skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You move at a constant vector, the speed of light, through both space and time. Since you go from basically 0 magnitude in space (anything us humans do on earth) to approaching the speed of light, that robs direction from the time magnitude. Therefore, going that quickly means you experience substantially less time. Taken to the extreme, when you move at the speed of light, you experience no time; you would simply from a human perspective teleport to the place where you start decelerating (given that's possible lol).
Such a pet peeve of mine. Define it, at least on the page. From wikipedia.

> NAT64 is an IPv6 transition mechanism that facilitates communication between IPv6 and IPv4 hosts by using a form of network address translation (NAT). The NAT64 gateway is a translator between IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, for which function it needs at least one IPv4 address and an IPv6 network segment comprising a 32-bit address space.
i think they’re tailored to optimize for clicks. and the users themselves are the ones the click these enraging stories and therefore train the ml algorithms to show more of that
OVH has a location in Canada, now.
> You have to have that curl script (not a default user experience), manually mount the ISO (and have it downloaded)

What? I made my own script. I don't need to mount any ISO.

> you risk losing all of your application state if the machine crashes since there is no storage

That's a feature given that apps these days insist on being in a browser with cloud storage, there's no loss here.

> Why don't we have something like Vagrant where you can quickly provision a VM from the command line following a template?

That'd be great, actually. I'd do it if I knew Vagrant better. The biggest blocker for me using Vagrant is that it uses Ruby. Give me Vagrant in something like Bash instead. Or like docker-compose.
He was probably thinking Perl
Is this a new rule? I can't find anywhere that actually links or describes any new regulations but I am trying to figure out why this is just happening now.
I would definitely say biological viruses are a life form. They use as a substrate. However, you need the ability to mutate in order to evolve. Computer viruses can't do that at the moment, they are dumb machines/tools that just keep doing the same thing over and over until we wipe them out.

IMO, self-replication is the most fundamental characteristic, and the ability to mutate/evolve is key as well. The rest is all details.
I would say it makes JS bearable to use. I don't enjoy wondering whether a bug came from me forgetting to check against null instead of undefined, or accidentally overwriting an object with a string and so on.

At least 50% of runtime issues I had earlier are now type errors at compilation and fixed quickly. I'll take boring any day, JS is not a language I want to spend more time with than necessary.

I just wish the compilation was faster.
Agree about firestore vs filestore but if a manager doesn’t know what bigtable is I’d probably consider leaving
VC Brain: Dissecting Investor Behavior
No, Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060 Crypto Mining Hash Rate Limiter Hasn't Been Hacked
Most people find the DIY ethic completely alien.
The number of people impressed that I could make my own burritos - requiring about the same skill as making a sandwich - is pretty indicative. The numbers on adoption of the Linux desktop is another, I think.
As other commenter said, you have to build this - but there is a huge amount of options in terms of cases and available chipsets. But what do you need the GPU for? If it's not mid-high end gaming (and with 1050 I guess not) then you're better off with embedded GPU anyway.
A world where basic income isn't downvoted, but strong trade unions or anti-trust laws are is a weird one.
Of course traditional news has the same problem. “If it bleeds, it leads!”

But newspapers are liable for the content they publish, and that keeps misinformation somewhat in check.

If Twitter and Facebook etc were held to publisher standards they couldn’t exist in any form like they do today. I kind of think that would be a good thing.
Cryptocurrency and NFTs Are Evil
I agree. I did it towards the end of 2019 and completely torpedoed my life.

Because of COVID I didn't even get to do much actual hiking or backpacking as I planned; I went out to the west coast and everything shut down basically as soon as I got settled in.

Then I had a couple of deaths in the family due to COVID. The nest egg I had built up for the trip would have been really helpful, but I essentially wasted it to sit in an apartment. Now I'm searching for jobs nowhere close to where I was at because my industry took a massive hit.

Life's a dice roll. Hedge your bets.
That's when you reply: no, "UML" was 3 versions before "XML"
It's not a typo. OVH runs Kimsufi, which has bare metal servers for as low as 5$. It is pretty insane.
This is only partially true: in prior media eras, low-quality journalism was notorious for doing what Facebook and Twitter are now.

We only notice it because we've come out of an almost century long period in which the most effective broadcast mechanism was regulated by the FCC. This is an accident of engineering; the only reason why the FCC was even allowed to what is blatant government censorship is because of the scarcity of radio spectrum. This died the moment cable news networks became widespread. The only restriction on what, say, Fox News, CNN, or MSNBC can publish is their carriage agreement with the cable companies, which usually just dictates genre, not content. Social media is that but laundered across millions of users who "choose" what to share and like out of what platform algorithms recommend.

