skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Get the energy back and do something useful with it.

I fully agree about burning the stuff. You accomplish several important things that way:

- Destroying it, so it's not going to get washed up on random beaches after claiming to be "recycled" by shoving it in a shipping container and sending it to some country who doesn't have the systems in place to say "No."

- Fighting against the marketing of plastics as "clean" and "recyclable." If the stuff is so awful you can't come up with anything better to do than burn it, maybe it's not as nice as it's claimed to be.

- Offset some coal use.

Out in Boise (and a few other places), there's a pilot program to use the "weird plastics" (not #1/#2, which are now collected in a combined system most places, so I wonder if they're actually getting recycled at all) and burn them in a cement kiln. It's the Hefty Energy Bag program, and while one might rightly question a plastic bag company promoting plastics for energy, they've done what looks to be a pretty solid lifecycle analysis on the various alternatives, and "just burning the stuff instead of coal" works out, by far, the best.

https://www.hefty.com/sites/default/files/2021-01/Hefty-Ener...
Let’s enforce these new definitions on poets, says no one ever.
I think about the dad on the computer every time my kids see me while I'm using one.
Using AI Techniques for Improved Medical Imaging
"Yep, this user has exactly one contact, and gee, it happens to be the one they're calling now, how fortuitous! They had a different single contact yesterday, but apparently they've deleted that one and added this one."
Anandtech says during their testing that pretty much all the chips were in the 220w range.

At 18w and 7,833 points, that's 435 per watt for the M1

At 440w for 2 chips and 113,631 points, that's 258 per watt for the Milan

At around 140w and 10,096, that's about 74 per watt for the 5950x

At around 75w and 4,517, that's about 61 per watt for the 5600x

At around 140w and 5,994, that's about 43 per watt for the 5800x

Frequency scaling is TERRIBLE for PPW (performance per watt). The screaming almost 5GHz 5800 cores lose efficiency to the downclocking 5950 cores by almost 2x. Vs the 2.5GHz Milan, it's right at 6x difference.

Apple is on the right track pushing wider rather than faster, but that seems like a path that is hard for x86 to take due to decoder power and complexity (decode units literally eat up more die space than the actual integer math units). It isn't all roses though. A huge portion (30-50%) of the Milan power budget is the interconnect. If you double the TDP on the M1 to simulate the interconnect, PPW drops to around 217 which is about 16% worse than AMD.

We also haven't factored in how AMD gets a huge performance boost with a quarter-gig of cache. Apple likely has to scale up their cache too. 16mb and 8 cores is 2mb/core. 256mb/64 is 4mb/core. But because it's multicore and all cores don't necessarily do the same job at the same time on a server, M1's deal with the devil starts to fade. It will need even more cache per core to keep up with the ultra-wide execution path (else lose PPW) which will increase total power and further reduce max clockspeeds. M1 is a great chip in laptops, but if scaling up were easy, everyone would be doing it.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16529/amd-epyc-milan-review/5

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16214/amd-zen-3-ryzen-deep-di...
Not a single mention of Unity. I'd presume a significant percentage of VS installs are for Unity devs
If you type https://wa.me/your_own_phone_number (replace your_own_phone_number with your number) you can get into a chat with yourself. Useful for misanthropes, introverts, or for having a place to store information.
Her Majesty's Government?
While this is broadly true, it's not universally true.

I was far better off renting when I moved to this town. I had a down-payment, but my rent was less than the just the interest on my mortgage for a condo would have been and I likely would have had a commute instead of a sub 10 minute walk.

Instead I invested my money and was able to buy a house after the housing crash. For the house I purchased, I ultimately paid about half the original asking price.

If you are forced to pay someone else to live in a house, then you are on the losing side of the power dynamic.

The above anecdote was in the crazy real-estate market of coastal California. If you generalize for the rest of the country though, housing prices track inflation on average, so if you are leveraged 5:1 you can expect to gross 5x inflation on your house before you account for taxes, interest, insurance, and maintenance.

You may end up ahead of the market at that rate, but it's not exactly a sure thing. It's not unreasonable to say that the flexibility of being able to move will improve your lifestyle by more than the difference.

OTOH, we can say that 100% of the people who own houses have the means to own a house, but obviously much less than 100% of the people who rent have the means to buy a house, so the point is taken.
You may want to rephrase your proposal a bit. Include the part that you are willing to do the boring parts of an otherwise interesting project.

The way it is worded, it would sound to me, as a hiring manager, that you might not finish the work. Because we all know the prototyping / experimentation part of a project is the most challenging and rewarding. Taking it live will involve dealing with the boring parts.

I am not claiming you _are_ such a person, but you might want to make it clear.
I don't understand.

In UK you can be associate professor without a degree?

Then you talk about your time "during a master degree" but you say you had not a bachelors... How can you do a master without a bachelors?

