skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SPOILER ALERT

I answered "req.flushHeaders()" but surprisingly it doesn't accept that as a cause, even though the headers would be sent with the initial packet and should improve the latency.
Looking at this in a bit more detail. Any aibag using the In&Motion controller suffers from the same fate. Furygan, RST etc.
From what I understand of both the recent tweets and both of their fairly radical/extreme (and mostly correct) views about abstraction being a net negative, the criticism is less "Mighty doesn't work" and more "We shouldn't need to use an app like Mighty to get good performance on a basic website".
Or shorten dev time, sure. I don't think those are necessarily bad things. The industry seems to have enough trouble as it is to recruit software devs. Can you imagine if you needed deep assembler mastery in order to develop a website? It would have hampered the development of the industry tremendously.
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Do you remember the weather? Were there low clouds? Are you on a hill or near a valley?

If it is just a silent incandescent circle it is possible that you saw light from a car or other similar object reflecting on a fog/cloud or maybe temperature difference in the air.
Eh? That's precisely what that section is about, and it uses "purity" in the specific programming sense.
Full time work just doesn’t offer a competitive amount of holiday. I can contract 2/3 to 3/4 of the year and take the rest off to travel, work on my own projects, meet friends etc.

The money works out about the same but 25 days leave (or whatever the standard amount is) just doesn’t cut it for me. The older I get, the more I value time over money.
This article strikes me largely as, someone else should be doing this for me so I can benefit from their hard work. It's as if they miss the point of Linux, free software, etc...

This problem exists because people, like this author, who are in to vintage systems aren't taking up the mantle to maintain a distribution to support their old systems. It's like they want the benefit with zero effort. Become a leader, start the work and organize a community to take your favorite distribution and make it work on your legacy system.
Do you think low paid workers are going buy a cheap laptop for 500$ and pay 30$ or 50$ per month for Mighty instead of just getting a more powerful Window laptop for like 1000$ or 1500$?
Beyond that, I've found attempting to literally outrun emotional and phycological problems (by moving away) actually make them worse.
Interesting way to find social media ready videos.
We all know how it went last time...

Unfortunately at the same time money isn't cheap for other things that matter.
This is just the government subsidising underwater businesses then? I feel like there’s this irrational impulse that work, any work is better than looking after someone until they can find good employment. If jobs are so poorly paid they can’t sustain the unfortunate person who has to take them perhaps they shouldn’t exist or at least be nationalised so society gets the benefits they are paying for rather than having them funnelled into the pockets of private individuals.
Attributing that to Cory Doctorow seems strange. He also only extracted that out of the linked paper at https://aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/amp2....
Ending up "net ahead" does not necessarily mean maximizing the fraction of successful projects. I don't think pg is saying that implausible-sounding projects usually turn out good. He is saying that when they turn out good, they have outsized impact, precisely because they initially sounded implausible and therefore produce lots of new information if true.
IBM's 2nm beating TSMC's 3nm doesn't seem counter-intuitive. If their naming systems are comparable it's exactly what you'd expect.
A system can both be self-serving and be better than other systems - both philosophically and in terms of better outcomes for people living under the system.
Start by not calling them Snr Engs. That makes it sound like you don't value them and view them as a comodity that you can't be arsed to write out completely. Not to mention, it won't come up in a search when active, motivated candidates are looking for new opportunities.

This is not just a nitpick. If someone emailed me looking for a "Snr Eng", the email is getting deleted and flagged as spam.
Let's look at results from a model.

https://model.energy/

In the 2030 cost model they use, batteries are 142 euro/kWh of capacity and 160 euro/kW of power. This (using 2011 weather data, along with various other assumptions, and also includes use of hydrogen) gives "synthetic baseload" in the US for 53.7 euro/MWh, cheaper than nuclear. The LCOS in batteries and (even more so) in hydrogen is higher than the cost of electricity, but that's ok.

(If you look at other countries, or specific states in the US, the results vary but remain broadly similar. The mix of solar vs. wind can change a lot though. Places like Poland are the worst for renewables in this model.)
People who want to make America look bad, and drive wedges between America and allies. These social media disinformation campaigns have been going on for a long time.

Who benefits? China, Russia, etc.

Why spend time questioning why China is not being as cooperative as they should with the origin and other important details of the virus when they can make Germans hate Brits and Canadians hate Americans over vaccine exports?
>Don’t do “dog and pony show” interviews. If I have to write code on a whiteboard, or even in an editor live on a call, or look at an extensive take-home test (anything more than a 15-30 minute task), I’m highly likely to pass for anything except an a top shelf package at a company I’m highly motivated to work for.

