skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've started, if I wake up in the middle of the night, thinking of a 'prime-looking' number, then trying to factor it. Sometimes I discover interesting connections, other times I fall back asleep - either is a win.
What's the thing you are working on? How much do you need for some version of "step 1" ?
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> I highly recommend staying away from Arch and NixOS if you're not ready to commit upwards of 30% of your work and free time fixing and tweaking your box.

I started using Arch back in 2011 and Manjaro (Arch-based) in 2018. Besides a day or two of initial setup, getting things how I like, I spend ZERO time tweaking or fixing my installation. Your warning simply does not match up with my experience.
Monocultures are not forests.

https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/study-finds-chinas-new-for...
Right now I make my living cloning, expressing, and purifying proteins, crystallizing them or freezing them onto EM grids, and solving their structure. From start to finish, it's months to years of work for each structure.
> If all your wealth is not in dollars, this can be subjective too depending on who is assessing the value of the assets.

Even you use the words interchangeably.

> if you eat that taco the taco is gone.

Of course. Nobody said that wealth cannot be destroyed.
What industry do you work in? Is it a common stack there?
You're right. In the tech specs it says its 1280 x 800px
I expect that's why they mentioned that it's officially unsupported behaviour. That doesn't seem too relevant to whose idea it was.
Rest over HTTP works well. You get easy load balancing, caching etc.

JSON seems to of been the message format of choice due to easy interoperability with the browser. However, with this, you end up writing serialisers on the server, deserialisers on the client. That's the majority of the job, reading what JSON fields you need to send down and for the client reading what JSON fields to read.

Using unstructured JSON has lead to OpenAPI previously Swagger. You put a bunch of metadata in your server API code to generate some loosely typed schema describing your service so clients can generate deserialisers etc. This is still unstructured JSON and seems like a kludge.

I've recently had success using Protobuf as the message format for HTTP API's. I still get easy load balancing, CDN caching, all the benefits of HTTP, which I'd lose if I went gRPC, Protobuf has a smaller size than JSON and add Brotl compression reduces page sizes.
The excellent thing about using Protobuf over HTTP is it does what OpenAPI attempts to do without the kludge. You publish your Protobuf schemas, the server generates strongly typed objects to use, the clients with Typescript generate strongly typed objects. There's no more serialising JSON or manually reading JSON. You get typed parsers generated from a schema definition, so you call `encode` or `decode` on them.

Protobuf works across a large number of languages. My server side code has become trivial, my client side code has become trivial. As a side effect, I spend less on network bandwidth, pay less in compute with de/serialisation, and clients see a speed increase due to reduced page load sizes. Protobufs then also reduce the need for OpenAPI. Grpc entirely removes the need for OpenAPI/Contract based testing but going full Grpc on the client-side in the browser has more setup with a special proxy and you loose the load balancing/caching of HTTP.

TLDR; stop using JSON for web API's using something such as Protobuf with a schema. JSON is the equivalent of running your app in debug mode.
What semiconductors are we talking about? Just big volume computer CPUs/GPUs? Then yes, intel is the only one left.

Big boys like Maxim, Marvel, Broadcom, Qualcomm, nVidia, AMD, Ti[1] don't have their own fabs.

What about memory? Samsung, Hynix, Micron all do their own stuff.

Analog ICs? National, Ti[1], NXP, Skyworks, ONsemi, ST, to name a few.

[1] Ti got rid of their fabs years ago to switch to TSMC but over the years they acquired a few companies small than them that have their own fabs. Those divisions still use them for fabbing those products.
I don't think this has anything to do with next gen process. It points toward Intel needing help starting their foundry service in sales and external tooling.
Rome didn’t really collapse but rather wither away slowly over hundreds of years. Even still the most useful parts lived on five without the empire aspect which didn’t matter for most people.

In the end I think we overestimate the effects collapse. Look at much of Europe over the 19th and 20th centuries. Unbelievable levels of suffering and many millions needlessly died over those 200 years. But for most life just went on.
Any sources for that? Right now it's just "I have very little faith in these models because I remember someone trying to reverse them and coming up with nonsensical results", probably coupled with "and that is so much more comforting".
IBM doesn't have its own fabs anymore -- they gave them to GlobalFoundries in 2015, along with $1.5B.
it's a shame that 30 years into the future we won't get to enjoy the discord/slack/fb/whatsapp/etc messages about the pandemic.
As a reviewer I really want a series of commits each making closely related changes that are easy to understand. Squashing tends to make giant diffs that replace almost every line, and you almost have to reverse-engineer to figure out what’s actually supposed to be different.
Another thing that happens is that when Costco is the only place in town with TP in stock, then you end up buying 48 rolls or whatever because that's the minimum purchase size.
A super-powered devmem2 that uses a kernel module to reach all addresses (2020)
You can engineer yourself out of this pretty easily. The Netherlands are a fine example.
If it is limited to needy families, it is not guaranteed income.
Lots is boilerplate, but eventually you'll need more logic, then some CPU heavy tasks, then a memory heavy task, then a task suited to a specific language, then a task that needs a GPU, then a distributed memory cache.

