skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a materials guy personally so won't be the best person to explain the exact science behind them, but they're definitely a really impressive bit of engineering. I had a quick browse of this article and it seems to give a pretty good rundown of their history and why their properties are so useful for jet engines https://www.americanscientist.org/article/each-blade-a-singl...
I've had a few people send me links to IA hosted content that were hatespeech related, I'm surprised it took this long to get reported on by MSM. We'll see what IA does about this, I know from personal experience that they don't want to modify the content they have.

The reality is that people do hate eachother for stupid reasons so archiving that may have value to someone someday. Maybe having a "look at how dumb people were 100 years ago" archive is handy. I don't know if the ADL and other organizations make their archives public but it could possibly be helpful for OSI researchers as well.
I already set this up. My customers are 5-10 man shops, and they have 5 different AWS Accounts: One for billing, one for Build Infrastructure, one each for Dev/Staging/Prod. Sometimes marketing is treated as a separate product team and their website has it's own staging/prod accounts (No real need for "dev" in that case).

Users login to the Build Infra account and then Assume Role into the others - There's a list of magic links that does the assume role. There's also a list that is added to ~/.aws/config that does the equivalent: They configure one IAM key, and the rest are assumed automatically by the CLI or client libraries (Requires relatively recent client libraries; Java only started supporting this within the last year or two)
There is a lady on my team that has a bachelor's in psychology and Masters in English.

Her title is IT Analyst. She doesn't know a lot about programming or IT, yet here we are. IT titles are incredibly meaningless nowadays. All I look for is Junior or Senior now.
It is a question of economics. Because it is engineering and cost benefit analysis is part of engineering.

The US geography makes high speed rail at the Federal level economically infeasible. Air transport reaches everyone including Alaska and Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Also some levels of pain completely fuzz the upper layers of the brain in ways that are hard to describe.
People love to pooh-pooh "complicated" things like unit tests, type systems, Kubernetes, GraphQL, etc. Things that are solving a specific problem for LARGE SCALE ENTERPRISE users.

I will quote myself here: A problem does not cease to exist just because you decided to ignore it.

Without Kubernetes, you still need to:

- Install software onto your machines

- Start services

- Configure your virtual machines to listen on specific ports

- have a load balancer directing traffic to and watching the health of those ports

- a system to re-start processes when they exit

- something to take the logs of your systems and ship them to a centralized place so you can analyze them.

- A place to store secrets and provide those secrets to your services.

- A system to replace outdated services with newer versions ( for either security updates, or feature updates ).

- A system to direct traffic to allow your services to communicate with one another. ( Service discovery )

- A way to add additional instances to a running service and tell the load balancer about them

- A way to remove instances when they are no longer needed due to decreased load.

So sure, you don't need Kubernetes at an enterprise organization! Just write all of that yourself! Great use of your time, instead of concentrating on writing features that will make your organization more money.
We need to go to space because if we don't, all of humanity will go extinct. The earth won't last forever and also tends not to fare well when it goes 1:1 with asteroids or nukes.
Whereas saying "no one can write C without bugs" over and over is a good argument.

Its hyperbole. If the argument was "few people can write C without bugs" that would be much easier to digest.
It's not even free in that it mostly just replaces the Lync/SharePoint interfaces. It's a feature people were sold that was rewritten and replaced, and the old feature removed.
> Look closely at the software landscape. The companies that do well are the ones who rely least on big companies and don’t have to spend all their cycles catching up and reimplementing and fixing bugs that crop up only on Windows XP.

Can we provide an example that isn't also a big company? I'm not really thinking of big companies that don't either dogfood their own tech or rely on someone bigger to handle things they don't want to (Apple spends 30m a month on AWS, as an example[0]). You could also make the argument that kind of no matter what route you take you're "relying on" some big player in some big space. What OS are the servers in your in-house data center running? Who's the core maintainer of whatever dev frameworks you might ascribe to (note: An employee of your company being the core maintainer of a bespoke framework that you developed in house and use is a much worse problem to have than being beholden to AWS ELB, as an example).

This kinda just sounds like knowledge and progress. We build abstractions on top of technologies so that every person doesn't have to know the nitty gritty of the underlying infra, and can instead focus on orchestrating the abstractions. It's literally all turtles. Is it important, when setting up a MySQL instance, to know how to write a lexer and parser in C++? Obviously not. But lexers and parsers are a big part of MySQL's ability to function, right?

[0]. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/22/apple-spends-more-than-30-mi...
Did you forget to take your meds?
Especially with 10 distinct development teams that all have someone smart enough to crank out some YAML with their specific requirements.
> They made billions from excellent businesses on which the world relied during a time of crisis. What would people have done without the likes of Amazon and fast delivery of nearly everything?

