skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low-risk yield doesn't grow on trees. 0.5% is about what a 3 year treasury bond was paying at the beginning of the month (its lower now). Banks dont really need deposits to make loans right now either, since the reserve ratio was changed to 0% last year.

So yes, safe, insured deposits in savings accounts dont pay much at the moment. This has less to do with banks being greedy and more to do with current fiscal policy.
You don't build your own Kubernetes, though. You run EC2 instances that are sized for the container they run and let autoscaling take care of it. Load balancers distribute the load. Kubernetes makes use of a lot of the same stuff, but with even more complexity.

Orchestration, in general, isn't needed. The major cloud providers are already doing it with virtual machines, and have been for a long time. It's better isolation than Kubernetes can provide.
This could also be interpreted as resistance to change. Would the world be better if screens had not robbed people of the sensations of holding a physical book/magazine/newspaper? If electric or gas lighting had not filled the cities with light contamination? If planes and trains weren't making so much noise? If instant messaging hadn't replaced phone conversations?

A sky with thousands of satellites is something the next generations will admire as much as we admire the actual one with less satellites and more planes.
Isn't that what trials are for?

If only he hadn't spent the last however many years evading trial, then -- since all you fans of his seem so sure he's innocent -- then he'd have put all this behind him all those years ago, now wouldn't he?

So there was absolutely no sensible reason for him to avoid trial by holing up in an embassy for a decade, was there?!? Unless, of course, you aren't really so sure, after all...?
My point is that not every use case is viable for space telescopes due to cost, next to impossible repairs, required technology, etc. They can't replace ground based observations completely.
Maglev trains can start and stop much, much faster than regular trains.
I can only say that, please do not practice any advanced kind of meditation without a guru/experienced teacher and don't do drugs or alcohol if you are meditating.
I made the mistake when learning a second language of thinking that because those people were so comfortable swearing in English that they were just comfortable with swearing in general. So I threw around their swear words the same that they did mine.

I was astonished at their offense and didn't understand it for a long time.
> a stop adds only ~5 minutes to a HSR train, and that's the worst-case scenario.

Is that accurate? When I road HSR in Japan, I remember the speed in-city being much lower than in the countryside, so bypassing cities seemed key to maintaining the high speed part.
Honestly these days even the “real” astronauts are basically passengers. The systems are so heavily automated, including anomaly response, and the parts that aren’t are mostly done by ground operators. Crew Dragon doesn’t even have a stick. It’s not the ‘60s anymore, which in many ways is good. But glamorous it ain’t. Let’s not forgot that the end result of all this will be to make spaceflight as pedestrian as air travel, an activity that hasn’t had a shred of its initial sparkle for decades.

I think w0de0 got to the heart of the matter (elsewhere in this thread) with their comment about astronauts being associated with public service. That rings true for me as to the source of the insult.
There’s a whole market for short fiction actually if you look. Magazines, anthologies, etc still exist. Where do you think “the best American science fiction and fantasy” anthology sources from every year? Check out SFWA (science fiction and fantasy writers of America) qualifier list for short fiction, duotrope, and the submission grinder.

(Caveat: publication is competitive at these magazines/anthologies. Good luck to you.)
I'm serious, but that's because I can't stand leetcode-style interview questions.
Thinking paid plugins is the likely route, they could easily leverage their large library of 3d assets (shaders/models/rigged customizable characters)
This doesn’t matter if the elected winner is on the wrong team. See: the history of Egypt in the last 30 years.
You can pay monthly, it’s a different fee. This is identical to many SaaS products I subscribe to who offer a discount if you pay for a year.
If a company gets revenue from exclusive content, they should do whatever it takes to make sure that content is exclusive. If a company gets revenue from content creators, they should do what it takes to attract and retain content creators. Whether or not the company owns the copyright in this case, based on these premises, whether that the company has the right to do it themselves, or on behalf of their content creators when they've been asked for this help, it's in the company's best interest to do it.
It’s not that hard is it? There recently was a study on the value of testing and best practices linked here on HN, that I of course can’t find now, where the researchers looked a thousands of projects. Over all there was no scientific proof that testing and best practices lead to better results than just making spaghetti without a recipe.

Having worked in an public enterprise organisation that buys a lot of different software for some decades, it sort of fits with our completely anecdotal data. We still prefer suppliers that have all the nice buzzwords, but if you look at our projects there is just no correlation between their methods and how the software project goes through its livecycle. And this is with everything from the old COBOL systems to modern micro service this and that cloud solutions.

