skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a major problem with using contractors. They bill by the hour. Their continued employment is not dependent on doing a good job. They half ass everything because it is about billing and being done. Also, doing a bad job means "overruns" for more free money. The government needs a Department of Technology that runs all these systems for all national systems that are needed. This isn't like building a combat fighter, it would be straightforward to be build a team that can build a scalable website with today's technology.
Startups Are Using TikTok
not to mention the fact that by definition the software developers know very little about the domain (given that 1/2 of them have less than 5 years of experience)
Bitcoins transaction cost are ridiculous high again

https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f....
How to nail your startup’s positioning
Show HN: Keynavish – Control the mouse with the keyboard (Windows)
I echo this sentiment entirely.. mutli dev-environment, multi-machine / os things really just work. Docker et al also really shines with onboarding, the new recruit can literally get up and going in minutes.

I would not want to go back to the old ways of doing things.
Somewhere that wasn’t majority white then. American whites people were lynching. That’s a very horrible thing to have done. They celebrated that.. with the kids. White people...smh
If you can't put your finger on why you wanted the diamond, it seems pretty clear you are victims of De Beers. If I say I don't want a Coke because it's bad for me, but then I drink it, it's because I want it. And you should call bullshit on me for saying I didn't want it.
Does anyone have a good resource/book on how to do close to the metal benchmarking?
To stack tin cans upside down in cupboards do you don't need to shake the contents it of the bottom. I was from a Beatles book
Yeah... I'm talking something that would be shorter in width and length... so less volume.

Anyway rack-mount equipment is so loud because it all uses tiny fans that are driven at very high RPMs. Using fewer larger fans that spun slower would be much quieter. I would guess that using water cooling might be still quieter but I suspect that would be a lot of effort. Having a single very large fan at the top of the rack, that ran on mains AC, might work fine, assuming the right heat sinks and ducting.
Which Obama policies made everything about race? I totally missed that when he was president.
If your intent was to promote it without looking like a scam, submissions like this aren't helping...
And electricity is power; diamonds aren't.
We’ve very consciously tried to separate The Matrix.org Foundation from Element (previously known as New Vector), despite both Matrix and Element being created by the same leadership (myself, my co-founder Amandine, and the rest of the core Matrix team). To be clear: we started Matrix in 2014 as a pure R&D project, and then created Element (then NV) in 2017 to keep the core team employed to work on it fulltime.

However, the non-profit Foundation (https://matrix.org/foundation) was set up in 2018 with myself and Amandine deliberately in a minority control position (2 of 5 directors, called Guardians) specifically to address this concern - to protect Matrix from Element’s commercial activity, in case we ever went rogue.

As it happens, The Foundation farms out hosting and admin of the matrix.org homeserver to Element (which makes sense, given the Foundation doesn’t have employees and Element was already running the server), but if Element ever went evil, i am very confident that the Foundation Guardians would kick in and make a course correction.
This is extrapolation from an extremely small set of facts, and tremendously conjectural assumptions. It’s the kind of thing you might expect to see from a person living in a civilization that just discovered electrons 200 years ago. Come back to me in 100 years once the economy and population has reached some kind of steady state and then let’s revisit some of these claims.

A lot of what we think is rational discourse is actually ingrained, unspoken ideology floating to the surface and being coated with a patina of post hoc rationalization. That’s why it’s so hard to do science properly, especially social science- people don’t even know that they have biases, let alone what they are. But biases aren’t something you can point at directly and say, this belief is not true, it’s more that you might be overestimating the probability of truth of a whole bunch of little things by 10 percent and that creates a self reinforcing network of probable facts that adds up to weird beliefs when they are all put together.

The author of the article believes on some deep level that progress is inevitable and will go on indefinitely, combined with the unconscious imagery of a lifetime watching science fiction films, and a life of watching progressively more impressive gadgets appear on store shelves. It all adds up to essays like this.
Needlessly sensationalist.