I'm always interested in this point of view, because I understand why candidates don't like it but as a hiring manager myself I also know that there's a fairly large proportion of candidates who look good on paper but can't actually do the most fundamental thing that a developer needs to do: solve an abstract problem with code.

What's the alternative to filter those people out?
Looks like they're on their way to piece-mealy rediscover SGML, with config options to exclude non-permissible elements and attributes such as <script> and onclick. Except SGML can do this in a holistic, context-dependent way which brings us to

> Issue 1: It’s unclear whether we can assume a generic context for parseFromString, or if we need to re-work the API to take the insertion context of the created fragment into account.

which of course refers to the concept of tag inference/omission in HTML/SGML not covered in this proposal at all, and similarly

> Issue 2: What about comment nodes, CDATA, etc. ?

and

> Some HTML elements require special treatment in a way that can’t be easily expressed in terms of configuration options or other algorithms. The following algorithm collects these in one place: To handle "funky elements" on a given element, run these steps: ...

(introducing the ad-hoc concept of funky elements), and

> Issue 3: The spec currently treats MathML and SVG as unknown content and therefore blocked by default. This needs to be fixed.

It's depressing that we're iterating over these kind of issues that seemed like a solved problem in 1986 (35 years ago) when SGML was first published.
Can we solve this by generating example scenarios from the code and putting them to a common sense test? This is an integration test, of sorts.
I like your thinking but this still bothers me:

> P(All intelligent life is organic | Our best knowldge) =~ 1

Even looking at ourselves, we are somewhat close to AI and it’s a reasonable belief that we’ll have something smarter than us within a few decades. Why are non organic aliens so unlikely to you?
That is an important metric, but SRAM scales differently to logic density, and there can be processes where SRAM is proportionally much more or less expensive than some logic.

Properly representing transistor density is a very hard problem, to which many different solutions have been proposed. It's just that the solution typically shows the processes of those who proposed it in the best possible light, so there is no industry consensus.
I think the key statement to realize here is this,

> Most implausible-sounding ideas are in fact bad and could be safely dismissed. But not when they're proposed by reasonable domain experts.

Off the top of my head, I vaguely remember that the latter half of the careers of many "greats" like Einstein, Fermi, Erdos were riddled with pursuing directions which bore no fruit (to this day).

I don't quite think that crazy bets work on "average". On average they fail. It mostly so happens that crazy bets are on "average" taken by people with a network that can attract able and passionate people, who can see through an idea to its conclusion. This is where experts come in.

Experts often rely on validation by their "community", and by the nature of community dynamics need to upsell. They naturally attract the kind of people needed to execute crazy ideas. But then attracting such talent also has a corrective effect on the originally crazy idea, such that it has a higher chance of succeeding by minimizing the blind spots, the unknown unknowns.
I was never under the impression that night shift was for improving sleep. I believe it's supposed to reduce eye strain.
Gabe Newell: 'We're Way Closer to the Matrix Than People Realise'
That’s an arbitrary, and pointless, distinction. 100,000,000 different people can own a single satoshi. What does it matter that each individual does not own the entire thing? The question is whether Bitcoin has enough supply, and there actually is no question because the supply is effectively infinite.

The scarcity argument is just factually wrong. Bitcoin is not scarce.
Conversely, I haven't had a single btrfs issue on my home server, which has gradually expanded from a 2x2TB RAID1. New disks get added to the pool via 'device add' and off we go. That's one of the biggest reasons why I use btrfs, it lets me turn storage into a large generic pool instead of individual partitions and drives, and it's very flexible when combining drives of different sizes.

The only issue I did have was a bad ASM1061-based SATA controller, which would corrupt data in weird ways, throw up alignment errors, generic I/O errors, all kinds of issue. That can hardly be blamed on btrfs.

Because it was a RAID1 pool and a checksumming filesystem, I could switch the affected drive to a known good SATA controller and correct all of the corrupted data, to bring everything back in line. I found it very robust and undramatic. I strongly assume it would have worked more or less the same on ZFS, but ZFS is less flexible when adding disks (have to add new separate vdevs instead of integrating individual drives), so I stick with btrfs.

Don't buy ASM1061-based SATA controllers. At the very least, get something Marvell-based, or an LSI-based SAS controller in IT mode, if you want to get fancy.
https://www.aquinas.edu/sites/default/files/webform/macTools...
There's also the obvious "problem" that when every employer in the state/city is trying to hire simultaneously then employers of last resort will be the last applied to.
Saying homosexuality shouldn’t be legal isn’t an opinion, it’s bigotry. Viewpoints that infringe on a persons rights are not opinions, it’s discrimination. I agree people should be able to speak freely but I also believe in standards. To take another example, if somebody has the “opinion” that women shouldn’t be able to refuse their husbands sexual advances, is this discussion that is acceptable or is it bigotry? Should people be able to openly discuss their “opinion” that adults should be able to have sex with minors? What if their opinion is that they should be allowed to kill homosexuals? There is a line. Idealism only goes so far.
I get your point but to be fair to the poster, there's a character limit on HN.
Because the government presumably has access to large numbers of highly competent individuals, some at least as smart as Mick West, who should have been able to conclude that all of these sightings amount to nothing, if that is indeed the case. They also presumably have access to far more data on the subject than West or anyone else.
As a kid, I was in an astronomy group and knew the skies well.