Web servers are easy to horizontally scale. Even minute to minute if needed. Scaling your database hits limits and is much harder. Keep the database dumb.
Not that much more (theoretically) - Al-air batteries could reach up to ~8kWh/kg, which is in the same range as jet fuel's 12ish. Aluminum is also denser than jet fuel, so per unit volume it could be even closer.
> Most of the compute in ML research seems to be going into architecture search.

No it's not. Only Google spends significant time with automatic architecture search, and many people think this is really to try to sell cloud capacity.

> Once the architecture is found, training and net finetuning/transfer learning is comparatively cheap

Training isn't cheap for significant problems.

Getting the data is very expensive, and compute is a significant expense for large datasets.

> This implies we could see 10-100x gains in AI algorithms using today's hardware

Actually, most of the time we see 10-100% (percent! not times) gains from architecture improvements, whether they be manual or automatic.

But that is very significant, because a 10% improvement can suddenly make something useful that wasn't before.
> Right now, the U.S. government isn't requiring proof of vaccination to travel across its border.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-astrazeneca-travell...
Of course it's foolish not to take an obvious concern like climate change seriously.

The consequences are predictable, and they should be avoidable and unnecessary.

For most of the population there is no downside in avoiding them, any more than there was in mitigating Y2K or making seatbelts compulsory.

This isn't mythology we're talking about, but science.
On the one hand I want something like a "Donation Feed" similar to an RSS feed.

Something that I can put money into, set rules for, and over a period of time dispense cents/fractions of a bitcoin/whatever as per rules.

The rules - and default rules in particular! - would be important.

Maybe you like the author so much you donate on the regular just anyway.

Maybe a plugin in my browser can see when I visit a site and automatically donate. If I don't visit the site, it doesn't pay.

Maybe you donate 0.1 of a cent to ANY website that has no ads or doesn't trigger your adblocker. $1 buys you 1000 such visits.

Then a RSS-like "Donation" button would be meaningful for longer term income, without all the hassle of Patreon etc.

OTOH, I worry that sites would then start watching such transactions and try setting floor limits for how much you need to donate before they serve you.

Any ruleset will inspire gaming that ruleset.
That's a sort of tempting thought and it's mostly right IMO. My suspicion is that it doesn't take that many people to keep the factories running but it does take a lot of people to make new factories and improve efficiency at existing ones. And modern society is so predicated on growth that you literally need these efficiency improvers or the wheels fall off. On any give day or week or perhaps even year they don't matter. But over a decade they probably do.
This is a result of the low density of SV. In my Oakland apartment I have 1Gbs symmetric internet. In fact we have the choice of 3 ISPs offering gigabit internet (only one of them is symmetrical though).
No, you should not YOLO the fuck out of your life.

Keep going, but find a way that doesn't involve risking homelessness.
You can't engineer yourself out pretty easily if you don't politics yourself out first.

The Netherlands are also a fine example of this, for now at least.
I don’t understand what point you are making by saying that seizures are an objectively measurable thing.

Are you suggesting “and therefore it can’t be influenced by the specific thoughts a person has”?

I don’t see a reason that something which we (at least so far) can’t objectively measure, but which the patient can report on, couldn’t have an impact on something which we can objectively measure.

I also don’t understand what you are talking about when you mention middle school angst?

It seems like you have the impression that the article is blaming people for having seizures or something like that? But that isn’t at all the impression I get from it.
How and why do fireflies light up?
is POSIX on the roadmap for redox or are they intentionally avoiding that? (to encourage more experimentation and ground up in-rust software development)

i've been watching with interest for a while, there's a lot to like about this project!
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Why are any of these proposals preferable to working from home?
Ask HN: Urgent question from a cofounder who feels marginalized by his partner
Hi All,

This is a throwaway account and I am in a big dilemma with my startup. I would love to give back to the community any which way I can, but I could really use the community's help right now. Here is my story in a nutshell...

2018: Had the startup idea for a wellness tech startup & started working on it

2019: Partnered up with Mr. B to pivot the idea to focus more on a particular use case. I was CEO then.

2020: Since 2018 my productivity suffered owing to my life challenges and self-medication issues. I decided to step down and focus a bit more on fixing myself. We change the split from 55(me)/45 to 40(me)/60 split amicably.

