skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The time period covered by the worm originally represented a loss of greatness to NASA employees. It was an era of shrinking budgets, loss of focus, and unexpected loss of life (Challenger).

Because of that, the return to the meatball was intended as an internal morale boost, a look back to what NASA could be rather than what it was currently.

They do probably need to better balance public morale and internal morale, but it's a hard problem.
Incredibly interesting. I have followed several Reddit and 4Chan threads on the matter that proved to be fascinating. A lot of attention was given to the following book written quite a while ago by an author named Chan Thomas. Apparently it was censored and I have never come across an uncensored copy. I don't know if any of it's true but it is certainly entertaining.

https://archive.org/details/ChanThomasTheAdamAndEveStoryTheH...
Dang it, probably a better link here: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/18/969063568/ancient-trees-show-...
For completeness sake: The BTC network is, by design, setting the difficulty of mining a new block so that its 10 min on avg. Currently there fitting ~2200 transactions in one block [0].

That makes 3.6667 transactions per second. BTC needs a hard fork in order to increase this dramatically.

So you were actually quite generous with 10 transactions per second...

[0] "Blockchain Charts" https://www.blockchain.com/charts/n-transactions-per-block
There's still the environmental costs related with creation of the panels and cards. Making Circuit boards and Silicon is a costly endeavor in and of itself from an energy and waste standpoint.
Ask HN: With years of experience, I don't match any job profile in any tech
It has been this way for years.

- Proven experience as a Web Developer, with high levels of competence across PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, WordPress and Python with responsive design and GIT version control

- A huge amount of self-determination and drive, with a passion for delivering work to a high standard and developing yourself further

- Node.js React, Next, Vue.JS, Mongo, Angular, Bootstrap and/or WPML.

- High levels of competence in designing and consuming RESTful / SOAP APIs

- Modern JavaScript and PHP frameworks, Laravel, e-commerce platforms and WooCommerce, along with design patterns, such as MVC

- The ability to increase Lighthouse performance scores

- Package and dependency management e.g. Composer, NPM
AWS

– EC2, RDS, CloudFront, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, Security Groups, VPC, Load

- Balancing and Scaling

- Browser and usability testing.

I was an ActionScript 3 Developer, I moved to TypeScript since Beta. I have architected successful SPA's, I know Angular inside out and RXJS across the board with animation thrown in and understand cross browser development.

I can do a few of these things but this is crazy. Especially in the city I live and the money they are paying.

Is everyone just a bullshitter? Coz I have problems with being that way and maybe that is my problem?

I am very good at my job, but do I need to take some kind of course on how to be fake? If I do, how do I retain some kind of shield from embarrassment? How do I shield my actual face? To put my name on something?
FAANG?
Coverage standardization would be an absolute game changer - but at that point that standard of coverage is being dictated by someone - either a cartel of the insurers or the government. It's much more likely to be done by the government but if that's the case then you essentially have medicare for all except you have a bunch of private bureaucrats in the middle draining money out of the system and adding no value.

If the precise definition of the product is dictated by the government then what differentiation are the insurers actually providing that adds value to the equation. Right now insurers actually do do a fair amount of good work trying to assess treatment efficacy and ensure that their customers get the best outcomes within a reasonable budget. If coverage is standardized then they're just acting as a pool of money - cash goes in, it comes out, occasionally one of the pools will go bankrupt and catastrophe will befall a lot of folks - or else the government will step in and save it so... why not just let the government run it?
While I understand the argument for removing kernel extensions, I don't think I can agree with it. It should be possible to run your own software at the kernel privilege level. There are usecases where that's essential, and for the long term it ensures that the whole system does not become overly closed.
Noun Project: Icons for Everything
Ask HN: Best Health Scoring Libraries
I've been developing a health score that takes data from 50+ categories to produce a daily health score. I'm considering to make it open source and invite others who are experimenting in the field to contribute. I have been getting contributions from medical community for some time now.

The objective of this submission is to see if there are other similar projects whether as a Github library, blog post or paper that you are aware of.

Thank you
Some stories from ChessBase Chess News describing these products, roughly reverse chronological order:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/chess-and-artificial-intellige... ChessBase founder Frederic Friedel talks about Fat Fritz

https://en.chessbase.com/post/interview-with-albert-silver-h... 1 hr video interview with Silver about his "path to inventing the [Fat Fritz] 2.0 engine"

https://en.chessbase.com/post/fat-fritz-2-0-the-new-number-1 "Fat Fritz has revolutionised the world of chess engines."

https://en.chessbase.com/post/fat-fritz-2-best-of-both-world...

https://en.chessbase.com/post/fat-fritz-ingenious-without-st...

https://en.chessbase.com/post/fat-fritz-and-the-1200 has a section "What differentiates Fat Fritz from Leela?"