For the past five years I’ve had a near little sidejob as an external censor for CS students, and it’s been interesting to follow how their software design metrology changes rather rapidly, without any real scientific reason as to why that is. Mostly it seems like there is an entire field of “education” dedicated to getting people to do software design and project management in the way that sells the most licenses to Atlassian or whatever else, or simply the most books. It’s really very comparable to the self-health industry, where you’ll have answers for everything.

Sure it’s mostly anecdotal, but preaching that test driven development or going Agile SOLID wild turkey is the holy grail is exactly the same as preaching some diet where you get to eat as much you want as long as it isn’t carbs. Sure you can lose weight, but it’s not like it’s the only way to lose weight and next year it’ll be about going on a juice cleansing or something and then something different after that.
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Actually, looking it up, it just like adobe just released some procedural modelling for Substance a la Houdini, Grasshopper, Sverchok et al. That's really exciting to me, I really love procedural anything. And they do have Stager for setting up scenes, and Modeler (formerly Oculus Medium) for sculpting. I haven't used substance in a while, nor the adobe stuff, just a hobby I haven't had a lot of spare time for :).

However, even with Adobe, I'm really tempted to give them the benefit of the doubt in this case no matter what their own product plans are. With how companies/studios' 3D pipelines are, you can't lock your customers into all your tools. I'm assuming what Adobe would like is "blender users will have a Substance subscription, and have access to our assets marketplace"

I guess the good part is really getting to be a solid part of the list of "suites your tool should support".
Speaking only from my own experience, HSR stops take a lot longer than that. It takes the TGV five minutes to slow down and approach the station! The TGVs I've ridden also do not do fast turnaround at stations. They sit there, like airplanes, while people board for the (obviously longer) trip. Yes, it's faster than an airplane to turnaround (less TSA nonsense, etc.), but not 5 minutes and not like a local or regional train, in my experience.

The whole reason the Houston to Dallas route is workable is that it does not stop at all in between.
Same for C#. Any narrowing truncation needs to be an explicit cast. Widening is typically allowed implicitly, although in the case of the 'decimal' (128 bit struct representing a 'higher precision' floating point) type you still need an explicit cast from a 'double', since there are cases where that conversion can still change the value or fail (i.e. Infinity/NaN)
The capsule with the humans separated from the rocket a little bit before they hit the 100km attitude mark. Then it landed with parachutes.
This is where fintech has been headed for some time -- a bundle of complimentary products all in a single app (payment provider + bank + loan company + crypto + etc.).

Square are demonstrating this here for business, some Chinese finance apps went down this road years ago, Revolut are billing themselves as a "financial super app".

There's tremendous advantage in having everything in one place. Each individual product can be 70% as good as best in market, but the value-add by having everything bundled in one place is huge.
That's interesting and reflects my personal training optimization workflow pretty well.
Usually I'll check nvidia-smi and ensure I have a good GPU util, if not I make sure in order:

* That my batch transfers to VRAM are done in a sensible way in the dataloader and don't hide CPU-bound preprocessing

* That my batch size is large enough

* That the model is adequate for the GPU (even convolutional models can be better on the CPU for specific sizes)

It's good enough to go from a CPU-bound pattern to a GPU-bound one but I don't really get that detailed understanding of the spectrum between these so I'm definitely going to try this tool in the future, especially since it's so easy to add.

On the subject of optimization tricks, I haven't really found any magic bullets, you can't always increase the batch size to get 100% util because of the performance implications. FP16 precision has never done anything for me, weirdly. My preprocessing is never CPU-bound unless I do dumb shit in it so rewriting it in cpp would do nothing.
> are already familiar with following orders.

Probably more than this, following protocols but having an ability to think for themselves on their feet (as opposed to a grunt following minutia orders).
Their objective is to make money through space tourism.
> If I incorrectly practice guitar for 10 years, I'll have experience of practicing the guitar incorrectly, and maybe RSI/health issues

Whether the person in the article practised incorrectly or not is not really the issue. The narrative on and praise for mindfulness in recent years has not included any warnings that there may be dangers. Quite the opposite, it is usually posited as an unambiguous positive.

Your idea that this person was 'doing it wrong' is quite a hand-wavy posture to start with, especially as the author finds that such problems have been described by experienced practitioners.

> Lauded by whom?

The article mentions whom - the various interested parties in mindfulness, the great and the good that attend and throw conferences, those that throw workshops and run retreats. To some extent mainstream journalism and society at large, and even hacker news - mindfulness has been favourably covered here and in a variety of other places over the last several years, never have I seen a warning that you may experience mental health problems if you do it badly, or too much, or whatever.

> Those are very different and learning from an experienced practitioner is important.

