skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be careful. There are services companies use to detect if they are delivering to a PO Box or not. It basically blacklists any po box- hosting address.
Funny to see how many comments come up warning "You need a snowmobile and good rifle skills to do anything useful and be safe from the polar bears." From what I can gather, there's nothing out of the ordinary with that, because it's remote and there really are polar bears roaming around everywhere. There's something very cartoonish and charming about that.

I've liked the little time I've spent in the Arctic Circle so far. What a surreal place to live.
Your crud app is 'advancing society'? Really?
Do you know if this is related to why Apple’s TrueTone would make me feel nauseous too?

I’ve got a 2020 iPad Pro and was having great trouble using it until I accidentally found something online that suggest I turn of TrueTone. The effect was instantly noticeable. Before I could only look at the screen for a few minutes, now it is much more like my desktop where it takes hours to get eye strain.
It's hard to articulate how bitter a life without ambition or purpose can make someone.
Voluntary removal of one's own information does not, in theory go against the free exchange of ideas, but it's a difficult path to follow. How do you grant removal powers to only the owner of something? If you hold a private key, that's easy enough to work something out. I am completely fine with somebody using a key to put something out there and later using the same key to remove it. It's theirs.

...but that's not always the case. If your information has been copied against your will in a way that removes that key (which is incredibly hard to prevent, see the "analog hole" problem in video DRM), you have to have some sort of central authority or master key to be able to remove it, and then you're again falling right back into trusting that central authority with the power to remove whatever they deem fit. What if the central authority decides you don't own the information and not to remove it? What if they claim ownership of something they want removed that isn't theirs?

It just doesn't work. Information removal is a superpower I do not trust any large organization to wield responsibly.
TLDR: You want to continue to whine about it even though you're getting exactly what you want.
Thrun believes that with one remote pilot overseeing five aircraft in the air, Kitty Hawk’s operating cost per mile would drop below $1, making it cheaper than an Uber or Lyft ride is today.

To move 10% of the population of the Bay Area by eVTOL would require roughly 50,000 aircraft, Thrun estimates, of which half have to be in the air at any one time.
It's also summer, hotter and this lowers your productivity. I always noticed a big drop while at the office during the summer and people take vacations.
Incredibly boring, yes. What you do is exhaustively go through every option at every point in play, and verify it does the expected thing. Then you get a new version with fixes/improvements, and do it all over again. You learn to hate every moment doing this.

The dorm in college had a pinball machine, the old mechanical contraptions before LEDs took over. I was fascinated by them, but had no money, so playing them was a rare treat (10 cents a game, 25 for 3 games). One day, the coin op broke, and free games galore. Yay!

After playing that continuously for hours, something broke in me, and I just couldn't stand playing pinball anymore.

I honestly cannot fathom people managing to spend their lives playing video games.

The same thing happened to me with fireworks. I grew up fascinated by fireworks, and would blow every penny on them on the 4th. One day, in college, I had enough cash to buy all I wanted. I bought a lot. Went out to a field, and started lighting and throwing the black cats one by one. Bang, bang, bang. Some hours went by, again something broke. I haven't bought fireworks since. I have no interest in firework displays. The needle doesn't even move.

Go figure.

Never lost my interest in muscle cars, though :-) I grin like an idiot when I drive mine.
US companies are far more ambitious than that. I see large corporates in the US genuinely trying to solve real-world problems like car electrification, self-driving, space-exploration, etc.
You are asking the great question of what the purpose of life is. Wealth? Knowledge? Family and friends? If you were to ask Goethe it is the struggle, the striving and toiling that gives life meaning. Essentially it is the journey not the destination because ultimately we all end up in the same place. Enjoy the moments of life.

As for what to do with the money. Invest it, retire early if you want and if nothing else give yourself the freedom to make work whatever you want it to be.
Oh look, stock roms on phones with an unlocked bootloader also allow root access.
At my company in California IIRC we were told that we were being sent home for just for the duration of a 2 week lockdown. Some people took this at face value. The amount of hardware I'd be willing to haul home for 2 weeks vs 18 months is very different.
I googled something,

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I brought up concerns about WFH productivity once in another thread and quickly realized that many people on here do not want to discuss the facts and only want to consider anecdotal evidence in favour of WFH.

I'm glad to see that there are studies being published that show how certain companies are actually doing, rather than a handful of people loudly saying "my group is equally as productive WFH so no one should work from offices". I don't think those people are going to be so happy as more research is published and company leaders realize what is happening to productivity.
If you don't agree you must be punished! You must be shunned! No cell phone sim for you! No job for you! You can't travel! You can't socialize! If you don't agree you will be MADE TO AGREE.
"Influencers" .... who runs the actual governments? Whether your answer is "an unelected wealthy oligarchy" or "officials appointed by the administration", both ranks are filled with people who came up through the elite university systems.
There's a human side of all of this.