Now I understand why other members of academia, even when UK was part of EU, treated it as a special case for research positions. Btw not judging, just saying it is totally different of what I expected.
I had previously referenced the Washington Post's police shootings database, but that is now paywalled. I was referring to that stats stating that of the roughly 1000 police killings in 2019, something like 50 involved unarmed suspects. Of those 50, almost all of them involved those suspects attacking the police and lethal force being justified.

The Botham Jeans and Daniel Shavers, as horrifically egregious as those cases are, are relatively rare.
I have some similar experiences. Especially with people saying "let me do what I love" or "give me a position where I can learn new things".

People like variety - the initial love doesn't last long. After a few weeks/months it gets boring and repetitive. Learning the shiny new tech is only fun until you you've figured out how it works, but the project doesn't end there and you have to deliver a product in the end. But for most people who exclusively want the "position where they can learn new things" fixing the bugs and doing the finishing touches is no longer fun once they've figured out how the underlying tech works - they leave for the next position where they can learn another shiny new tech and you're left with a half-finished project (usually with subpar code quality because this was the first project they did using the new tech).
Interesting, I found this article which backs you up
http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/03/19/betteridges-law.html
Do hospitals get a special exception or do we go back to risking infection due to insufficient sterilization?
And any number of calculator emulators. Pythonista lets you write python code and run it.
As a former prion researcher, do you eat meat or do you have reservations around that?
From the article below:

The profound pathologies driving all of this were on full display on Saturday night as the result of a reckless and self-humiliating smear campaign by one of The New York Times’ star tech reporters, Taylor Lorenz. She falsely and very publicly accused Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen of having used the “slur” word “retarded” during a discussion about the Reddit/GameStop uprising.

Lorenz lied. Andreessen never used that word. And rather than apologize and retract it, she justified her mistake by claiming it was a “male voice” that sounded like his, then locked her Twitter account as though she — rather than the person she falsely maligned — was the victim.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale...
Someone's tech salary was justified to develop (or refractor) a function to automatically crawl a digitally stored purchase history and waste potentially useful ad space on the suggestion of a product that is guaranteed to already be owned by the user.

Then they can put on their curriculum vitae that they worked as a "Googler" even though they added nothing to society (except confusion and paranoia).

Google may even allocate tax write offs because they "filled a seat" among their ranks.
I found "socket" triggering. It sounds too much like "sock it" and that is needlessly violent. "Plug" is also quite shocking. It suggests something non-consensual and thus needlessly violent.
You’ll keep doing the “interesting work” until it all turns into
“Boring work”, just a matter of time
Pebble 2 is still the #4 most funded Kickstarter ever, with Pebble 1 taking first place.

Every smartwatch I've tried in the years since the buy-out just reminds me how much I miss my Pebbles.
How are there security reasons when their foreign licencees already get complete and modifiable designs? It's only an IP protection at that point enforceable through friendly relations, not anything immune to adversaries. I can see all the anti-competitive concerns though.
Thanks, that helps shine some light on it!
Then why not look it up?
Good luck with translating to gendered langauages, like Español.
Sorry, I was unclear. I didn't mean the opinions should carry little weight because someone is being condescending; I meant they should carry little weight if the holder doesn't understand the fundamentals that MrPowers described.

It's a bit like having a strongly-held opinion on garbage collection without knowing the definition of "mark-and-sweep" or "generational GC" (or, perhaps more significantly, lacking knowledge of the concept of memory leaks and use-after-free).

Tax law is very messy and detail-heavy, and absolutely full of tradeoff-based choices. It's very rare that a clear moral best-approach presents itself if one knows how we got where we are today.
It's not just somewhat faster, the difference is often huge. You shouldn't let your personal experiences and anecdotes get in the way of the science here, what you wrote earlier about steroids only aiding recovery for people who put in large amounts of work was ridiculous.
This is such an interesting question, I hope it doesn't get buried before someone knowledgeable answers it.

We all know the more aggressive a pathogen is, the more it paints itself into a corner because it's burning its bridges. Something like airborne HIV would be really scary.

My guess is that airborne diseases are not weaker, but that evolution has selected for resistance against those because they spread fast among the population.
Perhaps they’ve learned from a recent US administration that “National Security” is a very broad brush, which is hard to contradict, and thus is an easy card to play when you don’t want to reveal your actual motives! [1]

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53683569
There's no such thing as an impartial utility. Every move impacts some groups positively and others negatively.

You might be able to argue for the existence of a naive utility, one that doesn't bother being aware of the impacts of its investments. But that seems kinda silly in my books.
Parent commenter didn't say that a16z should be blindly trusted, just stated the obvious counterpoint that they're not ignorant as implied.
How does it seem like "no" or "not yet". We will never know what even worst news would've come up if they weren't getting bribed.
These things can also happen autogenously (there is sporadic cjd) so who knows.
The abstract caught my attention and so I kept reading. The further I read, the less reputable the article came across.