Prior to television, there was radio, which was also regulated under a similar regime. However, newspapers ruled the roost before that, and they had practically no limits on speech save for extremely weak defamation laws. They also were instrumental in spreading a lot of outright bullshit. "Yellow journalism" is an anagram of "clickbait", after all; and the press were perfectly happy to engage in exactly the same tactics we see today... for pretty much the same reasons. Selling lurid descriptions of political foes and foreign threats makes more money than level-headed explanations of the same controversies.

I'm not sure if either scenario could be described as "good". The FCC effectively engaged in a soft censorship regime through the means of spectrum scarcity. This meant that every information passed through [the five filters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model) of ownership, advertising, sourcing, flak, and (at the time) anti-Communism. On the other hand, it's clearly obvious that a good subset of any group of political ideologues is either incapable of or uninterested in making level-headed assessments about themselves. Self-critique is heresy in the eyes of someone more extreme than you are, and we live in times where the extremes might be right about at least one thing.
Engagement started as 'we want to make our party as good as possible so that you want to come and bring all your friends' and ended up being Kathy Bates in Misery.
Of course, so do articles about the algorithms.

It's turtles all the way down.
“But can you code in API?”

“Sure, can I pay you in ATM?”
What's the problem with my logic? Google has to abide the law of countries with which it does business.

Abiding laws is not a "convenience", it's something you just do. If you don't you get fined: e.g.: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-tech-google-tax-id...

The problem with Google being an American company in this case is that maybe you can pull out of China or Australia if the law becomes too cumbersome, but pulling out of the country you are based in is an order of magnitude harder. I feel that you have interpreted my sentence in the worst possible light, but ok.
Find another factory which produces something as advanced as a car, which also produces its own battery cells, produces its own motor, and I'll consider it as advanced of a factory. Giga factory is a revolution in manufacturing that cannot be encapsulated in your efficiency metrics.

Also consider that the tesla gigafactory will build the entire frame and body of the vehicle as one part in under a second. Nothing close to this is being done, because the machines to do it are being invented for tesla.

If you'd like to discuss your other points with me, i'm down. But I don't like the "I disagree with every one of your points so here's a pdf" format
Startup Acquisition – Term Sheet Overview
I've used 2 different generations of Intel NUCs as home servers for running VMs and a media server. This time around I got an Asus PN50 and I'm quite happy with it.
Is it still propaganda if it's true?
Why would anyone fund said research?
Ironic, too, given CDs have a larger dynamic range than records.
Patent Exhaustion and Open Source (2019)
I think this falls in line with the quip of ask a question and get crickets. Make an incorrect statement as fact and it will piss someone off enough to give you the answer to your initial question. All engagement metrics are based on actions and time. The long detailed answer and spewing vitriol increase both.
There are a lot of different mini cases that can house even multiple M.2/2.5"/3.5" devices.
I think Ryzen is a tad more energy hungry also this seems actively cooled. So no.
Yes, that's a very clear and concise way of putting it, thanks.
The Javascript API is unrestricted at the moment so that is possible right now. That's why we make it a point to warn people to only install JS extensions from a trusted source right now, e.g. https://extensions.insightbrowser.com/extend/f15fa88b79
> nobody takes responsibility for their actions or emotions anymore

Compared to when?

> nobody ever says "I am depressed", they say "I have depression", which is another thing entirely and delegates all responsibility to manage oneself to outside forces

Good. That's exactly what psychologists have been telling people for decades: do not victimize mental illness because self-blaming only pushes the problem further.
Snowflake CEO became a billionaire by ripping up the 'nice guy' SV playbook
That money comes from tax revenue. You already paid taxes on your income once. Now you are getting taxed on it again when it recycles back to you. You will also get taxed on it again when you spend it. There is a flow chart somewhere that shows the myriad of ways the same money is repeatedly taxed.
We badly needed the highway and transit improvements, too. Almost none of the new construction went to waste.

There is/was a movement to make the winter olympics permanently fixed in a few northern cities, Vancouver being one of them, in order to prevent the wasteful fiascos that are witnessed from time to time.

Obviously that was a non-starter. The enormous expenditure (and wealth transfer) of public funds is sort of the point. ;)
There's less and different incentive to lie, which helps make it a potentially interesting perspective. Though there is also less disincentive to lie, as repercussions of being found out won't be experienced. IDK how it nets out except that it's still probably different.
Ironic that this post wants us to be concerned about other platforms optimizing posts that make their users concerned
Until you realize that some achievements are needed to have good relationships.
Those stickers are probably one of the nastiest things that exist on any hardware, anywhere..
Exactly this, the summer Olympics have gotten too big and too expensive to host in one city. The only reasonable path forward is to spread it out to multiple cities or even countries. Maybe the Olympics should be awarded by continent (sorry Australia). Things like building an artificial river for the whitewater course is a ridiculous waste of money. They can host events like that where a natural river can be used. There are Olympic caliber venues all over the world that could host an Olympic sport at any time with little modification, that should be taken into consideration when a city bids to host an Olympic event.

