skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One alternative could be for Sony to launch a new line of PS that is optimised for crypto mining but way less cost-effective for gaming.
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> "Choose boring technology" make a lot of sense if you are maximizing profit and don't need to work with the tech yourself.

This view feels so strange to me.

As an engineer, I find myself the happiest when I manage to build the simplest and the most maintainable thing for the business requirements. Extra happy, if it turns out we didn't paint ourselves into a corner when those requirements increase or change.

I just want to minimize my own tears in the future.

> If you are an engineer and you want to try a new technology, go for it. Even if it doesn't make sense.

Imagine how immoral this advice sounded like if it came from the mouth of a carpenter, an auto mechanic or a doctor.

Maybe this just activates my PTSD acquired from working in a startup with a long history of codecampers doing CV-Driven Development.
GPUs are made in china/taiwan so good luck with that.
This movie captures it very well: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3215346/

Trailer [en]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_-KrJseVUo

It's very hard to describe shortly... maybe: They start with you as human being first. Abilities and talents to be discovered and developing a humane human who can face the world. They don't treat you like an animal in industrial livestock farming. It has many layers to it, e.g., regular teachers and kindergarden personnel have the social standing of a Professor in your country (assuming 1st world not scand). Teaching the young is understood (like REALLY understood) as one of the most important things a country can do for its future.
Nice I guess?

The hat itself is somewhat expensive (for only GSM), especially compares to LTE USB sticks which can do the same (and more). But of course not as compact and nice looking.
Any particular fund that you can recommend? (I am googling, of course)
What you say is all true.

However, the word "binding", in Computer Science, is higher on the abstraction totem pole than say, words like "Compile Time" and "Runtime" -- which are more easily understood to new people...

When you add "early" and "late" to the word "binding", you are talking about things which are highly interpreter and compiler specific, that is, different compilers and interpreters which contain compilers and interpreters and bytecode compilers -- will all do things slightly different from one another...

Now, I should have amended what I said by talking about the earliest versions of Forth and Lisp.

The earliest versions of Forth and Lisp.

In those versions, they would not have bound ("binded", early or late) functions the way say a C compiler does, that is, by sticking the address of a function into machine code -- effectively removing all table lookups at that point.

No, those earliest versions of Forth and Lisp (and especially Forth) -- would have looked up (from a symbol table), the same symbol, each and every time that it was seen/invoked.

Would that have been slower than hell, compared to what a compiler can do?

Absolutely!

But that is how the earliest (AKA, "simplest"/"least complex") versions of these programs would have operated...

So, I stand corrected (as I said, all of what you've said is true, I acknowledge that) -- but the thing is, if you were teaching an introductory CS class, you wouldn't want to teach what you've said to new students on the first day, because many would not have the background necessary in compilers and interpreters to understand it...

So we're not arguing, you are correct, but while you are correct, please understand that what I search for is the most general, most broadest, simplest, unifying principles (maybe you would call them "axioms" or "first truths") from which all else (including all that you've explained) can be derived.

But all of that being said... you are correct!
And yet we also see death threats against developers who delay games.
Is this trying to say that the primary destination of new dollars is cryptocurrency?
Sorry for the issues with the travesty called the Croatian citizenship law. They are too busy not accidentally giving citizenship to the "wrong" people.

I will vote, no questions asked, for any party proposing a Law of Return for passports, no matter where the person intends to live.

As for the Swiss immigration officials, they are very competent, but I've gotten the impression they always want me to leave back where I came from. I love Switzerland anyway.
This is an interesting question. Some thoughts in no particular order:

I think a lot of engineers, are, by nature, curious to learn, try new things and experiment.

If you're doing the same thing over and over, it's not making that part of your brain happy.

You can do new and interesting things with "boring technology".

Sometimes, the new thing is worthwhile. I remember when Rails was new. I'm glad I picked it up, and still think it's a very, very solid way of getting things done in a way that's both rapid, and yet generally well organized and with a propensity for testing and a culture of writing good code. At the time, there was a lot of PHP, which was quick... but often a mess. There were Java frameworks, but they were big and heavy and clunky. At this point, both those languages have benefited from some of the ideas in Rails.

It's important to try and figure out what the "sweet spot" is for the new tech if you want to use it. As someone who has used Erlang for a long time, including professionally, I've been curious about doing some work with Elixir, but there are definitely places out there who employed it because "new", it seems, without solid reasons why. I'm still not 100% sure what the sweet spot is for Elixir, although I was very happy with Erlang for the "semi-embedded" systems where I used it.