The people who built these companies in the 90's and 2000's are not the people running the ship now.

The new folks have very different personalities and motivations.
The last day of the school year was always fun in electronics class. Our teacher would show us what happens when you do the things to resistors and capacitors that you weren't supposed to. Lots of magic smoke escaped along with a few big bangs!
Competitive highschool sports often practice for several hours a day. It's not really a serious sport if you're only going to practice a few hours a week, is it? Maybe badminton club practices an hour on thursdays, but the swim team is going to be swimming for at least two hours every weekday for much of the year. Sometimes we had practice in the morning before school as well, two practice sessions in a day. There were days I spent almost as much time in the water as I did in a classroom.

But to the point raised in comments above, most boys were not participating in sports. Maybe 1 in 4 were at my school.
Do you have any links to secure container runtimes that don’t either virtualize or replace all the system calls of the container such that it might as well be virtual?
One of the issues I've run into with Nix was lack of OpenGL. Does Guix have similar issues?
I think there's lots of information that should be censored, and if I were made data czar of the world I would surely not be corrupt and do a diligent and thoughtful job removing only what must be removed for the good of the world.

But I would not trust any corporation (sometimes it's profitable to remove something so they retain control of some market) or government (sometimes it secures their power to keep people unaware of some facts about their actions) to do the same. Would you?
I can't mention the company, but I was told from someone at a very large financial company in the US that their productivity tanked over the last year. I won't be surprised if this is generally the case for WFH.
> but you aren't making millions at any salaried job short of being a C level exec. Just graduating from Harvard isn't making you millions

I mean it is happening at Google - look up how much Liz Fong Jones made as an ex-Caltech, ex-MIT engineer. Definitely happens to the MIT to Jane Street crowd and also happens to the people that can get offers at the IPOing startups I can’t even get interviews at. Not like I have the intellect to pass those interviews even if I got them though (I blame my parents for that).

> If your GPA was only acceptable then why are you blaming elitism for what you characterize as failures?

I definitely blame myself too, it’s why I have the dark thoughts whenever I cross a bridge. I should have done research in high school and I should have gotten at least two first author papers to a top conference in undergrad - instead I got 2 2nd author papers to medium tier conferences because I could never come up with any compelling research ideas. All of my work is ultimately meaningless because it just wasn’t enough - it’s extremely depressing.
Entirely the rent, and the rent seeking, and the complete lack of housing, sheer greed that drives all the problems.

Hidden deeply on another page someone references a site with numbers from 50 years ago, 1971. (#1) I don't really care what the agenda of that site happens to be; but the numbers. Compare the numbers to today:

Everyone is FAR worse off today and in my generation.

US nationally (today 2021) about 85K is equivalent to the cited 25K 1971 numbers. :: ~10X cost of living (edited, I unconsciously compared to the wrong number.)

Seattle is far more distorted, with housing beyond out of control (I don't know what kind of house was being looked at for the 1971 numbers, but it really doesn't matter, there's almost nothing even remotely near the national price within the region).

Seattle's rent is completely out of control; beyond any rational measure. No wonder neither I nor my generation can make any savings; it's all being consumed by rent seeking land owners.

Income 10600 %Income71
House 25200 237.736
Car 3600 33.962
RentYear 1800 16.981
UniYear 2600 24.528
Gas5000mi 100 0.943
Mail500invite 40 0.377
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USA 2021 Equiv71
House 269000 113151
Car 30500 89806
RentYear 14400 84800
UniYear 26100 106408
Gas5000mi 483.33 51233
Mail500invite 290 76850
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Seattle 2021 Equiv71
House 750000 315476
Car 30500 89806
RentYear 36000 212000
UniYear 31200 127200
Gas5000mi 533.33 56533
Mail500invite 290 76850

#1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27476654
#2 https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
I was at OPLSS[0] in 2018 and Enzo Alda gave a talk/demo on ZenSheets, his in-progress reactive spreadsheet thing where you could write lambdas in the cells, call them in formulas from other cells, etc. That talk wasn't recorded, but a similar demo can be found here.[1]

[0]: https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer18

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJa0_gKE6xo
> general negative attitudes, poor work ethic

Citations needed as to how they’re significantly worse in Europe than the US. Perhaps they’re simply smart enough not to work hard for someone else’s benefit.

