skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Ena.computer has 8 inputs, 8 outputs plus two handshakes.

What is the meaning of "handshakes" in this context?
wow, that's a great one!
In my post, I explored the nature of ‘rents’ paid from property ‘owners’ to bond holders through property tax.

The ‘rents’ you are talking about are from land owners to future buyers. I am sympathetic to some of the ideas of the land tax, but the concept is rather antiquated for a number of reasons. Land is hardly a major category of economic value, and it confers no real power except scarcity and maybe thoroughfare if the right was absolute (it’s not). A land tax simply shifts the value extraction to bond holders, which is only possible using the government monopoly on legal force to extract payment. Bond purchasing power also directs the law itself (my claim is that this would be a good thing if it did not come with forceful value extraction).

More importantly, land tax puts no natural limits on the amount or value (or lack thereof) of spending. The biggest, most obvious problem, no matter which system of revenue is chosen, is wasteful spending. This can be tautologically defined as that which cannot be funded without use of coercion, deception, or violence. I posit that any system which relies on these, is fundamentally unstable, and ripe for exploitation.
I'm from germany. Here Apple was never a huge player. I learned very late of its existence. My school was a so called OSZ (Oberstufen Zentrum) which is something like school a where you can gain work related diplomas. I'm really bad at describing this. They had a design and print department and they run all on apple.
Throttled Identity Protocol (Tip)
A ~250 people company is still medium sized, and a lot of those would have some (small) IT staff.
When the same problem was with Google News - news industry saying, that Google just takes their copyrighted work and makes it available for free through machine learning - people on here usually sided with Google.
EdX acquired by education technology company 2U
Funny thing is that now US corporations are reaching out to hire developers in other countries as well.

Pay for devs in EU is going up as well because of that. Local software houses are loosing devs because of that. US based companies with VC money are showering devs with cash.

They don't do that to cut costs anymore but to just have developers.
Completely agree with the broad point on big companies. But GH is a company with a technically very engaged and informed management - I could be wrong but just blundering into this seems surprising.
I would argue that ER in the US has long ceased to be useful, unless the patient is wheeled in by police/paramedics. Last week my daughter fell and cut her forehead in a way that required stitches. We went to the nearest children's hospital (a huge one) ER, got triaged (just some gauze) and waited for a doctor. Gave up at the 4 hour mark and walked out. Went to the nearest urgent care clinic, was seen by a doctor in 10 minutes and we're out in 30 minutes after my daughter got the stitches. I am sure we will get billed an astronomical amount for this, but there were no other options. We have good insurance.
As an Australian working in tech, I can assure you software engineers don’t earn $30-$60k on average. Most people in teams I’ve worked with are on $100k+
What you're describing can be replaced with philosophy. Believing, being indifferent, and or not believing in God isn't destructive. Religion is what's destructive if you examine what has happened to the natives, LGBTQ+ persons, disabled persons and anyone else throughout history that didn't fit the cult model of religion.
There’s a curious tendency in these discussions to focus on the GPL as though it were special. If the original licenses apply, then you’ll be embedding code under all kinds of different licenses—some of which are sure to be mutually incompatible.

To be sure, the infectious nature of the GPL is likely to be a bigger deal, but permissive licenses will be violated by missing acknowledgement just as much as the GPL will be violated by not licensing your code GPL.

If this license-washing doesn’t work, then you can’t just say “we’ll exclude GPL sources”, because you’ll still be breaking the rules on any copyrighted work that doesn’t have very specific public-domain-like do-whatever-you-like-and-don’t-acknowledge-me licensing.

The whole thing truly does depend on the fair-use classification of ML models. If that falls apart, the entire thing’s done (and a lot of other ML stuff will be, too). And that’s where regurgitation becomes so problematic, because it directly undermines that fair-use exemption.
The other consideration is that you want to encourage application developers to use those lower power states, and not make it look like their program is artificially abusing available resources.
Who do you think runs many state medicaid programs?
I haven't had an online comment resonate with me as much as this did in a very very long time.
That's fine as long as it's sustainable - environmentally, financially, etc. I don't think it is. The wealth transfers from urban areas to the ever-expanding fridge can't continue indefinitely.
Not on all of it. They only don't lock it down on CPUs, but not on APUs.

On AMD SoCs with integrated GPUs, ECC is not usable except if you buy the Ryzen Pro variant. And those are all laptops and most desktops...
Yeah but if you make a small mistake you'll quickly be confronted with the underlying mechanics anyway, in the form of an inexplicable error message.
> With respect to cleaning your ears, don't use Q-Tips, ever. Get a digital otoscope

There is absolutely no need to clean your ears ever. Ears are self cleaning. That's why they produce wax and they only do it in the outer section of the ear canal where that can't impact hearing.