I think going for one or two new things, while keeping the rest mostly the same is a decent way of containing the risk. I've been using Postgres for 20+ years, quite happily. I enjoy the challenge of writing solid, performant queries with it, but it's the same DB system.
Storing contact list by any service should be illegal. You might try to not share your data, but if anyone has you on their contact list, it’s out of your hands
Unconditional benefits are less susceptible to fraud because there aren't conditions to evade. They're also easier to administer and are generally progressive, as a fixed universal benefit is more useful to poor people than high income people, due to the diminishing marginal utility of most benefits. Taxation, as you say, does the rest.
Vti, vtsax
You mention nothing about externalities. Sure the $ books balance out but what other effects are being selected?

We are all on the same side but benefits and costs are not evenly allocated.
This assumes that larger investment in nuclear won’t yield reduced costs, just as larger investments in solar did.
Proof of stake is the fusion power of crypto. It's been 6-24 months away since what, 2016? I toured Consensys a few years back and at the time it seemed PoS was right around the corner.

OTOH, it could be cracked tomorrow and value of dedicated silicon will go off a cliff. So I don't blame the GPGPU crowd for that, before even considering the engineering challenges of silicon/FPGA for eth.
I'd be quite happy to show up, build something, and then keep it producing value for customers for decades with as little time and effort for all the humans involved as possible.

As long as there is a way to quantify that value, it could be incentivized, boring systems should be the most profitable.
> I really don't understand the purpose of these fortune cookie slogans. First off, how does 'ethics' vanish if we curb free speech?

Ethics are normative. They shift over time and everyone contributes, partly through speech. Restricting speech cripples this long-running, civilization ethical discussion.

You are engaged in sawing off the branch we're all standing on.
The general consensus even from airline companies is that airlines will never recover because business travel has changed forever.
I guess the 2020 JAL one could be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ZJjYQj2bY

There's some good video off the current one on the BBC site https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56141673
No, stocks aren't overvalued on the timeline of your retirement. There will probably be at least one contraction before you retire, and there may be more than one. It might be tomorrow; it might not be for another ten years. If you stay out of the market, you never get those years back.

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started

Invest in low-cost, broad-market index funds like VT (== VTWAX) or a low-cost, appropriate timeline target-date fund.
Yeah it would suck, but if Ford F150s were selling for $100,000 because drag racers were buying them up, I don’t think I’d mind.
That repo is interesting. A quick ctrl+F seems to indicate that pretty much every instance of "MongoDB" is "Moving from Mongo to Postrges or DynamoDB" (there is one single entry of moving to Mongo from MySQL). Almost as if Mongo is just not a good database (or people are too eager to use it for things which it does not do well).
In a way, you have respect the integrity of the PhD student. But also, publishing a fraudulent conference paper in this field (neural networks), the real damage to anything is minimal.

Nobody expects a random paper in this field to be particularly true or useful. A lot of papers are trivial applications of old ideas, obfuscated behind complicated word soup. Or false good results due to buggy code, which you can never check because they don't publish the source code. Or useless or irreproducible due to many other reasons. The field produces also good results, but you need to follow bigger trends, as individual publications are mostly just noise.
> There's something fundamentally wrong with the idea of deciding for people what might improve their lives and what isn't allowed to try

I disagree, I don't think this at all an a priori wrong. It's helpful to consider the limit case.

If we lived in a world, for instance, where one person owned all of the food in the world and didn't want anyone else to eat it, it would be permissible for the other 7 billion people in the world to "decide for" that one that their food will be redistributed.
I think that the idea of not allowing users to pick their own identifiers is not compatible with how a lot of people use social media.

It’s a heck of a lot easier for me to tell my GitHub username to someone, than it would be to tell them a random UUID like 3ffdf0d2-b9a5-4fff-9f38-75afae67dbea.

Even a shorter random-looking username like the one that you have chosen as your HN username, is difficult to relate to for me and I suspect for a lot of people.

And even if you made a human readable version that would hand out usernames like “magnificentwalrus”, it would be generating usernames that most users weren’t identifying with. As much as I like walruses I don’t have a personal connection to them, and any other random name is likely to fare the same. Sure you could let users generate names until they come across one that they do like, but mostly I think that would be a lot of hassle. And there is no guarantee for how long it takes before you find a good name that way. Perhaps even never, as adjective + noun or whatever else the site uses as rule for generating names might not be a rule that the user likes.

Names matter a lot to a lot of people.

