skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great, Nassim Taleb and Tyler Cowen and much of the rest of the world has caught on that neither Bitcoin or Ether or Dogecoin will function as currencies. Here are a couple other questions that I hope they and other smart people will move on to:

* Is Bitcoin good at being digital gold? I suggest that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have succeeded as digital commodities, yet have been co-opted by the commodity money crowd, rather than fundamentally changing it.

* What is the right metric by which to measure the success of more versatile crypto platforms like Ethereum on which token sales, NFTs, and DeFi have all had success? Will Ethereum or similar platforms be ignored in part because it's not obvious how to characterize it using normal economic tools?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-21/what-t...
I don't know a better term for what I am thinking of. I don't think it has to be able to serve that specific function in order to be useful to someone with significant limitations.

I can see where the miscommunication comes from, but I think my point stands. For handicapped people, a mechanical dog that can carry, fetch items for them, help them get up, light their way, etc is potentially very useful.
> I have a friend up in Seattle who is suffering, to the point of being hospitalized for mental health issues, but refuses to leave.

I'll be blunt, I am not worried about your friend's mental health as much as I am worried about them being a person who will not refuse being part of an operation despite being hospitalized for it. I am scared of the possibility that they could be made to do anything as long as they are paid enough. I am worried that a person that makes such a decision might be a manager, a parent or otherwise influential. There is absolutely nothing to be valorized about this.
Getting your salary raised is probably a better deal. I don't think you can fund a stock purchase program at those wages (obviously you can take RSUs though) and the main effect might be they have to pay for Turbotax.
For mere mortals, git clone/pull/commit/push suffices 99% of the time. You can use git for years without needing to understand what's happening under the hood, resorting to Stack Overflow when you need to do a 1% operation.
I guess. It probably would have been better to say they're about the same age. I went by Rust's first pre-alpha release, maybe I should have used an earlier event.
When people are done with their tech tours, Rochester is an absolutely fantastic city to consider for your post Silicon-valley life. Biggest challenge is the weather: embrace the cold by picking up winter sports. There is a coziness to that sort of snowy weather you can't find in other climates.
I do this with onions that have started to sprout, planting them in window boxes. Onion flowers are very pretty, and you can eat the stems that sprout. As it's a window box they never over-winter, but it's good for a season :-)
It’s news to me that Intel, AMD, and various ARM licensees all knew about these problems (and vague “the ~truth~ side channels are out there” handwaves that were made for many years don’t count) when the requisite speculation changes were made 20 years ago and left them in anyway. And that still isn’t quite an equivalence to the Volvo emission tests, since the processors don’t try to detect if you’re testing them and change behavior.
Also: parallelize your writes. This is the biggest difference between SSDs and HDDs: internal parallelism. You’ll have a hard tine saturating I/O bandwidth even with huge sequential writes if you don’t introduce some parallelism. Fortunately, io_uring makes this easy from a single thread.
You'll find plenty of people who will leave a profitable company or a lucrative position if they value intangibles over cash.
One of the downsides to Asia is that there’s a small minority of people who use sitting toilets are squatting toilets.

About 7 years ago I worked in a building where the offices all shared a bathroom with several other companies. We would always need to go to the 2nd or 4th floor if we needed to go #2 due to someone on the 3rd floor using the toilet to squat, which resulted in foot prints on the seat and $#!+ on the back of the toilet seat…

Luckily they decided to tear down the building so we were forced to move. But that is the worst experience I’ve had.

So you’re definitely not crazy haha

Edit: nothing wrong with squatting toilets, just using a sitting toilet as a squatting toilet is the issue.
Companies should focus on patching their end points and their vendor’s systems as well. So many companies have not upgraded /patched their systems even after the vulnerability was disclosed.

Why should you patch? Read below..

http://www.vendormanagementoffice.net/2021/05/why-should-tec...
Yep the waterway through Pittsford was actually also the original canal but it routed north into the city.

The Erie Canal was replaced by the New York Barge canal system which avoided the cities other than NYC and was ironically much larger than the Erie Canal though eclipsed by the railroads in fame by that point. Numerous sections in Western NY such as through Pittsford reused the Erie.
Here's my mathematician's perspective on this, having used CVS, Darcs, and Mercurial a lot before Git. One day, angry by the situation with Bitkeeper, Linus Torvalds thought to himself "Let's pretend that Sha1 hash collisions don't happen; what can we do?". The result that he deduced from this assumption was a distributed revision control system that was an order of magnitude more efficient than any of the competition, and this was absolutely critical to its success. And Linus probably just assumed the Sha1 problem could be sorted out later (like it was [1]).

