skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve found that are generally three stages in a company’s life. If you are extremely technical you can make bare metal beat cloud in the beginning. As the environment grows and IT roles diversify cloud starts to make more sense financially then bare metal so you do a cloud migration. If you are lucky then eventually you get to the point that it’s cheaper to run your own hardware then rent someone else’s and you end up migrating out of the cloud again.

If there is a fourth stage then it’s getting to the point that it’s more profitable to run a side business renting out your unused resources to others and you become a cloud.

I’m surprised there isn’t a Walmart cloud or an Exxon cloud by now.
How hard is it to build your own ISP? Just curious.
The problem I see with that is that, if you are rich enough to game the system that way, you are probably rich enough to be gaming the system in order to get your kids into something other than a state school.

Unless we involve football, for example. Sports break the model.
This gentleman, by whatever named you call him, is perhaps my favorite Stephenson character. I hated him after the first book... it felt too difficult to related to his decisions and mistakes, but loved him by the end.
Elon Musk - gets a degree in physics and a PhD in materials and builds rockets.

The Author - gets a masters of arts and writes 2000 words hoping to get ad clicks to feed his kids.
Make Your Bed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgzLzbd-zT4
We don't use the SAT in Canada. Instead it's course grades plus provincial final exams which are subject specific. Generally works pretty well..
Give me a keyboard with a trackpoint and I will give up thinkpads for the exact same reason.
This is why you're supposed to add "in Minecraft" at the end of every comment.
> But then just because there is a similar problem elsewhere doesn't mean we should ignore either of them or only fix them together.

What are you talking about? This seems like a non-sequitur.
Fact check: Jeff Bezos is not an alien, nor a reptile
> run in-process, with zero "protection" between them and the host

Perhaps that's the current state of things, but like you mentioned with web browsers, it's a thing that can be done if you're willing to sink enough effort into it. Browsers had to go through this process at some point too. There's nothing that prevents plugins from running in a sandbox where the only I/O is waveform in, waveform out.
> Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla on Tuesday confirmed with iPod Observer that his company initiated the creation of the iPod packaging parody video that was first reported last month. "It was an internal-only video clip commissioned by our packaging [team] to humorously highlight the challenges we have faced RE: packaging and to educate marketers here about the pitfalls of packaging/branding," he said via e-mail.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2006/mar/14/ifmi...
A Contamination Theory of the Obesity Epidemic
Many people have to supply their own equipment to work, it's not unusual.
Weirdly the turtle skeleton puzzle and the ending are the only two parts I can really remember of The Dig.

I think I wound up using a walkthrough to finish the puzzle. It was a bizarre thing to include and probably a sign that nobody had bothered play-testing that part of the game although at the time I didn't really care.
If one were to learn to code, what language would be the most practical to start with to become a full stack dev?
In fairness to WoD the leveling experience really was great. However they utterly gutted combat mechanics which I think is a big part of why people coming from MoP into WoD hated it so much. And then the content drought...
Probably, but due to how game rendering works I don't think you'd gain anything other than battery life..
I agree with this analysis, although I’d disagree that it’s questionable, I’d say it’s straight fallacious. I’d draw a parallel to the development of CNC technology[1], in the case that if this software solution can become successful, it seems feasible to me that their might become some sort of equivalent to a machine shop, but for assembly/robotics instead of manufacturing/machining. Currently we have Foxconn, who is doing significant research in the manufacturing automation space, and seems to be making progress, but I see no reason this couldn’t take a similar arc. CNC/CAD was initially only for the most ambition prototypes, but as it proliferated it reshaped the product market, making curves easy and allowing for much more complex 3d shapes, and was kick started by the stagflation of the 70’s.
I don’t look forward to (more) products put together by machines that are impossible for a human to do. But I genuinely feel that mastering robotics is one of the most important goals for society as a whole (and especially for safety conscious western countries), up their with clean energy and carbon sequestration. There is a lot of manual labor that (especially) Americans need to do, from updating infrastructure for rising seas and fixing the poorly maintained infrastructure we have, to increasing housing in urban centers, to whatever form carbon sequestration ends up taking––and western disease leaves these countries mostly unfit for the task ahead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_numerical_contr ol
> when I can follow someone on Facebook using an open standard like RSS without having an account

Ahhh, being out of touch
> So as the laws currently stand you can work for a foreign government lobbying the US government, you just need to be transparent about what you’re doing.

While that's better than nothing, it doesn't go far enough.

And frankly, there's also an issue of reciprocity: why should the Chinese be able to hire connected government insiders, when I'm pretty sure the CCP would absolutely disallow such work by their own political insiders (and probably do bad things to anyone who was stupid enough to take a job like that).
I am old enough to remember when OLED was in the same boat. Yield was low, expected life was short and RGB was far off.

