skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing beats human eyes in the sky or on the waters.

Anything electronic is not necessarily true. Whether that be the numbers of votes for a particular candidate, or the amount of money in your bank, or the position of a ship or aircraft.

That is why aircraft or ships are sent to investigate the 'facts on the ground'. (Or 'on the sea' if need be).
I have no useful information but I want to suggest this requires $ on lawyers. And you need different lawyers to the employer: their interests and yours may not always align.

Your employment status being at-will, it could be used as leverage to secure disadvantageous (to you) outcomes in the JV.

I think this model is fraught with potential risks. I think you need to consider moving to a different basis of engagement like a contractor, or with a seed of capital from the employer and a reporting basis to them as shareholders, because the potential for conflict-of-interest is just huge.

Or some other model of IPR sharing. I don't know. Speak to a laweyer. Be prepared to spend money.
This is a good idea. It also would help to reach out to your state and Amazon's Attorneys General offices, too.
I absolutely loathe software estimates. They put engineers in a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario that isn't even in their full control anyway.

I think this is one of the things that Shape Up got the most absolutely correct - inverting the relationship between an estimate and time.

We've been asking the wrong question all along: Instead of asking "how long will X take?" you should be asking "How long do I want to spend on X?". It changes the entire dynamic of the situation to one that allows management to see the trade-offs in a given set of work, and lets the engineers tune scope to match expectations.

Any approach that still asks "How long will X take?" is dead in the water.
After a decade in big tech, I've come to realize that "Slow Is Smooth and Smooth Is Fast" is the only way to go.
The Oldest Forest: The Promise and Pitfalls of Commercializing Kelp
Oh look, it’s a brand new account calling out people in the Obama administration for corruption and ignoring all of the much more recent corrupt Republicans. Alright, spam Hacker News with your throwaway accounts to push your political agenda. Sad to see you want to water down the community with this drivel.
Not really.[0] This sounds like one of those bizarre confections that occasionally surface among progressive Protestants et al.

[0] https://www.catholic.com/tract/the-permanence-of-matrimony
Vaccine Recommendations and Guidelines of the ACIP
Amazon Seeks Recusal of FTC Chairwoman in Antitrust Investigations of Company [pdf]
I was forced to play on an Intellivision. It was awful and uncool back then. The controllers were completely awkward. Why would I want to relive that now?

S/NES, Sega Genesis, and TurboGrafx-16 are cool.
But wasn’t RH also prohibiting purchase even in non-margin accounts where the funds hadn’t moved at all for months and thus wasn’t going back and forth creating counterparty risk?
It’s official: China has eliminated malaria
https://archive.ph/1yK2a
Is the WAL log situation you describe here a likely function of both distance (hence latency) and volume of writes? So if I have a high volume of writes AND I'm trying to replicate them half way around the globe I'm more at risk of running out of WAL log space on the leader?
This community is always the one I point to whenever people air their disdain for Twitter. The mutual support from infosec Twitter is constantly on display, and further, there's no better place to find active and thriving discussion about this stuff. It's heartening seeing a collective statement like this.
Does nuclear need fresh water? I'd imagine salt water would wreck all the equipment, and you probably don't want to use up all the fresh water you generate...
One should always be cognizant in reading another's writing no matter where the verbiage is written, online or elsewhere. It is imperative in this current world to think for yourself yet to be aware of the influential information that you deem important for your views and objectives. I am over 40 and have been coding for multiple decades now but if I was supposed to just stop I failed to get notice.
There's a growing number of companies and VC firms working on geoengineering, and now is a good time to get in if you want to make a difference.

https://climatebase.org/
https://lowercarboncapital.com/
https://climatetechvc.org/a-running-list-of-climate-tech-vcs...
I mean, specifically for areas in the PNW it has not be historically common. It's part of why the region struggles to deal with the heat.

It's also arguable that AC is part of the problem, e.g Singapore.
One of my favorites was to open the frame buffer on a Unix workstation, then logout leaving a background job running.

A little after someone logged in, the code would do something cute, like draw a crack on the screen. I once saw the guy next to me back away from the computer, and ask, "It's not supposed to be doing that is it?"

Perhaps not quite black hat, but I was amused at least. :)
> but I don't want to make the mistake of training my replacement.

If that was possible, would you really want to spend much of your life doing work that could be automated away?
I have never believed this. The energy cost of operating a modern (or even moderately old) desalination plant is far, far lower than the cost of water in the Bay Area. It’s not even close.

Capital and permitting costs presumably dominate.
What would happen if we decided to completely ignore these claims for this, which seems to be abandonware. Who would come after us? Could we claim fair use if we are attempting to reconstruct work and social interactions of the past, not unlike a renaissance fair or a historic battle reenactment?
I assume that google had legal access to those books. In the case of GPT-3 derived models, they contain common crawl and webtext2 corpuses, which may include large amounts of pirated content (books and magazines uploaded in random places, paywalled content that's been uploaded elsewhere).
Why not ask the question why taxes are so complicated? Ted Cruz advocated for post card tax filing but everyone hated it because it would have eliminated the winners-and-losers picking that the tax code gives politicians.