[1] https://github.blog/2017-03-20-sha-1-collision-detection-on-...
My regular (non plug-in) Hybrid only lasts a few miles on downhills until the battery is 100% charged. After that it uses the generator as a motor to spin the ICE engine to burn up energy. It's not enough on long steep downhills, so I still need to brake.
I love this measure of charging speed. I'm wondering now why I haven't ever seen it used before.
The third scenario here is equivalent to the "God tells us we're in one of two universes" experiment. The only difference between the two scenarios is that, in the latter, the two universes "exist", but if God had said "there were two universes and I destroyed one; you inhabit the one which remains; which is it?" our answer wouldn't change.

The fourth scenario is more interesting because we've admitted the distribution of p is unknown to us. You note that if p is uniform, all intelligent lifeforms should conclude they live in a universe where p is high, but I'm not certain of that. It seems to me that this logic only works if you conclude there is _one_ universe for each possible value of p. But if, for each possible value of p, the multiverse contains universes for each possible outcome of a Bernoulli trial with probability p, then we can't conclude anything at all. To see this, notice that the number of Lucky universes (where p is high) is uncountably infinite, just as the number of Unlucky-Lucky universes (where p is low but a miracle has occurred) is uncountably infinite.

I haven't thought this next part through as deeply, but I believe this problem compounds given the unknown distribution of p. This is because subjectivist models of probability (e.g. Bayes' Theorem) are heavily influenced by the distribution of the prior when we have only observed one trial. And in cases like this one, where the only trials that _could_ be observed are successes, I believe it's all but entirely driven by the distribution of the prior. (You could imagine a hyperprior - a distribution of distributions of p, but I don't think we have any good reason for deciding what that would be either).

Anyway, thanks for this. I love geeking out about epistemology.
It's simple logic, really:

1. distributed version control systems (dvcs) are a lot more complex than people think they are. (This is anecdotal/personal, but a _lot_ of blogs and complaints I read about git primarily boil down to complaints that are intrinsic to dvcs. It's not possible to do any better unless you either drop support for important features or come up with a novel and creative solution that somehow makes things easier to understand without losing any power. I'm not sure such an 'easier but just as powerful' model exists). In other words, lots of these complaints sound like 'the pizzas at this restaurant are crap' but the actual problem is that the complainer simply fundamentally dislikes round things, and they've misplaced most of the blame. Not something a restaurant can fix without reimagining pizzas.

2. The really easy to understand systems (such as cvs / svn) are too simple and can't do many important things, so those aren't suitable replacements.

3. Because dvcs is hard and git is the de-facto standard, in order to 'shop around' and use something else (or, build something better), you'd first need to fully understand all the particular principles of dvcs.

4. If you don't bother to learn all that or aren't capable, then you won't do a good job on finding another dvcs or building one yourself. You can't rely on outside advice - you won't be able to follow the reasoning, and you can't rely on appeal to popularity (as git is the popular choice).

5. If you DO bother to learn all that, you'll understand git so there isn't actually any reason. There is very little you'd want to do with a dvcs that git cannot do. Git's shortcomings can be solved by writing tutorials, front-ends to it, and setting up a model ('we develop features like this, we sign off on commits like this, this is how we name our tags, etc'). Not by writing something else.
Not coherent, in that it doesn't cohere. For instance: your argument accepts implicitly the fact that you can be fired just for being a jerk (as happens every day in every field), or otherwise hard to work with. But if someone commits an actual sexual assault, an organization seeking to terminate them assumes a heightened burden of proof. That doesn't make sense.

The fact is, nobody is required to meet a standard of proof to choose not to associate with this person. You can keep associating with them if you'd like.

An irony here is that the law actually provides this person with a tool, if people have stopped associating with him commercially because of false statements of purported fact ("he groped someone", or "he attempted to have sex with someone too intoxicated to consent" certainly qualifies, per se in fact, as both are crimes): he can sue for defamation.
Competence isn't yes/no.
Because you're using the word "your" I just feel the need to clarify that I didn't create this. I just saw it on YouTube and thought it was neat.
Well, the options are:

- do a lot of (probably expensive) road construction in the short term

- expect every family to own at least one car with a giant battery if they want to go on road trips

- everyone keeps on burning gasoline for the foreseeable future

The second option is the one most people seem to expect to happen eventually as EV prices drop and batteries get better and cheaper. But the present reality is that only around 2% of cars in the United States are battery electric vehicles. The main reason BEVs are expensive is the batteries, and the factories needed to make the quantity of batteries we'd need to electrify all our cars just don't exist yet. We can change that by reducing the amount of batteries needed per vehicle. (To be fair, if the project takes ten years or so and batteries have gotten a lot cheaper and better by then, maybe the picture will be different.)

