skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's fair to say they're playing Doom on the lamp (and even more impressively, it's not a whole lamp, but just a light bulb!). They use an external keyboard, monitor, speakers, and storage for the game data, but the processor and RAM are from the original bulb.

If someone said "I'm playing Doom on my PC" in 1993, they would also have been using an external keyboard, monitor, and speakers. And the game would have shipped on external storage (floppy disks).
FPV drones are good counter-example to this.
Exercising Freedom of Speech
What will you do if the government coerces you into falsely renewing your warrant canary?
I don't have that option. The number and length of meetings is the same if I'm WFH or in the office.

Since we're doing SCRUM, their spacing is also the same: sprint review, retrospective, splaning, refinement, ideation, etc..
Kid me would've loved it.
Looks like the Graph View in RoamResearch.
Safer != better at driving.

Higher safety can be achieved by them being simply “as good” or even worse to some extent but the removal of the driver from multi passenger rides reduces casualties sufficiently to make them safer on average.
PoW has nothing to do with throughput.
> If my office doesn’t let me WFH, I will also be leaving.

Agreed. I hope to never work in an office again. It's a horrible concept.

I was ok with office work during the first 15+ years of my career when I had a private office. That works very well. Commute was annoying, but I'll take it.

But then came the cubicles. Ugh. Then came the open office nightmare. I will never be in an open office again. Not an option, full stop.

You want my expertise? The options are remote or private office.
Yeah. The workflow I use for serious work actually ends up using less tabs because I tend to take care of stuff. I also bookmark/tag/close the important stuff. I talked a bit about my setup a few months ago in an HN post. [0]

But just for casual browsing? I prefer to leave stuff open as a reminder to pick it back up again. My home office is also pretty messy in terms of books scattered about though, so this probably boils down to a personal preference.

Come to think of it, maybe there's an analogy between people who keep their desk neat and tidy / those who program in languages requiring manual memory allocation versus those who like to leave books open and scattered / prefer the decreased mental overhead of working in garbage collected languages. :-P

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25612092
I'd invalidate that 2%.
That made me read a bit about the US water problem. But - why not take water from the Great Lakes?
Scribe was a scheme system for typesetting that was published two or three decades ago. I know Skribilio is related to it, and I would be very surprised if scribble is not in any way related.
To be fair: Self-driving cars that can drive safer than some drivers already exist. Simply due to the nature how unsafe some humans drive. (Some of these drivers are elderly, some of these drivers are racers who think everyone slower than them drives like a grandma).

I'd be interested though why you think self-driving cars will not exist. Care to elaborate?
I think you're being a little selective with your quoting there, as the article goes on to say

> One big issue for Level 3 vehicles is that a crash might occur in the 10 seconds the driver spends taking over, so Level 3 vehicles will probably need to include an ODD [operational design domain] where 10 seconds is reasonably safe (e.g. low-speed highway traffic jams).
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26420692
Section 8 and food stamps already exist in every state, how do you plan to reinvent the wheel?
Am I right that this is book is 6 web pages? If not I feel like I'm missing something (which is completely possible).
Before clicking I assumed the lamp had a small screen and they were using that screen...
I can highly recommend Chasm City [1] by Reynolds. I think its greatly under-appreciated! It's full of creativity and unexpected turn of events...

[1]: https://www.amazon.de/Chasm-City-English-Alastair-Reynolds-e...
I feel the same way about automatic driving.

Even if the accuracy and error rate surpass humans, every death due to an AV failing is one death too much. However, most people seem to be happy with a failure rate lower then my grandma...
I once (1992?) calculated mandelbrot sets on one of these. 400x400, output to an external thermo printer as the one-line display had, well, only one line. With a calculation depth of 256 it took about 48 hours to produce one set.
I copied the link from an email sent by the guy who maintains the page.
Why True Bitcoiners Should Support DLT and DeFi
It also tries to pull code.js off mail.ru subdomain.
They've been playing Tetris and Snake on some weird things already (I've seen Tetris on a high rise, and Snake on a christmas tree)
Build an API in Rust (Part 1)
The opaque, undocumented nature of mobile GPU is outstanding (not in a good sense).

Intel CPUs are well document both by their documentation or by third party docs (like Patterson-Hennessy.) Although NVIDIA is less document than these CPUs, there are some well-written whitepapers including one for academic conferences. And these are the basis for the textbook coverage.

Compared to that, ARM or Qualcomm GPUs are totally a blackbox. I'd love to learn the specifics of mobile GPUs but there is no clue. I wonder how Collabora folks have figure out the instruction set architecture and other details.
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Remote: Yes

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Technologies: Elixir, Ruby, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wufred/

Email: ifredwu at gmail dot com

---

My name’s Fred Wu, I’m an experienced Elixir and Ruby developer who has worked on multiple commercial projects as well as released multiple Hex packages.

