skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, not really. My second example has to do with internal frameworks inside a FAANG, where the average half-life of code is about a year (i.e. half your code is deprecated or deleted a year after you write it).

I've observed similar technology shifts with backend code (where MySQL was hot in 2003, PostGres in 2006, MongoDB in 2009, Cassandra in 2011, PostGres again in 2015, and now there's this huge explosion of storage solutions) and in platforms (where we were all about the web in 2007, all about mobile in 2010, all about blockchain in 2013, all about smartwatches & VR in 2015, and all about Ethereum & smart contracts in 2018).
There is a middle way here, which is to partner and commit early, but take some time to enjoy being young adults together before you become chained to a childcare routine. I have a sense that this leads to a more stable family in the long run, and it's what my own parents did.

It is pretty hard to find though. It seems people want either hot casual sex or a house in the suburbs within 6 months, not much in between.
Letter from a Region in My Mind, by James Baldwin
Let's stick to the question and avoid making this about the person asking the question.
Every synapse is itself a protuberance caused and maintained by microtubules. If the previous estimates of computational power are based on the mere integration of synaptic activity (I'm looking at you, Kurzweil), and as of late we are coming to view the individual synapses as full computational elements in their own rights, then this is essentially adding at least another order of magnitude or two to the equation beyond our modern understanding.

This is because every single synapse would itself additionally be placed and supported by a state-machine-based computational system local to it, tethered to every other state-machine-based computational system in the same neuron, including synapses at both the input and output side, and a much larger computational complex of systems within the body of the cell.

Computational systems built upon computational systems upon computational systems, all complexed together and communicating at multiple layers of the hierarchy with bi-directional feedback.
Murder has a meaning that predates legal definitions.
Also, many groups in history are currently accused of murder despite it being legal at the time.
From slave owners to Nazis, from communists to African warlords.

So are these not murders because they are legal?
We have lots of people on earth, they just need to be able to move to where they want to go. Low birthrate issue is nonsense. Let a couple million people from the Philippines in to Korea problem solved.
> The times should be divided into 0:00 AM through 11:59 AM and 0:00 PM through 11:59 PM so that the hours wrap around at the AM/PM boundary, not one hour later.

Sure, although, if we're re-defining how people tell time anyway, we might as well use a 24-hour clock and so avoid the need for AM/PM at all; and, even if we do that, there is still, inevitably, the confusion about on what day 00:00 AM falls. My point was just that not knowing that "12 PM" means noon is a matter of not being aware of an arbitrary convention, rather than of not understanding the concept of AM vs. PM. (Indeed, arguably it is a matter of understanding their meaning all too well!)
I would never accept a counter offer anyway. Seems like leaving is too traumatic to the relationship.
Yeah, indeed. My 2019 MacBook Pro has a touchbar, but 90% of the time, I use it in clamshell mode with two external monitors.

I can use my Apple Watch to authenticate things like passwords in Safari, but I would MUCH prefer to not have to lift my hands off the keyboard. A lot of the time I just type my password. A million times a day. This would be a quality of life improvement.
I think they were trying to say that playing games from the Oculus store on a Valve Index or HTC Vive isn't possible, but playing games bought on Steam on a Quest 2 is possible.

It actually is one of the complaints I have about how Oculus does things, but since they basically ushered in this new era of VR, they pretty much had to have their own store and SDK. I can't fault them for not closing it, and nothing is stopping the developers from publishing on both.
Impact to fish waterlife, the direct affect of creating cancer in humans in short order, the impact to the insect food life cycle which affect the entire chain.

Its a killer. There is no arguing that - and seriously ALL of it ends up in the water. The most important resource on the planet.

I am surprised I have to even say this.

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>>>>the direct affect of creating cancer in humans in short order

>>>>Where does this come from? There have been no recorded cases to support this claim.

Jeasus christ, before you try to shut something down, know your facts:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-cancer-lawsuit-i...

Its one of the reasons Monsanto merged with Bayer - to "cleanse" the name of the fact that glyphosate is liquid cancer in a bottle.
Limited supply of housing is an artificial local government constraint using tools like zoning and permitting to stop the construction of new housing keep prices high for incumbent owners. I agree it’s a huge problem but I would rather fight the constraint on supply than limit demand (partially immigrants) when they contribute so much else. We shouldn’t restrict economic growth and deny millions of people the chance at a better life to appease NIMBYs.