> freedom of movement

The only negative (at least in a strictly US context between the states) is that it forces issues that the Constitution says are the domain of the states into problems that only the Federal government can solve. No city can unilaterally decided to end homelessness with its borders if the homeless from the next state over are free to move in.
For sure here they are (3 flow for three stages of a project planning meeting)

Initiate: https://share.autopilot.ooo/r79vdcnQZZhVXUga8

Ideate: https://share.autopilot.ooo/N1awqiJWw3bnofrL6

Strategize: https://share.autopilot.ooo/aCQWUxGYyYDPqw9w6

These flows are all somewhat specific to my hackathon but you could definitely general case them by changing out specifics and names for any project you need to kick off.
I've long thought the same. I've often thought that the University system in Europe, in particular Germany, is a much better model for higher education.

From what I gather, admissions is entirely merit based there and money isn't an issue.

It isn't just the Ivies that cater to the rich and elite. Many other private universities also do so and promise alumni connections and wealth, think Vanderbilt, Williams, etc.

Even when I was applying to colleges as an undergrad I found it a bit off-putting and instead only applied to public universities.
Buzzfeed and Buzzfeed News share a parent and brand, but they are quite different. The former is the Web equivalent of junk food; the latter is a decent news org.
If the PREFETCH_EX flag was never passed, why did the branch predictor speculatively execute xdcbt? That branch would never be taken, so it ought not to be predicted.

Was it a static branch prediction hint? I know PowerPC has that. If so, could it have fixed by just flipping the hint bit?
The reason why the SAT is "going away" as you noted, or at least the cited reason, is precisely what I noted.

If you want to take the position that there is no truth (or even just a better approximation thereof), that "we can all just believe what we want to believe", then there's no way to ever progress on such matters.
This has all got to be a joke.
> AFAICT, it's not even clear that the universe is continuous rather than discrete.

I'm not sure that makes any difference (in either direction).

I mean, at the scale we care most about, the universe appears to be continuous, so an AGI has to be able to tackle continuous-appearing problems and use continuous-appearing representations.

OTOH, the universe is likely to actually be discrete, so an AGI has to be able to tackle actually-discrete problems, and use representations that are actually-discrete on a fundamental level.

There isn't much of a contradiction between these constraints, although the prospect of a continuous-appearing universe that is actually running on a discrete substrate seems to give a lot of people a brain cramp, and that same brain cramp gets elevated into 'proof' that current approaches cannot lead to AGI. Which is nonsense (there may be other limitations inherent in current approaches, but that can't be one of them).

One might as well claim that computers are digital and brains are analog and conclude that digital image representations cannot possibly be used to communicate information to analog brains.
Facebook developed AI that can copy text style in images using a single word
On the other hand, billionaires are just concentrations of wealth and power which hardly helps the masses.

That is a general pattern in the USA anyhow, a few concentrations here and there but everyone else seems to be screwed in various ways (be it basics like healthcare, education, safety).
Apple Isn’t Just a Walled Garden, It’s a Carrier
Men are dirtbags. 97% of murders worldwide are committed by men.
I don’t see how you could argue they’re a monopoly compared to retailers. They’re the #2 retailer, and smaller than #3 and #4 combined:

https://www.retail-insight-network.com/features/top-retail-c...

Also, most stores on that list have store brands to compete with many products, and specifically Ruffles.

#1 on the list is famous for pushing suppliers around because they know they can put suppliers out of business by cancelling contracts.

In fact, they established a 3% “fine” on any goods delivered late due to Covid:

https://progressivegrocer.com/walmart-pressures-suppliers-de...
From the article:

Instead simple branch predictors typically squish together a bunch of address bits, maybe some branch history bits as well, and index into an array of two-bit entries. Thus, the branch predict result is affected by other, unrelated branches, leading to sometimes spurious predictions.
I think that for some workloads is nice and maybe expected for a company to provide a second screen or some basic equipment with the laptop. It is nice they are reusing their savings and helping their employees, that’s awesome and it’s great for their workers.

But outside of this office to home conversion, if a worker is accepting a work from home job, they should be prepared to execute it. The same way one buys clothes for certain jobs that have a dress code. It would be odd to ask the employer for a suit.

It would be analogous to someone accepting an on-site job that they can’t travel to and asking the employer for a car, or an Uber every day.

We consider normal that a person will spend thousands getting to work every year but getting some equipment for less money is weird.

My position is: i think it’s nice and I accept any help, but if I’m accepting a remote job that doesn’t specify that they offer this equipment, I don’t think it’s abnormal for me to prepare my environment to be ready to execute the job I accepted.
A friend of mine was about to interview at a company when he found out from Glassdoor they required salaried engineers to swipe in and out (among other micromanagement). Cancelled the interview and the recruiter was really miffed and acted like punching a clock is normal for software devs.
Ahh thanks, shame on me for not reading to the end.
"Oddly enough I've struggled to find any data showing that the US is actually better for entrepreneurs"

That literally was what the article was about. Tons of figures/facts in the article.
Rofl

Sadly, evolution doesn't tend toward perfection -- only toward what reproduces best, like Windows and JavaScript.
This article doesn't really talk about it but the Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 source code (including engine and whatnot) are up on torrents now. I suspect this one will be as well in the coming weeks/months. For those curious and with nothing better to do than to have some +ORC styled martini-wodka and spend an evening reading source code, feel free to google at your own leisure. It shouldn't take too long.
I've never encountered "toxic masculinity" in my entire life.