I fear the only way things will change is if the world refuses to bid on hosting these things. Then the IOC will have to get creative if they want to see their corrupt legacy continue.
That's a reasonable argument. But it requires a very high level of understanding of (bat) corona-viruses in general with a majority of corona-viruses that exist having been sequenced etc.

From my (limited) understanding we only know about a fraction of corona-viruses out there, and hence there is great uncertainty in the phylogenetic modelling.

I haven't seen a credible write-up, if you can point me in the right direction, that would be appreciated.
I do most of my development in a what looks like a watered down version of JAVA. Last year I had to dive into C# and asp.bet for a bit. I felt like at home. The language makes sense,there are hardly any surprises and most of its features are excellent. You are right, however, that the ecosystem itself is different and it will take some time to get used to it. However, unless a company hires a contractor on a short term basis,the expectations are that he'd be there for at least a year or two. That's plenty of time to get going and adjust to the ecosystem,which,I think any competent developer would do in a month or two.
There are also arguments when it comes to some very niche types of jobs,e.g. deep optimization all the way to the compiler,some esoteric use cases,etc. Yes,in those cases it's better to hire language native,but for most jobs that won't be the case.
Fantastic details and stories, thank you.

fyi your website in your profile is not resolving.
> If you don't know this stuff first hand, please refrain from making broad statements about it.

Unless all the kids illegally buying ADHD meds to do better in school when they have not been diagnosed with ADHD (and adults doing the same, for that matter, to do better at work) are doing that for no reason, I'm pretty sure I'm correct that amphetamines improve performance for most everyone, and that distinguishing between ADHD-and-improved-on-meds and not-ADHD-and-improved-on-meds is not trivial.

I was replying to a post that read:

> If they're on stims in particular, and the meds actually improve their behavior, then the cause most likely isn't insufficient PE time.

I object to that being proof of much other than amphetamines making most people perform better in school, without commenting on whether ADHD is a "real" thing (I'm not even sure what it would even mean for it not to be "real", given the state of our understanding and diagnosis of mental disorders). "We gave the kid amphetamines and they improved, must have had ADHD" is dangerously misguided.
The NIH has also addressed this topic as well.

"We speculated that in COVID-19, beyond the classical pulmonary immune-inflammation view, the occurrence of an oxygen-deprived blood disease, with iron metabolism dysregulation, should be taken in consideration. "

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7267810/#:~:tex....

The guy complaining here is simply wrong. He's backpedalling because he made an unscientific and unsupported statement that oxygen deprivation is caused only by inflammation. There is plenty of evidence of other mechanisms at play. Nitpicking them is fine, pretending they don't exist is foolish, which is what he is getting called out on.
Oh my experiences of the CV days when agencies would take your CV and send the client their formatted one (your contact details excluded of course) saw many fun times , today they kinda push the work onto you and just robot send what you give them for most area's. Some contract work with good earning rates for agencies will still see them tailor your CV somewhat, but for most for the best focusing on relevant area's for the role.

But a few of my more interesting experiences in the past in interviews regarding CV's have been:

1) Them having somebody else's CV content with my name attached - had that a few times
2) Them having 3 versions of your CV and first question is which one do I use and why I always carried a copies of my original printed out on nice paper.
3) Being interviewed for a different job than applied (my CV and experience covered wide area) for and not finding out until the offer came thru.
4) Turning up at an interview expected to speak Hungarian as I had Hungarian notation upon my CV.
5) Many instances of reused aberrations or when one letter be mistyped by agency making for much fun, maybe been bitrot/errors at play thinking about how some of those transpired.

But often my favourites would be when you turn up and the interviewer is down to earth and starts by glancing over the cv he got and pops it into the bin saying, we don't need that and gets into some technical questions and banter. Those always enjoyable and in a way often been a sign of a good boss - somebody who can cut thru the crud and get down to the issue at hand without the song and dance.
OP here.

1) You’re right, 1 GiB free tier will exhaust fast. Beyond that standard GCP-wide egress rates apply. So if you were using VMs to serve this chatroom, you'd be paying the same https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/pricing#premium-prici...

2) I think you’re missing out the part that in this setup only 1000 instances connect to Redis (using 1000 connections). We don’t initiate a per-user connection from the backend to Redis. Once a message is pushed to an app instance, the sample app pushes it to all its connected users.
I would hope lies to protect another person from harm are allowable.