Aside from this I think it’s also only a matter of time before similar services to the one in the OP show up but where instead of trying to cross-reference usernames it would work similar to Google Reverse Image Search, and would be able to link accounts across different social media platforms based on the facial features in the photos and/or videos that people post, even when the images and videos are not the same ones but are depicting the same person.
Could this be some be automated? Perhaps train using already formatted books
Coming from the USA, I don't remember seeing anything outside of the budget video range that used LP or SLP. Most of the prerecorded tapes I ever saw were always SP. Your different experience interests me. VHS SP mode video can actually be quite decent quality. In the early days of digital cable, I used to record things to VHS using an SVHS deck connected via S-Video. Those recordings, while not quite broadcast quality obviously, were some of the highest quality VHS recordings I ever saw, with a quite similar "feel" to the look of U-Matic.
> It took several years and a good lawyer to get passed the beaucracy. Ultimately I received the Croatian passport and so did our children about half a year later.

Yeah, it is always advisable to get a Croatian lawyer when applying for Croatian citizenship, for example, even if you know exactly what you are doing.

Croatian law allows for loose arbitrary interpretations of the law by government servants in the bureaucracy. Even if you covered all of your bases and you did everything right, a lawyer stops such issues. Plus, Croatian law regulates exactly how much Croatian lawyers can charge, so it is not bad.

While my citizenship application went smoothly, even without the Croatian lawyer's assistance: If I were applying for US citizenship, for example, I would certainly use a lawyer, although for a different set of reasons. This is something to keep in mind for anyone considering emigrating anywhere, as the stakes can be high.
The case is still ongoing (although note it's New York, not the US, that is prosecuting the case). As I understand it, Tether still has yet to provide the documentation requested by the New York Attorney General.
This comment doesn't even make sense.

What does "the same crypto market" mean?
Isn’t there still a lot of implied waste from the solar panels themselves though, as well as the storage batteries i.e. once they’ve reached their end of life?

My understanding is that this cost and the manufacturing cost (rate earth metals etc.) are often overlooked when reasoning about the total footprint of both solar and electric vehicles..
But you can't enforce your taxes in other governments.

In fact other governments in a game theory like ploy to get ahead of your country may agree to international agreements that they know they can game to their advantage.

The fundamental assumptions are wrong. You're not in this together. All countries are in direct competition, and some a more cut-throat than others. If potential disaster B is coming irregardless, country B can position themselves to come-out on top of country A when it does.
You clearly have a very deep understanding of finance.
Plane changes always require fuel. Solar-electric propulsion, in particular, requires fuel. Its high specific impulse means that it needs less fuel, but also would take many months for a small change of orbital plane.
With ETH you underclock core and overclock memory. Core will lead to vastly lower power consumption, while still maintaining hashrate.
University administrations are all in prairie dog mode. They are all run by fat unneeded administrative fat cats, charging wayyyyy tooooo much money, are all frightened of a bubble burst in higher ed that will cost an unknown number of institutions.

In situations like that, it is ripe for scapegoating a single institution that gets in the news for the wrong reasons.

Outside of the cream of the crop, large institutions in higher education are also tenuously tied to "reputation".

A couple bad runs, and you go from, say the University of Florida's current reputation (which is pretty good as the SEC schools go) to, say, the Mississippi schools which are basically second-rate Cal State schools academically being propped up by football money.

And then you might get dumped from your conference.
I am absolutely befuddled. Why are we letting this happen? Who is holding this hot potato and why?

Drop tether now. The more people hold it, the more damage it will do when it implodes.
Not every place in EU has tax-funded universal healthcare. It's the minority actually. Most countries require you to pay health insurance - and that's certainly not cheap if you're a software engineer as it's based on your income - e.g. 13.5% of my pre-tax (25%) income where I live; that makes it more expensive (absolutely - without income adjustment) than the most expensive premium US health insurance plan for me, without any of the perks. And where is universal healthcare there are also enormous taxes (>50%).

Real estate is much more expensive in major European cities compared to US major cities (income-adjusted), and is taxed a lot on top of income taxes. And rural real estate is much cheaper in the US both absolutely and income-adjusted.

Vehicles and fuel are more expensive here too + again major taxes. Traveling by public transport is reality only in major German and French metropolitan areas, you need a car everywhere else as soon as you need to cross the city border at least semi-regularly.

And yet not even coronavirus tests are free here, as opposed to many places in the US.
Pretty much, from what I can tell!

I sorta see this as Nvidia trying to create some market segmentation not for the miners, but so gamers can actually get their cards before Nvidia loses mindshare. (Not that I think that's likely)
Where is your understanding coming from? There is no such thing as pushing cards “far harder, at higher temps” than when mining or doing other compute tasks that run the GPU at 100%. Failure rates land squarely on the side of higher temps, and the reasons are well understood https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/444474/can-i...

You might be thinking of spinning disk drives rather than GPUs. A lot of people suggest that leaving an HDD powered up and spinning is better than spinning up and down frequently, due to the temperature going up and down a lot and the added wear on this mechanical device. This is completely different from a GPU though.
So I've always felt that this is true not just of technical architecture, but also of companies and products. Does your company's strategy have conceptual integrity? Can employees and investors understand it, and is it congruent? Same for your product. Do users understand the information architecture?