Conservatives will be conservatives, aka creating a straw man so their base can feel just and continue in their camaraderie-through-bullying strategy.

Like the abolishment of "critical race theory" which was taught exactly zero places in the US before the calling for it's ban.
California has some of the most progressive taxes in the US and yet is truly unrivaled in ambition and innovation in business. The taxes don't seem to be harming the ability of companies to pay competitively or citizens to be ambitious.

The taxes aren't stopping European companies from paying competitive salaries
A press statement from Roscosmos said that during the talks, the two “discussed the prospects for Russian-French cooperation in the Guiana Space Centre Soyuz complex, and touched on possible French participation in the Russian–Chinese initiative to create the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS).”

Since 2011 Ariane Space has bought Soyuses from Russia and used them for medium lift launched from South America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_at_the_Guiana_Space_Cent...
People will read, but only up until it gets too much or abusive of their attention. Error messages can be cryptic and cause some mental trashing until the reader realized her bad investment of attention, gives up, and makes a mental note to self to lower the expected value of error messages in the future. Emails? Not when you get overburden with the amount received and when a lot of those have a very tenuous relation with you (but if a future demand pops up for a knowledgeable person, you're in the recipient list, so you're considered ready and waiting). Documentation? Alas, there's only so much of it that can be really useful for a reader and only so much quality grooming that the confluence of various budgets (writer's patience and attention being the most important ones) could support. One reason people prefer to ask directly is because this way they get a chance to control the interaction and direct the answers to whatever they really need and thus avoid waste.

This being said, I am one of those technical guy having to answer to a lot of (seemingly lazy) people, which is something that often drives me crazy. The trick I come up with is to show my genuine impatience, redirect new people to the ones I've already explained the same thing, and let them milk each other for information.
They're more of a generalization of statically linked binaries than a reinvention.
Yup. I've had many conversations about this topic with my son (and on occasion some of his friends -- both male and female), since he was in middle school (a decade ago). They're well aware of how men are portrayed versus women.

We've transitioned from "A women's place is in the home (barefoot, pregnant, and cooking a delicious meal for her husband)" to "A woman's place is whatever she wants, and men are the reason for everything that's wrong with the world today". Whether it's world war or a bad relationship or choosing the right car.

It's not a binary decision, people. We don't need to decide which gender/sex is "better" or "more right".
I don't know the answer to this, but great whites are massive and definitely you could 'fit' a human in one just from a volume perspective. Whether you could fit into its mouth/throat, I don't know.
I want to put some blame on people's focus on university education here. Every guy I've met in this type of situation is someone that isn't stupid, but they don't excel in academia either. Their family treats them like crap because they didn't go to university or dropped after they got there. They become depressed because they compare themselves to their "smarter" peers who appear to have everything worked out are doing great in life. Constantly pushing someone towards university when it's maybe not the best idea for them, then calling them a loser when they bomb out just engenders learned helplessness in the individual. Then people why these individuals stop trying.
There is a nonguix substitution server - https://mirror.brielmaier.net
Using nonguix also means you can't expect support in official support channels. Just something to know before you start.

If this is true, it is a deal breaker for me. I try to buy open source hardware when I can, but even systems like the Pinebook Pro will have their functionality significantly limited by the absence of the linux-firmware package. It is a simple fact that most common WiFi chipset require non-free firmware.
Just because your state allows you to do the work does not mean that your insurance company will cover your loas is your work burns your home down.
What happened during covid? I assume for sometime you all went remote. Was there a difference in productivity between teams? Did the team with wfh experience lag behind?
Who pretends they are harmless? Every medicine with Tylenol in it has big warnings. Pretty common knowledge.
lol. do you know how bitcoin work? bitcoin can definitely “defend itself”. look at what happens/happened in Venezuela. Once you no longer need to convert it to fiat it’s as bulletproof as it comes
90% of HN users wont understand this. Wanna-be 'titans of industry', 'changing the world' one CRUD app at a time.

Poorly educated and naive. They will swallow wholesale whatever new-age pseudoscientific bullshit or Reaganomics that is currently popular in silicon valley.
I would give Europe a C- for scaling on R&D funding.

The government that probably does the best is the US, and I would give them a B+, because R&D funding is always not enough for public and societal need. This is especially the case with respect to NIH (national institutes of health) research funds.