The EU just refers to the contract and that, if the current production shortage negatively impacts the EU deliveries disproportionately, there will be consequences. As per the contacts, apparently.

Nothing interesting to see here, just typical Sunday reporting. Have to find something to put in the paper.
110V on a 15A breaker will provide you with something like 30kWh in 10h over night charging. That's 120 miles in a Model 3. Not many people average more than that in their daily driving.
I completely agree with you. Some of us who are not in agreement with the parent comment are being downvoted. HN is a propaganda machine now. It's not a platform for debate anymore.
it is not looking like a scam. I added references to all important documents.
I think it can be done. It says on github to open an issue in case of improvements or recommendations.
I had a colleague back in the very late 90s that lived in a typical British semi-detached house. Under the stairs was a cupboard against the external wall. He decided to make that his server room with a rack and "cheap" second hand kit.

To cool it, he drilled through the external brick wall several times and fitted exhaust fans.

His hall sounded like standing behind a 747.

If it rained, he often ended up tripping the fuses.

</end of anecdote>
The fan will be more expensive than the one it is cooling and it wont make much difference in sound and it might even overheat because the silent fan run slower less air flow.
I have a 14U rack next to my desk.

It's doable, but you need to spend time to optimize the noise factor:

- If you need many cores but can live with lower clock speeds, you can underclock.

- 1U servers will be noisy no matter what. 2U is already more manageable. 4Us are the best.

- GPUs will be noisy, no real solution around that. High heat production, and they hinder the air flow, so the front fans will have to spin faster. I physically remove GPUs from chassis when I'm not actively using them.

- There are small-size soundproof server cabinets that can easily solve this problem. They're very expensive though.

- Depending on the server, you can directly control fan speed at the firmware level. This needs careful control if you don't want to destroy your hardware and/or burn down your place.

- The pandemic makes all this much harder. I used to keep things running lightly during the night and full blast during the day when everyone was out of the house. I saved tons of money, compared to what I would have paid on any cloud platform. Now that we're home 24/7 it's not so worth it anymore.

Also this is all worth it if you actually enjoy playing with the hardware, in that case the money you put into this brings you both fun and cheap compute. If the setup is a chore for you, don't do it, it probably won't be worth your hourly rate.

Fun fact: the noise/space/aesthetics factors are referred to in the community as the "WAF" - Wife Acceptance Factor ;-)
Beltway Bandits win again. Literally the worse kind of grift and project paralysis. I worked on government contracts in the 90s, and the process is so full of grifters and people over billing, companies selling software licenses far above market rate with supposed levels of support and reliability that are actually no better, or worse, that I wouldn’t recommend anyone work in that sector.

Oh and all of this talk about 95% of the work being understanding the problem or integrating with legacy government systems, gimme a break. Every time I’ve seen someone purport to integrate with existing government systems it’s always been a buggy disaster and hideous from the user perspective.

This is the same kind of rot that infects a lot of enterprise software. Addiction to hyper complexity, too many layers, too many points of failure.

Just how complicated does a vaccine management system need to be? If you’re adding more and more requirements, it’s not software that’s the problem, it’s the requirements that the vaccine distribution is being made more complicated than it is needs to be.

I think at this point, a random distribution would be more effective than the complicated rollout they’re trying.
Yes, they can do this. But they risk humiliating themselves further [0] with nationalistic displays like this.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/5c15d7ea-aaf6-46f4-924e-30f168dd1...
Math for Computer Science [pdf]
Fantastic. Jupyter is a handicap disguised as dataman’s best friend. This is actually intuitive
The names are pretty straightforward. It would be fun to see the localized version alongside the original name, though -- Point, Rock, Clean, Cliff, Colorful, Carry?
This is false and I am sure you are well aware of it. Please don't spread lies on HN to make it a platform for your political agenda.
"Bitcoin Average Transaction Fee is at a current level of 17.08, up from 8.904 yesterday and up from 0.5638 one year ago. This is a change of 91.79% from yesterday and 2.93K% from one year ago."