Oh I'm sure they are, and I'm sure it is. Do you have evidence that the author was not learning from experienced practitioners? Or are you merely knee-jerking to the defence of something you personally like?
The FoundationDB team took a different approach, that I found pretty interesting. They created a fully deterministic (single threaded) simulation of a distributed database, and then use that simulation to test their implementation of the database under difference scenarios. They'd probably be interested in something like what you describe, as the bulk of their work seems to be rooting out and squashing bugs caused by factors out of their control (dropped connections, etc.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fFDFbi3toc
I mean...to what extent does this correlate with the nationwide stagnation of real wages?

If your average American working a full-time job can't afford to eat out at high enough prices to keep restaurants afloat while paying decent wages, that sounds like a systemic problem—and we already know that one of those exists here.
Just a thought: maybe don't buy a shitty USB stick? You're talking as if reliable USB SSD drives from established brands simply don't exist.

I'm sorry the $35 computer doesn't have all the storage connections you'd like it to. It's still very useful for the rest of us.
This kind of gaslighting is why nobody trusts authority any more.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/protests-and-trump-r...

Just one of MANY stories why BLM protests are so much less risky than, e.g., Trump rallies.

When it was widely rebuked as hypocritical bullshit, they even came up with a crazy way of explaining it away: Now racism was a "public health crisis", all of a sudden. See the google trends: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...

Just like how January 6 was an insurrection worthy of months of security state theatrics and proclamations that "white supremacy" is the biggest threat to the USA domestically, whereas an entire summer of burning buildings and riots was "mostly peaceful protests".

This is why nobody trusts authority and the media anymore--they have given up on even a pretense of seeming trustworthy.
Assume for a moment that people are going to want to run the proprietary applications either way. Would you rather that they run proprietary applications on a proprietary operating system, or that they run proprietary applications on an open source operating system?
This is a deep hole for language design.

I thought about this very, very carefully when designing Virgil[1]'s numerical tower, which has both fixed-size signed and unsigned integers, as well as floating point. Like other new language designs, Virgil doesn't have any implicit narrowing conversions (even between float and int). Also, any conversions between numbers include range/representability checks that will throw if out-of-range or rounding occurs. If you want to reinterpret the bits, then there's an operator to view the bits. But conversions that have to do with "numbers" then all make sense in that numbers then exist on a single number line and have different representations in different types. Conversion between always preserve numbers and where they lie on the number line, whereas "view" is a bit-level operation, which generally compiles to a no-op. Unfortunately, the implications of this for floating point is that -0 is not actually an integer, so you can't cast it to an int. You must round it. But that's fine, because you always want to round floats to int, never cast them.

[1] https://github.com/titzer/virgil
I wonder how many lines it would be when unminified? Still a
quite short, I'd imagine.
Depends. You could then run experiments on team performance in the requirements-to-code phase, separate from the generating-requirements phase. That has its place. And then you could experiment with teams trying to convert informal requirements to formal requirements. That might let you learn some things about the parts that you couldn't learn if you dealt with the whole.
The folks I’ve talked who were wait staff preferred tips. They made $10/hr ($80 per shift) but could pocket $200 in tips on a good night.

Doubling their rate to $20/hr would be a pay cut.
Recently downloaded the app as I was getting frustrated with how long it would take to have a conversation with someone over text and people’s reluctance to talk on the phone nowadays.
> But they are providing a tangible benefit to people on Earth. Maybe it doesn't benefit you personally or you think the costs outweigh those benefits so it is a net negative, but let's not pretend that there is zero benefit.

I don't know the answer and yet think the way we have normally answered such cost/benefit decisions is through government. Currently, we don't have a government where people make decisions based on what's best for the planet or at even just for all of humanity. Perhaps one could argue the UN or other global agreements, but I don't think, in their current forms, they have the ultimate say.

Maybe we need an Earth Council? :-)
I don't see why you call it religious.

One can endlessly discuss pros and cons of using C++ in the Kernel, but in the end it's about either making a bet on C++ or not; it's not that one can or has to formally prove that the bet is right to avoid being called religious. Linus listed cons that he finds important (which are real) and decided not to bet on C++.

Linus has a long history of successfully managing Kernel, I think this makes his bets worth something. So yes, passing Linus filter is a great success for Rust, and even greater given that C++ didn't pass.

Also, the fact that C++ succeeded somewhere doesn't disprove this claim.
Sure, but if you don't want to keep up to date with something, don't write an article about it. If you choose to write an article in 2021 about it, I would expect some level of updated research first.
Banks used to structure these charges to create overdrafts whenever possible. They made it very difficult for you to see what your actual usable balance is.

They also used to be allowed to simply reject the transaction if you didn't have the money and still charge a $36 fee. It was insanity.