According to Ted Cruz, 9 billion hours is spent on tax compliance each year.

Milton Friedman has a lot to say on the intentional complication of the tax code: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TruCIPy79w8

Tax rates should be low, deductions minimal, and compliance easy. The Laffer Curve demonstrates this value to government revenues. But the economic literacy of most people is so lacking that it always revolves into some kind of class-warfare debate.

Tangential, but related would be the UBI debate vs. welfare program.

Whatever side of the aisle you’re in when it comes to spending priorities, one thing that should be obvious is that simplification is a win for everyone except those with robust lobbying resources to fight for carve-outs.

We could spend more money with simpler, lower taxes that are applied evenly. Have a high standard deduction to protect the very poor and for every dollar over that, the government gets 10%. Simple. But the compliance industry would lose their minds. This “progressive” tax system we have is ridiculous because it isn’t progressive at all — those making money from capital gains pay less than wage-earners. Everyone should pay the same percentage regardless of the origin of funds.
Yes, the solution to climate change has been obvious for a while - hit fossil fuels with increasing taxes until emissions come down to acceptable levels.

Of course, that involves giving up one’s pickup trucks/SUV, international vacations, and 3k sq ft detached single family homes on quarter acre lots.

So…not going to happen. Blaming politicians is a waste of time, it is the people as a collective that have chosen the path.
The process for hot dogs does look strangely artificial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NzUm7UEEIY
I can follow a few people on fb to get the same content that local newspapers provided. For free. Where's the downside?
Get Me Promoted Methodology (GMPM)

This is the one that I see so often and wish my managers' would recognize faster. Nobody picks up the ticket in the queue that actually needs to get done, but when hackathon comes around somebody's shitty barely working code becomes a huge win for the company instead of recognized for a giant loan of tech debt. Debt that will be paid from the poor schmucks that will actually need to maintain that thing. But hey "I won't be here, you won't be here" is the cornerstone of hockey stick growth.
Thanks that’s actually one of the avenues we’re looking at. It’s quite tricky because this is this stuff that happens behind closed doors.

We are a company of two with just really good IP and zero experience in startups so shooting a bit blind.
You are. I'm saying turn it off unless you're on legacy hardware that is known to need it (most people are in the cloud). Unless it's already off by default (I don't know off the top of my head)

The perf looks bad because they are also looking at CPU usage.

Getting to 100k rps is unrelated to busy wait.
> but solving the halting problem would also be very valuable.

The halting problem is mostly a non-problem in settings that really need a proof. We have non-turing-complete languages that let us produce programs that provably halt.

That they are not mainstream tends to show that we don't really need that proof very often actually.
The amount of front-loading in artwork and "maybe" in this stuff in general is depressing. You could run a book on the likelihood of different SMR projects taking off.

They have good chops for skills in the field. I think the likelihood of an unsupervised prebuild deployment being permitted by any federal/state/local authority without a NIMBY attack is really low.

I am mutedly pro-nuke but the LCOE doesn't look good for the static deployments. If you can show this has low enough LCOE as-is, its worth getting that into the mix. If not, by the time ONE of these achieves certification deployment and attachment, There will be 10x to 100x the energy output from PV, Wind and Batteries in the same use-case at a reducing cost of deployment from purely engineering improvements in the pipe.

Want to want this, struggling to say it has good rationalised chances of coming into fruition.

What it does have is better non-profliferation outcomes maybe, than other SMR proposals. So, for field deployment to challenging power-hungry locations, could be interesting. or for power supply stability, to act as a source of MAh to supplement other sources and be the "base load" (broken concept, I know) equivalent, maybe?

But "we have a beautiful A Frame designed by an Architect" is really depressing me. I have a book called "the architect in the nuclear age" [1] about the design aesthetic of power stations, and I'm not seeing anything new here.

[1] The architect in the nuclear age : design of buildings to house radioactivity / J.F. Munce. 1964
What difference would that make though? They’ve already done as much damage as they could …
Ask HN: Looking for a post from the other day about a ML resumé generator
The other day a user posted a link to their online resumé generator. They mentioned learning ML over the prior 14 months and had a GPT Beta.

Ive tried everything from Google (with advanced searched), searching on HN, Scrolling down and trying to 'Find' terms.

Does anyone have the link to either his site or his post?

