skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The people handling the billions of dollars know their stuff, and they don't like nuclear for this reason.

What do you mean by this? I’d be curious to read about that. As far as I knew, nuclear is one of the main investments of the current us government (pages like https://www.energy.gov/science-innovation/energy-sources/nuc... confirm)
I certainly do, but I try to play them in a melodic manner.

I haven't played in ages, so I'm not sure where I settle at, but I imagine there's a few notes that come up in music frequently enough to leave the toms in those tunings.

They also have to match the cymbals
This is almost certainly built on existing rail corridors though too. I think priority of upgrades will follow your thinking, but these lines weren’t drawn entirely randomly.
I’m right there with you man. Same ages even.

The first few years of kids were infuriating and terrifying. I built my career by constantly exploring and learning after hours. Kids made that impossible, and that made me frustrated (because there’s SO MUCH I want to do besides diapers) and scared (because how can I maintain my career without learning).

It’s somewhat better now. I’m seeing them grow and can believe that this stage of life won’t last forever. I’ve managed to keep up with work by increasing efficiency during core hours, though I still look forward to getting back on the wagon with side projects when I can.

Here are a few beliefs that have helped me build & maintain a positive mind set:

- An engaged parent is priceless to a child. They desperately need you and you are irreplaceable. There is huge value in showing up for them, it’s just very different from your prior experience.

- COVID is terrible and we’re all struggling to get by. You must ruthlessly prioritize where you spend mental, physical, fiscal and chronological resources. Nobody expects you to maintain the same pace as before; we are all suffering through this together.

- Family and Profession both benefit from strengthening your mind, body and habits. Level up your time management game to improve exercise and diet. When the kids get easier, you’ll have more capacity for professional endeavors than before.
> Any hypothesis that does not assume there was a third person in the car is "simplER" than any hypothesis that assumes there was a third person in the car.

Nonsense.

A hypothesis that there was a third person in the car is simpler than a hypothesis that there were only two people in the car and an advanced animatronic ice sculpture in the driver's seat which melted after the crash. (I remember my minute-mystery solutions.)

A hypothesis that there was a third person in the car is simpler than a hypothesis that there was a rare combination of a bug in the software, a GPS malfunction, a solar flare, and a paint spill that looked like a painted lane marker.

There are an infinite number of hypotheses that don't contain a third person that are more complex than the hypothesis that there was a third person.

> You say that there needs to be a comparison between at least two hypotheses and then the Razor will help us choose one if it's simpler than the other.

If you think that was my point, you didn't read my comment above at all. That was not my point. It was that, IF the known facts of a story aren't sufficient cause to result in its conclusion, then there is required to be at least one more cause than has been explained.
People on HN are always deriding the “tech hedonic treadmill”, but I find it interesting that this meme seems to have reached maturity in 2015, and the list of things they point to as “the new trendy thing this year” has been the same ever since: Some combo of Node.js, React, webpack, Docker and Kubernetes.

I think this meme was still fairly true then: Node was at risk of splitting into Node.js and IO.js, React was still new-ish and people were (rightfully) panicking over the drastic changes coming in Angular v2, Docker was still new-ish and there were arguments over whether Docker Swarm or Kubernetes was the future. But nowadays Node has stabilized, React and webpack have been comfortably dominant for years, Docker’s model of containers won out a long time ago and Kubernetes is there if you need it, but is mostly useful for people building a PaaS.

If people don’t want to learn these things, then fine, but I do wish the overall mood here would update to reflect the fact that we are now living in a much more stable time than when these memes were created.
> Because of the weird mechanics of manufacturing origin

Yes

Without special RVC exception for car companies, some US made cars would have to be stamped as Made in China/Germany/Mexico as per rules of origin.
> Plenty of engineers effectively have 1 year of experience 12 times.

Do you mean they've been doing the same things year after year? I.e. without growing their skills in breadth or depth?
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For me, it's just so much nicer to travel by train.
It wouldn't need to skip and dance, though. Mental play is just randomly trying to piece together different information and see the results (physical play is simpler, a subset of mental play, basically continuous calibration).

It's like having 12 puzzle sets and just taking pieces from each, trying to fit them with others and seeing the results. Sometimes something interesting shows up.

Our brains do it constantly, all the time, 24/7. Most often the results are garbage and discarded, but sometimes something interesting/useful comes out, so it's tagged as such and stored for further processing.

The data used for such play is everything we have stored in memory, recalled either randomly or, more often, based on current circumstances/needs/wants.

An AGI would only play with what it has. And what it has available would be up to the creators.

If it's built to imitate a human, it will have to be loaded with the same data as a human. And I mean all of it, everything from birth to current age or death (that varies a lot by individual, by the way).

Basically, you'd have to recreate a whole human life's experience for this hypothetical AGI. Otherwise it won't be even close to a human.

