skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The answer is to start siloing customers or application concerns out into separate clusters depending on your operating model.

This is such an underrated solution (siloing or sharding your data in some way). I think people don't do it because:

1. The tooling doesn't make it super-easy (e.g. good luck sharding Postgres unless you're willing to pay for Citus)

2. "Trendy" companies in the past decade have been network-type products (social networks, etc), where the structure of the data makes it much harder to silo (people need to follow each other, interact with each other's content, etc)

3. We as an industry took a several-year detour over to NoSQL land as a promised solution to scalability.

Life would be a lot easier if you could say something like:

* I want a Postgres node.

* I'm happy to shard my data by some key (customerId, city, etc) and am willing to accept responsibility for thinking through that sharding key.

* My application has some logic that easily knows which DB to read/write from depending on shard key.

* There's some small amount of "global application data" that might need to live on a single node.
It's a really freaky and surreal film that deserved, at minimum, to have become a cult classic. See it if you get a chance.
They weren't offering a hypothesis for the cause of this, only noting the difficulty of making such determinations given the circumstances.

Besides which, all any of us have to go by are hypothesis. I think it's pretty clear that speculation is the only thing available to discussions on the possible causes.
Even West Virginia isn’t 100% coal fired, most states are far cleaner than a hypothetical 100% coal fired grid.
Covid-19 Case Data in Israel: A Troubling Trend?
Which I find funny, maybe it's some form of Stockholm syndrome from the URSS days.
I'm pretty sure the "5G tracking microchips in bloodstream from vaccine" one originated from a 2015 James Bond movie (Spectre)

It does seem a lot of the conspiracy people have this "I'm an action movie main character" -syndrome going on, which is fitting
Yea, i can see that. As much as i dislike Go these days, their GC is impressive as hell. I can imagine future GC's will learn a lot from Go.
I think "took their own life" makes it sound more deliberate. I think it varies how deliberate it is. "Died by suicide" doesn't add anything to the word suicide except for pointing out that the person died. This lets people more easily update their understanding of suicide.

I'd prefer "died by their own hand" to "took their own life" but some might get hung up on the word hand. "Died by suicide" is my preferred phrase, though.
I do not feel particularly Eastern either, but it is true that the former cohesion of Central Europe was broken into two by running completely different economic systems on parts of it. Bavaria, Czechia, Saxony and Austria used to be fairly tightly connected before 1945, now the differences between wealth of the formerly Western and formerly Eastern parts of the region are massive.
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...

Solar power
I guess I would see this differently: it's fairly hard to prove a chicken is conscious, but it's fairly easy to prove that they can feel pain. I don't think you need consciousness to advocate against cruelty to animals.
Depends what you mean by forced.

If you can get fired for “underperforming” or even think you can then this is forced in the minds of the employee.

There is a massive power imbalance.

Sure the guy can resign and get another job, just like the tech industry right? Might even get $200k plus RSUs and free lunches?

More like struggle to get another job, maybe get evicted, and oh surprise new job is shit too and they force you to do OT or an algorithm fires you.
>3. Theoretical Analysis

>Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

I very much approve.

Congrats on beating the baseline! At this rate, surely you're only a few improvements away from winning the jackpot!
The fish and bird population has been in continuous decline. The lake used to get enough freshwater replenishment to maintain a relatively balanced salinity level and saltwater ecosystem. Now, the salinity is continuously increasing over time. The most hearty specimens are able to survive and reproduce, but much of the wildlife has died out. Large amounts of biomass soak in the saline solution, becoming pickled fish and birds, adding to the scent that others have commented on.

Collapse is not instantaneous. Nor is it all-encompassing. Even left unchecked for another 100 years, you would still find some forms of life present, but not the ones you see today.
I have another theory: maybe they're using a certain tech to steal classified info remotely and we're seeing the side effects. I seriously doubt that Russians will hurt US "diplomats" on purpose....payback and all.
America needs an equivalent to the EU working time act.
Man it is super weird that you put caffeine on that list.

I assume, because you did it, that you're one of those mutants who doesn't use it nor like it much. Good for you and all, but caffeine made the modern world, the majority of the population uses it every day, and industrial society wouldn't function without it.

It's also super-cheap even on a modest salary, and most workplaces give it away for free because of how necessary it is to production.
A docker image is simply packaging. There’s a small, almost always negligible, performance hit. But the value comes in being able to ship a consistent application and configuration pairing. This becomes really valuable when shipping multiple databases for multiple services.
Let's just hope it'll be done without a Civil War, then...
Nearby Slab City is an interesting place to visit if one is into weird stuff. It's an old abandoned area that was once a military base that people have turned into a very unplanned squatter community. It's notable because there are some impressive community art pieces.