Any help is appreciated.
> it’s a brand new account calling out people in the Obama administration for corruption and ignoring all of the much more recent corrupt Republicans

To be fair, its possible that the poster was merely meaning that the template is “Hire the available ex-regulators of the party currently in power”, but was communicating that by applying the template to the current situation, where we are in the first year of an Administration, so the available supply of regulators meeting that description will generally be from the last Administration of the same party.
And what about asking devs to do QA while evaluating their performance on dev story points per sprint...

The broken practice in our industry is management...
This is bad comedy. A 210-line-of-Python outlier remover is not a research advancement, it’s part of a grad student’s util file. Really reflects badly on everyone involved. It is partially explained that the work is published in Ergonomics, vs any computational conference - this reminds strongly of the “Tai’s Model” scandal.

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover...

People have been doing submillimeter 3d scanning for a decade at least.
What about osmotic pumps? https://science.sciencemag.org/content/183/4121/157
Makes sense. Did y'all try to automate any of it? I've seen situations where things are highly-configurable, and massive at the same time - mostly in the medical industry. Test plans are hard due to interactions between config being highly-complex. No sense testing all of the setups, as not all are used or would even make sense.
Super cool, didn't know about this, only that you could order them from Apple
Memorize Numbers with the Mnemonic Major System
It's time for another Snowden-style leak to learn about all their new toys.
This seems like a constitutional challenge just waiting to blow up, and similar measures for other rights enumerated in the Constitution would be pretty clearly unconstitutional:

e.g.
> The government may make no law establishing religion, but members of fundamentalist/extremist religions will need to pay insurance fees to reimburse for extremist violence committed by others of their religion.

> People choosing not to quarter soldiers in their homes will have to pay a fee towards military housing for those soldiers; people who choose to quarter soldiers don't have to pay these fees.

etc.
It’s been operating for decades so don’t worry about it
“The problem is we are late getting off the version that becomes unsupported tomorrow.”
Because of the article. Remote work is not preferred by many because it simply cannot match face to face interaction.

And I don't know what your problem is, I was merely pointing out the parent commentator was very wrong with the salary numbers they provided, which shows disconnect with reality. I never said that all jobs can and will go remote. Read my comments again, properly this time.
> Ted Cruz advocated for post card tax filing but everyone hated it because it would have eliminated the winners-and-losers picking that the tax code gives politicians.

No, it wouldn't. Like every tax proposal, it was winners-and-losers picking, not an elimination of it. People opposed it because they didn’t like the winners and losers Cruz picked.
That’s a lot of nonsense in quite a few words.

1) The notable event climate-wise in the early 19th century was the year without a summer, which, whilst breaking records of low temperatures, was caused by a volcanic eruption. Other than that, this period was quite similar to the 4 centuries before, so there is nothing special about “the early 1800s”.

2) Solar activity just does not add up. We haven’t seen anything like an increase that would explain a change by even +0.5°C (we’re on our way to 2°C).

3) Solar cycles are ~10 years, not 4 centuries, which is how long the little ice age lasted.

4) There is no indication that the Milankovich cycle has changed, which means that we would still be in that little ice age without greenhouse gases. Global warming cannot be explained by orbital mechanics either.

5) The average global temperature during that period decreased by ~0.2°C, or about -0.05°C per century; again we’re on our way to +2°C in ~1 century. The rates of change have nothing in common.

TL;DR: yeah, fuck all to do with solar activity.
The discussion can be had independently of the estimation.
A bit off topic, but: COVID should not be a reason we eschew public transportation; we already have enough of a stigma against it in the USA.

I think last year was understandable why some would shy away from it, but if you'll ride in an airplane I don't see why you would be unwilling to take the train.
Binance banned in the UK: What does it mean for Cryptocurrency traders
Yup. Though sussing out these guys is very difficult, as they also often seem to actively weed out anyone who challenges the petty tyrant or even other assholes moving in on their turf. So their teams become loyal to the asshole's little fiefdom. I spent my entire exit interview at my last company just blasting this one guy, in a vain attempt to get the company to recognize he was cancer.
I am a 3278 fanboy, but I have to admit PLATO is absolutely wonderful. The same applies to the underlying CDC systems and their graphical vector-based operator consoles.

It's interesting that, when you are so much ahead of your time, you end up as a kind of failure, without generating other generations downstream because, even though you were far ahead of everyone else, you were so far nobody would be able to follow your steps.
Always the violent dictators ready to save us from ourselves… for our own good too.

Never let a good crisis go to waste, heh?!
You need very pure water for most portions of a nuclear power plan.
Here is the author's follow-up post on the topic: https://jacobian.org/2021/may/25/my-estimation-technique.
The market ultimately obeys customer demand, so all these problems will be sorted out... until customer AI.
Have you tried Puddletag on linux? It describes itself as similar to Mp3tag, I believe it can do at least some of the things you mention.
It’s a bit of a stretch to say someone who speaks with a thick accent in grammatically questionable English has “learnt” English. One can respect the effort while at the same time being incredibly frustrated with having to carry an additional cognitive load when attempting to communicate with someone ill-equipped to do so. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
It's a documentation generation tool whose only goal target is official macOS development enviroment, on which all of this is handled automatically via the "compiler" bundled in XCode.