I work at a fintech startup in Australia as CTO, leading a small team. In the past few days I’ve decided to start moonlighting again, especially now that I’ve been working from home since Covid and has more time and flexibility. I can commit about 20-30 hours a week.

I’d been using Elixir professionally for a few years, ruby for over half a decade, lead and built multiple commercial B2B & B2C SaaS projects. Until recently I’ve always been very hands on, and have worked with multiple tech stacks in the past, including JS, React and PHP, and most recently Clojure at the startup I’m currently working at.

- My blog and talks: https://fredwu.me/
- My Github profile: https://github.com/fredwu
- My LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wufred/

As you probably noticed I have quite a few projects on Github. Some of the more interesting ones are:

- Crawler, a high performance web crawler built in Elixir: https://github.com/fredwu/crawler
- Simple Bayes, a naive bayes machine learning implementation in Elixir: https://github.com/fredwu/simple_bayes
- OPQ, a simple in-memory queue with worker pooling and rate limiting in Elixir: https://github.com/fredwu/opq
- And a few years ago when I was heavily involved in the ruby/rails community, I had done an experimental project building a "layer 0" ORM on top of ActiveRecord and Sequel: https://github.com/fredwu/datamappify

If you think my skills and experience could add value to the project I’d love to chat more. You could reach me at ifredwu at gmail dot com. Thanks!
It fills the same niche as scribble. So: less lozenge, more unquote.
AWS User Data Is Being Stored, Used Outside User's Chosen Regions
Also worth noting that good bitcoin wallets automatically use a new address for every transaction, so you never end up reusing an address.
Exponential Backoff and Jitter (2015)
#9: Array .reduce() Method – JavaScript Array Methods
Crazy correlation (n of one etc.) but I find I’m worse at Chess if I take fish oil (it’s a good one from Nordic Naturals). I’m not sure for me it’s a good idea.
The idea is great but...

I checked out about 15+ smaller repositories with the "help wanted" labels and only one had active development.

Most projects had several unanswered pull-requests since 2018/2019 contributed by strangers wanting to help or issues with comments from people asking to help with no response.

I actually looked for one project that i could potentially help out a tiny bit, but the experience so far has been discouraging.
Ah. I only watched the video briefly. Thanks.

Amazing clock speed for a lamp. I guess they need it to get the OS started quickly...
> I'm struggling with the idea of hybrid WFH.

I'd be ok with up to a max of one day a week in the office.

That doesn't restrict location too much. Only one day a week, I'm willing to put up with a multi-hour commute. Anything more than one day, I don't think so.
Presumably they pay their employees.
It is also a lot more powerful than markdown. If you already know a little bit of scheme, Skribilio takes about 5 minutes to learn.
Ness doesn't use Kubernetes as far as I can tell, nor does it limit # of environments. It also seems to only work on AWS.
So if there are no 'good drivers', everyone must be a 'bad driver', so if self driving cars are to be 'good', they need to be better than at least 100% of humans. High bar!
Funny enough, I think those things were never meant to be a "personal" computer. You could get quite a sophisticated external bus system for these ("field bus" I think) and that made them ideal for lab environments.
I would have thought they'd have specialized chip hardware already to deal with these, but maybe I don't know enough about that kinda thing. Pretty sure it'd have specialized hardware and/or instructions to deal with the cryptographic aspects though.
I agree! Nuclear FUSION is very promising, still a ways off though.
That's hardly evidence. You have to control for all the other things that differ between developed and undeveloped countries.
Since this is difficult you could at the very least find 1000 farmers in an undeveloped country and feed them 100g of fat a day I'm addition to what they eat, then monitor their health for a few decades. Then we'd know better
It doesn't eliminate them, it just hides them from you.
Completely agree. ICOs and private sales to big players are exactly what Crypto is supposed to be trying to disrupt: something by the people, for the people, that no large entity can control. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
They are both descendants, spiritual or direct, of Scribe, the scheme document system from the 90s.
also, we have ways of testing tiredness and effects of age, so augmentation can improve many of the issues with human driving.
Continuum-mediated self-interacting dark matter
+1 for Anathem. Seveneves, especially the seemingly tacked-on last part of Seveneves, is weak drivel compared to that book.
N of 1 is still worthy of discussion if the data is reliable. Have you considered trying to get someone to perform a double blind placebo controlled test on you?
>when people talk about CRT these days they’re talking about a specific set of beliefs about race, notably a variety of race essentialist beliefs.

Critical race theory and Race essentialism are fundamentally incompatible theories of race. If you're equating the two, you, or whoever presented them to you, has a deeply flawed (or actively malicious) understand of one or the other.