I was extremely excited when I got my hands on a 2 line character single color OLED display many years ago. That a phone would ever have an OLED color display was a far off fantasy.

I am sure we will see uLED at some point, it just takes time and a lot of research.
nah, that's clearly an argument in favour of full blown duodecimal system.

1729 decimal is 1001 duodecimal,
Every kid raised in a duodecimal system that had to learn how to convert into decimal in order to interact with us barbarians knows this fact.
Note that because of diversity issues the US is moving away from any form of levels (called tracking). The problem they had was that the advanced / AP / pre-med / doctor levels etc had over-reps in white / asian. The push in the US is for more group work, less tracking so that all students including various racial groups that have historically not done as well can move together through system.

Europe had tracks for things like trade schools / skill based schools and other programs - US is very focused on academics / college / university etc.
> FAANG has access to the leading factories in Shenzhen, and heavily utilize robot tech in their HW supply chains.

Do you know what the N stands for in FAANG?
Regardless of personal political leanings everybody should be concerned about the increasingly authoritarian actions of our government. What’s equally concerning is there is no shortage of people that will come out and defend this stuff, as long as it is being wielded against the proper target. Or in defense of a favorable entity.
What do you propose they should do next to push back harder?
In my opinion there are a few reasons to attend college:

1. You legitimately want to expand human knowledge beyond what exists. This should be the ultimate goal of a PHD. Whether or not this produces important output (in the capitalistic sense, aka is profitable) is secondary to attaining the new knowledge.

2. You want to attain high level knowledge of a subject AND the best way you learn is by having a strict course regiment with a decent teacher-to-student ratio.

3. You just want that check mark on your resume when you try to get a job.

#1 isn't about getting a job. #2 and #3 have some overlap in that the ultimate goal of both tends to be securing a job. The difference between them is how an individual learns material. Some people can read a book, or view youtube lectures, then take some tests and learn sufficiently that way (#3). But some people require #2 style learning.

But let's be honest, the vast majority of people attending college are for #2 or #3. Meaning, it is ultimately about getting a job. So as long as a job in a desired fields requires a degree, people will essentially be required to get them. The trend is recent years seems to be the dramatic split between #2 and #3 style learning.
WOnderful article. Yes indeed you can go into a rabbit hole when it comes to CSS
Hey that even worked on my mobile phone. Cool tech demo.
Appreciate this follow-up response, and I apologize for running with what I perceived as a hostility in your earlier response, it's a struggle for sure.

1) Completely agree, the history is important to understand the threads that continue into the present, but there is no going back.

2) At this point, I think the West should stay out of it in any official capacity, which isn't totally confident statement on my part, but there it is. I also don't think white people suck, and I think focusing on that would be a distraction, the same way it sounds like you do. I intend my criticisms to target abuse of power, which of course happens to fall into the hands of white people fairly often, but it's not the crux in my mind at all. In my original comment I did not mention race for that reason. These kinds of power abuses are ubiquitous wherever people live, and it is absolutely absurd to blame the West or whites as a group for succumbing to the same failures and abusive patterns as people do everywhere.

All of that said... I still think it's important to bring up the lingering influences of colonization, and that an understanding of the forces at play, even going back hundreds of years, is likely crucial to trying to make progress in the present.

> Who is responsible for this legislation passing in your mind

I'm not totally sure, of course from a fundamental view it is the politicians who are enacting the legislation. They are directly responsible for the bill, but I think this is potentially simplistic. Money from outside sources can make a lot of things happen that never would have otherwise, including putting politicians into power and steering their agenda. So if the situation in Ghana can be directly tied to that kind of corruption, I would shift most of the blame to the people who the ultimate driving force behind these bills.

As a fellow gay, I understand your desire to steer the conversation toward more immediate concerns, but I would contest the characterization of the region's history as purely academic. Teasing apart the fractal of influences that create any behavior, including violence toward minorities, can be difficult if not impossible. Spreading more contextual awareness can be a tool to help shift attitudes, at least as far as the limits of a HN comment are concerned.
(Allowing wider margins of error and larger tolerances means better reliability and stability.)
Speaking of egress... I've been thinking about hosting stuff on Hetzner and using Backblaze B2 for storage to get a cheap alternative to EC2+S3, but unfortunately they're not partners so I won't get free traffic, or low latency :(.
That's an excellent point. Maybe the point where it stops being "a fun thing to teach to kids" and becomes "teaching them a job" is when you force them to learn it even when they aren't having fun and don't want to because you think it will help them with a career.
How do you want me to answer that? Older things are still compatible on bitcoin network in the older address format. But that mostly means choosing between meta-assets or multisig, or choosing a meta asset or segwit. They also are not transmittable over lightning network reliably yet, this is mostly a factor of no protocol and gui being finished but two people can make their own protocol.