2021: I pull myself back and bring my complete self to the table. But by then, my partner is talking about a 80/20 split to justify his contribution. Cash infusion-wise both of us have contributed equally. At the moment, I have been pulling my weight for the past 3 months now and it is very palpable (but was not very productive the last 2 years). The company's energy has turned around. The design and marketing teams are super pumped and delivering conscientiously. But my partner has been a bit distant amidst all this, quoting that he is unable to trust me completely unless I committed to the 80/20 split in his favour. He also told me yesterday that if nothing happens by end of year, he is working on a backup plan to pursue his PHD program. At the moment, I am putting my 100% to this initiative and don't have a plan B yet. I have also had a cathartic spiritual experience as part of my journey with my master and I have started giving back with my volunteering etc to the world. I can feel it in my bones.

I do agree that it is fair for my partner to expect more parity for his effort and everything. But what I am realising now is that, because my productivity was low, the min-bar of the company's productivity also had come down, including my partner's, but I couldn't call that out as I was dealing with my own productivity issues.

As of now, he has agreed to a 80/20 split and a discussion to allocate the un-allocated stock after 1 year from the date of the agreement. The idea is to give me back what I deserve based on the renewed sense of contribution and ownership. How do I ensure that my contribution translates to the right split and appropriate stock allocation for me in the future? Can I handle any of these things legally and can they be part of the agreement? If yes, how should I go about structuring it? Are these good signs, should I just walk away? I still have a close friendly thread with my partner amidst all the bad blood. But somewhere deep down, the trust factors have taken a hit.
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There is a middle ground - you can take a loan, with or without a fraction of your house as collateral. I’ve never done it so don’t consider this a recommendation, just an idea.
> “peak oil” ... It’s an illusion. The world goes ‘round.

Are you suggesting that oil is not finite??? Or that we have an easy replacement at hand contrary to the people that says otherwise such as in the "Planet of The humans" documentary?
For sure ask for those clauses to be removed, but there are plenty of places that simply won't remove them.

Your employer is not omniscient. To claim ownership of your side project they first need to know it exists. How will they come to know it exists? Are they even looking for employee side projects?

Your employer is also not omnipotent. It needs to be worth someone's time and energy to come after your side project. Now if it's wildly successful, or competing with your employer's product, or you have internal enemies, that's one thing. But most side projects just aren't worth going after.
> If everything is going to shit in 2040, why bother acting now to better yourself, your community, your country or the world?

If you might get hit by a car tomorrow, why bother with anything at all?

We assume the best and keep going. Make contingency plans.
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> Peak Oil was predicting a very real phenomenon, but it hasn't happened yet (oil, being finite, will have this happen eventually).

That's true only if you define Peak Oil so unusually as to make it true. The concept behind Peak Oil is that in the (near [1]) future, the available supply of oil will fail to meet the total demand for it, and then we'll be stuck in a world where there is forever an inability to get the necessary oil. In this model, it's great to be an oil supermajor holding one of the last great reserves of oil--you can basically charge what you want for it, and so it's worth spending hundreds of billions of dollars to get it.

An alternative model for the future is that the demand for oil peaks before the supply is. In this model, that same oil supermajor is now in a terrible position, and shelling out hundred of billions of dollars for new reserves is a stupid idea. In essence, from a planning perspective, this is the exact opposite of what Peak Oil predicts.

The current trends seem to indicate that it's the second scenario that is going to come true, not the former situation. Combined with the fact that more specific predictions about when it will happen have continuously failed to come true, it's hard to find much about Peak Oil thati sactually correct.

[1] The imminence of the catastrophe of peak oil is usually highlighted by its prophets, but it has been generally less assumed by planners working under its assumption, so it's debatable to what degree the imminence is a critical prediction of the theory. Whatever the case, nearly every single prediction of when the peak would occur has already been passed without that peak having happened.
There are always people predicting the end of society just as there are always people predicting a stock market crash. I suspect they have similar levels of success.
I think it's about as fast as a regular hard drive. So I guess use that as a point of reference.
Sure, I do agree that the world, especially the climate system, may veer off into uncharted territory soon. (Maybe it already started.) I'm just saying these particular "predictions" don't seem to contain any useful information. Anyone can say "things can go wrong." Hell, I can say that, and I may even be right.
For “build your Linux OS” distribution, Gentoo looks like more suitable since it's more customizable (e.g. many USE flags, still provides OpenRC instead of systemd). Just curious the reason why Arch over Gentoo. I suspect that because Arch is more acceptable for normal Linux Desktop user.
Where did you read that US is not recognizing AstraZeneca vaccines?
This comment is a dupe of another from 2 hours earlier.
It’s probably better for the thread to avoid any specific modern political collapse theory. For example, I think it’s nutty to say that the attempted coup in the US had any chance of collapsing civilization. But I can’t really say that without sounding insulting, so my “flamewar territory” alarms are starting to go off. And that makes me a sad panda HN user.