The place has managed to avoid accumulating the truly destructive squatter elements (e.g people with severe mental illness or substance abuse problems,though meth is a problem) because it is remote, there are no services, and it is dangerously hot during the summer time. Thus, it's pretty hard to live there without at least a modest RV and some planning, which has made it a bit more inviting and interesting than the usual homeless encampment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_City,_California
> They went from a peasant society immediately to defending against multiple foreign invasions (including the U.S.) to fighting and defeating the fascists, all in three decades. That was achievable only due to their economic and political system.

This is old, debunked propaganda trope recited for a millionth time.

No, USSR never went to industrial giant overnight, for a reason it never been it. USSR relied on single digit of large factories for everything during the war.

Even tiny Eastern European countries USSR invaded were heads above USSR, to the point the first thing USSR did there were stealing all factory equipment, and relocating it to new factories in USSR.
I don't know, I can easily believe that there are hot dog vendors in Vienna. Probably even one that has a silly name for English-speaking tourists like "Wurst Hotdogs!"
> How did things get the way they became? Is it due to iron wrought natural laws, or historical decisions we could freely agree to change?

Reminds me of Scott Alexander's Meditations on Moloch, which also ponders this question. I can't do it justice with just one excerpt, but here's one passage that always stays with me:

The reason our current system isn’t a utopia is that it wasn’t designed by humans. Just as you can look at an arid terrain and determine what shape a river will one day take by assuming water will obey gravity, so you can look at a civilization and determine what shape its institutions will one day take by assuming people will obey incentives.

... Just as the course of a river is latent in a terrain even before the first rain falls on it – so the existence of Caesar’s Palace was latent in neurobiology, economics, and regulatory regimes even before it existed. The entrepreneur who built it was just filling in the ghostly lines with real concrete.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
> Don't listen to that "2000 calorie" rule. That is for people who exercise significantly or have physical labor jobs.

No, its pretty much what a young adult male of median height [0] and ideal weight for height [1] and sedentary, not active, lifestyle needs [2].

[0] 5'9"; https://www.healthline.com/health/average-height-for-men#:~:....

[1] 145 lbs is the center of the normal range for 5'9"; https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323446#body-mass-i...

[2]
https://www.calculator.net/bmr-calculator.html?ctype=standar...
"Very wierd spending" is not, in and of itself, imperialism.

The Western Balkans and Turkey are the EU's immediate neighbors. Does the EU seek influence over what happens in such neighbors? No doubt. Does that count as imperialism? Not so clearly.

Russia is a major power, with the potential to be a major energy and military threat to the EU. Does the EU seek to drive the outcome of interactions with Russia? No doubt. Does that count as imperialism? No.
Thank you! Paul Brennan will go down in history as a malicious individual who wanted above all to destroy Iraq and it back centuries. Of course, he also wanted to setup the US to profit nicely from the rebuilding efforts but that is a secondary pain.
Mux (YC W16) is hiring devs to contribute to open source players
Bösendorfer makes some large grand pianos with 92 or 97 keys. The 92 key one has 4 extra bass keys. I don't know about the 97 key one. The extra bass keys are under a little wooden cover that you can flip up if you want to play them, but I think the real purpose of the extra strings is to vibrate sympathetically with the regular strings, giving some additional bass oomph. Maybe the long strings on the Alexander piano provide oomph enough while staying more in tune.

At the upper end it's perfectly possible to reach the end of the treble scale, so maybe the 97 key Bösendorfer has extra treble keys in addition to extra bass keys. I haven't seen one though.
If you are doing it in the winter then sure, in the summer you don't even need a phone the route is very clear.

My comment wasnt particularly that paper backups werent the best option in some circumstances, it was more against the general smugness / gatekeeping nature thats fairly common in outdoors circles, and that really unless have to worry about it being cold enough to effect your battery, really a phone should be a better option for most people and the fact it cant be considered reliable is an indictment on this industry as most of the problems (cold batteries aside) are easily solved (offline, detailed maps, battery issues), the only problem is solving them doesnt sell ads
Gamecube GBplayer was a godsend. Great memories of Metroid Fusion / Zero Mission. I still have my disc!
A candidate bringing that up seems weird?
"Why People Are So Awful Online" is the actual title.

The answer is it's been that way since Sept 1993.
IIRC, this was effectively what happened with the U.K. on Black Wednesday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday
>some people will still pour their whole lives into work, which creates an iterated game that pushes the equilibrium for everyone toward working more. there's no practical way to mitigate this powerful, arguably inate, incentive.

