skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has a root cause been identified? Is it a growing pain like coverage gaps / satellite scaling issues or a fundamental issue?
I make computer music!

This is an album I finished (mostly with Max/MSP and Ardour) during the end of the laptronica twee netlabel days: https://hecanjog.bandcamp.com/album/norwood-wisconsin

This is a more recent texture study using my own python-based computer music system: https://hecanjog.bandcamp.com/album/the-perfume-eater-from-s...
It might be! He -might- say it to every intern on their first day. But the problem with many statements or questions that land poorly, even ones not tied to race, gender, etc, is not the intention of the person saying them, but the experience of the person hearing them.

For instance, "are you supposed to be here?" may be a perfectly reasonable question asked purely because the asker doesn't recognize the person, and they would have asked it regardless of skin color, gender, etc. However, if you've heard things like that all your life, if your lived experience is that the majority don't expect someone of your gender or skin color to be in the exclusive areas they frequent, it can't help but hurt, and feel exclusive based on your gender, skin color, etc. You can't help but wonder "would they have asked that of me if I was a white man?", etc.

This doesn't mean the question asker meant anything by the question, but it does indicate a lack of sensitivity to the lived experience of the person here. You can compensate for it by learning about and recognizing that lived experience and reformulating the question; for instance "Hi! I don't think we've met; what do you do here?" for my example, or "Welcome aboard! I'm really excited to see what you accomplish here. My goal is to make sure this is a really positive experience for you, and my hope is that you'll be able to learn a lot while you're with us" for the original.
What’s your opinion of what SpaceX is doing with the SN rockets? It’s clearly not waterfall, as SN11 was finished already when the SN10 exploded. SpaceX needs to do modifications to it though. At the same time Elon is working on the assemly line while innovating by running lots of experiments. What SpaceX is doing is clearly state of the art.

To tell you the truth I think waterfall model was not about getting the best manufacturing, but about the leaders not taking any risks and saving their own jobs.
I love your sound, very deep and melodic, almost an 80s feel. Just a Dream is my favorite, your aesthetic goes really well with a singer.
You're probably not totally off. GoT was special in quite a few aspects, but I would not be surprised if it was true in the general case - in fact, I think GoT was popular exactly for breaking that mold, but this gives diminishing returns.
You can always contract remotely. There are tons of smaller scrappy SV companies that are happy to take the talent wherever they can find it.

You'll sleep weird hours, but such is life on the global internet.
> Everyone isn't.

My point is that there are IMHO a lot of people complaining about this (here on HN) but I don't see a lot of concrete solutions that are actionable.

> you also aren't helping address any issues others are facing, and may in fact be benefiting from the biased actions those others are performing.

I presented a way that would make it somewhat fairer (looks like the orchestra approach suggested that) till someone else brings something better to the table. Rinse and repeat has to be better than just talking. No?

> but you're benefiting from the problem, and are not part of the solution.

It's easy to criticize others. I would be interested in exploring your solution to this.
The top listing is for a job from rezi.io. Why's that if it's only FAANG?
Thanks! I've updated the post with more links. :)

CDBaby and Distrokid have a different model. Distrokid is effectively subscription based, with unlimited uploads of singles and albums as long as you keep up with your payments. CDBaby, by contrast, is more transactional. This works better for me, at least, because I do music as a hobby on the side, and so tend to release individual tracks sporadically, rather than entire albums. (Although having said that, I'm working on an ambient album right now!)

I'm certainly not raking in money through music streams, but I'm also not doing much marketing -- this post on HN is the most marketing I've done in the past month. ;) Unfortunately that means I can't really comment on how Distrokid compares in terms of managing payments etc.
I compose music for video games (which I also develop). Haven't uploaded many of them yet but here's a sample of my work:

https://hypertele.fi/b24e49b113953464
I wonder if you could do something similar with underground storage in a mine?
How could one possibly publish poetry in a non political way?
> you have to wittle that down further

Not really. That list spans 75-ish years of English literature. There are only about 400 years of (modern-enough-to-be-read-by-non-specialist) English literature. If your statement were true, we'd have to assume that there's only space for about 40 authors in the English canon. Even at my non-championship status, I'd guess I've read fiction by 150-ish authors. I'd expect people whose lives are focused on literature are an order of magnitude beyond that.

For me personally, it's usually random chance or personal recommendations that get me to read something from a new author. (I also mostly read things at least a couple decades old.) But a lot of authors basically reach the "canon" in their own lifetimes, at which point it's not a giant roll of the dice to read their recent books. Even when it is though, I mostly read for my own amusement. I'm not expecting any reward other than additional rolled eyes from friends at the bar. ;-)
You're suddenly changing the question.
Most newer generation, upcoming replacement of lower cost SKUs, including NAS are all going to ARM.