But such an advanced AI would most likely be built for specific purposes, which would save a lot of resources. It can play all it wants with that limited data, improve it and create new stuff. But it won't be able to do things like applying information from bird flight to car building, because it will simply not have that data.

Just my musings.
Well that's plainly false. Contracts are complex and private law can solve most disputes handsomely. Insurance contracts are complex and the valuation of those contacts as well and the European legislation has made insurers both more resilient and comparable. It took a decade to get there though.

There's no reason to presume that the use of AI in firms is too complex to be legislated. Basically I'd hope it turns out to have both a ex ante compliance aspect (a firm needs to document X, Y and prove and register Z) and ex post aspect (individuals can sue and judges can assign damages for failing to comply). The OP has a knee-jerk reaction to a list of techniques that might lead to discriminatory practices.

GDPR isn't a bad law in my book. Cookie walls are both cargo cults and a function of disfunctional tracking practices in the market. Lack of enforcement is key in not recognising the value of the law. If compliance with GDPR would be a board level concern we'd be on another internet/ in another world by now.
Even now it really depends on where your priorities lie. Going from Rhode Island to Maryland or back, I had to arrive at least an hour and a half (more like 2 hours) before takeoff to get through parking and security. That meant leaving the house 2-3 hours before takeoff. Then, a 2-hour flight, and another hour and a half dealing with baggage and transport home. That two-hour flight was more like 6 hours of my day, a majority of it spent in uncomfortable settings (driving, in the security line, in a cramped plane seat). Compare to Amtrak: 30 minutes to the closest station, and I can arrive immediately before boarding; 7 hours on the train, but in fairly spacious seats, with free WiFi, and then 20 minutes home from the station.

I much preferred the relatively relaxed nature of train travel, and it only bit out an extra hour or two of my day. With high speed rail it wouldn't even be a contest.
Pointing out what you see as bad regulation, doesn’t imply that all regulation is inherently bad, or that less regulation is inherently good.

I won’t argue about the merits of each of the above cases you’ve cited (Berlin rents & GDPR), as I think they’re quite complex conversations to have and they could both take hours.

As it relates to the linked article, “AI” will continue to have an impact on our lives, more so than it does today. Whether or not this legislation is good or not, doesn’t preclude the idea that this space will require guards to ensure that citizens are being treated fairly.

Black boxes are not a good way to run a free and fair society, and any being introduced should be met with deep care and skepticism.

Whether the EU will do a “good” law on this is yet to be seen, but frankly I’d much rather it get looked into during the relatively nascent stages, rather than letting these systems loose on everything and then cleaning up the mess afterwards.
Thanks, I hate it :]
Your example would likely be unenforceable because contract terms must provide _consideration_ for both parties, or an element of fairness in the real assets being exchanged. Requiring one party to purchase a Lamborghini at the sole discretion of the other provides no consideration for the former.

An example of consideration in a penalty clause like this is AT&T's failed acquisition of T-Mobile US, where the contract forced AT&T to pay $3 billion and give up wireless spectrum when they abandoned the deal. In this case, the consideration was T-Mobile's time and money spent entering the deal in the first place vs. the penalty to AT&T.

It's also worth noting that "unfair" and "deceptive" are not synonymous in their legal definitions. An unfair practice involves terms that are not beneficial to one party and are unreasonable to avoid, while a deceptive practice is one that misleads the party into accepting unreasonable terms.
Your decision is not quite as neutral if all the options you see point in the same general direction.
Fair enough, although I have all unnecessary javascript turned off (using uMatrix). It's probably still amazon's problem, but how is nobody else experiencing such an awful experience and why is it only a problem on chrome?
Ask HN: What a universal remote job salary should be?
the salary of remote job depends heavily on the current location of the person
but if we took out rent from the equation what should a person be getting?
The supply of "first run X" is guaranteed to be limited, though.

> The demand of Bitcoin has only ever increased in the long term. It has already gone further up after three huge temporary bubbles. You really feel comfortable to bet against this long term trend?

I'm talking about multiple lifetimes to truly be long term, not fives of years.

Bitcoin won't be a good store of value until it calms down. The demand can't go up forever, and even if it's guaranteed to stay very very very high, what if you buy in when it's very very very very high?
I agree about culture and trust, both crucial in this regard. I think something like 10% time can play a part too, it at least gives people the feeling they can do what they want for a fixed period of time.
I was curious, so checked the Wayback machine. The renderman.pixar.com site has existed since 2005, offering it for sale. I don't know if it was for sale prior to the domain existing: https://web.archive.org/web/20050509112303/https://renderman...
Blender has gotten considerably better. I think it will keep going strong due to the huge Unity crowd. Unreal shops are more likely able to afford commercial licenses on famous software.