The following quote from that paper reads a lot like typical anti-vax garbage:

“Many have raised the warning that the current epidemic of COVID-19 is actually the result of an bioweapons attack released in part by individuals in the United States government [10,11]. Such a theory is not far fetched given that the 2001 anthrax attack in the US originated at Fort Detrick, a US army bioweapon facility. Because the FBI’s anthrax investigation was closed against the advice of the lead FBI agent in the case, there are likely conspirators still working in the US government. In such a scenario the primary focus of stopping a bioweapons attack must be to apprehend the conspirators or the attacks will never cease. Approving a vaccine, utilizing novel RNA technology without extensive testing is extremely dangerous. The vaccine could be a bioweapon and even more dangerous than the original infection.”
You're coming at it from the angle of, practically speaking, what do large exchanges require from their listers to agree to the process? While I'm talking about the literal definition and pure concept of a DPO.

There's no reason such high early liquidity is mandatory.
Universal basic income. (And, in the US, replacing the current income tax system with a flat tax. Due to loopholes, the US system is regressive after a certain income level. A flat tax isn’t)
Whatlang: A Natural language detection library for Rust
Incidentally, Windows 10 does the same thing with notification to me. It either thinks, because I have an external monitor attached, I'm presenting; or that a maximised browser window means I'm viewing something in full screen. Once in a while it forgets this and pops up notifications from 3 days before...
> - You are highly or fairly paid.

Not everyone is from the US
Ignoring the money for a second, I think for some people (author clearly aside), maintenance work can be the interesting work. As long as there's buy-in from the business side of the house – they understand the goal in its full extent is to reduce technical debt and increase future development agility, and that there will be no visible changes to end users – it can be very rewarding to refactor old code.
When is the right time to drop free FTP services and start to pay?
Random idle/curious question: "a factory" doesn't describe the roughness of the working conditions, but assuming a baseline of a mildly industrial context, how did you mitigate the risk of dropped or damaged iPads?

(As an aside, it's kind of a pity that there isn't a standard drop-proof tablet out there that can be deployed without thought in these kinds of situations.)
I don't have reservations about it. I'm also not generally afraid to die.
You're mixing up home builders with landlords.

The latter aren't fulfilling housing demand: they are capturing it by outcompeting people who cannot afford property prices (prices driven up by buy-to-let demand).

You say that landlords are intrinsically bad: lots of people agree with you on that... I stop short of it, since there's a minority of people for which renting is a preferable solution (at least temporarily) and nationalising the whole housing market is infeasible.
This is what is referred to as ‘access journalism’ and indeed, it’s heavily prescient in technology - as it is in music, showbiz, sports, as well.
I feel like "the damage is done" so to speak and Parler will forever be associated with negative connotations. Not just the associations with January 6th, but also with security breaches and having such detailed personal information leak from it.

It missed it's shot at becoming a social media platform and I don't see why people wold come back to it now that it is on the App Store again. The free speech crowd has moved onto other platforms and the Trump people are awaiting Mike Lindell's new platform and/or the Donald Trump social media site that's rumored to be in the works.
I don't think they meant fully autonomous integration.
He is not, but he's still actively working on Elm. You can find his latest interview here: https://elm-radio.com/episode/open-source-funding
I'm just throwing out numbers. It wouldn't shock me if they'd actually have under 1,000 subscribers given that you'll have, at most, 1 subscription per household. And to sell ads, you probably need an ad salesperson now. The economics are just really tough--as demonstrated by the fact that most small towns don't have papers.
Curious, I had heard of research where the brain of a sheep that was infected with a prion disease (not sure which), was burned to ash, and that ash placed on the exposed brain of a healthy sheep (via trepanation?), and it also developed the prion-caused disease. Is this anecdotal nonsense, or is it close to a real study done on prion diseases? Thanks!
That is not. Surely it’s obvious that the high-school your parents sent you to could influence your attitudes later in life, but they don’t define them?

(BTW, I don’t know who Taylor Lorenz is, and don’t really care. I’m just surprised by this reasoning.)
You need to pay for rack space, you need to pay for power/cooling, and you need to pay for transit.

Colocation in the UK tends to be pretty expensive. Unless you're able to get it for free / at a significant discount on mates rates, it's generally unviable.

If you've reach the point that it is economically viable for you (considering the up front cost of the hardware + ongoing colo costs), you now need to factor in the ongoing support costs of the hardware. You may get lucky and have nothing break (happened to me twice over ~8 years), you may get unlucky and lose PSUs, DIMMs, disks, fans, controllers, etc. The severity of this depends on your particular hardware configuration. When things break, you either need spares on site, or you need to take/ship spares to site. You now need to either get remote hands to fix this for you, or you need to fix it yourself.