As normal user i don't want to pay so much money for a single transaction it will never replace money with such high transaction cost.
I agree. It would have been interesting to do something like secret-token:example.com/abcdef with the option of secret-token:example.com/auth/abcdef (where auth is an arbitrary token type picked by example.com)
There's a lot of marketing in diamonds like in everything else. But there's also a lot of work involved in getting one fit for jewelry. And today with the competition of lab grown diamonds the price has gone down quite a bit. Speaking of lab grown: the price is not 1/10 of a natural one so you can see the prices while big are not in the riduculous territory like articles like this would have you believe.
Thank you!!! I worked so hard on this project, and really appreciate the kind words
First question posed to data set: when is the best time to post to Hacker News to maximise expected page rank?

Given you posted at your calculated time of 11:00 UTC on a Sunday, will be interesting to see how it does. It’s at 13 right now.
https://lettersofnote.com/2011/02/14/regarding-your-stupid-c...

I don't think this is a scalable technique.
White men. They get the destroying going. They feel that the world is their property, and everything in it. I’m not white, but interested to know where the White man ideology originated. Who told them they have to destroy everything that isn’t them, or at least dominate it.
Very interested in trying this out! And good timing for me personally as after a decade of using SublimeText, I tried VSCode because I was looking for a better was to debug python code. This also looks like a better way to debug!
The linked-to article is far more interesting and informative expose of the world of diamonds:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...
The NYT British-Irish Dialect Quiz (2019)
Question to the author and anyone else here:

Do you find the advice to reboot the VM after making a security change useful?

It will certainly work but from my understanding it should be able to change that setting and alter the users login such that you only need to logout and back in. Maybe I am mistaken?

I try very hard to avoid reboots - it may be distracting for a focused article like this - so curious what others think.
I have a simple C++ raytracer I wrote by going through Ray Tracing in One Weekend. I have not even made an attempt to optimize it. I really only made it parallel by splitting it up into tiles.

Clang 10 was able to automatically vectorize the code, so it performs >2x as fast as GCC 8.3. To be fair to GCC, I'm using my distro's GCC, but I built a newer Clang for C++ coroutine support.
since you don't know the noise levels of the fun or any other things that might have made it especially aggravating for the poster it seems slightly too negative an interpretation of things, I know I would probably let someone else slide on having big noisy parties - based on experiences with my neighbor - but part of that was the feeling of that poor guy has to be neighbors with me, can't be easy.
No love for linux? :(
Whats App Asim 2021
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Yes. Bots do it all the time. GoogleBot, AhrefsBot, etc.
Pay like all goods on in a market are not infinitely elastic to just say the pay will simply increase because the supply of workers drop.

For example lets look at janitorial labor, that is a hard job to automate and it is required in every business. So many would think that an increase to say $15/hr would just mean all the companies would just pay the same number of workers $15/hr right? No, what you would find it maybe instead of daily trash pickup it goes to 2 times a week, or employee's are asked to take their office trash themselves to a common trash bin. Common area's are cleaned less frequently, other employee's are asked to pick up some slack, and the janitorial staff will go from 10 workers to 6 , with a responsibility of 4 floors vs 2, or other such adjustments to the "acceptable" level of janitorial services.

The business has a budget of X for janitorial, that will not change very much simply because UBI or Min Wage came into play, they will just have to accept less janitorial services for the same money (aka inflation)
> "Within the EU" in this particular paragraph encompasses
> the UK, so my reading of this is that if AstraZeneca
> can't deliver the Initial Europe Doses as it plans,
> the Commission can propose alternative manufacturing
> sites that include UK sites. Which seems to cover the
> Commission's current request that AstraZeneca use UK-made
> doses to honour its commitment to deliver the
> Initial Europe Doses (to its best reasonable efforts etc).