First time I saw a discoteque lights in the sky, I was sure I am seeing an UFO. I noted down the time and place but realized since it was in the sky constantly that it can't really be an UFO. Later I learned it was just a reflector pointed to the sky.

I wouldn't be surprised if a similar effect but from car lights or plane lights could throw people off. Since it could be a one time event, it's hard to explain it.
My hang up with Mighty isn’t about their idea or their technology or their execution. It’s impressive to see what they’ve done.

My issue is that it’s not a product I could feel good recommending to anyone, at least at the high pricing that was proposed in the last discussion. In an era of $999 M1 Macs (and even cheaper AMD laptops) and readily available financing options, it doesn’t make sense for anyone to throw their money away at a SaaS service that simply cannot perform as well as local Chrome on a modern machine.

I could see the narrow use case for limited situations where someone has

1. Weird IT department restrictions that require them to use old, slow computers but also

2. Budget rules that allow them to spend monthly money on a SaaS but not on financing the hardware they need to get their job done and

3. Guaranteed high speed internet all of the time and

4. An IT/corporate security department that is okay with them sending all of their keystrokes, login info, and browser data to a 3rd party service

Surely this situation exists, but it still feels like Mighty is targeting a broader audience by providing untrue claims about remote thin client technology somehow being faster than a halfway decent local machine. I’d feel equally uncomfortable if Stadia was charging $50/month while claiming to be lower latency than local gaming.

The counter arguments about disrespecting hard working startup founders or doubting visionaries feel like a strawman response to legitimate questions about the value of their service. The technology and execution look to be good, AFAICT. It’s the product, pricing, messaging, and value that I can’t recommend.
I mean, he still probably forged checks, no?
Well said man.
I’d be curious what the argument is. They would certainly be able to resupply raw materials if needed. Just plan a stop at a promising star system.

Why wouldn’t a long lived nuclear power system provide the energy for food and life support?

Beyond that, even five or ten generations is enough to get somewhere at .1C.
> As long as you replace the facade/roof tiles when needed

As long as you keep replacing the wood... a wood house will last?
No Evidence for Associations Between Digital Technology+Mental Health Problems
Why do you think solar and wind could not be built in the Appalachian mountains? Wind in particular would benefit there. And the mountains are an excellent place to build off-river pumped hydro storage facilities.
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I found that doing things that are too stimulating before bed is a bad idea anyway, no matter the type of light your eyes catch during it.
> it's not the topic of conversation

Yes it is, because the topic invariably includes "alternatives" or things that are "better". Those things are nearly always things the US has made. They are not better. Yes, it's bad. Everyone knows this. Adding value to that conversation is giving alternatives or offering some new insight into the nature of badness and how it's different flavours should be looked upon.
Have you looked at a map? I live in NY, and there is absolutely no place for such a massive solar farm.

The numbers I quoted were just for NYC, and they weren’t adjusted for the winter sunlight problem. To power the entire metro area would likely require 40,000 acres. To cover the entire region likely 60,000 acres. This land does not exist.
I'm of the opinion that ignorance and closed-mindedness is the problem, not what ignorant and closed-minded people come up with. Can't fight fire with fire. That's why I don't think that we should identify them with their ideas. For the purposes of society, their discussions on that site are (supposedly) destructive. That's all the information we need to have a wholesome debate.

To withdraw to identifying people with their world-views is to give up on having a meaningful relationship. We do it because we can't tolerate them. The conclusion of that train of reactions is violence.
“Pay them more” is the answer to solving any job market shortage ever. There. You’re welcome.
pdf freely available here (EN version):

https://web.archive.org/web/20210206111359/https://www.levan...
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My wife is a UX Researcher and what I see going on in the UI/UX industry through her eyes makes this unsurprising to me. Most of the time her research is completely ignored by developers and PMs, her step in their overall process is just a nuisance to them because it delays them shipping features, or it’s insulting to their ego. Now there’s a trend with developers and UI designers calling themselves “UX engineers” to take control of this process and they do a bad job at actually understanding UX Research and mock up horrible designs because they don’t do studies with participants, and simply think it’s a check list of do’s and don’ts.