The trick here is to make sure those who don't push for the incentives are taken care of. You need to make sure everyone participating at the sane rates are taken care of in their needs and some wants. After that, you allow for those obsessed with incentives and wants to work as much as they want to get extravagant things. It's easier said than done but I believe its attainable. If you can create an economy where that sort of effort at work is used to buy luxuries and not necessities, then you have a good model that still has a balance of incentives without dragging the rest of society into a work obsessed life.

People who put for this amount of effort shouldn't be doing it because they have to, they should be doing it because they want to. Unfortunately many people are doing it because they really have to, that or their standard of living drops significantly, their overall longevity. Unfortunately that's the world we have. People are forced to work at these sorts of rates to survive and it's only getting worse. It's not that they're slaving away their lives because they want to get a new luxury car or exotic vacation, it's that the alternatives to not doing it means they may be homeless next month or looking for somewhere new to live.
Made from rolls of tinfoil that contractors sell to embassies for $1200/25sqft roll
Would you ask an applicant about his HIV status? Other STDs? Other health history and vaccines? Where is the line?
Great comment thank you.

Yes unless the industry sees value in a step change in the scale on offer to regular devs, progress on massive nets will be slow.

Hooking things together is pretty much my job. I have used ROS extensively in the past but now I just hook things together using python.

But I consider what Tesla is doing to be pretty promising, and they are layering neural nets together where the output of three special purpose networks feed in to one big one etc. They call that a hydra net. No framework like ROS is required because each net was trained in situ with the other nets on the output of those nets, so I believe all compute logic is handled within the neural network processor (at some point they integrate standard logic too but a lot happens before that). Definitely watch some Karpathy talks on that.

And currently I am simply not skilled enough to compose multiple networks like that. So I could use multiple standalone networks, process them separately, and link them together using IPC of some kind, but it would be very slow compared to what's possible. That's why I say we're "not there yet". Something like Tesla's system available as an open source project would be a boon, but the method is still very labor intensive compared to a self-learning system. It does have the advantage of being modular and testable though.

I probably will hand compose a few networks (using IPC) eventually. I mean right now I am working on two networks - an RL trained trail following network trained in simulation on segmentation-like data (perhaps using Dreamer V2), and a semantic segmentation net that is trained on my hand labeled dataset with "trail/not-trail" segmentation. So far my segmentation net works okay. And a first step will actually be to hand-write an algorithm to go from segmentation data to steering. My simulation stuff is almost working. I built up a training environment using Godot video game engine and hacked the shared memory neural net training add on to accept image data, but when I run the sim in training on DreamerV2, something in the shared memory interface crashes and I have not resolved it. [1]

But all of this is a hobby and I have a huge work project [2] I am managing myself that is important to me, so the self driving off road stuff has been on pause. But I don't stress about it too much because the longer I wait, the better my options get on the neural network side. Currently my off road rover is getting some mechanical repairs, but I do want to bring it back up soon.

[1] https://github.com/lupoglaz/GodotAIGym/issues/15

[2] https://community.twistedfields.com/t/a-closer-look-at-acorn...
I agree. But afaik most contracts in the acting industry make the footage of the actor completely owned by the employer.
Just want to say thanks again for the great comment. I was following Van Buren, and it was a certainly vindication. I agree with you there is a push and pull. Here's hoping that debate & discussion that needs to happen plays out in a way that puts the people first, instead of expanding protections to the government and big corps.
> ... unethically large ...

Do you wanna expand on this one? I can probably make some assumptions about what you meant, but they're all have obvious solutions so I'm left without a reasonable interpretation.
And they stopped doing that because it wasn't maintainable.
I think the microwave is designed so that the radiation resonates in a cavity. Once you open the cavity, the waves spread in all directions and the energy drops off very quickly.
Lira is also the currency of Turkey. Perhaps that's what they were referring to.
I remember well the time I learned as a teen that police could outright lie straight to your face. I and a friend got caught walkin' home after dark and accused of a crime that took place in a nearby neighborhood. During questioning, the officer told me "Your friend already admitted to the whole thing" and some BS about reducing the charges if I "came clean" about my involvement. Thing is; I knew for a fact my friend had admitted no such thing, as we didn't do it, and neither he nor I would ever have admitted to a crime we didn't commit. Not how we was raised…
I just tried to quickly sketch something and got this: Ꭿ
yes but no.

us was formed roughly around the same time (+/- couple hundred years).

the states in the EU have a long history (thousands of years) and a long tradition of doing things their way.

i’m not ruling out the possibility but I think it’s highly unlikely
I am aware of Pollan's recently well-publicized assertion that caffeine made the modern world. I am unconvinced.