I argue that Blender is right up there in terms of importance and significance in the OS world.

Please consider donating to Blender. I have pledged at least a low 6 digit figure over the past 20 years and I've loved seeing it grow. I don't get any returns obviously just glad I played a small role.

https://www.blender.org/foundation/donation-payment/
The only practical use case I see is as a demo device. For example when my mom went on vacation and wants to show me photo's it is a much better experience to slide through them on an iPad than sit behind a laptop.

I can imagine this works out in most demonstration cases.
A `&str` is a borrow of the string slice data, and has borrowing semantics. An `std::sync::Arc<str>` on the other hand isn't borrowed but has shared ownership and is atomically reference counted.

Does that answer the question? Could you expand on what you mean by sharing `&str`?
No, no, they must be referring to the anti-government cult that couldn't repair a one mile stretch of subway in NYC for 3 billion!
Movies have DRM. Music doesn’t.
I'm not sure Feynman is still safe. For example, there is the matter of his visiting topless bars. A common position today is that women who choose sex work should not be shamed (because that denies their own agency, and in the case of prostitution keeping things underground only helps trafficking), but at the same time the men who visit sex workers should be shamed for objectifying the female body.
Ditto, recently moved from AWS to render.com
It's like a cheaper Heroku, it's been stable so far.
I do use GitHub actions to run a small pipeline on projects but its a far cry from Jenkins.
Well, let's hear some. You're probably gonna want to limit yourself to city pairs that have multiple direct daily flights though, as anything less won't have enough demand to merit a direct convenient train route either.
Then use one of its vector output options. It supports SVG. And there are programs which can display its default format of the dot format with layout coordinates appended.
The important thing about the M1 iPad is that it’s the first time iOS is running on M1, and therefore M1 is the first chip that can rup both iOS and OSX.

The obvious next step is for Apple to do a Samsung, and have iOS and OSX running on the same device, with iOS running when the device is in portable mode, and OSX running when it is docked and connected to a KVM.

At some point there won’t be a separate Mac and iDevice line. All devices will be iDevices that can run both iOS and OSX.

Apple has clearly been pushing for this for a long time. They’ve taken so many steps towards making the transition when a user switched from 1 OS to another seamless, with technologies like iCloud Drive that provides a single file system layer, universal apps that work across OS’es, handoff that allows for a smooth transition of state for an app running on OSX to the same app running on iOS and vice versa, etc.
I've always found Pyret's home-page the best at this: https://www.pyret.org/ -- I wish this was more than just an educational language.
There are also people who are good employees but aren’t good at marketing and selling themselves, lack negotiation skills, or suffer from the imposter syndrome. I would guess that the lack of transparency allows to take advantage of that.
I totally agree with you about Tesla needing a Gwynne-like figure – I’ve said it myself before on this forum.

However, away from the controversy about their approach to and messaging around full self driving, Tesla is otherwise pretty exceptional, if you look at what they’ve achieved. (As detailed by some of the other replies to your post.)
Feynman did some things that were obviously great. Feynman also did some things that were obviously terrible. Neither of these conclusions requires a "nuanced" portrayal.

There's a sort of hidden assumption that we need to assign a univariate reputation to people (historical and otherwise), which brings up the difficulty of how to combine these two observations on incomparable axes into a single conclusion. That doesn't require "nuance" either; the fundamental problem here is trying to figure out if thing X outweighs thing Y. That combination isn't going to be particularly informative about the actual person under discussion; it'll mostly just tell you what coefficients you're using when weighting the two observations.

Surrounding every negative observation by positive observations is neither scientifically honest nor informative about the observation itself. It just says that the writer thinks the negative observation shouldn't carry as much weight. In this case, the author is making no such judgment and presenting the facts directly, which I think is an entirely reasonable thing to do.
I think this is a bit oversimplified.

Another perspective is that your skills are worth X to the company, and when they felt constrained to hire in the SF market, they found they had to increase pay by Y. So your resulting salary of X+Y might be artificial.

Also, moving to a different timezone/non-local presence might actually diminish your value to the company. It might even cost them money, though usually a small amount. So your new rate might reasonably be X-Z.

Regardless, when you turn yourself into a different product, your value to the buyer changes, and is reevaluated in the context of competing products. Relocating is just a qualifying event for triggering that reevaluation.
> A browser is too complex but an OS and SSH aren't?

Yes, most certainly.

A browser is running adversarial third party code all the time as a matter of course. While browsers do a good job at isolating, expecting this to be perfect is way too fragile for a security critical requirement like putting all passwords in one basket.

An isolated and minimized OS install, much easier to harden. Never runs any code you don't know about.
You need to inform yourself better. Joe Bye-done is compromised by China and is the most corrupt and incompetent president ever (bad combination). China elected him. You can see the documentary evidence at Frankspeech.com .

