blind testing to assert that the blackbox is indeed working, and it's behavior is stable enough to be used as a tool.
I seriously doubt that. He could have just stayed retired.

If the negotiation was all smooth he would have been working with Intel by now. Remember he was retired, he doesn't need 30 / 60 days notice to anyone apart from family.

Intel needed help, but sometimes even money cant move some people. They fail to attract any talent, especially those who have already worked in Intel and knows their culture.

Having Pat meant finally shit will get done. And for most engineers, that is far more important because we all hate politics.
Yeah it's hard to understand. Gavin's good nature of assuming good intentions from anyone is sure to play a big role.

Also worth to remember that anyone can get bamboozled, even if you're highly intelligent and knowledgeable in a certain area. Just look at how many cult followers there are in the world.
or just you know, write regex.
Thanks for clarifying this. I was worried about it too. Have you considered also providing a marketplace for bookkeepers, etc? That’s another pain in the butt with this process.
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The list of images can be found here: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio?ii=0&p=0&from=2021...

Apparently the images cannot be downloaded off the website without an account. That's disappointing.
I completely agree with your point about being good at software/hardware/biology is the key to running a successful production biotech lab because you can try to supplement various weak points with the other domains. I've been 3d-printing devices that helps with DNA extraction in my lab.

I am interested in automating the lab I am running now. We have an opentrons that we bought couple years ago that I never got around to using. But now that we are regularly getting a decent amount of samples in a week, I really want to get it going. Are you starting a lab automation service?

I agree with your point about plate sealer/unsealer. It is a huge pain point in automation. However, I am not sure if you can convince regulatory bodies to approve it. Are you doing some kind of mineral oil top layer to prevent evaporation? We've actually tried that before and it kinda worked, but the problem is that the mineral layer messes with the SPRI bead purification step. I am sure it can be solved with more testing, but it just wasn't worth the inconsistency at the time.
I don't see anything like that suggested in the article.

The article gives recognition to someone whose contributions to arts and culture may not be known by many, and explains why they went underappreciated.
I've sort of wondered about making the same switch you are thinking of. I think the main reason I won't do it is the cost of law school.

On top of that, it seems the system is not clear cut and it doesn't follow it's own rules. I've recently had some dealings with some state troopers, the DA's office, local PD, and a few magistrates. The level of incompetence, indifference, and even misconduct (lies in court) is appalling. I've started to become disillusioned by the system's integrity, and I don't know that I want to be a part of that.