Just don't mess with your ears and everything will be fine.
Seems like a pretty good argument for building an alternative and less-expensive infrastructure for feeding the homeless, rather than yanking up the ladder for ER visits.
DRAM failures are not independent events, so it’s not appropriate to multiply the probabilities like that. Faults are often clustered in a row, column, bank, page or whatever structure your DRAM has, raising the probability of multi-bit errors.
Well he’s president now and has not only not pushed for M4A (duh), he also has not pushed for the public option he campaigned on as an alternative.
Why can't this be fixed?

Merkle trees are just linked hashes that depend on the previous results, right? so why can't they just continue from the last correct hash?
I’m imagining talking to a person in 1971 and saying one of these things about the future is true and one is a lie:

In 50 years, even people in the worlds poorest countries will have be able to send a letter that arrives instantly to any place in the world, have a color camera and video camera that can take almost unlimited photos and that you can view immediately and send to your friends instantly, a TV that can watch any TV program or movie ever filmed, a record player with all of the music in the world, a library with every book, a clock that is never wrong, a TV phone that can call anyone on the planet for free, a computer more powerful than every computer currently on the planet added together, a map of the entire world that knows where you are and can tell you how to get to anywhere you want to go to, in one candy bar sized piece of glass, that they all carry around in their pocket.

or

In 50 years, the US and Soviets will have colonized the entire solar system, and traveling to space will be as mundane to people then as riding the bus is now.
Is she your employee or is she billing you 15 GBP/hour?
I am so sorry that both you and your daughter had this horrible experience. I hope she is feeling better now, and is on the mend.
Nah, urgent care centers are not astronomical bills. Typically $150 to 250. ER are never less than $1000
SMBs don’t hire any employees, including software engineers, unless that employee can generate more revenue than they cost to employ. The higher compensation of software engineers means that they won’t be hired for smaller tasks.

Generally, SMBs don’t hire software engineers at all unless they’re in the business of making and selling software. Smaller software engineering tasks are contracted out to vendors and custom software shops that may already have similar products that can be adapted to a customer’s needs rather than developed from the ground up. The high software engineer salaries force a sort of efficiency on the market.

Smaller startups that want to develop software might offer engineers some ownership of the company, or additional perks like remote work and shorter hours to attract them to jobs that don’t pay the highest software engineering salaries.

There are also many junior developers outside of big cities who have salaries more in line with the $60K range you listed. These are not talked about often on HN but they exist.
Thanks! Will rewrite it, but temporarily used Google translate and fixed the wrong translations.

Google translated Flask to Bottle, which is pretty funny :p (as both are actually real frameworks)
This looks interesting and I'll give it a go next time I have the opportunity. I have had to produce a number of videos for remote teaching purposes over the past year or so and personally found Aegisub [0] to be the easiest to use.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegisub
I can't imagine any software dev, working for 30k in Canada.

That's close to minimum wage in most provinces, even poverty level in many cities.
I suppose that depends on where you live. Some business-sizing is money-based, some is physical-size based, some is headcount-based.

In the EU the standard seems to be less than 250 headcount or less than 50 million revenue. But the states within the EU might have different rules.
This turned out to be more interesting than I thought. Gradients and blurs are common in UI design. The Figma app actually does blurs wrong, while Chrome/CSS renders them correctly. This is good to know.
Yes. I would like to see more data on this in the same way that I have seen data on the overall warming. As it is it just seems like a convenient way to point to global warming ever time there's a disaster.
Have said before that the economics for companies like NSO are favorable because countries and regimes with resource wealth, who do not need to maintain a sophisticated civil service to stay in power, need the technical capability that such a platform provides. Companies like this provide that. It's a domestic spy agency as a service.

Awful? Absolutely, but I'd argue these objections reduce to "interception capabilities for me and not for thee," as western domestic spy agencies can just send a fax to your telco and get the same access. That is, the U.S. doesn't need NSO because it has the FISA stamp pad.

I'm very much a privacy advocate who has in one way or another worked closely to the key surveillance issues of the day for years, and so to defend NSO at all feels absurd, but the devil must be given his due.

Sure, NSO and the former HackingTeam and even Stratfor were great activist targets, but from the perspective of a state or a regime who buys an NSO-like service, N-GO's are just another foreign funded operator fighting a proxy war for policy leverege on behalf of their home governments and companies. They aren't secular colonial missionaries, (or perhaps, that's precisely what they are) they're running a playbook[1].

It's hard to separate NSO from Israeli policy because of how close their industry and military are linked, but I also think the objections to Israel's involvement itself reduce to how it is the last new free and independent nation state in a time where the nation state as thing itself is being wound up by the very class of academics/NGO's who militate against Israel's sovereignty. The academic/NGO anti-Israel thing has a lot of old entrenched anti-semitism, but the most reliable filter to identify what bothers them about Israel's involvement in this platform is NGOs are motivated by academic anti-sovereignty. These spy agencies as a service like NSO provide sovereignty to unfavorable countries, and Israel benefits strategically from preserving the sovereignty of nation states, no matter how repugnant. That's a painful steelman argument to make on behalf of the very abusive surveillance I have worked personally in my career to prevent, but when I see what amounts to selective privacy astroturfing using artists I like as propaganda mascots, the whole thing leaves a bad taste.