The whole UI/UX space seems like a mess to me and needs a reboot.
The big contributor is vacations. As flights and hotels have gotten cheaper and cheaper it is more and more common to take 1-2 weeks in places like Thailand or Bali or Dubai in the winter. So people are going from no sun on their body for 4 month, to spending 10+ hours a day in a bathing suit in extremely intense sun.
M1 macs can be had for $999, and they can even be bought with cheap financing options to convert it to a monthly payment.

Maybe there’s a market for people stuck on old computers but whose companies still spring for super fast internet and $50/month SaaS bills per user instead of just spending that same money (or less) financing the laptops they actually need, but it would be a small market.
Their CEO has been pretty vocal about not having an office for a while now. I'd be surprised if opening a new office is their interpretation of remote-first.
No. Because nobody would work, and corporations would invest all revenues offshore. The country would be destroyed, and you’d get nothing. Income taxation is one of the most economically destructive and violent ways to generate revenues.

Do you seriously think it’s a good idea to point guns at people doing the work and tell them to give you 80-100% of their pay because you think you deserve it for doing nothing?

Only a violent sociopath would do that, right? Please tell me how your proposal is different.
Agreed. As I said, it would be convenient, faster, and most importantly, guaranteed to be error-free.
Yeah, I notice some people have very different experiences. It's odd.

For me it's a mix of NVMe drives, SATA SSDs on Intel SATA, or SATA SSDs on LSI SAS HBAs (in IT mode).

It doesn't seem to be pinned to specific hardware, sadly - and the exact same hardware works fine with zfs/ext4/xfs.
How much do I get paid and how much privacy am I giving up? It would be nice if there was a straight forward, no nonsense disclosure about this. Reading over the app it seems more like, buzzword buzzword buzzword money buzzword, instead of telling me very specifically what you're tracking and selling and what I'm getting paid for this.
I don't see it as negative relying to an upstream with larger developer base, and as you said this allows better collaboration. But this dependence makes it hard for me to see how, though once it was, this is FreeBSD's killer feature. How is ZFS, now based on ZFS-on-Linux, more native on FreeBSD than Linux?
I spent some time exploring how to improve the UX of code blocks on the web
> Having new ideas is a lonely business
Can you expand on this advice a bit as it is confusing? I was under the impression that Junior and Senior Engineer was pretty ubiquities terminology for the industry.
Well $7B now, and a fraction of that in 25-30 years to replace the aging panels and batteries. (I think 12-15 years is a common battery warranty for grid batteries with daily cycling, but why might fall even further in price in 15 years than solar).

The nuclear plant that is shutting down is already at the end of its original license, and the $7B of work would be for 20 years or less of nuclear.
Ah, well, that's too bad. And you're right, what can be found is expensive.
Culture, community, and networks, not comp.
From "Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing"[0]

> These will be special-purpose bespoke machines, and if you ask other drug companies if they have one sitting around, the answer will be “Of course not”. This is not anything close to a traditional drug manufacturing process. And this is the single biggest reason why you cannot simply call up those “dozens” of other companies and ask them to shift their existing production over to making the mRNA vaccines. There are not dozens of companies who make DNA templates on the needed scale. There are definitely not dozens of companies who can make enough RNA. But most importantly, I believe that you can count on one hand the number of facilities who can make the critical lipid nanoparticles.

Also see this article[1] which details the supply chain of mRNA vaccines as well as the bottleneck of lipid nanoparticle assembly. These mRNA vaccines also have strict requirements for storage/distribution, preventing them from wider usage.

[0]: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/my...

[1]: https://blog.jonasneubert.com/2021/01/10/exploring-the-suppl...
oh how I miss dsssl! xml schema was a real improvement over dtd. but xslt? not so much.
> It is millenia just from the sun to the edge of our solar system

?

We sent two probes in the 70s and they're already out of our solar system, they're definitely going waaaay slower than the speed of light

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46502820
Just pick a year, and pick a day. Use it.

As I said, "Anything will work as long as you can remember and reproduce it."

I find that I tend to forget purely random dates over time so I prefer a semi-random date based on something I will not forget.

It's just a memory trick, I forget meaningless dates but I don't forget simple privacy algorithms. Your mileage may vary.
I'm as opposed to throwing away machines as the author is, but I also recognise that anything with less than 1 GB of RAM is unusable in this day and age. Modern websites are simply too large to handle on such equipment, and most people do their work online.
On the other hand:

* Derek Lowe thinks it's difficult to produce mRNA vaccines https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/my... [He worked in the pharmaceutical industry and his Chemical articles are pretty solid.]

* The main discussion is about the Oxford/Astrazeneca that is not a mRNA vaccine.

I'd take all the other conclusions of the article with a grain of salt.