Yeah, I understand this mostly the same way, but my read is that while they can make such a request, AstraZeneca can choose not to do this and isn't forced into taking away vaccines from one country contractually as part of "best reasonable efforts".

IANAL also, but I have tried my best to avoid making my own interpretations, and have generally been relaying my understanding of comments by lawyers on Twitter (e.g. https://twitter.com/ShipBrief/status/1355134952405397508). Writing my initial comment kind of forced me into a rabbit-hole of reading what people were saying...
That's how BJP IT Cell rolls. Their operatives have been caught out in sting operation many times. heck, some of them have come out in the open themselves.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of CPUs
You can always water-cool the GPU, with big radiators. I have no idea about how to do it in 4U, I personally just use off the shelf consumer hardware (mini-ITX, small PSUs, short GPU, etc.) and 3D print the cases. ~10 cm height is perfectly achievable with custom cases and PCI riser cables.
"Goodies
You can put food and/or drink on your rack."

/internal screaming in horror intensifies
I have to admit whoever at DeBeers managed to make "three months' salary" the common price guideline was a marketing genius.
Nah. CCP delayed 700 million people getting out of poverty
>"The Model 145 is notable as IBM's first computer that used semiconductor main memory. The computer is very large by modern standards, filling the blue cabinets below. One cabinet holds the CPU while another holds 256 kilobytes of memory chips. This computer predates the microprocessor, so the CPU is built gate-by-gate from many boards of integrated circuits. The Model 145 weighed over a ton, cost $5 to 10 million (in current dollars), and was roughly as fast as an IBM PC (1981)."
Contrary to what some sibling comments suggest, I am currently using an older HPE-2530-48G-PoEP switch with the 3 builtin fans swapped for Noctua nf-a4x20-pwm (installation went very smoothly). They are actually less audible than the disks of my NAS next to it. Admittedly, I am only using about third to half the ports and the load is only moderate most of the times but this setup has been working flawlessly for over a year now.

I guess it depends on your workload and the specific hardware involved but using server hardware with quiet fans in a living room environment can certainly be achieved.
But what benefit is there compared to playing a game on a phone or PC?

Look at how people use javascript for client side coding but go or rust for the back end -- the service provider pays for back end resources and they are always going to be niggardly when it comes to cpu, gpu, etc.
Causal design patterns for data analysis
Henry Crun?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Crun_and_Minnie_Banniste...
While it’s old now, the Nokia N9 proved to me a long time ago that the Linux phone idea has true merit. Harmattan was a brilliant UI!
I tried calling Cisco twice to report the issue, but got hung up on twice. oh well...
> There are small-size soundproof server cabinets that can easily solve this problem.

I would have thought anything that restricts sound would also impede air flow.
Fuck those Koreans. They came to exploit the poor people in an already oppressive system. They brought into the same hate and racism the whites were using. You guys don’t meet enough people from different backgrounds. Your “side” is all the same. White oppressor or sideline do nothings... yeah white
Working for a subsidiary has a preferred status for getting a work permit in US.

It is called L-1 Intra-Company Transfer Visa: L-1A and L-1B for transfer of managers and specialists

https://workpermit.com/immigration/usa/employees-guide-us-im...
> without the difficulties of a JavaScript development stack.

Yes. It's very difficult to write a full stack application using JavaScript. I cannot find tools or frameworks.
EU: “These are serious accusations, so it is not done lightly. I am not saying that there is a problem but if there is a problem and that we have favoured other destinations, other countries – for example the UK over us – then we will defend our interests.”

Reality: “The UK government signed a contract with AstraZeneca three months before the commission.”

Why does the EU have to be so stupid?
Containerisation software adds so much more than just a binary with layers of indirection.