Electrified roads could greatly improve EV adoption, as range wouldn't be an issue as long as you keep on the main highways, and charging would be more convenient, as you don't really have to do anything at all. It would also allow manufacturers to use cheaper batteries like lithium iron phosphate which are also much safer and more durable than the lithium ion batteries that most EVs use, and they don't require cobalt or nickel.

Also, the same considerations that apply to small passenger vehicles are even more true of long-haul trucking. Hauling giant batteries is not only expensive, it reduces the cargo capacity. Reductions in diesel consumption could be pretty huge, which is good both for transportation costs and for climate concerns.

(This is probably best done as a government project, but I suppose a private company with adequate funding could just create some electrified road segments parallel to some existing heavily-trafficed freeway as a pilot project, and maybe expand it if it works out. Sort of like Tesla's supercharger network, but with roads instead of fixed charge stations. It'd be easiest if were a car or truck manufacturer, as they could make the required hardware standard on their vehicles.)
No? They hired Chris Lattner and paid him to work on LLVM and Clang for around a decade. Clang and LLVM are still open source, and the Swift compiler is also open source.
.. and significantly less than other logistics workers.
> Will fancy new offices with that perks that SV workers have long had convince you to return to the office?

If "fancy" means open plan and "perks" means sitting next to a foosball table that will further entrench my WFH preference. Things like free drinks and food might make a difference to whether to work for company A or company B, but there's nothing I care about enough to give up the extra time I have each day.
If you're building a REST API you might as well follow the semantics of GET/PUT/POST/PATCH/DELETE. Overloading post requests may seem convenient and tidy but there is a spec for a reason.

If you prefer more of a one query or request to rule them all then GraphQL may align better to your preferences.
I would be happily be friends with any person who says "it is more complicated than that", because it is a stepping stone to "let's investigate and understand a bit more". These are the people you learn from, regardless or political or religious affiliation...
Interviewing is probably too hard to contemplate if you're depressed. Especially if you've been around long enough to remember Google-style torturous brainteaser interviews (whether or not those were real.)
Alpha-Gal Syndrome
This article is super low on facts. Can someone locate and link to the state standards for this course? What course does it replace? Anytime there's a call to add something, you must ask what it is replacing. There's only so much time in a school day. Emphasize anything and you're defacto de-emphasizing something else.

I work with cyber.org and hear states all the time talking up Computer Science and Cybersecurity. That's great! It's on message for us! ...but something else has to go. What it will be varies from state to state, but education is not something you can continue adding and adding and adding. (Unless you're advocating for longer school days/school year which is a whole different conversation.)
They gave it such a small fuel tank (2.4 gallons) that it was more than a gimmick than a serious range extender.
As someone who grew up in Richmond I'd argue the river, especially if you know where to go on the river, is just as nice as Virginia Beach with more stuff to do on land and culture in Richmond.
Think of the average windows user. This person uses Chrome because they got a popup when they went to Gmail. The shortcut for candy crush is still in their start menu because it doesn't bother anything. I am not being insulting -- this is the average, median windows user. This is the person for whom Windows Home is designed. There is ZERO CHANCE that this user knows what a "speculative execution mitigation" is. There is a nonzero chance some cleaner site will tell them to turn it off because it "makes windows faster". They don't understand it can be executed from a website because they don't think of websites as programs because they don't have an icon on the desktop. There is no way this turns out well.
Bah - Bath County can eat Seneca for breakfast and again for lunch and for dinner and then some. Max storage is 24000 MWh and can generate up to 3 GW
Prophet is just a specific forecasting procedure.
another Ask HN? that aside,

Doesn't get much more 90s than Bill Gates

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/The-Road-Ahead-a...
Visualizing Voting Systems: Plurality vs. Approval Voting
Independent of individual honors' programs, California's Gifted And Talented Education (GATE) program in the 80's and 90's, AFAICT, consisted solely of IQ tests, i.e., timed triangle arrangement tests. I didn't see any point to it other than spending taxpayer money and/or for the education department to tick a box that they had a GAT program.

Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist wingnut, but a country should inventory its smartest students. I believe GAT programs are how it is done in the US. If this were the case, it seems plausible these students are tracked and recruited by intelligence (no pun intended) agencies and strategic opportunities later on if they meet certain criteria. Hypothetically, GAT data would feed such a human assets program.
Isn’t Waymo only driving in small HD mapped areas? Previously the were only driving within a 50 mile area of Arizona where it’s clear weather all the time.
Maybe Microsoft removed the optimizations for rotational devices? XFS is considering it:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20200514103454.GL2040@drea...
It's not. Managers lie about performance of their employees in order to either save themselves or save their favorites in the group. I'm a current Amazon employee.
I used to be weirdly good at memorizing numbers when I was a kid too, but that ability faded for some reason as I got older. Not sure how sudden of a loss it was for you, but perhaps your memory might've changed somewhat anyway as you got older, even if you hadn't had the surgery?
>The world was ready for a replacement for SVN

the world was ready for SVN replacement before the SVN :) SVN was a band-aid, a stop-gap multi-repo measure on top of CVS. The word wanted multi-repo with good sync between repos and with local history, which is basically a repo too. Mercurial and Git were 2 of those new gen version controls.