CRT posits that differences among racial/ethnic groups are the result of, as wikipedia puts it, "social problems are influenced and created more by societal structures and cultural assumptions than by individual and psychological factors." Even its critics claim it relies too heavily on social constructivism - the literal opposite of essentialism. (Racial essentialism, in contrast, claims that "races" are biologically district categories that result in innate individual differences)

Of course, you used a throwaway account here, so you must, on some level, know you argument doesn't hold to educated scrutiny.
I agree with your comments on the private sale.

DeFi is necessary because currently only 0.1% of the world has access to the financial tools on Wall Street, and the current financial game is heavily rigged by those with money and power. By open sourcing the process and allowing everyone to partake everyone in the world gets access to massive financial markets and can build interesting products using loans, derivatives, options, futures etc. They also get to play the part of the bank and earn money providing liquidity to trading pools, loans, short-sellers etc.
I totally agree. My objection is more to things like "my opinions are as good as science because science is all just made up too."
For Pytorch, I had no issues with conda. But with Tensorflow from conda, the training process just hangs (consuming 100% of CPU but no GPU resources, despite my GPUs are recognized). I got more luck with installing Tensorflow with pip. Given the fact that Tensorflow documentation does not mention conda, I wondering how well this is supported.
> It's also not good enough for them to be better than average human drivers

Of course it is, because it means there will be less deaths per million miles driven, which surely is the goal.

yes, eventually we want them to be better than the average driver, then better then the best, then (hypothetically) perfect. But the reality is the day they're better than the average, we'll be saving lives if we all switch over.
What if you dread 1:1s with a direct report?
Exactly! There are still many ways you can driver safer, so you wouldn't actively pick a riskier option
> I have no clue how we fix this.

Radical transparency. With all data of public institutions open for accountability, and a layer of independent people studying their areas of interest and creating explanations of actual execution and how it really affects us.

The free press used to be this, before it got captured and become part of the opaque system. With open distributed networks, we get a second chance to build such a counter-information system, and this time make it de-centralized so it cannot be captured by owning a single node.
Integrating React Native features in an existing iOS native app
Turkeys voting for Christmas (t'was ever thus).

That said, this is an unavoidable consequence of globalization that was due to happen anyway.The "pandemic" simply accelerated it.

A big section of the conceptual "West" is in for a very rude awakening.
I think Lvl3 is one of the most dangerous levels a car can be at, based on the experience Waymo (back then Chauffeur) made: Humans are even worse at monitoring than they are at driving. It's incredibly boring. Their test-drivers (who got extensive training for what to do and what not to do) started to do anything but pay attention, including taking a nap, before they pulled the plug on the incremental approach.

And we see this partially with Tesla now. Some drivers start to trust the system so much that they start to do anything but pay attention - partially even bypassing the pesky systems that remind them that they are required to take over at any moment.
I have one that's been running Gallium since ~2018.. Asus C202SA. It works like a charm.

I update coreboot every once in a while, as it gets regular updates.

Just a note for anyone that's going to try it: you will have to open up your chromebook and search for the write-protection screw in order to flash your bios (most models are like this). It is a google search away to find where your motherboard's screw is located, as not all boards are labelled. Another thing to to note is that, as long as you don't brick your device somehow, everything is reversible. You can reinstalled the original bios/bootloader, reinstall ChromeOS and put the write protection screw back in and all is well again. Other than that, just follow all instructions for Gallium & coreboot exactly and it will work fine.

Gallium is basically Ubuntu + xfce + mods for keyboard & performance tweaks.
I finished one other project - playing "MasterMind" against the computer (you know, where you have to guess five colour pins) with output done on the internal little printer.
After that I had started one one other project (an 8085 assembly language simulator), when first the controller for the external 8'' floppy drive stopped working, effectively bricking it, and shortly after that the handful of tape cartridges I had. Mind you, at the time everything was 15 years old or so, so I couldn't really blame the equipment.
Do you believe animals eating other animals to be immoral as well?
Well, the biggest elephant in the room is ...there are no self driving cars out there in the wild.

Any near future self driving car will not be safer than a sobar, alert human driver any time soon, unless they have a directive to halt the vehicle at any difficult scenario.

We will not know before such a car exists and is tested under the exact same circumstances vs a human driver.
This is what Ray Peat has been saying for years. He researches nutrition with a specific angle - does something inhibit metabolism or does it accelerate? His thesis is that nutrition should be optimized to make metabolism go as efficient as possible. I'm not sure how valid his ideas are, but it is definitely worth checking out. Whenever you see people warn about seed oils and PUFAs, they are usually basing their views on his research.
"Hi, this is a recorded interview for a study we are running, have you ever committed an illegal act?"

"Nah."

"Thanks."

Can you see the bias?
Re the interviews, do you have any side projects you can show? An app you built for fun, a local business/groups website you built? Focus on that if you can - show how you can complete projects.
Github (I presume it's all GH projects) should come up with a system that makes it easier to either take over stewardship of a codebase, or make active forks much more visible - I mean in theory if the steward of one project has effectively abandoned it, someone else can fork it and go from there. But in practice, that fork fixes one issue and gets abandoned as well, and nobody can find it (or nobody actively looks for it).