The skepticism I had with the university affiliated project that first uncovered Pegasus was they seemed really interested in foreign abuses but had not done anything on domestic surveillance issues, or even investigated those countries' influence on their own, which made them a para-governmental org using the cover of a loosely academic NGO to play spy games. To me the whole enterprise is seedy.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dictatorship-Democracy-Gene-Sharp/dp/...
Routine healthcare shouldn't be insured, but dealing with unforeseen health problems should. There's no level of coverage that could possibly considered complete so it should be up to the individual to decide how much resources to dedicate to it.

The problem with this approach in the US is:

1) Until very recently there was no law requiting even estimated costs for medicine. Since the insurance company always pays for this there was just about no market pressure to lower costs (in other words: we took a "free market" approach without actually having a market.)

2) Insurance is used to cover routine medical procedures. This is the polar opposite of what insurance should be used for.

3) The US has a fairly week social safety net. Most other countries have fairly extensive social programs but in the US people are supposed go ... somewhere. This is probably the case that you're most upset about.
Amazing. I agree that the ER was not necessary for your daughter, but am impressed you can extrapolate that one experience to the entire set of patients with heart failure, pneumonia, sepsis, pyelonephritis, appendicitis, intestinal obstruction, gastrointestinal bleeds, electrolyte disorders, fractures, NSTEMIs, and many others who are not wheeled in by police / paramedics but need urgent complex diagnostics and imaging. What deep understanding and wisdom you hold, and with such high confidence too.
Oh yeah of course - I am sure they have multiple legal arguments and different ones will be deployed based on how they are legally challenged - I doubt very much they didn't see this coming - but at its heart I think MS are confident they can get away with it...
Urgent care doesn't have everything a hospital/ER has. One example is checking for blood clots/markers of a heart attack. I was worried once and went to Urgent Care (trying to save money, my last two ER visits for this exact same check, which was basically me sitting in ER for two blood draws and an X-Ray over 3 hours, which turned out to be nothing, was $1300+ each), and Urgent Care said they could do an EKG but for the rest I'd have to go to ER.
> Education

Is why they can't connect the dots in the US.
Suddenly not so much Star Wars as much as it is Gundam :p
Oh it is assuredly not the best hotel in Kyoto, or even the nicest staff. Still, I don't doubt the service was so much better than they've experienced everywhere else in the world that they statistically just assumed it must also be exceptional by Japanese standards as well.

As an interesting aside, I met a few western youngsters working in the hotel industry in Japan and they were very nice and their Japanese was very good, but they said they constantly seemed to not meet the standards their managers expected of them.

The quality of service you can get at the average 7-11 there feels almost comparable to dining at a five star restaurant in NYC, and going to an average quality hotel can feel like you're a guest at the Ritz Carlton. It's because Japanese have no shame in providing excellent service to others. I feel in the US it is considered as if one is admitting they are beneath another if they provide that kind of service, maybe that's why we have a tipping culture as well, to assuage the feeling of shame that comes with service in the US. A pity the nation has a culture like that, being of service to others is something that should be considered noble and aspirational.
Well, "row hammer" notoriously can do that too.
Virtuality: VR Gaming in 1990s Arcades
In the US, the term "climate change" has come to be used in favor of "global warming". It probably helped, but the nature of the propaganda and misinformation also shifted to adapt.
Same, it's a blast from the past! I used to be an avid user of the first version of Construct which I remember was open source. I think I gradually lost interest after they decided to make the subsequent versions commercial, though perhaps that was the right decision by Ashley/Tom in hindsight.

I've spent an ungodly amount of time on the their forums, writing documentation/tutorials, helping others and generally shooting shit with other members. It has been more than a decade but I still remember some of the users ahaha.
If they are legally challenged I should also add cos I don't think they will be...
What I'm saying is given the frequency that consensus positions that large institutions support get overturned, I think it is wise to treat heterodox opinions more charitably. OP's blog post could be wrong, but it should be refuted on the merits rather than with a credibility argument.
Blender is a very good piece of software. The main problem I usually have with it is finding documentation. Although the official documentation is fairly good, Blender is a huge program, and it can be hard to find the info you need. Also the documentation is not always up-to-date.
> Another tweet suggests that, if the answer is “no”, GitHub Copilot can be used as a means of washing the GPL off of code you want to use without obeying its license.

eevee’s tweet actually suggests the opposite: that even derivative works of GPL-licensed software must also use the GPL.