>Mercurial dates to the same era and was just about as good (arguably better)

no. In particular a killer, in the sense of adoption killer, was that opinionated absence of partial transactions in Mercurial. Also branching in Mercurial wasn't that easy/cheap/natural like in Git.

>tiny difference in initial adoption snowballed

not really. If anything, BigCo-s were choosing mercurial over git because mercurial was more like rational/etc and appealed to those tech leads/architects/managers there. Didn't help. The git was built for developers by developers (basically Linus, forced to move on from BitKeeper, re-implemented and improved upon BitKeeper in application to his task in hand - ie. large distributed development). Git wasn't an obstacle/hurdle, it was the tool multiplying your productivity. (i worked on some pre-git source control tool in well pre-git times, and i remember us discussing, even filing some patents on and building some features in our tool similar to what later git brought to the wide world)
My FIL does TV debates in India, and his setup is to skyoe/zoom/meet into their station.

He's using an iPad mini to run all the apps tbh, and it works fine more or less.
LIDAR in a drizzly city like Seattle is of minimal value so the system has to fallback to vision only anyways
> However, towing for awhile ... is something that could presumably be done by just about any passing car

A Tesla model 3 weighs over 4000 pounds. A base model Toyota Tacoma isn't even rated to tow that weight, there's no way any passing sedan could. Now remember that for regenerative _braking_ to work, the tesla's brakes have been on! Definitely not something any passing car can handle.
While we're spitballing, from my recollection, it seems to do a lot of small writes; probably different write cache policies, possibly including the VM not passing through fsync/write barriers.

And, you know, organizational failure to have this issue lingering.
I posted something similar a few months ago and I got a lot of good feedback, people posting their versions of similar scripts for different OSs. [0]

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26259007
On the PC I described above I have added and removed several additional hard drives over the years as I expand and they die. Recently I had my old Nvidia graphics card die and replaced it with an ATI.

I uninstalled the nvidia drivers then installed the ATI ones and it seems to work fine. No activation complaints.

It's actually been very easy to keep this thing running. Pretty much just plug in new parts when old ones fail. I think my spinning rust HDD is about to die though so I should take the suggestions in this thread and go through the process of moving the OS to the SSD.

At some point in the distant past I might have replaced a Core 2 Duo for a Core 2 Quad. Or I may have built it this way, not sure.
But endless fields of solar panels and wind turbines is?

That seems like a somewhat arbitrary, fine line to walk.
It's almost as if Barack Obama had been bought by big tech moguls who didn't like having to pay IP holders for their work but wanted to stop startups from encroaching on their monopolies. Oh wait...
Looks a lot like the algorithm in https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6314479, modified to be more oil-paint-y.
At Year 1: don't post Ask HNs haha
YES! It always seems like people’s issues are handwaved away with something like “oh you just need to understand the underlying data structures better.” No, the UX is often very bad! Like, I know exactly what I want the underlying repo to do, but how the hell am I supposed to remember which —-option of which command is going to do that thing?
Why the downvotes? This is a very useful viewpoint IMHO. The generations alive have clearly prioritized growth over many other factors.

It’s hypocrisy to want to “keep the character of the neighborhood” and have more than the bare replacement number of children, since you’re creating a change in the demands on the neighborhood.

Most writeups of population growth rates and the economy focus on the economic benefits of more children, not the quality of life for the future generations. Future generations will not miss a Monarch butterfly or any species of tortoise or rhino just like we don’t miss the passenger pigeon or herds of a million bison, or being able to see a Milky Way we’ve only heard about. They might, however, be a bit put off by the water quality we’ve left behind, and let’s face it, we’re not all going to see an unspoiled wilderness because there’s relatively little left. Night sky is already abuzz with satellites.
why? I commonly do things like screen 10,000 molecules for some property by calling a Fortran program 10k time. If each run takes 60s of compute, the 10s boot from Julia (over the nfs disk) would be pretty significant.

Using Julia in this case basically means having to rewrite all of the other programs into it and getting rid of eg snakemake or gnu parallel or any number of other very common HPC workflows.

In fact I'd venture that doing a sequence of things many times is just as common an HPC workload than single jobs running for very long times.