If your checking balance never reaches close to zero, you wouldn't notice this. I was a teenager in 2010 and definitely got hit with a bunch of overdraft fees. Banks know these fees are bullshit (even now, with increased regulation), that's why they're so quick to waive them at first.
> but at what cost?

A decent portion of exposures will have to be thrown out, and some types of sky surveys will only be possible from space.
The computer was probably there already. I don't think it's possible for something to appear from nothing, because the "nothing" is always a framework for something to appear. The only possibility for everything is that for some reason, there is always a computer.
I found it strange him mentioning drinking coffee in the retreat, especially in the morning after experiencing strong dissociation. In general I would have thought they'd skip the coffee.
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We're in a world where most people predominantly use proprietary software on proprietary operating systems. Many people are tied to those platforms because key parts of their workflows keep them from migrating - in this case, people who use Adobe's tools as their daily drivers would have a hard time moving to Linux.

If Adobe made their software available on Linux, that would allow many people to migrate, which would in turn help expose those people to lots of other F/OSS software, which would then build up their userbase over time.

None of this would happen instantaneously, of course, but there's a precedent for this sort of "small" change causing large shifts. For example, OS X having a unix foundation was the trigger for the gradual (but eventually large-scale) move of software developers towards macs.
I love Node-RED, I use it to collect data from all kinds of devices and shove it into a database. Plus it is a very visible solution, just go to the Node-RED address and you can see all the things going on as opposed to some daemon or scripts running somewhere, hidden from view.
There is just nothing good to expect from companies that promotes excessive porn, guns, drugs, gambling, meat, soda, … for money.

I am far from religious or straight edge, but the ways of debauchery are nothing new or surprising. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that these are just … debauchery.
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He was actually at the Virgin Galactic launch and is good friends with Richard Branson. He was having fun, but not for the reason you suggest.
Not to self-reply, but I wanted to note that the existence of analog fractals may be evidence for a hypothesis I posed on another thread about how hallucinogens impair signalling in our nervous system to create interference patterns in our analog sensory input, and the geometric patterns are literally just analog noise.

Original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27496023
Plus can you imagine doing all the work to port it, only to remember that CS6 has received between a silver and gold rating using Wine? :-)

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

I think they should partner with Gog and offer legacy Adobe tools...relive the good old days of pre-cloud Adobe.
This seems like a misnomer. This seems more like rendering API architectures more so than GPU-architecture.

Which is still important: Immediate mode vs Tile-based is a big shift in overall style. And GPU-hardware is designed for particular software architectures (because the CPU will be inevitably invoking calls in a certain pattern).

But it'd probably be more accurate to call this blogpost "Rendering Architecture Types Explained" moreso than "GPU Architecture". A modern GPU running DirectX 9.0 or OpenGL 2.0 would still be immediate mode for example.
Thanks for sharing your experiences, I appreciate it. I think I'm the opposite in that I can't use any kind of dark modes, only light modes - my white on black contrast is really bad.

For the screen, I prefer a matte 1080p display to reduce glare and reflections. I prefer this to 4k screens.

I have been wearing lenses for 3 years but as I'm sure you might know it can be hard at times. Sometimes your eyes are not up to it or just having off-days is quite common for me. Then there's the issue of how to take out and put in the lenses at work without being stared at.
The author claims not to have "history of any major trauma prior to the retreat" while also describing a decade of anger and negative emotion culminating in a serious fistfight.

unacknowledged childhood trauma is a real thing, it's not uncommon and does not constitute "dismissive comments" in any way.

Ironically, you are being very dismissive of eurasiantiger.
> The cost is well worth it.

That's speculative and subjective, hence the debate.

I actually disagree to some degree as well, as there are more costs associated with these constellations than just missed photo opportunities for people's hobbies. Knowing the effect a single cheap kitchen microwave can have, I worry about what these constellations may mess up with regard to physics research. Important discoveries can be delayed to the detriment of everyone, and in exchange we just get cheaper faster internet out in the boonies for a small portion of the population.

Astronomy may or may not be humanities savior on a larger timescale. I think it's worth debating if we shouldn't just accept poor connectivity in the middle of nowhere as a feature as opposed to a bug.
An interesting idea. I'm not sure if say 12 or so questions could cover the risks, or it if would just add one more data point for people to (not) read?

There are certainly some sorts of transactions that are much more risky than others - so having an easy source for these transactions would be useful (and we'd built it into our models). But often the signals are more subtle. Companies with overly aggressive accounting policies across the board tend to have completely different undisclosed problems. Since there are estimates and judgement involved in all areas of accounting looking at the aggregate impact of all policies can be important.

On adding more information - The SEC adopted rules to modernize disclosures of risk factors in 2020, requiring a summary risk factor disclosure if the risk factor section exceeds 15 pages (https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-192).