At one point there were a few more MIPS and even OpenPOWER solution on NAS and router, but at the end having everything on ARM is just so much easier. Little sad to see it go. Especially good old Broadcom MIPS tends to be exceptionally stable.
Only a dipshit would make these false equivalencies
There is no, one, MIPS ISA. They've been through a number of incompatible changes over the years. MIPS r6 added some things more like RISC-V. NanoMIPS loops even more like RISC-V, though with its own twist (and with some 48 bit instructions, which RISC-V doesn't have yet).

In many ways modern MIPS and RISC-V are pretty much just different binary encodings of the same ideas.

In 2010 MIPS wanted $2 million from Berkeley to allow them to use the MIPS instruction encodings for processor cores that Berkeley would design entirely themselves. So they made up their own encodings instead.

The rest is history.
Excitement about photonic quantum computing
The link is for the paper related to Chris Lee's write up in arstechnica today:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/programmable-optical...

To make it easier for people, in the article Chris Lee cites this paper by Xanadu researchers: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03202-1

arxiv version: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.02109.pdf, which is what I've put in the url of this post.

Chris summarizes his thoughts as:

"...this is a big step. There are no large barriers to scaling this same computer to a bigger number of qubits. The researchers will have to reduce photon losses in their waveguides, and they will have to reduce the amount of leakage from the laser that drives everything (currently it leaks some light into the computation circuit, which is very undesirable). The thermal management will also have to be scaled. But, unlike previous examples of optical quantum computers, none of these is a “new technology goes here” barrier.

What is more, the scaling does not present huge amounts of increased complexity. In superconducting qubits, each qubit is a current loop in a magnetic field. Each qubit generates a field that talks to all the other qubits all the time. Engineers have to take a great deal of trouble to decouple and couple qubits from each other at the right moment. The larger the system, the trickier that task becomes. Ion qubit computers face an analogous problem in their trap modes. There isn’t really an analogous problem in optical systems, and that is their key advantage."
Bingo! Shooting extra scenes and more CGI for the Chinese audience is way more expensive than just settling the for the LCD of safely not offending people. I also think that's why movies like Deadpool do so well. It's a good movie but it also attracts an audience that is starving for non PG13 movies.
I agree with you and I want to add one more layer. I program analytics for a living. I often find that people fudge numbers without even being conscious of it. If I know my boss wants the numbers on this report to be high, I'll unconsciously choose an algorithm that gives higher numbers than one that gives lower numbers. Even if both algorithms are "reasonable".
If the education is not good enough, the solution is to make it better.

As a society, we made the decision that it is not fair for children of richer parents to be able to have much better education that the rest, and instead made it better for everyone.

Since you insist on stating it in terms of freedom, we traded freedom from the obligation of public schooling for the freedom to have high quality education (and thus equal opportunity). Thanks to this choice, we have better outcomes than the US, and just as much freedom - just not the reductive kind of freedom you recognize.

If you really want even better math education, the solution is that instead of shelling out money, you can do research on how to ameliorate teacher education or pedagogical techniques, or run as a politician to get those resources allocated. That is also your freedom.

Ultimately, if you care about creating something resembling equality of opportunity and if you want to reduce inequality, you will have to abandon your reductive concept of freedom, where a homeless man starving enjoys more freedom than if he was in public housing, somehow.
Of course, you're right, I should've phrased that differently.
RISC-V deliberately made sure both all 0s and all 1s are forever illegal instructions, in all instruction lengths.
Have you considered complementing DNA testing with selling specalty augar (to detect Streptococcus mutans for example) and instruction manuals with an online forum?
Just to be clear, I am supporting her interpretation of the statement. I am not claiming that the statement itself is sexist, intentionally or unintentionally, even in this context. We don't know what was going through her mentor's head when they said it. Even if we did, they were probably given incomplete information about her background and may have been given inaccurate information.

The problem lies with the company creating the framework for her interpretation. It set the tone for her tenure, a tone that implied that she was facing an uphill battle since she was hired in spite of her qualifications. That tone would understandably (in my opinion) alter the meaning of what was being said. In this case, the intent may have been to encourage her but the interpretation was that they saw her as unqualified.
I think XLwings (https://www.xlwings.org) can do some of that.
Goodluck! The recipe that I use is basically this: https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/tongbaechu-kimchi

I tend to put more of the carrots, onions, and daikon in though as I like that crunch. I don't put in the harder to find ingredients and tend to ferment it a little over a week in a big vessel and then store it in smaller mason jars in the fridge. making carbon dioxide with vinegar and baking soda and then pouring it(just the invisible co2 though!!) over the ferment vessel has been flawless for my ferments. in any event controlled rot is fun... brewing your own kombucha is even easier too... basically making a sweet tea and pouring in a bottle of unflavored and still alive kombucha and it will make it on its own.
Like to this day we have electrons flowing out of the 'negative' terminal because of a mistake.
There are quite a few going up right now. There is a 50MW/4-hour facility almost complete near me in Pittsburg, California. PG&E has 750MW new capacity planned through 2023, and the whole state has 2000MW planned for the next 12 months. The state wants 2000MW per year for at least the next ten years.