Suffice to say, yes, civilizations collapse. But that isn’t really the point. Everybody dies, but if you claim each day that one specific person is going to die of X, you’ll be mistaken more times than not. I see the same pattern in most collapse theories.
Sometimes I think the cracking down on remote companies/edict is because it "helps prove" how wanting a person wishes to work at the company. Knowing an employee's loyalty and willingness to put up with BS makes it easier for other abuses in the future.
The age verification got me with Google recently. When I registered my google account in 2004, I didn't put my real info and wanted to stay "incognito", because even back then I was reluctant to be giving info to Google. It was just a search engine after all, why does a search engine need more info.. right?

Now after 17 years, they are asking me to age-verify my account. So far I have refused, but I think eventually I'll be forced to cough it up.

I have a feeling that it will probably start with birthday first, and then later expand to adding real name, address, and government issued ID.
$36 is the cost of the capital equipment and energy needed to remove the CO2 from the air. Just an internal metric. Not tied to sale prices.
Right, but FB can figure out your intent much of the time as well. Simply clicking on a conservative news story might not indicate you're conservative, but if those are the only kind of stories you click on, that's a signal. And if 5 minutes after clicking that story, you reshare it, that's another signal. And if sentiment analysis done on whatever you wrote along side the reshare suggests a positive/agreeable reaction, then that's yet another signal. And the aggregation of these signals, especially if you do this often enough, can often correctly identify your political views.
This is my first encounter with K, and it looks absolutely bonkers. The amount of logic you can express in a few characters is mind boggling. However, it makes my brain hurt. Is this a paradigm that becomes intuitive once you learn it, or is it like Ruby in the sense that it’s so flexible that every developer uses their own custom DSL and onboarding is like solving an infinite series of brain teasers?
You joke about that being equally unlikely. But looking at the current inflation rate it is much more likely to be held true compared to any other economic plans or lack there-of.
>Efficiency increases demand more than the efficiency saves.

That's not some sort of natural law.

People latched on to this hypothetical situation and keep elevating its universality.

It's just a thing that can happen and may or may not in a given instance.
Yes, I was surprised as well. That Global Foundries doesn't seem to know about this suggests to me some shenanigans on the street.

However, if they did buy GloFo it would give them a straight forward path to having a "Fab for hire" service ala TSMC and their own fabs as well. Kind of a have your cake and eat it too thing if you can bring GloFo's ability to bake chips up to the requisite standard.
Sadly, the sort of "large scale political action" that really needs to happen to solve these sorts of issues will simply not happen, because it would involve governments working together for the good of all humanity everywhere, and it would involve eliminating poverty altogether worldwide, and it would involve providing clean renewable energy to people whereever it's wanted, and so many other things that politicians nowhere on Earth appear to be capable of doing.
Chicago has loads of vacant land[1] and unused buildings[2] not far from the city center. Also, the land for "the 78" is still mostly undeveloped[3].

[1] https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7917749/Sc...

[2] https://chicago.curbed.com/2016/3/9/11185730/chicago-eminent...

[3] https://www.78chicago.com/
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I'd been using Debian sid for almost 10 years and now use Arch for more than 5 years. Sid is definitely much more stable, as in "not requiring manual interventions", than Arch is. In fact it was actually a bit "too stable" for my taste because it effectively becomes frozen together with 'testing' right before a new 'stable' gets released.

That said, never had to reinstall either of them. Had my system broken by pacman in ways dpkg would handle much better, but it was fixable anyway.
Shale is not economically viable, regular oil is profitable at 10 dollars a barrel, shale needs 60 dollars or more. That is an extreme difference that we are not feeling because of massive amounts of credit pumped into the shale boom. Once the fake money dries up and the market prices that shale oil at its correct value you are in for a world of pain. Imagine the gas a the pump station going x6 and that affecting the rest of the economy. That is a world based on shale instead of conventional oil.
In my early career i always ignored any stupid restrictions in contracts.

If i wanted to be creative and work on other projects at my spare time, I just do it.

No legal asshole can dictate what i can or cannot do.
That breaks the uniqueness of the prime factorization. Mathematicians love uniqueness, almost as much as existence.
This is just the Mayan calendar phenomena. Just because something is old and accurate up until today doesn't meant that it actually predicts the end of the world.
Because Valve's target is deterministic (relatively, hardware revisions not-withstanding) pacman is actually perfect for their use-case.

You can nail down a new release on your local hardware using a bash script that calls pacman against specific packages and specific package versions. Once your local dev works, push that to the update tool. Hopefully you caught all the bugs. :)