I’m looking forward to this all being standardized and wallets surfacing it after they agree on the protocols.
How powerful can an on-device machine learning really be? I keep hearing about this. Is this just fancy jargon or real stuff can be processed on device.
Good; the sooner we make university credentialing irrelevant the better.
The color blind thinking modal has a long history of helping the majority stay the majority. What you propose is to continuing allow the status quo, which has already by statistical aggregation of college entrance proved to allow under performing “whites” in. Have you not seen the news where Aunt Becky got her kid in? Without tough affirmative action rules, Aunt becky’s kids get in and your kids don’t.

This thinking model is best to be dropped into the dustbins of history.
That's not really a problem. You don't hash the entire video, but do something resembling a merkle tree. i.e. look at a torrent, they're identified by a hash but you can download and verify a random chunk
Perhaps there's a nuance I'm missing, but it's odd to me that you'd look at 48 _government employees_ and not as many people off the street of a similar age etc. as you could afford. Is there reason to believe people who work in government have different brains? Are we trying to see if these government employees are different than other government employees, or that they're different from _people in general_?

40 is a significant fraction of 200, but it's still a small number. You subject 40 people to a whole battery of imaging and examination, and I'm sure you'll find something odd in at least one of the tests. "Intensive and repeated investigation of a small population yields artifacts, and there is no plot" seems the stronger case to me.

If there is a plot, then I'm sure the CIA can solve it. That's what they do, and they have all the resources in the world to do it. If they don't solve it, then I think we should accept that there was no plot and that mass hysteria is the best explanation. Similarly if they do solve it, then we have to accept that.

Several years in, the explanations are shifting and vague, which is the hallmark of mirage.
I like inverted pyramid style too, but it’s a very brief intro and letting the CEO of a new company introduce themselves doesn’t seem so bad? You could skip the first paragraph.
He says the same in this interview too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnMsgxIIQEE&t=109s
We all agree when we should say that a cow is dead, but what about sponges? You can pass a sponge through a sieve, and the isolated cells will recombine https://www.shapeoflife.org/video/sponges-time-lapse-sponge-... (Is there a better link?) Can a single cell of a sponge create a "new" sponge? Or it's just the "old" sponge? Should you wait until the last cell is dead until we can claim it's dead?

Back to cows...

You can remove the heart of a cow and keep the heart alive in a proper device, and keep the rest of the cow alive with an artificial heart. (I don't know if someone has tried this with cows, but this should be possible with the same technology for hearts transplants in humans.)

Are both parts alive? What happens if I unplug one of them? Is the heart-less-cow is the real cow? I think we all agree about this last question, but from the cellular level it's just an arbitrary classification, in spite it's useful for us.
DEA: $37k seized at Pittsburgh International Airport smelled like pot
I loved this. Amazing atmosphere.
I love the chaos of the imperial system. It has the taste of life itself.
I'll remind myself in 2 years to see the state of this
What "USA safety first culture"? If you kill someone with your car today, mostly nothing happens. The system is supremely setup to excuse even the most negligent, reckless behavior as long as it happens in a car. (Any car! Bought a huge, pointless truck with impossible sight lines? No problem!)

As it stands, being able to blame Autopilot has a great chance of improving the system. What do you think happens when the Tesla Autopilot has one of its predictable jerks and maims a pedestrian? YouTube is full with documentation of just these kinda problems, and suing Tesla in civil court promises a lot more cash than some random deadbeat.
Yeah it's really unfortunate how few people have access to insurance for therapy too.
I was inclined to do so on python and was reluctant to use a typed language.

I tried Go and Typescript and realized that the extra code is really, really worth the security, refactorability and safety.

I now frown on my beloved Python for being so permissive
>"Free choice of high school"

How does this work when 25% of the students want to go to the "best" one? Is it really not free choice, but free choice of schools for which your exam scores qualify you?
I see conflicting information about cryptos. One country bans it, another adopts it. How feasible is it for all crypto to get banned?
The easy way is a Data Processing Agreement, which has to precisely list what data is processed which way.

This is of course a legal document and the implementation may do something else.
Xi (and every leader for that matter) chances to stay in power are intrinsically linked to one metric:

Quality of life of the population

If you leave quality of life on the table because of geopolitical games you are shooting yourselves in the foot.

Even during massive state sponsored hate campaigns (such as the one promoted by Hitler against the Jews) the population spends just a bunch of minutes per day actually fuming and hating...the rest of the 24 hrs they live their lives.