I don't know why Moss Landing is so intense but basically any place with a peaker, an existing large-scale solar, or any kind of transmission capacity in California is getting batteries now or soon.
MIPSr6, aarch64 and riscv are siblings born from MIPSr5 plus the best of other RISC architectures.

ppc64le and 32-bit Arm are part of the wider family, but have some notable differences that make them slightly less RISC-like. Both include e.g. more complex condition code handling and instructions that operate on more than three registers.
NeuraLink is SciFi and lifetimes away from being even close to a consumer product.
Respectfully, this is the wrong way to look at the problem. It’s true, objectively, that there are fewer minority/female CS graduates. But there’s no way that gets better if a person who is “not a subject matter expert” gets dismissed. That person needs to be trained. If they want to be expert at that subject, we as an industry need to be able to help them get there.

Increasingly I believe the problem with diversity in tech is a retention and training problem, not a pipeline problem. If you’re a woman and you want to be a coder but all you hear about is hell stories, why would you sign up for that major? Our job is to make those who are generous enough in spirit to decide they want to do this thing, in spite of all the pain they might face, the best coders they can possibly be. Only then will they be able to provide the positive reinforcement necessary to improve input pipelines.

Same applies to any underrepresented group.
It seems like you can't do quizzes without paying, either. :/ Difficult for learning more math without finding relevant quizzes elsewhere.
Geothermal looks promising, using the technology for drilling wells.
I started a band with fellow computer science faculty members before the pandemic. Unfortunately we haven't had a chance to record anything of decent quality and we're not quite ready to start playing together in person again yet. But I love this thread!
I've been trying to make music for years and I've found that I have a hard time finishing stuff on my own but I actually really enjoy collaborating and helping other artists produce their tracks.

I'm a co-producer on this track by this extremely talented and prolific R&B singer who was gracious enough to let me help her where I could.

https://open.spotify.com/track/64e70pERi3RlxOnJwcJ6Cm?si=7dd...

I'm hoping to release some of my own stuff eventually but for now, I hope you like R&B!
I don't think of it that way. It's investing $10,000 in a feature that is currently under development and will go up in price as it improves. It also includes any hardware upgrades that are necessary to keep up with FSD requirements.

Tesla fans know that FSD isn't ready. They know that the $10,000 upgrade doesn't actually grant FSD, but the purchase of it indicates that they believe it will in the future. You can call it a $10,000 gamble if you wish, and you can express your belief that it will never happen, but to say "it's a $10,000 option that doesn't work" is only a half-truth, IMO.
Great point, I assumed that natgas was oil industry byproduct and basically free.
The economic consequences of conserving or restoring sites for nature
I don't think I am. We summarily execute beloved pets all the time, simply as a matter of convenience for their owners. In my mind, a person can in fact take actions that make their lives worth less than the lives of these animals, therefore they are dehumanized.
Because in the espp, the rules are predefined in advance without knowing the future.

It is like: you will have the lower price between the opening and the closing starting next week.

From that the rules are known in advance but not what will be the stock price.

From what I understand of this article case, you have a price based on past weeks, and so you already know the future, the current price 2 weeks later when they offer you the plan. And so you kind of already know if it is a good deal or not.
In 2010 MIPS wanted $2 million from Berkeley to allow them to use the MIPS instruction encodings for processor cores that Berkeley would design entirely themselves. So they made up their own encodings instead.

The rest is history.

In many ways modern MIPS and RISC-V are pretty much just different binary encodings of the same ideas.

[this was already posted as a comment in a thread, but on reflection it probably deserves its own]
Depends on airline and, mostly, where your flight is.

For international longer-haul flights satellite coverage can be rough for airlines - at least a few years ago when I was familiar with it airlines had either global coverage, but slow, or smaller coverage but fast.

It'll be interesting if Starlink can solve this for fast-moving planes for airlines like Qantas that fly from Aus to Europe, Asia, and America.
> viruses are made of RNA

Depending on the species, a virus can contain either DNA or RNA as its genetic material. Check out the Baltimore classification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_classification) for more info.