It's not some generic tool handed over for random projects to write their documentation on...

But even if it was, setting up a build pipeline is trivial for developers including grandmothers who code (it's not intended for their non-coders, whether they are grandmothers or not). Most teams already have similar pipelines for their documentation anyway, whether it bundles JS or not, and are already processing it with Node (e.g. JSDoc), Python (e.g. Sphinx), Java equivalents, and so on.
They quote him in the article: Joshua Foer.

Interestingly enough, he went on to co-found Atlas Obscura (https://www.atlasobscura.com/users/josh)
> The Pacific Northwest is wet

West of the Cascades, yes. Eastern Oregon and Washington are quite dry.

Lytton, BC is in a similar geographic position. It's inland of the coastal range.

It gets 430.6 mm (16.95 in) of annual precipitation, compared to 1,189 mm (46.8 in) for Vancouver.
Name a single vaccine in history that has the type of hidden long term side effect you are worried about. Hidden and long term defined as something that happened only after 6 months from taking the vaccine and is significant.
I’m curious, what would the mechanism be for this to not be true?
I suppose that since it was designed for use with the ISS, there's a choice between using it for a few years, or to just discard it straight after it's completed.

If it was me, I'd try to get some return at least, no matter how small, rather than losing all of that investment.
If someone ACTUALLY is a savant with Asperger's or autism, is it disrespectful to point that fact out when you are gauging the importance of their predictions?
Yes, and I’d add that the best rule of thumb is to make decisions based on optionality; minimum costs/risks with relatively large upside.
Most "gun violence" uses stolen firearms. Presumably, they'll be using CA's firearm registry to enact the tax. So it's legal owners paying for the actions of illegal gun owners (as a bit of a generalization).
This page lists the highest temperatures from around the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records

The nice thing about that page is when you scroll down to the continent/country table data there is an option to sort by date column.

Sorting by date shows most of these records were set in the 21 century.

More worryingly many of those records were set in the last half decade.

While this might be coincidence, it could also be a trend and if it is the later then things are starting to look rather ominous. Time will tell.
Autocompletion of a comment can be enough for copyright infringement.
Yes, amd64 can handle nested virtualization
I’m happy to give YouTube my money to provide a real alternative to ad-supported models. Plus the vast majority of videos I watch id never want to see again.
We're up to 1.78:1.00 ratio of hot to cold record breaking events in the past year. In the decade of the 1950s that ratio was 1.09:1.00.

https://www.climatesignals.org/data/record-high-temps-vs-rec...

https://skepticalscience.com/Record-high-temperatures-versus...
I'm a huge fan of Hugo because it is a single binary and full of useful features, however I certainly think there is a lot of room for improvement. While Go templating may not be everyone's cup of tea, it is simple enough and the additional functions added by Hugo cover a lot of use cases.

Hugo has shown me that my ideal generator will likely be built with Go, although I could see a C, C++, or possibly Rust equivalent being fine for my needs. However, what I desire more than anything is to have a really performant default template using pagination and hierarchy based on the file system.

I don't want to have to define titles or empty _index.md files to define sections, just want to point it at a nestable directory on my file system and use filenames for pages and directories for sections. This significantly improves the usefulness for anyone, because at that point it can be used as a knowledgebase/note-taking system from the get-go without needing any custom templating to make it work out of the box.

The other important factor is building in search capabilities. While I think that client-side JavaScript and a JSON output works for this goal and can be optimized, Xapian would be a great alternative and extend the usefulness outside of the JavaScript browserbase. So far Hugo has left serving production sites up to third-party web servers, but I see no reason why they couldn't finish implementing the `serve` components to be production-ready and implement a search component and possibly other dynamic components.

I really hope to see someone with a strong understanding of efficiency come in and own this arena building off Hugo's single binary approach, but with an open mind to make it robust to handle all kinds of self-hosted content. Even implementing a bookmark manager using this approach would be awesome, having it auto-sort YAML/TOML/HCL or whatever and be able to serve up searchable bookmarks without even relying on JavaScript. The possibilities are endless with the types of apps that can be built with this design using readable files as data for the content.
So it’s using a massive-scale public good (non-rivalrous and non-exclusionary access to source code) to create a private product that is rivalrous in the software labour pool? Or is the problem just that it’s not open-access?
In this particular case do you just mean pure functions then?
Equally skilled at engineering, but is there something special USA engineers bring to the table to warrant a higher salary? Easier to work with? More business sense? Longer hours/less holidays? Better understanding of the target market?

Don’t get me wrong. it might just be that life’s not fair.
http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html

fun trick for sure
Yep. Double whammy on the old upgrade meter.