They've been rewarded enough already. Sometimes enough is enough, it's obscene.
The design works just fine for states that look out for the wellbeing of their populace. No point in discussing COVID relief in states that don't believe in the dangers of COVID.
The challenge is that lower level work doesn't always translate into value for businesses. For instance, knowledge of sockets is very interesting. On one hand, I spent my youth learning sockets. For me to bang out a new network protocol takes a few weeks. For others, it can take months.

This manifested in my frustration when I lead building a new transport layer using just sockets. While the people working with me were smart, they had limited low level experience to debug things.
Curious, that's a pretty valuable domain name nowadays, right?
I'm of mixed opinions on this. I really believe we have a culture problem in the US of glorifying criminality and an eroding of the social (not govt) institutions that worked as "glue" for setting expectations of appropriate, socialized behavior.

BUT.. I also think these informal social systems can behave as classist and other discriminatory mechanisms. In the US, gun control is particularly tainted with its racist past in post (Civil) war years.

I think of Switzerland as an incredibly expensive place to live, a land of the haves and have-nots. My perception is that part of the luxury they enjoy by being a comparatively stable and peaceful society is a product of them being relatively small, culturally close-knit, having a "my-way-or-the-highway (to Italy)" kind of attitude. Great stuff, but I think it probably also comes at a cost that would be hard to endure if you weren't somebody who "fit in".

I could be very wrong about evaluating the risks vs. rewards. To be honest, almost all the gun enthusiasts in the US I know belong to some sort of organization, either members of a shooting club/range, organization, etc. We tend to regard those who aren't as merely being "leechers" off the contributions we make to the community, facilities, and political action, but not suspiciously as criminals. If I'm honest, my suspicion of you as a gun owner is raised by your behavior in gun handling (recklessness) and your demeanor [appearance + behavior + language + (dis)respectfulness to others (if all mimic criminal stereotypes)]. This is a form of discrimination that also has classist and racist risks but is a bit less institutionalized perhaps than gates to formal club membership.

It's silly to me that gun control groups in the US have tried to rebrand themselves as gun safety organizations, when they neither advocate or support any gun safety training in the US. They are the equivalent of a an "abstinence-only" sex educator living in Gomorrah.

I was taught actual gun safety at a young age, the responsibility inherent in handling and owning firearms, and the self discipline necessary to use them effectively. I am biased by the tangible and intangible rewards I've gained from that, so tend to think others could benefit from it as well.
You could say all these same things about any time in human history where some process got automated, standardized, mechanized, or computerized. Indeed, many people did. They're called Luddites.

People always get scared that automation will completely remove the human touch from a process. They forget that people will still design, understand, troubleshoot, maintain, improve, be inspired by, learn from, and innovatively transform their new automated devices and processes.

The future has always ended up being people and machines working together, and I think it will continue to be that way for a long time. There will not be an AGI that replaces human thinking in our lifetime.
Sure, you can use those things. But now you also have to maintain them. It costs time, and time is money. If you don't have the expertise to administrate those things effectively, it may not be a worthwhile investment.

Everyone's situation is different, of course, but there is a reason that cloud providers have these supporting services and there is a reason people use them.
Well, clearly you're not a pilot. :P

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/rolls-royce-single-crystal-tur...
I'm fairly certain they won't moderate their content.

They (IA) view themselves as a library. Librarians have stood up against book burnings and various other social movements that were popular but later looked down upon.
The real answer is to do feature probing and benchmarking the underlying implementation. In the cloud you never really know the hardware backing your instance.
> It's how we get to the moon and Mars and how we survive as a species. It's what's next.

I find it extremely weird that people are banking on a (almost literal) moonshot for the survival of our species. Isn't trying to stop/lessen the damage we're doing to the place we currently live and which can sustain us better and more optimistic proposition than hoping a metric shitton of things go perfectly after probably millions of man-hours and trillions of dollars in order for a privileged few to go live on Mars in underground settlements with artificial everything to sustain life there? Ffs, all the rocket tests create enormous amounts of CO2 emissions, among other things, actively helping to make the Earth less habitable.
Assembly aside, all the things you mention are things I would expect a software engineer to understand. As an engineer in my late twenties myself, these are exactly the things I am focusing on. I'm not saying I have a particularly deep understanding of these subjects, but I can write a recursive descent parser or a scheduler. I value this knowledge quite highly, since its applicable in many places.