We suspect an enemy of the revolution is being harbored in hour house. Are you hiding this person? (forgive the preposterous example, but I hope you get my intent). It could be someone hiding from a jealous lover, someone hiding from loan sharks, etc.
Ask HN: What are your memories of the most overhyped startup failures?
I'm curious to read others' impressions of which startups seemed so promising or hyped to change the world, that ultimately failed. In my own memories, two stand out,

Transmeta which was supposed to revolutionize CPUs with dynamic instruction sets, and hired Linus Torvalds for a bit and then disappeared. From what I remember their CPUs were just too slow.

The other is Magic Leap, which seems to have just faded away into obscurity when everyone say their stuff and said "Meh."

Maybe my impressions are wrong. What others do you remember?
Double taxation usually means being taxed on the same amount by two foreign governments.
:D I guess, did you understand anything?
This is still good deal compared to platform cut/taxing when publishing content on Envato... and there they give jack sh*t about piracy where on youtube you at least can get republished videos that belong to you taken down and continue receiving revenue...
> Is youtube really worth it at this point?

Since the middle of June 2020 I've been growing my channel, now it has 40k subscribers.

I'm not there yet, but I can easily see a near future where I make more money from YT directly than I ever made as a Software Engineer (NOT FAANG level). So I just film what I love doing (exploring, hiking, tinkering, travel), and that's my career.
From the relevant form: "Wages, salaries, tips, etc. Attach Form(s) W-2"
For many use cases, Python is unbearable as well. That's my point :)
Both/and. It's a feedback loop, as well; the press are in it for the shares.

Anyone with the slightest exposure to UK news media will have been confronted with this very recently; the Oprah interview with Harry and Meghan alleging the press campaign against them, subsequent back-and-forth, and finally Piers Morgan getting himself sacked for storming off his own TV show after being contradicted by his own weatherman.

The latter event is both pure old-media failure and an example of the kind of sheer derangement that being a participant in the culture wars can induce in people. At least he wasn't storming the government.
> I can't ask a journalist for more details or check their work. I don't know how well they translated the niche knowledge required to understand the story for public consumption.

I only follow outlets and journalists whose thoroughness and thoughtfulness I know and respect.

Following an RSS feed for a blog also means you can click into the links and see comment threads for any article, so it's not any different. And Google Reader (PBUH), had social tools integrated into it as well so it isn't even a foreign concept to RSS.
My wife's car just has "Parking Assistant" which beeps if you're within 2 feet of an obstacle in any quadrant of the vehicle. Basically it scares the shit out of us when we're trying to park. So I can understand the harrowingness of that system.

I think a better design than an audible alarm is to show the driver using quadrants or a diagram when an object is within the "close," "very close," or "near-collision" zone around a vehicle and beep once but only when the object passes into another zone to alert the driver to a change in state. The tones should change for each transition so you can learn the tone for "object moved from close to very close in right driver's-side zone" and distinguish that from "object moved from very close to close in right driver's-side zone."

Having to constantly pay attention to an alarm tone is extremely nerve-wracking. In medical devices this will often result in "alarm fatigue" where you spend so much time dealing with false alarms that you miss a real alarm.
Type checking doesn't necessarily make your code look like Java. TypeScript enhances refactoring regardless of whether you're OOP or functional.

Your comments about frontend TS don't seem super coherent to me, but if my read is correct you just don't like that there's a bunch of code on the frontend. What does TS have to do with that? Even a short program will benefit from type checking.

Your comments about TS on the backend make even less sense to me. It's a language with a fast runtime, but it's also easy to develop with and has some really delightful tooling. If you don't like it, you're not required to use it. If you don't like JS, what does that have to do with the type checking of TS?

Either I'm misreading your comment or the comment is incoherent; either way, I don't get it.
I love ifixit. I think they overdid it a bit with the fairphone, but it's a great tool.
I find the behavior of moderators on Reddit far more enraging than any content that gets boiled up. It's like the mods of /r/politics and other similar default subs are there to cause political friction and rage by being openly and aggressively partisan to a very particular slice of the political spectrum. I say this as someone well to the left of the zeitgeist on those subs, but you'll of course hear the same thing from people to the right of them.
Thank you. So it indeed is doable, just holy moly the forms.

Things like "Add lines 25a through 25c". Don't they have computers? Are the forms for Citizens like this too?
There were a bunch of CS theses starting in the late 90s along those lines, some of the general labels used were 'trustless computing' and 'fog computing' or something similar. Other keywords are 'enclave' and 'opaque'. David Brin also promoted 'translucent databases' as a way to allow computations on aggregate data without the possibility of revealing individual rows. Intel has a related technology platform called SGX (Software Guard Extensions) in this space that is aimed at being able to run your own trusted code on infra owned and operated by potentially malicious providers.

On the activist front, Doc Searls has been pushing a marketing/commerce twist on the idea of user-owned and controlled data under the labels 'Project VRM' (Vendor Relationship Management) and 'The Intention Economy' but without much traction.
This one supposedly doesn't, which is why it's so newsworthy.