These IP addresses will be used in a manner related to China and their interference in our election resulting in the improper installation of Sloppy Joe in the Whitehouse. You're welcome.
Score and rank of ethical and environmental record for 12 digital camera brands
It's an amazing ability humans (and maybe other animals?) have.
I don't know of any offhand, you might want to look for "pixel art" libraries.
It is not that companies want to waste (your) time. It boils down to the principle that a company will almost always, given the chance, choose to pay you x100$ less (arbitrary figure). Why? Because you are just a cog in the machine in their eyes. A number. You are replaceable. AI can now render the work you do inefficient (and subsequently take your job).
I am unable to understand this comment. You're saying that you can't generate a tail call by returning from the middle of a function which needs to clean things up. RAII* is merely syntactic sugar to write this control flow and make it mandatory.

Perhaps it's easier to think of tail-call semantics as simply implementing iteration: it's another way of expressing a for(...) loop. And if you used RAII in the body of your for loop you would expect the same thing.
Primarily to redistribute capital from clueless geriatrics that can’t separate Ivanhoe from an iPhone...

The bigger problem is of course how we as a society legitimizes destroying young people’s future, just to fund exorbitant pensions for clueless old people who still think 1968 was a “leftist” moment, instead of actually being the starting point of the fanatically far-right fantasy world we live in today. (The next step is of course to dismantle this fantasy world)

(Edit: tldr: let’s stop letting pension funds kill children, okay..?)
You have not given a single strategic imperative for the Nvidia acquisition. They have full access to the IP.

The real issue here is Nvidia are hugely overvalued thanks to the vagaries of the US tech stock market and the ‘irrational exuberance’ that surrounds it. Just a short while ago, Tesla was valued at over $800 billion, Apple has topped a trillion and now Nvidia on $16 billion sales at >$300 billion. As a result that have a while loymtvof stock value burning a hole in their pocket and are looking for something to buy. Unfortunately, ARM is in the frame.

When you make an acquisition, you have to ask whether it positions the combined business uniquely, will is cannibalise existing business (in this case almost certainly because ARM’s great appeal besides its IP and eco-system is that it is independent), will it move the stock price in the right direction, will it improve EBIT, what are the synergies etc etc. A typical M&A will invoke dozens of considerations like this.

More investment into ARM? They own the mobile phone space - Apple, Samsung and almost every other brand (many in China where I worked for a few years). They’ve seen off Microchip in the general purpose 32 bit uC space and dominate IoT applications, Bluetooth etc.

There’s nothing stopping Nvidia copying the existing ARM model right now. They don’t need to buy ARM to do that.

Nvidia stock price will moderate down (as will all semiconductor companies in the coming months as the chip shortages abate) and with it a more realistic valuation.

(What do I know? Been involved in a few M&A’s. ;) )
Former deputy Sec of Defense says artificial intelligence momentum is building
Well... that was also thanks to the government. Although moreso for the getting there.
Interesting
and what if i work remotely from a poor country?
would i be subject to the same salary as them?
At the end it does say you can contact Google to have these kind of results removed, which seems to work well.

I don't disagree they should probably be more proactive, but it's tricky because "X is a horrible person" can be legitimate articles too; banning domains is a whack-a-mole, and of course you'll get complaints about "censorship".
Here's a related Zig proposal: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8220

Relevant section pasted here:

> Other Possible Solution: Tail Calls

> Tail calls solve this problem. Each switch prong would return foo() (tail call) and foo() at the end of its business would inline call a function which would do the switch and then tail call the next prong.

> This is reasonable in the sense that it is doable right now; however there are some problems:

* As far as I understand, tail calls don't work on some architectures.

* (what are these? does anybody know?)

* I'm also concerned about trying to debug when doing dispatch with tail calls.

* It forces you to organize your logic into functions. That's another jump that
maybe you did not want in your hot path.

See also https://dino-lang.github.io/learn/dino.pdf, section 3.1 "Byte Code Dispatch".
I wouldn't mind a chipless toaster. Probably lasts for 40 years too.
The article specifically mentions that Feynman pretended to be a student to sleep with students.
>rents "access" to the library

and finally, big tech will have caught on to the business model of late 90s early 2000s porn sites
I suppose the slippery slope was something I was concerned about but it doesn't matter.
Nielsen Norman Group has alot of great short form content. Their newsletter sends a couple out each Monday.
Glad I already got my 2021 F-150. There are lots in MI full of completed trucks awaiting chips. And looks like they're already planning temporary layoffs[1]:

1. https://www.yahoo.com/news/ford-extends-shutdown-stellantis-...
People forget that Pixar is a 3D rendering technology company first and only secondly a film studio. When most people out there hear Pixar, they think Toy Story and Finding Nemo, not even knowing about the technology they developed that makes those movies possible.