USA is amazing at assimilating immigrants. Mostly the places the furthest away from any immigrants that don’t actually interact with them have a problem. The melting pot isn’t a myth it’s real.
But I know that Youtube radicalizes people because I read it[0] over[1] and[2] over[3] and[4] over[5] for[6] multiple[7] years[8].

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/reader-center/brazil-yout...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/magazine/youtube-radicali...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/technology/youtube-conspi...

[4]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/opinion/sunday/facebook-t...

[5]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/02/technology/yo...

[6]: https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole

[7]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/the-weekly/what-is-youtub...

[8]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/technology/youtube-online...
> If anything, I am looking forward to the cloud platforms to replace UNIX.

That happened in the late 80's / early 90's and it was called Plan 9. And there was a reason it failed to fill its intended role:

[I]t looks like Plan 9 failed simply because it fell short of being a compelling enough improvement on Unix to displace its ancestor. Compared to Plan 9, Unix creaks and clanks and has obvious rust spots, but it gets the job done well enough to hold its position. There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough.
— Eric S. Raymond

> UNIX, hypervisor, Linux, Windows, bare metal,...., I just don't care.

Then you don't need to worry about "looking forward" to replace any of those things.
I share your concern that people will see this as cool or glamorous. But isn't it also helpful for people to try to understand the perspective of the attackers, for example because they might

* become better able to defend themselves

* become better motivated to defend themselves

* better understand how to deter these attackers

* become more motivated to seek action from government or vendors to deter these attackers

* have a more informed debate about the ransomware industry or organized crime as a whole

...?

Edit: for example, things that I had heard that were confirmed for me by this interview include that the Russian government is consciously tolerant of this activity (maybe someone could find ways to change that!?), that organized crime fears being caught or attacked by NSA, that ransomware attackers are very sensitive to their reputation and public image, that you can probably count on them to keep their side of their illicit bargains, and that they are especially motivated by money rather than ideology. All of those seem like pretty interesting ideas that might be hard to confirm quite as well in other ways.
Yeah, it does, M1 is Apple silicon.
Another thing that happens is people get dragged into more and more meetings and also become the “go to person” for stuff.

I’ve seen it time and time again, start somewhere new and start with very few meetings and you can really deliver.
Because the employer isn’t fixing the problem they’re deploying bandaids that are known not to work. I wouldn't want to work like that either and companies need to learn how to effectively secure software. What if companies paid like BM probably pays? I bet most people would do the work in a less grey fashion. But companies don’t value security so this is the result.
And now a favorite goal of small/medium business is to use computers to go completely paperless.
Checked the headers on the PDF link above
"x-cache Hit from cloudfront" so yeah its just being served via cloudfront with the origin being an S3 bucket, nothing there that would discredit the site in my eyes as its "just AWS" which tons of companies big and small use.
"Why is X already solved, except for maybe reason Y" is a HN staple comment though. A few months I came across "Other than nuclear weapons regulations, is there any reason this can't work to fix <blockchain project XYZ>?".
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It's expensive now, but those costs are rapidly decreasing. Drone transportation into and out of once-remotely habitated places will be commonplace by 2050. Those “settlements” will have renewable power, desalination, agriculture, industry even. Conjecture, but when you look at the technology curves, telling.
I suppose. But I've had so many more problems with gpsd (especially when e.g. USB enumerates devices randomly) that on outdoor robots I've switched to parsing NMEA strings and binary data over serial directly, specifically for reliability reasons.

Also I've had gpsd think some other non-GPS serial device was GPS, took up the port, and I got frustrated at its incompetency and apt-get uninstalled it.
Ever Given: Cargo ship that blocked Suez Canal arrives in UK
>Ugh, you seriously sound like a lawyer from Bayer’s legal department.

>Search pubmed for glyphosate for a small taste. Then realize that most of those studies were done ONLY on glyphosate, the solvents and surfactants that glyphosate is mixed with to make Roundup are excluded. Post some studies if you find any juicy ones!

But you haven't provided any sources to support your dissent. You are right in that there have been many studies on glyphosate and products which include it but nothing so far to conclusively characterize it as a carcinogen or otherwise harmful to human life outside of exposure in large quantities.

Does that mean it's not harmful? No. Might we find it harmful in the future? Maybe. But we've nothing conclusive yet.
So Nazis did not commit murder because it was legal. Got it.
> This step while being fairly straightforward

Gone are those days when this was straightforward.
How come in your mind there's an onus on the employee to work as hard as they can but not on the company to pay that effort what it's actually worth? Unless there's a genuine emotional reason that transcends your salary (such as in community/nonprofit work) the relationship between an employer and company should be transactional in my opinion.
> Crypto basically has no functionality.