Honestly, you're almost always better off just using one of the cheaper cloud providers and/or renting bare metal than trying to do this.

However, if you've determined that you're in that sweet spot where it does actually make more sense to colo a server (as I did for many years), then go for it, and have fun!

Like a lot of other commenters have noted, make sure you have an IPMI/ILO/DRAC interface to your server, you probably want that sitting behind a firewall rather than being directly exposed to the internet (so now you need a real firewall as well to protect your IPMI interface) unless you want your server pwned in no time.

If you're thinking you can't do it at home due to space / noise constraints, look at smaller sized units like NUCs, laptops, or other SFF PCs that can be used as virtualisation devices. You wont get as much bang for your buck as you would from a used rackmount server, but the administrative overhead costs are a lot lower than dealing with DCs.
>For an experienced programmer eschewing conventions with this "resume", I am surprised by this comment.

They only have about a year of full-time engineering experience, so they might not recognize this yet. (Not trying to talk him down; plenty of people without much experience still do valuable work, but it's only natural to have blind spots.)
Let me give you the straight-forward answer from an epidemiological point of view (not an expert).

Assume you have two pathogens A and B that are transmissible. A with a reproductive number of 3 and B with an R of 1.5. Now the pool of susceptibles behaves in such a way that only, say, half of transmissions occur. Then pathogen A will die out while B grows exponentially.

> What about the apparent suppression of the other four endemic coronaviruses? And the rhinoviruses? How did every respiratory pathogen except one succumb to interdiction (even in places where there was no interdiction), while that one other flourished?

From speaking to an ENT doctor there were indeed very little respiratory infections (apart from Covid of course).

> How did every respiratory pathogen except one succumb to interdiction (even in places where there was no interdiction)

Not sure what you mean by interdiction - lockdowns are only a proxy for human behaviour. If you have data that indeed influenza was suppressed with no behaviour change and/or seasonality that would be appreciated.
Request sent, I hope you find it fair since I don’t have money to spare.
They're old. Yeast have genes that transmit information generationally via the same mechanism. Probably the same "exponential" mechanism is involved in diabetes, alzheimer's, melanin storage (not a disease, the actual normal process).

Proteins, eventually degrade, even prions. We probably have an enzyme that accelerates degradation of them (my bet is it's insulin-degrading enzyme).
And prions don't have descent with modification. It's a regular mammal brain protein that got accidentally constructed backwards. There's nothing to pass on, nothing to modify.
Can't wait until the SpaceX's Starship land the next gen Mars Helicopter that might be 10-20x bigger in 2-4 years.
Society is free to allocate more plastic to sterilization, it’ll just have to come from somewhere in society’s “fossil fuel” budget.

The point is the amount of fossil fuel consumption is causing environmental problems, just not in current society’s decision makers’ lifetimes. The only solution is to bring down the amount of fossil fuels consumed.
Just look for part time positions. You can also try to make your own by applying for full time jobs and then springing the part time thing on them at the salary negotiation phase. Yeah, some will balk, but make a cogent argument about how working less hours means your performance per hour should be higher. Which is easily supported by current research. Provide citations if you want. It's sufficiently hard to find good developers, that if you're good enough you can get jobs like this.

I've been working part time, fully remote last year and it was wonderful. I don't think I'd go back to full time work.

After achieving enough trust with the company, I negotiated working alternating weeks. Having a 9 day weekend every 5 work days is incredible. Yeah, I didn't make much money, but I spend that time on my startup, so maybe it will pay off one day. Either way it is a lot more fun!
Thanks, I'll remember that. It's an awkward workaround compared to pasting their number from an email into the app, but it'll have to do I guess.

Here it's pretty common for people to, for example, put a notice up in my apartment foyer "does anyone have xyz that I can borrow, please app me at +123456789" and having to create a contact is an annoying bit of overhead.
Personally, I've only seen this crop up in one place: structs that signal optional fields via pointers. Are there other usecases?
Your solution sounds equivalent to creating a permanent economic depression. Good thing that anyone who implements this will be outcompeted by those who don’t.
It’s not that it’s impossible to be what one could fairly describe as an elitist - it’s just one of those words that’s widely known to cast more heat than light. “Taylor Lorenz writes as though the social norms she’s familiar with are universal”, for example, is a less confrontational way to express the same thought.
I sometimes wonder who buys that kind of parts.

I mean I know why I buy them. Because I just like the feel of it and am not restricted by cost. My time is more valuable than dealing with cheap stuff.

Military? Aerospace?
How is this differentiated from https://techjobsforgood.com
Social networks have winner-takes-all effects and whoever comes first has a big advantage. Not saying it's a guaranteed win, but the advantage has value.