But if you can make a fork and petition for it to be seen as the "active, maintained" version, it would work a lot better I think.

In theory, open source is all about forking and the like. In practice, it's a lot of islands with single people or organizations at the "top" dominating the project, with any forks having no chance at survival unless they get merged in again.
> I have no problem with WFH in principle, but my position is, if you are able to come in, then come in. If you have kids or other commitments then fine, work from home a couple of days a week. But by default, it’s better for everyone if you’re in the office.

Lets hope to god there is a large enough demand for WFH that your position becomes intolerable for more companies. I think having access to on office as an option is great, but thinking its "better" is a unfounded claim.
I know your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but some seem to believe this.

From what I've seen, its a losing game. You can kiss all the ass you want, socialize whatever. But when there is an opening in companies like that, it seems like the boss's son-in-law/college crony/etc. always gets the job..
Interesting fact, 80% of satellites are now built outside the US. A surprising number of cubesats are built in the UK for example. The US regulatory framework, which has decades of legacy and history working with the likes of Lockheed has frozen the industry in the risk aversion. Only in the last five years have satellites been removed from the munitions list. Have fun with all the legal paperwork to hire an immigrant to work on a space project.

Most of the work is now done elsewhere in places that don't have a space legacy, because of this exact risk aversion.
SEEKING WORK | Remote / Australia

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Technologies: Elixir, Ruby, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wufred/

Email: ifredwu at gmail dot com

---

My name’s Fred Wu, I’m an experienced Elixir and Ruby developer who has worked on multiple commercial projects as well as released multiple Hex packages.

I work at a fintech startup in Australia as CTO, leading a small team. In the past few days I’ve decided to start moonlighting again, especially now that I’ve been working from home since Covid and has more time and flexibility. I can commit about 20-30 hours a week.

I’d been using Elixir professionally for a few years, ruby for over half a decade, lead and built multiple commercial B2B & B2C SaaS projects. Until recently I’ve always been very hands on, and have worked with multiple tech stacks in the past, including JS, React and PHP, and most recently Clojure at the startup I’m currently working at.

- My blog and talks: https://fredwu.me/
- My Github profile: https://github.com/fredwu

As you probably noticed I have quite a few projects on Github. Some of the more interesting ones are:

- Crawler, a high performance web crawler built in Elixir: https://github.com/fredwu/crawler
- Simple Bayes, a naive bayes machine learning implementation in Elixir: https://github.com/fredwu/simple_bayes
- And a few years ago when I was heavily involved in the ruby/rails community, I had done an experimental project building a "layer 0" ORM on top of ActiveRecord and Sequel: https://github.com/fredwu/datamappify

If you think my skills and experience could add value to the project I’d love to chat more. You could reach me at ifredwu at gmail dot com. Thanks!
There may be an ounce of truth to that, but the reality is that it mostly has to do with financial incentives related to taxes, to continue having overhead expenses to write off. Talk to most corporate accountants and they may be able to explain the budget and tax implications. What this really is, is a case of that it’s easier to do things the way they always have been done than to have to actually rethink and rework things.

What I’m saying is that this is an IMMENSE opportunity for startups to attract young/emergent talent and possibly even established talent that is prioritizing remote work.

Others are correct, corporate matters are working on how to corral their herds back into their expensive capital investments on prime real estate, even if most people have no clue what’s really going on die the the blinding light of affirmation.
This is just semantics, there are people who are better at driving than most others will be in less crashes per mile driven over time.
This assumes they make more money for the sake of their position in the hierarchy rather than having valued skills at performing well at that level of the hierarchy. Believe it or not, most people don’t do well in mgmt positions. To find someone that can perform that job can be harder than finding a good “individual contributor”. I’ve seen plenty of good technical people wash out of even basic supervisory/team lead positions. So I think there is a scarcity element at work.
Who's "we"? An outcome of EU gender equality law was that car insurance premiums may no longer depend on gender even though it is correlated with risk.
Blender Open Data
Submitted title was "Launching a free (libre) hardware business outside Silicon Valley". We've changed it to what the article says, in keeping with the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Telsa resume Bitcoin transactions with green mining
I once bought an Eee PC for note taking, it was great execpt for two things:

* The low end graphics chip was already 12 years old on release, the advertised OpenGL 2.0 was emulated in software while everything else that came out supported OpenGL 3.

* Intel didn't do virtualization on low and mid range variants of its CPUs, while an Eee PC barely had any resources to it was the second time I got burned by that.

Basically 10 year old requirements meet technology that was outdated 12 years ago. Even toy samples will fail if the hardware doesn't implement the features required.