Thread on the tweet in question https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27687450
> The push for crypto without ecc ram is a nonstop horror show

That's a bit hyperbolic.

First, ECC doesn't protect the full data chain, you can have a bitflip in a hardware flip flop (or latch open a gate that drains a line, etc...) before the value reaches the memory. Logic is known to glitch too.

Second: ECC is mostly designed to protect long term storage in DRAM. Recognize that a cert like this is a very short-term value, it's computed and then transmitted. The failure happened fast, before copies of the correct value were made. That again argues to a failure location other than a DRAM cell.

But mostly... this isn't the end of the world. This is a failed cert, which is a failure that can be reasonably easily handled by manual intervention. There have been many other mistaken certs distributed that had to be dealt with manually: they can be the result of software bugs, they can be generated with the wrong keys, the dates can be set wrong, they can be maliciously issued, etc... The system is designed to include manual validation in the loop and it works.

So is ECC a good idea? Of course. Does it magically fix problems like this? No. Is this really a "nonstop horror show"? Not really, we're doing OK.
It’s a weird framing when the only way you propose to lower costs is through a revolutionary change which sees major political barriers to actually happening.

How about lowering costs anyway? I assure you, there are real and meaningful ways. Start by removing anticompetitive Certificate of Need laws, at the state level.
>I think almost nobody who uses a custom domain self-hosts.

I do. Many other people I know do. It's not hard and it's gotten easier.

>it's very hard to get your mail delivered consistently

The only place I've actually struggled to get mail delivered to is hotmail. Almost everyone deals with this though and very few people in my country use it now.
A few thoughts:

1) SMBs don't necessarily hire that many software engineers. Hell, even tons of large companies barely do. I work at a multinational (100 countries) which mostly buys off the shelf software, and uses basic tools like Excel to run a ridiculous amount of internal business processes.

2) Non-software companies tend to hire software companies, not software engineers. Due to the economies of scale that comes with companies producing and selling (standardised enterprise) software, salaries of software devs aren't that big of a problem necessarily. A company like Trello for example built a collaboration tool with 10s of engineers that has something like 100 million users. The numbers aren't exact, but the order of magnitude is.

Beyond that, you'd be surprised how large the nominal income differences are for US/EU companies, individuals, households etc. The extra money doesn't translate into much better quality of life in the US (due to the crappier working hours, the no legal holiday rights, crappy parental leave, no cheap universal healthcare or tertiary education, poor public transport, no walkable cities, inequality, more energy-intensive economy blablabla), but purely on a nominal dollar basis the US really outearns Europe by quite a large margin.
Nat Friedman had this to say:

>In terms of the permissibility of training on public code, the jurisprudence here – broadly relied upon by the machine learning community – is that training ML models is fair use.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27677177
The democratic party essentially stood in unity opposing single payer during the primary. I see two parties which demonize it.
It's weird that urgent care clinics aren't parked right next to the ER and that the urgent care clinics aren't 24x7.

No doubt this occurs sometimes but I've never seen it.

Anecdata. My wife says that most people at the ER don't need an ER. Of course they serve as a primary healthcare for the homeless.
Yes, quantum tunneling (an electron "teleporting" into or out of transistors) has been an issue everyone has had to design around for multiple process nodes now.
Haven't you noticed the rise of all these SaaS companies in recent years? That's because SMB can't afford software engineers (expensive or otherwise), let alone commit to developing complex software, so they simply goto mysaas.com and select a Plan.
It's pretty easy to find various papers/studies about TDD, unit testing, and the like by searching online but I would not call any of them scientifically or empirically rigorous. Given the lack of any objective or agreeable standards regarding what "code quality" means, these papers can draw conclusions to support any view.
>Software engineers in all other major countries earns about $30K - $60K on average. These countries include: Japan, China, Australia, Germany, Canada.

How are salaries so low there? How do they plan on having competitive tech markets?
> The Big Sur interface changes, whilst I thought I'd never get used to them, have actually grown on me.

That’s the thing with some people and Apple; I generally moan whenever Apple changes their UI substantially (the change to the “flat” iOS comes to mind first), but soon I come to wonder how I ever liked anything else. :)
Global Warming.

Wait, no, Global Cooling!

Actually guys, it's "Climate Change".

And now the latest hotness (pun intended) is an increase in "extreme" weather events.

Why does the alarmist metric always seem to be changing to something that is more difficult to actually measure?
Some of that GPL code could have come from firms with big legal departments and deep pockets so a challenge is perfectly possible.
Linux control groups and systemd CPU quotas use values larger than 100% for denoting more than one CPU.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.res...

> The percentage specifies how much CPU time the unit shall get at maximum, relative to the total CPU time available on one CPU. Use values > 100% for allotting CPU time on more than one CPU.
Does it have its own indexer?