Transferring payments across the world is functional, and yes, the traditional financial system also does this, but it doesn't mean crypto has no functionality.

Edit: Previous statement I was responding to has changed. I still don't agree that crypto has no utility though. I agree with almost everything I was responding to except that part. Yes, real estate has more utility, for sure. To me it doesn't matter that crypto has some overlap with traditional finance. This is an iteration on technology, which has its own pros/cons, but some folks are trying to come up with something better. Time will tell if that succeeds or not. IMO, it's too early to tell. You can also see that I wasn't the only person who responded to the parent comment that Bitcoin may be a competitor to capital flowing to gold as a potential inflation hedge.
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Scott Manley's explanation of the ISS accident also introduces quaternions as a coordinate system for objects in space that solves the gimbal lock problem and has other desirable algebraic properties:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDBt9rZhMb4
What if instead this is a move to rebuild a portion of the company in a more sustainable way, but without destroying the revenue stream in the meantime?

Admittedly, FB has a lot of history of mistakes, but they really did get the hard problems in tech (human, social problems) that no one solved yet anywhere. FB seems to actually try to fix their issues... they just make new ones along the way.

Personally, i think anything that distracts FB from focusing on ads and data extraction seems to be good. Lets let them and encourage them use the FB money to finance a new industry research, even if FB doesn't end up the market leader.
So Nazi’s did not commit murder because it was legal.
Got it.
Used it for fully transient services. If search died, it could be rebuilt from scratch. If chat died, data about active chats would be lost, but no one really cared.

The main issue with using it with other services was answering questions like "how do we restore a database backup?" or "what do we do if Kafka blows up, and we lose messages?". It's possible to create a design that won't get into an inconsistent state when bad things happen, but people tend to greatly underestimate how hard it is.
Yea I fully appreciate this. In fact, when I do pop back to WoW I am always grateful that LFG and LFR exist. That system is a godsend for casual gamers (like myself).

I just used to be a hard core gamer so I share the sentiment that some may feel which is that the glory days of WoW are long passed. What we have now is objectively “better” in every way, and yet, you can’t help but miss the past.
I use Bitcoin to satisfy my inflation-hedging appetite. I wonder to what extent cryptocurrency enthusiasm is suppressing gold prices, as increasing number of people view Bitcoin as a viable inflation hedging alternative to gold.

If Bitcoin didn't exist, I would probably own more gold.
This seems like a bad thing overall, even though the intentions seem very good.

From the offset Twitter is collaborating with two entities, entities who themselves may promote the very sort of content and situation Twitter is trying to avoid with this post. That aside-

The very idea of a reliable source is dependent on the situation and subject matter at hand. Given the lack of consensus in the media or among so-called experts to begin with I’m not sure how much this will do other than reinforce the notion of a correct opinion, which you can rephrase as propaganda depending on your inclination.

No matter how many sources or information you have to prove your point, it seems what’s considered misinformation is often a matter of opinion.

A perfect example of this might be:

“People vaccinated with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine still die from the delta variant. Therefore I do not believe it’s worth getting the vaccine.”

Perhaps it’s true that there exists people who are vaccinated who still die. Perhaps their opinion is indeed that it’s not worth it. Is the above quote misleading or misinformation?

——

Personally I wish Twitter would take a political position based on whatever they believe to be true and just flag things they disagree with, rather than continue with the guise of stopping misinformation which without a perfect understanding of truth is likely to be an equally counterproductive action. So in the above example they could just say “for now we will flag all posts that discourage vaccinations as we believe it’s best for you to be vaccinated”
36. It's the number of bits you need to represent 10 (decimal) digits fixed point, or 8 digits floating point. It's enough to calculate the differences of atomic masses. A number of early mainframes had 36 bit words for this reason.

80. The number of columns in a standard punch card.

132 (?). The number of columns in an extended punch card.

16407. On a TRS80 Model 1, the address of... something. Video controller register, maybe? Poking values into this register would result in weird (and sometimes entertaining) behavior on the screen. It often took a reboot to recover from, though.
Developer stagnant?

I was in Amazon and Google, I never saw a case where the developer stagnant before the product/management went into stagnant.