https://en.chessbase.com/post/fat-fritz-defeats-stockfish-ma...

https://en.chessbase.com/post/fat-fritz-what-on-earth-is-tha... 2019 - Albert Silver describes in detail how he made his "AlphaZero clone" Fat Fritz
It doesn't matter. Gaming hardware will be used for mining as long as there is any single popular cryptocurrency that's POW and doesn't have dedicated ASICs.
I bet it’d be an even bigger deal at a couple financial services companies if they took security updates to internal codebases seriously.
The Texas producers all currently exceed the national-level recommendations for winterization. Also AFAIK, the natural gas providers are subject to federal regulations (they are not part of ERCOT, unlike the generating stations that use the gas) and they still froze over, which was a huge contributor to the problem.

Then throw in the fact that power producers all over Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri were all struggling with power production too, despite the fact that they are all of course regulated federally by FERC, it doesn’t seem like the national regulations were a magical solution here.

Is it possible that more stringent regulation will help avoid repeats of this in the future? Yes. Would the existing federal regulations have prevented this situation if ERCOT was subject to them? It doesn’t seem so.
> megamorphic

Now that's a new word I haven't heard before. Is this supposed to mean something different from "polymorphic"?
Because the (new) law says so?
Top line: work out how much value it's giving your clients and then aim to price to capture a fraction of that.

Without your app, it'd cost your clients $X in hours worked doing the book keeping, organisation and confirmations plus $Y in lost business due to mixups / confusion / etc from the alternatives.

What units you charge in to capture this fraction (billing for usage, per seat, whatever) is your second question, but you want to keep it as simple as possible while aligning to the value that the client is getting. Per successful booking probably makes sense here (I would imagine...)

>But what do I do with the cancelled bookings [...] I still pay for the sent SMS notifications :(

I'd suggest accepting these as a cost of doing business and pricing high enough that it doesn't matter.
> Now that statement would make sense if 'extreme cold weather' had caused problems in other parts of the USA.

In 2014 the polar vortex brought power down across the Eastern Interconnection (citation 13) and again in 2018 (citation 10).

> That suggest to me the national regulator has these extreme weather events covered.

There currently are not standards for winter weatherization. In 2013 standards were proposed for this however they were rejected (citation 15). Finally in 2020 standards started the approval process however they wont be fully approved until November.
But surely it's not like Nvidia is suddenly adding brand new capacity to produce these new cryptocurrency cards. If they could do that, they could just do that with the same cards to make enough for gamers and miners.
> But somehow somebody needs to pay for those services, which comes down to tax on individuals and corporations that reside or register in a country.

In most of those cases, tax need not be the only way to pay for those services. Government in many cases uses coercion to monopolize some of the markets (roads, NHS etc.) which makes it necessary to tax people. But even if I agree with your basic premise then what % of tax revenue actually goes into funding something that is public good, at least in USA around 40% of it is pure waste.

> So they're not paying to get something, they're only paying because everywhere else they would have to pay more. In effect they're robbing the US because they are using public services there, while not paying the tax that is normal for it.

> they're robbing the US

Not true. Apple is keeping its own money to itself using perfectly legal mechanism. This is not very different from claiming spouse or child as an exemption for an individual.

> because they are using public services there

Paying taxes have absolutely nothing to with which services you use. US is happy to tax American citizens who do not even live in USA nor have anything to do with USA. NY state taxes folks who specifically refuse to stay or work in NY and yet work for NY based employers.

Tax is a classic redistribution mechanism, government collects whatever it can, spends (or supposed to spend on) whoever needs it. It has nothing absolutely nothing to do with what services one uses.

> But as a Dutch taxpayer: Thanks Apple!

That is something we can agree on and Thanks Denmark for making it happen. More money in the hands of US government is nothing but trouble for Americans and thrid world countris where they drop bombs.
Agreed, but we don't have to have sympathy for a company to be fair to them. This is their business model and they have every right not to change it.
The pros and cons of being a software engineer at a BIG tech company
> Not if your spouse works for an employer that offers a 401k.

Do you have a citation for this?

I'll offer a citation from the IRS that strongly suggests (though does not 100% prove) this is not the case:

"Can I set up a SEP for my self-employment income if I participate in my employer's retirement plan?

Yes, you can set up a SEP for your self-employed business even if you participate in your employer's retirement plan at a second job."

That suggests that you can contribute to a SEP even if you yourself are participating in a 401K, let alone if your spouse is merely offered one.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/retirement-plans-faqs-r...
It would be fantastic if mining activity could be detected at the hardware level in order to engage throttling. Honestly if cryptocurrencies are going to be a thing, it wouldn't make any sense for hardware makers to ever sell anything that could be used for mining. They could just build their own mining equipment, own the market, and not sell (or sell at a prohibitive markup) any hardware that makes serious mining profitable.