I think learning AWS/kubernetes/docker/pytorch/whatever framework is buzzing is easy if you understand Linux/networking/neural networks/whatever the underlying less-prone-to-change system is.
This argument crops up every time but it’s irrelevant; MKL does and always has worked absolutely fine on AMD processors with the checks disabled, and no, reproducibility is not a feature of MKL that is enabled by default and it never was. Intel even had to add a disclaimer that MKL doesn’t work properly on non-Intel processors after legal threats, and they still ran with that for literally years despite knowing it could just be fixed.

When this first cropped up, I was using Digg.

Edit: removed note that they fixed the cripple AMD function; they didn’t, they actually just removed the workaround that made it easier to disable the checks; I was misinformed. Apparently now some software does runtime patching to fix it, including Matlab...
> such as luring a driver into a high demand area with a fake ride (which gets cancelled)

That would be fraud. I strongly doubt they're creating and cancelling fake rides.
Nope.

In 2016 I tried fedex and told my friends to send old macbook. In insurance he had written the purchase price. And I had to pay all the taxes. And it was 40% tax.

Customs officers are thieves here.

And fedex did nothing. I supposed the would deliver to my home. But they made me run for 2-3 days and told me to go to customs and claim my items.
interesting categorization, very much so, I find there's a duality in the lonely/self-hate group. So many people who feel like that are utterly normal, they just can't connect other realities than their own judgement.
Sure, you can complain about that. But you said she was sloppily doxxed, which doesn't really seem to be the case. She was properly doxxed.
Jetbrain's products have the concept of scratch files, of which I've made thousands over the years.
Researchers use snakes to monitor Fukushima radiation after accident
They definitely aren't all at the same level right now, but I'm happy for the competition. Hopefully it will drive innovation.
How are government programs a blank check?

I thought that Medicare and Medicaid had strict rates that generally trend slightly below what most private insurers pay for Medicare and substantially below what most private insurers pay for Medicaid.
To help poor countries I was working on Arduino Nano (3$ computer) with a 2" OLED monochrome display (very very little energy required, especially if you show pixels only 1/10th of a time and use eye remanence). I don't have time to make it through, but maybe someone will be interested. It has low CPU but you can stream any kind of data through USB serial.
Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
I guess people think I’m ideologically close to her because I’m saying the foundation has poor journalistic standards… but quite the opposite. For the American standards I’m probably a leftist and for European standards a social-democrat, so I find her ideas really disgusting (I won’t write here stronger words). Journalism is really important in a full democracy, we should demand the highest standards.

About the downvoting, this is HackerNews, I can live with that :-)
Mozilla's recent history should be (and probably will be at some point) a case study in PR. They had enormous reserves of goodwill, trust, and positive perception, and managed to squander all of that in a relatively short period of time.
Of 515 people prevented by police from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge between 1937 and 1971, by the end of the 70s only 6% of them had committed suicide by other means.

Source: "Where are they now?" by Richard Seiden
It's fair to say there is redistribution at play when wages have stayed stagnant for over 10 years (at least since the 2008 crash) while executive salaries and payouts have skyrocketed at an unbelievably disproportionate level. It's effectively a global aristocracy as a handful of people amass an amount of wealth that would be impossible to conceive of not even 50 years ago. They can't soak it all up from new money, they depend on keeping their wage bills and other costs low to keep their profits up.

And the standard of living is being lost when the people with stagnating wages are being priced out of the housing market, with renting or sharing being the only reasonable alternatives. Renting itself is a redistribution of wealth from poor to rich in many a case.

Not to mention that tax policies (like Trump's tax cuts for example) tend to disproportionately benefit the wealthy far more than the middle class, and the poor. I can't think of a more clear cut example of redistribution there.

The typical HN user is likely to be on the higher end of the scale and less exposed to issues like this (after all, many of us software engineers get a yearly payrise by switching job), but I find it hard to dismiss things like this when looking at my own country's politics.
I totally agree that it is a very tricky subject, especially regarding depression. Having some experience with it myself, I would argue that irrational pessimism is a major feature of depression. For example, people cannot accurately asses actions and activities that would in fact make them happier if they were to follow through.

In this way, I think they are clearly distinct from those with terminal illness or chronic pain.

I agree that people should have the right to choose death, independent of the rationality of their decision. Ultimately, people are the owner of their body and steward of their life, even if they are imperfect and irrational ones. Taking autonomy away turns individuals and their body into the property of someone else.

I think there is some room for temporary holds and crisis management, but all such activities should be finite in duration.
Ran into the same issue using Github Pages with an FFmpeg/Wasm project. Hoping they add support for these headers soon.