Quality of life is a much more potent motivator to support the leader/party than hatred.

That's why any sane country and leader would never attack an economically important country intentionally.

Violent wars are relegated to Africa and the economically unimportant areas of the Middle East such as Yemen. With some small outbreaks here and there in ethnically hot areas such as Ukraine
> Will the performance gap vanish when they get accepted by an university

No.

> But why fix then?

It's an ideological commitment, not a reasoned one.
No, we are not a health care provider in the traditional sense.
Doesn't the UC have the same policy? It is the top 9%, but still- https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...
I think the underlying point is that platforms are gearing their algorithms towards manipulation, and that a new user account has a pre-set path towards being rabbit holed to where most of the content they see can trap them into certain mindsets...

This worries me a lot, because people generally think they are choosing what they want to see, but the platform can shape the world views of many people all at once.

If you trap someone in a room and play violent videos for them all day long, when you let them out, they might come out thinking they'll have to fight for survival, just as an example.

Governments can encourage political chaos through subjecting people to certain types of videos through these platforms over time, and as another example, they can influence certain regions to start a riot or vote a certain way.

Behavioral psychologists are involved in algorithm development now just as much as developers and that's a big problem that most of the world, especially government regulators are totally unaware of.

I have a TikTok account, but only use it in really small doses because I found the suggestive content really was not good for my mental health. I hope more people realize that this is happening, and also understand the lies about potential for sharing independent work on platforms because the platforms are really not geared towards discovery of new content, they have very specific agendas and money making at the foremost behind them.
It's one of those scale-dependent things. As a rule, history's greatest atrocities didn't originate in secret. From the Communist Manifesto to Mein Kampf to the PNAC charter, the architects were not shy about telling anyone who would listen exactly what they thought should happen or what they planned to do. It's fair to place the Christchurch shooter in that category.

At the other end of the spectrum, it seems that people who go online and rant about how someone should shoot the President or cut a judge's brake lines or whatever are the least likely to follow through. They aren't exactly the movers and shakers of civilization, more likely just thoughtless kids or random loudmouths. Wasting law enforcement time on nonspecific threats is the sort of thing a government that has too much power tends to do.
Generally speaking you can as long as the team's product and tooling are not Windows specific, so it varies by team, but there are significant parts of the company that do not care about Windows for your development environment.
Does copyright for a story containing a recipe protect against use of the recipe outside the context of the story?
In addition to the existing ones (I'll throw another vote towards any Neal Stephenson or Andy Weir novel):

Contact by Carl Sagan. It's a nice tale about a passionate SETI scientist, by an author known more commonly for nonfiction and TV.
In what sense is it order of magnitudes cheaper? Egress traffic?
Oh god yes. There's nothing more embarrassing than being unable to exit fullscreen powerpoint because the touch bar just won't show the ESC option because you once changed a setting about the touchbar. ESC should never permanently disappear!
What Does It Mean When There’s a 20% Chance of Rain? It’s Complicated
There is at least one world where 1 is better than 100: The one where you actually stick with it. Getting out and walking (when I was fat and out of shape from a decade of being a programmer and video gamer) was better than getting out and running because I couldn't maintain running. Even a slow jog at that point was unmaintainable because it was more frustrating than anything. Walking was just walking, boring at times, but I was moving. Running came later.
Leave Gaza out of this and mind your own business. They're already suffering at the hands of an illegitimate murderous occupier.
Your question is already amply answered by the quotation I included earlier.
That’s a laptop from 2 years ago; the new M1 MacBooks are more indicative of where things are headed in the future. Things like memory and any custom ICs are just going to be integrated on the same silicon as the CPU in most cases.
This is really boring pedantry, that does not further the conversation. Do you have anything to reply to from the rest of my comment?
Overall a great answer, but I'm not so sure of #3. Yes, there are people who want big cities to fail, but AFAICT not many of them are rural themselves. They're in smaller cities or outer suburbs ("exurbs") of big ones. They play to a rural image or ethos, but typically neither know nor care about anyone truly living a rural life.

Also (6) higher level/quality of municipal services, because those are (mostly) funded from local taxes. This is most obvious in schools but you can also see it in the personnel, equipment, and training of the local police and fire departments, the number and maintenance level of parks, etc.
Religion is a human right. Not only that, it's inherent in humans to believe in the One Creator.
Also, the author has an inexplicable obsession with chains moving in free space. (Okay, I get it, it's cool physics, but how is it any more practical than using a mega-catapult as an airport?)
Pretty neat. You guys need a user base. It looks like there was nobody to challenge. But it's fine. Great idea.
Does Twitter need to be killed or fixed? (2008)