Developers just write code, and they just accumulate more knowledgeable and skills with the stuff they work on. How can they stagnant is something not obvious to me at all...
what other models start with a lattice assumption of space? I have been working on the math for a a model of space that is just a lattice, bosons are a vibration on the lattice, hadrons are twists on the lattice, gravity is stretching/compression of the lattice.
I'm hearing violins reading this.
Essentially: basic income!
A lot of people here are justifying why from an employee's perspective it makes sense for a company to fire their founder CEO. But it's worth noting that a material percentage of HN readers are also current or future founders, and from their perspective it's 100% valuable to know the track record of VCs. As you build your company and go through multiple rounds of funding, you are going to occasionally have to make a choice between two or more VCs. While I have been lucky to have never been on the receiving end of VC shenanigans, I know enough people who can't say the same thing. It usually starts very innocently, like: "hey, look at this COO candidate, wouldn't they be amazing to help you build this company?" Except that the COO has a long relationship with the VC, and you can pretty much assume that every little thing that happens at the company will be immediately telegraphed. Another VC favorite is to be "helpful" in building the company and meet a bunch of your staff (or, worse, take them out for coffee). Again, thanks but no thanks. One more: 360 reviews that are shared with the board (why don't we get the board members' 360s from their previous CEOs?). And then the most damaging and highly unethical one: a CEO coach with loose lips (a very close VC friend has told me that he's successfully using one that works with many top companies - no, I won't share any details). In all these instances, I fully expect the employees to say - why not? But if you've ever been in the hot seat, you'll understand what you're up against, and if you're smart you'll say no to all of these (assuming you have the ability to choose, which often times you will not).
It implies an a priori background structure. Hilbert spaces are usually preferred, as the complex state of a wavefunction kind of implies that representation.
There is an analogous line of thinking for ghosts https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2019/10/enlightenment-era-gh...
Meh… no touch bar.
It's fine to trust them right up until they give you a magic number.
In general the NSA functions more like 2 agencies, one focused on the "red" side (hacking, breaking crypto, sigint stuff) and one focused on the "blue" side (protecting US assets from being hacked, developing better/new crypto, providing guidance on security).

Both sides are good at their jobs and for what it's worth, my understanding is that the blue side really does want to keep your shit from being hacked.
Not really on point, but perhaps worth noting that having had some wrist stiffness and pain lately, I tried a Magic Keyboard (not this one, the one with the numpad) as an intermediate step between my previous Majestouch 2 and Ergodox/Moonlander/Kinesis esoterica, and over the last few weeks it's actually been pretty good. I don't know if I'll stick with it indefinitely, but I'm glad I decided to give it a try; the low profile and short throw really do seem to make eight- and ten- and twelve-hour workdays significantly easier on my wrists.
I don't really understand this article, or the current trend of job hopping. I'm from the generation where you have one job, maybe two, and that's it: I've had 7, but I really only ever wanted one good job.

For some perspective: when I left Intel circa 2010, I was a Senior Staff Engineer fighting to get promoted to Principal Engineer (followed by Senoir Principal, then Fellow, then Senior Fellow, hahaha). FYI I loved Intel for the first 10 years, and hated the last 12.

I made $130k base salary, $70k typical bonus (EB+ECBP), and stock options (most of which were worthless). This was after over two decades there, started in '88.

Recently, a friend (12 years younger than me) was hired by Intel to work in one of the ML groups. He asked if the starting salary was fair: they offered him $400k. I was angry, jealous, and shocked. I have friends that are STILL there, grinding away at sub-200k base salary after nearly 30 years, and they are too scared to leave.

So this idea of coders flitting from job to job just seems so alien to me. I'm obviously from a different generation. I don't even know what I would ask for pay if I ever left consulting. Headscratcher.
500MB over 10 years, but you can "top up" if need-be. A primary use case would be for sensor data which can stretch 500MB a long time, not high-bandwidth streaming video.
360: IBM mainframe series.

3270: IBM terminal.
I have a feeling that the distribution of complexity in the laws of the universe is likely to be very, very different from the distribution of complexity in code created by an extremely intelligent being (with machinelike memory) that isn't optimizing for simplicity.
Thank you, that is a good idea
>The odd thing about this is that gold, the traditional inflation hedge has gone nowhere fast

my guess would be people are putting that money into bitcoin
The type of society you want to live in is utterly irrelevant. Those ransomware gangs exist and there is no way to eliminate them. That is our new reality. Any business leader who is bad at security is incompetent. I wish it didn't have to be that way but whining about it won't accomplish anything.
There are no local libraries here but perhaps once I head to my home country, I can reach out to local schools & universities for this
Compatibility:

Mac Models:

MacBook Air (M1, 2020)

MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020)

iMac (24-inch, M1, 2021)

Mac mini (M1, 2020)
You're the first person that I know that is disappointed in not seeing a touchbar...why?