Easy fine grain control of individual application memory, namespace isolation (container to container communication on a need to know basis), A-B testing, ease of on-boarding, multi-os development, CD pipelines, ease of container restarting etc.
Of course some know it is gambling but when the suicide hotlines inevitably show up i don't think you'll be saying they knew what they were signing up for.
In my opinion it makes no sense to have random elements. It's much nicer to have random dinosaurs.
Given your knowledge in these matters I am sure you know that Bajrang Dal is part of the RSS ideology in the sense its part of the Jan Sangh. That you chose to ignore that makes me doubt the degree of good faith in your question. You are just trying to poison and cloud the discourse.
It seems that a lot of short positions haven't covered yet and next week will be crucial. They could try to cover or artificially lower the price to incourage selling.

I'm holding and buying.

Not a financial advice, just like the idea of squeezing hedge funds
Search in repos that have X dependencies. For instance, I want to find a file named `_app.ts` in repos where next and typescript is installed.
These guys did:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests
Pro-tip: removing the fans from switches make them much quieter!

More seriously: most switches will survive fine without fans if you don't use them too intensely (see eg https://www.reddit.com/r/Cisco/comments/3iu57s/home_lab_swit...)
Modi first leader with majority in 30 years + populism + compliant media, i.e. generational opportunity to get things done. Regardless of how one feels about Modi + BJP he has power to push through big reforms despite dysfunctional nature of democracy at India scale. Whether intention is genuine or results are productive is another matter. IMO things will get messier until March, farmers incentivized to return to fields to work. Farmers also only bloc large enough to make Modi blink.
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/hejne-shelf-unit-softwood-s7903...

HEJNE comes in a 19 5/8 width and is much more sturdy if you really want to stack-rack some equipment.

But if you have room for a HENJE you probably have room for a real rack.

https://www.sweetwater.com/c685--Studio_Equipment_Racks

Remember there are two kinds of racks! Those designed to mount equipment from the front and only to be used with LIGHT equipment, and those designed to take rails and full-weight server equipment.
For more context: When opening a permanent position, research institutions are required by law to advertise the position publicly and interview candidates.

We are talking about permanent positions guaranteed for life with fantastic perks. They're extremely competitive to get.

When a permanent position is opened, it's often for a position that's been contracted out for a while.

Want to hire the contractor who's been doing the job perfectly for 2 years? It's simply not possible because of the law above. Gotta advertise the job nationwide and run formal interviews. An interview panel will run interviews and pick whoever they like (it takes months).

It's not as rigged as the poster makes it out to be. The panel is 5+ random people selected among a very large company. They don't know that the position is tailored to someone and they couldn't care less either way, they're all people with a cushy position guaranteed for life, no favor to give. (It's really the opposite of Russia/China for those doing the comparison).

It's rigged in the sense that if there was somebody doing the job for year, they're probably more qualified than you are.

This rule exists to prevent middle managers from doing empire building and growing their headcount indefinitely. It works as you can see above where a better person was chosen.
On the trail of the trillion-tonne runaway iceberg
Global Privacy Control Enabled by Default in DuckDuckGo Apps and Extensions
As others have said, many very simple radios do demodulation in mostly analog circuits, saving the digital stuff for only the last step (or not at all, for totally analog systems like an FM radio).

The other thing is flexibility. If you don't need to change your demodulator, you can do all your digital signal processing on a purpose-built ASIC, which brings the cost way down. Radio demodulation and decoding typically falls in the "embarassingly parallel" category, so it's an excellent candidate for efficient implementation on an ASIC or FPGA.
I’ve been using GeForce Now for a few years now, originally because I wanted a nice way to use Steam on an older Mac, then as a holdover for when I could pick up a latest-gen GPU. Which—the latter—has proved utterly impossible.

I’m curious how much momentum these services will pick up by sheer virtue of it being so challenging to find competitive hardware for sale.
I lived next to some urban woodlands and it was chock full of old garbage. Pull rings and bottle caps were pretty common. General construction debris was common: a couple of old bricks, roofing slates, wrought iron fencing that was nearly rusted out of existence. Once I found the case to a portable record player with a 1920s manufacture date.