I'm saying this as a person who wants to use computers for something useful, like playing games.
I'm not american but still enjoyed the landing very much. They sent a freaking nuclear-powered jeep to the surface of another planet, they can gloat all they want.
I see that as just another hardware manufacturer limiting what people can do with their hardware. And "creating tailored products for customers with specific needs" ? Just regular old market segmentation as they've always done, to extract more profit. Don't be mistaken, thus is about money, Nvidia does not act in the interests of the end user but their own. "think of the gamers" is just a way to put their foot in the door.
California bill would lean on cities to build multiunit housing
You have to look at the planet as a set of resources. Resources grow and shrink, but are definite and limited in any given moment all the same. Generally, spending them on less productive tasks is bad. It's cool they are using solar power vs burning gas/coal, but it doesn't change the fact that those same resources would benefit the planet much more if used in a different capacity.

If a billionaire hoarded manufacturing plants and kept them shut down, people would probably be mad, since resources were being wasted, even if it was a net positive on greenhouse gas output.
It is already not legal to use consumer cards for ML/AI/datacentre/commercial use according to their EULA and you are not permitted to install drivers at that point. They demand that you get an enterprise card
It's amazing to watch the national brouhaha over this situation while also being an affected resident of Texas. It's amazing how people have adopted passionate stances despite not living here or knowing anything about power grids.

It's as if ... being affected by this terrible doesn't make someone an expert on situation since whatever is happening with the grid is quite far from those affected.

But it's not like there being differing opinions means that truth and falsehood cease to exist. Someone is lying, specifically Fox News and the governor of Texas are about alternative energy. Some policies really were problematic. etc.

And I'm sorry the diverse people of Texas have to suffer this. If one policy makers were the one who had to freeze in the dark but that's life.
What makes you think fusion power will be cheaper than solar, wind, fossil fuels or fission?

Efficiency isn't really a good metric when the fuel is free. We see that in solar power where expensive high efficiency devices lose out to cheaper less efficient ones. It's more about capital cost and operating cost per unit of energy.
Inside the shocking legal guardianship industry
ultimately, it's a fraction of miners doing what you say. so as a green miner your personal contribution might be 0, but you're supporting a system that does considerable harm.

as long as a majority of bitcoin mining happens from non-renewable resources, the network as a whole is damaging.
NASA has a good breakdown of their expected miletones at 'earth receive time' - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-next-mars-rover-is-r...

Apparently the latency time is currently 11 mins 22 seconds -- which is somewhere near the average. It goes from under 4 mins to over 22mins depending on distance.
> don't have the physical rack space for the extra servers required for ceph

Sure, it depends but the 140 drives (mentioned by secabeen) alone will take up a huge amount of space. Maybe I just wanted to point out that there might be a point when you have maxed out the storage capability of a single node and might want to consider a distributed storage setup.
"black start" of a power plant, the ability for it to start the generator rotation, provide current to the field, and energize a power line is something that costs more to provide when building a plant. Utilities that have old school focus on reliability will generally have that capability. Private companies who just generate power to make money don't have any incentive to pay for that function. If the grid is dead there is nobody to use that power.

Another cool thing that utility power plants can do is feed themselves - keep the pumps running, lights on, heaters running, coffee hot, etc in the power plant using the power from the generator in the plant even if it is not connected to the transmission system. Most privately owned power plants forego this ability along with black start and will have a diesel generator instead.
How to know if you're interviewing at a product-led company
Also, layer-2 systems in production now can handle several thousand tx/sec, without usability or security compromises.
I agree - but the comment above was, AFAICT specifically advocating for removing both Large and Small Group insurance pools provided by employers from the equation. Folks currently get insurance from a variety of sources, Medicare, Medicaid, Military Tri-care, Fed/State/County Insurance, Self-funded plans - there's a lot of variety here. I believe the comment above was advocating for closing Small and Large Group coverage (and probably self-funded pools as well) in favor of those customers being dumped on the Individual market which does exist - and does definitely have it's own problems.

Oh, and the Individual insurance market predates the ACA and healthcare.gov - it was much harder to navigate before the ACA due to the pre-condition exclusions but there were a variety of plans on offer to individuals.
There are some nice elements to many frameworks that make you wish you had just used one to start.

- xss protection
- responsive to phone sizes
- i18n
- ect, ect, ect

But more to the point I currently work on a SPA that did not use a framework when it was created by the original developer, and what you end up with is a homegrown undocumented unsupported insecure mess.
What jobs are you applying for that you don't match the profile?
> In today's society, the desire to be noticed is easily 50x the level of anxiety about being in a surveillance state.