That said, I've definitely worked at some pretty successful places that seem more like organized chaos. I think it's just easier and more fulfilling to work on products and at companies that have that conceptual integrity.
I think you mean liberal and not progressive, in the "classical liberal" sense (though the US seems to have a different meaning for this, so I'm not sure if that matches well). Switzerland is economically liberal and socially very conservative. I don't know what you mean by European style politics, I cannot see what the country system has in common with the EU, but we regularly clash with EU's politics and refused multiple time to join the union.
So how can you get the benefit of price-surge based supply without the social-inequality disruption? Minumum subsidized purchases (like first gal costs low-$, more at market rates)? Direct-to-citizen cash payments? "Community based purchasing" - local towns buy what they need, at market rates, but they get massive federal cash influxes to enable them to do so? I'm sure I'm missing something here, but probably there is some mix of tradeoffs that could bette make this kind of thing work.
Right! They even have road-paving machines that rip up the asphalt; add a bit more tar to replace the tar that seeped away; heat up the mixture and tumble it; lay it back down; and steamroll over it; all in one pass, all in a closed system with no dust escaping. (Ref: https://youtu.be/XKFaC5RYbEM)

Plus, since asphalt’s petroleum-tar binder is liquified during the working process, it would actually act as a solvent perfect for dissolving (certain) microplastics into. The microplastics wouldn’t merely be in mechanical mixture with the asphalt; they wouldn’t exist as distinct entities any more! They’d revert to being a petroleum fraction, in complex with the heavier petroleum fractions of the tar.
This site is probably a good starting point: https://www.bogleheads.org/

But it also depends on your locale. I live in Sweden so the particular funds I buy are probably not available in your market.

The funds I personally buy follows ”MSCI World (Net Total Return)” and ”SIX30 Return Index”. The latter has no currency risk for me since my currency is SEK.

YMMV :)

https://old.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/ is probably worth looking into as well.

Best of luck!
The question is, if the giant US internet companies acted more in alignment w/ the speech values the US professes to believe in (at least when convenient), would that contribute to those values being more widely adopted?

You're taking the position that no, it wouldn't make any difference, other entities will just do what they were going to do anyway.

But I don't think the US example is entirely without influence. Eventually policies reflect beliefs which reflect narratives; the narrative of the internet as a non-partisan enhancer of freedom becomes much harder to sustain when its major sites are clearly picking sides.

> And yet there is more access to less censored media in most parts of the world than at any point in human history.

Because of the internet, of course.

Now, in reaction, we are seeing rising censorship (since the internet suddenly made speech much more available and powerful). Whether we'll end up having more or less uncensored access to information ultimately is still unknown, I think.
You write the software to detect and be resilient in the face of hardware failure.
Why would a (legitimate) guidance counselor have access to a copy of the SAT test before it was given?
Funny how no newspaper ever reports shit like this
The income loss and cost of a degree is almost never worth it.
I use both. Plex is better for the less technical members of my family. I burned all my wife’s Workout DVDs and she uses it with ease. For HDR movies I prefer Kodi. My understanding is that plex transcodes from the originating machine where as Kodi will transcode on the machine that receives it - so the HDR films get transcoded on a machine with a graphics card.

For some systems they come as simple apps you can just fire up, or you can have the separate apps load up. Not hard to switch between them.
Thanks for sharing your experience, that's good to know about those recent developments.
the issue with btc is that it lacks any stabilising element. Mainstream services invests in other products as well. This means that even if their product fails, the entirety of their energy investment wont be lost. The flipside is that if btc turns out to be a success (i'm not saying it's even possible), it should be more efficient at being a currency.
Anyone who has capacity to harm you, luke governments, alreafy has tools and a fat budget.
If you care about your privacy, why are you using google products?
I agree. Also:

Drop Bitcoin now. The more people hold it, the more damage it will do when it implodes.
Apparently the size of Tether seems huge, 34 B$ of dollar-denominate liabilities, but Binance, the largest exchange, has most fiat customer deposits in USDT. Moreover, in the last year futures trading has moved from Bitcoin margined to USDT margined and it is very profitable. So I wouldn’t be surprised if large funds are trading those future markets and they require USDT.

But offcourse it could still be insolvent if they issued too much or simply made insolvent if the assets (t-bills, cd) backing the issuances are frozen from US authorities. Just assume that as a known risk and plan accordingly
Which is why you also dont tell the service your phone number or reuse an email address
A grid that relies on transmission to that degree will require unifying some disparate grids won't it? Also it seems horribly vulnerable to attacks digital or physical.