I could use something like Netlify, but I like the convenience of the gh-pages branch and deployment.
It is not an ad, no. I was just giving a shout-out to my local charity that refurbishes computers and provides them to low-income individuals.

Additionally, I was pointing out I have a full-featured desktop PC running an open source operating system, so I just sidestep the problem a lot of these dongles and gadgets introduce.
Bitcoin has been around for a decade now and no one has imagined much less implemented use cases beyond anonymous payments for illegal cross-border transfers or illicit goods and trading other crypto coins
> it may even contribute to our literal suicide as a species

Much as choosing to stay on earth is guaranteed suicide for humanity, on a long enough timescale. I would hate to see all of our eggs in one basket.
> and his coworkers discover he said this.

how and why?

we all hold crazy opinions. as long as “Frank” has a proven record of successfully working with women, what exactly is the problem?
throughout my career i’ve been working with some crazy individuals. their opinions were expressed in non office settings. then at work they were basically the antithesis of what they were preaching in private.

the gist is easy to understand: as long as your opinions don’t affect your work, why should anything like this matter?
I think the storage space for our notion of 'others' or 'loved ones' is one extremely potent part of our minds. I am who I love somehow, my brain goes against destroying that bond.
As an aside, The West Wing was an incredible show that just became too hard to rewatch. The things the fought and cared about on the show all turned out for the worst. In S1 or S2, they're shouting about cyber warfare and privacy, and here we are 20(?) years later constantly observing cyber warfare and having lost the war on privacy.
It's extremely common. And many of them are fairly productive until an awkward bug shows up.
Very cool, well done.
From the various "natives" I've talked to, calling them "Americans" is roughly as offensive as calling them "Indians." It's giving them the name of their conquerors. I personally like Canada's term "First Nations," but I'm aware that US tribes have not opted for that name either.

I tend to use the term others are using, in this case I was thinking of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, unless it's obviously being used derogatorily. I probably should have said non-native though.
I would say that aggressively disseminating hate speech and generally forwarding crazy conspiracy theories and racism qualifies as "harming and threatening" others.
What is the goal of that?
Sure, CRM/SFM is just database stuff. The rest is merely software.
Yes, but no. You could pre-pay for the next 100 years, but there’s no guarantee you would get 100 years of service. Nothing stopping AWS increasing prices during that period, and you’d be subject to those increases just like everyone else.
Thanks, we just built a new site and hiring some journalists. The MailChimp was just MVP to see if people cared about space news (which they clearly do).

Expect a much more professional site in the coming weeks.
No, Their CPUs as in ones from Intel. Intel has long done a thing in their compilers where they detect the CPU model, and run less optimized code if it isn't Intel. They claim it is because they can't be sure "Other" processors have correctly implemented SSE and other extensions. So Intel Linux is going to run faster on an Intel CPU because it was compiled with ICC.
It's impossible to measure, but I wonder what % of suicides happens because of the culture that we live in. A lot of times when you read about someone commiting suicide it's blamed on that individual or their mental health - but is that really the root issue? How many of the suicides wouldn't happen if society was set up in a different way?
Feminism is not only for women, it's about addressing unequal power.
Data scientists happen to be political actors due to their social impact.

https://towardsdatascience.com/data-scientists-and-the-ethic...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03435

"imply that Data Scientists somehow have a prejudice"

Data scientists are people, we have all kinds of biases, the difference is that their work has a lot of impact. Technology and society has always been closely intertwined.
Many non-europeans have been pro-expansionist.
As a software engineer, who hasn't felt like "I definitely know how to make everything better by rewriting the whole thing!"? UI/UX designers feel the same way. It's never the answer, but it's not the end of the world if someone does it; after some time and feedback the product becomes useable again.
I've been trying to get a meeting with my Senators to express my opinion, but they won't have me. They regularly take meetings with corporate lobbyists though. I wonder what it is they're telling my Senators? Sure wish I had $10 million to spend on lobbyists like Amazon.
I’ve watched what Rich Hickey has gone through with Clojure and Cognitect. I think he did a great job there, but I wouldn’t say I envy the experience he had getting Clojure this far.
It's about Government's ability to restrict or punish free speech, for example, by making you disappear (e.g. China per Hong Kong and Uighur brainwashing, Saudi Arabia bone-sawing journalists).

There can be, and are, private consequences to speech. I may not invite you back for dinner for example, other consequences may be more impactful.
On the off chance that that is pointed at US Americans: assault rifles are pretty rare, and are strictly controlled and registered in the US. Depending how much of the group "machine gun" you also describe as "assault rifle", they get even rarer, especially considering that any automatic weapons made since 1986 are outright illegal for all but police.
Building a mining rig for mining RNDR