Well said. Brilliantly well said. Pithy and correct. I will be sharing your words.
Right, as evidenced by the extensive storage infrastructure being deployed /s.

The US has 25 GWh of storage, as compared to an hourly electricity consumption of 500 GWh. Literally less than ten minutes of storage. Almost all of it hydroelectric, which is a big infrastructure project on par with building nuclear power plants

I'm sure you're eager to talk about how thermal storage, or concret weights with pulleys, or compressed air is going to be 100x better than current solutions. But until those things move out to prototypes and I to mass production, they represent potential solutions not actual solutions. Like fusion. If the next attempt at fusion works, great! But building out infrastructure assuming it's going to work is extremely unwise.
The Economist is great
So global companies should just begin to agree with all new laws governments create regardless of their impact?

If I am a global company and a government implements a law which I believe undermines my business and the internet, I have the right to no longer do business with that country.
The article finds fault particularly with the national standards not being adequate, and specifically points out that the standards in Texas are more strict than the national standards. He goes on to give some details on the enforcement of those Texan standards. In this case, following national standards as opposed to Texas's standards would have led to an even worse disaster.

Your claim that being on a separate grid caused the outage is too strong to be supported by the data in the article, which is why he doesn't make that claim. Additional data could come out either in favor of or against your claim: although the interconnect bandwidth was fully utilized (edit:
txlpo78 points out that it was not fully utilized), we need solid data on whether Mexico and the neighboring states facing similar struggles could spare significantly more capacity. If not, then having more interconnect bandwidth would not have helped much. If they had power to spare, then the interconnects were indeed a problem.

No one is attacking regulation. Virtually everyone I've seen is in agreement that better regulation is necessary in this situation.
This is a pervasive problem in software engineering. It's very hard to find any numbers to prove whether any specific practice, or design, or architecture has any actual effect.
Try handling millions of automated machine to machine micro transactions per second on the Visa network. The Lightning Network on top of Bitcoin can handle this today.
I think the same deal applied to all projects at X at the time. The other projects were just not all successful.
care to explain this one?

edit: right its log(2, 5.4*10^61). Its been a long morning...
> So many companies refuse to have employees work full time. It seems like it is impossible to get a job at any big box retail or food company that will actually work you 40 hours per week. I assume this has to due with not wanting to pay out benefits for full time work.

Yes, and this is why I think government mandates tied to full time work should be converted one of two ways:

1. Where sensible (mandatory sick leave or other similar things), pro-rate the requirements for sub-full-time work, in some cases with only a fractional reduction rather than the full ratio.

2. Where not sensible (e.g., health care), it should not be an employment benefit but a public benefit. In some cases the employer might be permitted to replace the public benefit with a superior one, with some credit for the displaced public cost.
Simultaneity is at least as well defined as clock time. Both clock time and the velocity of your reference frame can have arbitrary constants added to them to yield equally valid coordinate systems. So "it's not really simultaneous" is analogous to "it's not really 6:30 PM."
Maybe people in Lituania changed their mind? i don’t understand your point based on what “they” choose a decade ago.
This is somewhat true, but after picking up skiing, I look forward to the winter weather in Seattle more than I ever did before.

It was a huge game changer for me personally - it took a while to pick up, but now I actually look forward to the months of December to March (sometimes April) in Seattle, because it means I'm 45 minutes away from good skiing, and a couple hours away from great skiing.

Of course, it's not a spot for everyone, but even if you just do cross-country skiing or snowshoeing, it's totally possible to get "great" weather in the winter here.
It was only 2 or 3 years ago that AMD and Nvidia had to deal with a massive glut of silicon due to the collapse in mining.

Securing even more years in advance is a recipe for repeating that.
no because they can more money annually selling cards than mining, beside investors don't put in money in nvidia because it engages in crypto but because it's a video card company.
Launch HN: Interactive meeting agendas for productive teams
Hey Hackers, I’m Haley. I’m so stoked to introduce Mindup (www.mindup.co) to help you lead better meetings!

Our team previously built a much more expansive software tool specifically for consulting clients and we realized how drawn our users were to the meetings feature. We constantly received feedback on how easy and effective their meetings were while using that tool.

So, in true startup fashion, we turned that customer feedback into a tool that’s available to everyone! We wanted to build a minimalist tool that had an intuitive experience and kept our users focused on what’s most important, and in my humble opinion, I think we’ve done it.

We have a lot of opportunities ahead of us and our heads are brimming with ideas on how we can make Mindup more useful, but we want to hear from you.

So without further ado, we’re hungry for all feedback, questions, and ideas. Feel free to message me through the chat box on Mindup or email me at haley@mindup.co
The East, West, or Texas grids didn't implement it, you're right. My point is that Texas' grid is getting called out when that report was ignored by everyone. It's a national issue, not a Texas issue.