I quit caffeine a few years ago. I'm not an unusual mutant. I have the genes on markers rs4410790 and rs2470893 that indicate a typical reaction to caffeine. (https://enki.org/2017/08/13/quitting-caffeine/)

Most people experience a temporary increase in productivity until they build up a tolerance for caffeine. Thereafter, they are just paying and consuming to avoid headaches and reach the baseline.
Antivaxxers are people who get easily angry/duped from what they read on social media. It is a sign of inexperience.

It would be a big NO for certain roles.
People were literally banned for saying the lab leak was a possibility over misinformation claims. If they or the distribution of said content was still being banned people may still discount the lab leak. That is the problem with banning content that may be misinformation. If we had 100% accuracy on what is misinformation that would be one thing, but we don't.
Because I have the emotional constitution of a ten-year-old boy, I immediately tried to draw 𓂺 in it, and it didn't find it even after I looked it up and tried to reproduce it as exactly as possible.

Very cool idea anyway, and would probably work for less juvenile use cases.
When we talk about Britain and their former empire, it is worth noting that times might have changed, but they still plunder their former colonies by providing tax evasion services.

If you are some warlord, dictator or just dirty businessperson, Britain will gladly launder your money through one of its multiple territories such as Jersey, Guernsey or whatever - which is some island whose sole export is providing "tax advisory" (which means not paying any taxes at all).

There is also the City of London Corporation with its secret laws and treaties, which doesnt seem to be controlled by UK government, basically group of friends with everyone in each pocket - instead of sending gunboats to plunder countries, they now use the banking system: dirty money comes in, clean money comes out, with minimum taxation.

Yet they sit on moral high ground, about supposedly helping third world. Books like "Treasure Islands" tried to shine some light on this - author even claimed that if Britain and its various island stopped the money laundering, then Africa wouldnt need external help - the untaxed money would be taxed and used for own people.

Sadly the topic of rampant and blatant tax evasion is swept under the rug, since multiple countries provide it (UK, Cyprus, Ireland, even Delaware..). There are some movements to get some common CIT rate, but those tax havens will probably find ways.
How the U.S. became the world’s new Bitcoin mining hub
Downrange it’s a different story. When I tried to deliver a giant tech support contract to the 101st when they rolled in, the commander told me to deliver the equipment with root, and keep the support out of his theater. I gave him my team’s analysis, and they did everything from scratch just like they trained for. When I went with SF, the comms sergeants and EOD rewired everything in the RF stack based on intel and mission requirements. There was no other way to respond to change in time. Also, a big part of our job was to hack together solutions for partner nation equipment, mostly again the mobile RF stacks that needed specific un/declassed waveforms loaded for joint ops. The contracts were not fast enough, even the spook shops, although they did bring interesting toys.
If you don't have an easy option close at hand it ends up being a choice between continuing, taking a massive hit to your income, or choosing unemployment.

The pay is exactly high enough to maintain minimal staffing. That's normal, but in working conditions like this sometime it ends up a tiny bit higher than the local rate for similar jobs if there's competition for employees. Not everyone can maintain the working conditions. They leave, get kicked out, or they're useful (or connected) enough to keep around working humane hours.

The rest have bills, or legal requirements to maintain employment, or burned a bridge at the other factory in town, or they're inexperienced enough to not know better. They establish a reputation as an employee who can be pushed into working inhumane hours. Managers are often rewarded for keeping up with production with a small team.

A few years go by before you know it, and working hours like this is expensive. You don't have time to maintain your stuff and house, you pay someone else to. Kids need to be watched. Spouses leave. Drugs or alcohol offer to fill the holes in Maslow's Hierarchy you've sacrificed. Savings don't pile up like one might assume.

Interviewing is treacherous. If you're lucky you work a night shift so you can do an interview instead of sleeping. They'll ask you how much you make per hour and offer you a lower "starting rate" hourly wage with fewer hours, which would cut your income drastically, and suggest there might be a review/small raise in 6 months. They'll call your employer before offering you a job at that rate, putting you at risk of retaliation whether you take the offer or not.
My fundamental point is that mountaineering, or even hiking knowledge, is primarily contained off google: in paper maps, books, but mostly meatspace and experience, gained and shared.

Is there now a generation that assumes all knowledge is googlable? And if there is an “app for it” then it is as good as it gets?

I’m not blaming them, I was lucky enough to be taught about hiking (in this instance) by real people, no achievement of mine. More musing about how knowledge distribution is evolving.
No, I don't argue with ridiculous shit.

> Of course, the EU empire works in a different way; economic hostility towards outsiders (high tariffs and compliance cost when importing anything), access to a big common market and a lot of subventions for the insiders. It might be the first attempt to build an empire on money only.

All of the states I listed do the same.

EU empire, my ass. Find something useful to do with your life.
Good project-management advice.