> So there is research suggesting that viruses are actually a source of genetic material for humans.

They are! Endogenous retroviruses and the syncytin protein (involved in placental development) are some known examples.
I bet that analysis went down like a lead balloon. Any other response than "we were a naughty department, but we have fixed the problem and are really sorry about it" would have fallen on deaf ears at all the places I have worked. Log-normal? Most people outside of tech dept dont know the difference between mean, median and mode.
If you ignore national boundaries and just look at human beings in general, basically the entirety of the global west does precisely this.

~half of the humans don't even have internet access.
Does culture play no role in this? Why assume race is the primary driver?
I would love to fight the government on a code violation by essentially arguing that "Either you put the code standard in the public domain, or it is not valid law". But I'm sure I'm not wealthy enough to afford that fight
Sounds like a place worth working for
By including Kunin, they lost enough other contributors that their project was threatened. As a voluntary effort by grad students, they don't have the time or money to make a spirited defense of Kunin. He's had to take up his martyrdom on his own.

I'm sure Kunin would have been very happy for them to burn their project down for his sake. Kunin's sake is not the only one at play here.
Is there an example of something akin to ISO standards but on GitHub?
Consistent data uplinks allow for a lot more telemetry that can be used to improve their products.

Shipping is one thing -- the company still owns the goods. But keep this out of my cars.
Yes, that all makes sense. Will just note that there was a time not so long ago when just as large a majority of people thought homosexuality was a horrible abomination, or worse.

Attitudes change and in my view it's time to stop being so emotionally negative toward sexuality and the diverse choices made among consenting adults.
Sure, send the rapists and murderers and child molesters to life without parole. The rest of the violent criminals to Singapore style whipping which is actually far more humane than prison.
You're 100% right. My revealed preferences do indicate that I'm willing to put up with it. However, my ordering volume is definitely lower this month as compared to mid pandemic (November/December). I expect as case rates fall and things open up more my cadence will drop down to once per quarter or below.
My memory could very well be wrong here, but isn't this how multi-core was first implemented on FreeBSD, with all post-context-switch kernel code running on CPU0? It's certainly a much more simple design, easier to avoid data races and deadlocks. However, I believe the performance penalties were pretty apparent early on, even on 2-4 core systems.
Am I the only one that prefers white boarding over 8 hr "take home". I refuse to work with any company that thinks that I should invest 8 hrs in unpaid work while they invest 20 mins of their time reviewing my take home.
Let’s please collectively agree to abolish cancel culture. Opposing ideas cause growth. Singular ideologies do not lead to growth or change.
My parents live in Canada and can't get wired Internet. They previously had satellite from another provider (can't remember which) and it sounds like it was much better quality than this although latency was definitely a problem. They've since switched to some type of cellular modem (not sure what exactly) but of course not everyone has that option. (A few years back, the phone company ran fiber right across the street from them for a cell tower a few miles away, but nothing they could use as consumers.)
I would add Carl Zimmer’s “A Planet of Viruses” as well.
HN adjacent :-). Here are two my daughter produced last year.

https://katherinejacobs.bandcamp.com/album/the-ocean-single

https://katherinejacobs.bandcamp.com/album/youre-gonna-regre...
i play bodhran and spoons, but only on sessions, since they are not really solo instruments (unless you are an expert player)

very nice songs btw. i could play along to that.
Powered by... the giant battery conveniently kept in the same facility?

No seriously: this isn't a problem. Heated buildings are solved, large ones stay warm for days once power is cut.
There's a surprising amount of thermal mass in something that large, building walls are thicker, more simply constructed and easier to insulate than wood houses, and the mass to surface ratio is much smaller than what you're used to in a home. And in any case the waste heat produced by generation at that capacity is more than enough to keep an active facility warm, they most likely need to engineer for net cooling even during the coldest weather.
I was on the in-house legal team at a manufacturing company. You described my life. The push was always to reduce what we did down to something measurable. It's understandable, because they're manufacturing people and it's how they think, but that's very difficult to do for legal work.

I always argued that the value we provided may not be realized for years, when some clause we put in a contract prevented us from getting sued. We may not even know it had happened! Ultimately, for non-litigation legal work, your value as a lawyer is often in preventing bad things from happening. How do you measure that?
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Yeah, you get it. I'm a Stallman fanboy, all about GNU, ownership etc... but I'm also pragmatic.
It is not finance. There are a lot of motivations which are based on ego or prestige. Scholarship is unfortunately often based on competition - but the standards of winning are different from that of oil tycoons. Boiling everything down to finance will not lead to accurate understanding of how academia works.