skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just that - I think there's a link (but I'm not sure how best to describe it) between the policies enacted in many commonwealth countries and a fundamental disrespect for privacy and freedom of expression; take the fact that Australia, the UK, Canada, and New Zealand all banned cartoon porn that appears to depict fictional minors (the famous "Simpsons porn" case in Australia), and even prohibit its mere possession in a private residence - all while admitting there is zero scientific justification for those laws, and relying only on the words of charity representatives, and in the England, with MPs justifying the ban by saying that only "perverts" would be against such a law.
Wow, yes, this is one interesting way to describe it. Thanks for the idea!
I wonder how Wagner compares to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_(company)
Definitely. Cryptocurrency had a chance to be very useful (to society) in a niche but then it blew up in scope. Now, everyone seems to have missed the forest for the trees.

You can’t fix fundamental problems in modern economics by fixating on the properties of money which can be altered (presumably for the better) through technology?
I didn't at all hear scorn for different goals:

"So maybe not all of this advice I’ve given applies to you if your priorities are different. Also, maybe I am not qualified to talk about how to deal with some situations like having to job hop between startups and so on. I can only offer what I have learned myself, take away what is useful."
MSCI world hat positive returns in all but three years since 2007: https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/178e6643-6ae6-47b9-82be...

Granted the -40% in 2008 were brutal, but even that would have been compensated in a few years.
Which is exactly how the telephone industry has done it for decades, it's called a "building-integrated timing supply", or BITS clock. Typically this is a GPS-referenced clock with a local quartz or rubidium holdover oscillator, and output cards with dozens or hundreds of outputs serving various machines in the office.
Get a lot of photos of the inside of my lens cap that way.
Thanks! Yeah we've heard that same type of sentiment from lots of folks.

Definitely need the feedback loop to learn programming skills effectively.
> The offset is practically 0 ranging within nanoseconds range.

Uhm, no, the graph clearly shows that the offset is varying between 0-2 microseconds, which is 0 - 2,000 nanoseconds.

2,000 nanoseconds is not "practically zero". PTP precision is supposed to be in the 10ns range.

Also, how did they get 40us precision on (what I assume to be) a normal kernel on a normal x86 box? I would have assumed that in a datacenter environment, with traffic levels being random, the jitter introduced in the kernel networking stack alone would be in the hundreds of microseconds at least.
I am a consultant/contractor, with a new customer/employer about once/year. But, I still think most of the advice seemed on target. Really, one would want to be _able_ to stay employed, regardless of the fact that one chooses to move on frequently. Plus, most of this also applies to a position where you're changing jobs frequently, since your reputation will often precede you.
...to the point where you can improve code quality by deleting comments.
> the government needs to make voting for federal elections compulsory in order to get people to take a stance / have an opinion (yes, you will get a fine if you don’t vote!)

This seems like such a bad idea. Ideally, the democratic process taps ‘the wisdom of crowds’ and allows a society to make reasonable decisions. But all human beings are not capable of contributing to good decision making. Roughly the 15% of people have IQs below 85, making them effectively mentally retarded. And beyond that, a huge number of people are grossly uninformed about contemporary political issues, history, science, etc. The best contribution that some folks can make to the democratic process is not participating in the democratic process.

Moreover, if you force the unintelligent and uninformed to vote, you’re empowering the media to run the country. When someone’s politics are uninformed by firmly held principals and a solid understanding of history and current events, they will be more susceptible to be steered by biased media.
Although clock holdover might seem like a pointless feature - GPS outages are very unusual* - what holdover is mostly for is giving you time to respond if someone clumsily knocks your antenna over, or crushes your coax cable, or it gets damage that makes it fill with water, or something like that.

A lot of the demand for high-precision clocks is for cell phone base stations, where there's no guarantee there'll be someone on hand to make repairs promptly.

* They happen occasionally, of course.
So, wait, you're seriously advocating 2 meter thick walls (yeah, I know, let's say starting at 1/2 meter) as a solution for a dense city? Price at build time is hardly the only problem.

Good luck with that.
Protests against SOPA and PIPA (2012)
I think you have a point, but the type of interaction is important too. IRL, you have to trust based on the fear that if you deviate, others might minimax you in the future. On social platforms, no one can really minimax you in a tangible way, hence all the cesspool behavior.
One of the two surfaces is going to be 'softer'. Either the needle or the disc. Usually the disc lost out.
> Now, as long as printing the PCB and soldering tiny components does not sound scary, anyone can build their own Time Card for a fraction of the cost of a regular time appliance.

Doesn't sound scary, but not a lot of research labs and data centers are going to want to build their expansion cards from parts, even given free access to instructions. I understand if there isn't enough of a market for this to make it a viable commercial product, but when you have more money than God anyway, what's the reason not to make a few extra and donate or sell them to the small number of users who can use it?
At those heats the soil would burn away.
IMO wet bulb is much more intuitive. The parameters for heat index are subjective.
Its more about stability in between the PPS from the GPS.

having the MAC means that the 10mhz reference signal is going to almost always be 10mhz, and in any given second contain 10million pulses[1].

However if you're just relying on GPS's PPS and a standard quartz oscillator, then the 10mhz reference is going to wobble about.

[1] this isn't really true, but illustrates the point of stability.
Whatever you may think of Facebook, they've done awesome things within their Open Compute Project. They also fund a lot of open source work.
It is the magic; spells and systems, which make Vance new.
The questing junior magician with limited spells - but powerful spells (suck as the expansible egg in which he sleeps) - finds a powerful older vat-wizard who is growing creatures in tubs, and the junior falls for one of the creations.
The other major magic system of Vance is that of the elementals or demons (Sandestines and Daihaks) - taken from mythologies.
Couldn't be more different than "The Time Machine".
Vance is amazing, read him if you at all like the magic of D&D.
Ha, I like the wording on the "The “Two-And-Done” Rule". I came to the same conclusion fairly early in my career. My anaology is a bit more grim, I would "hand them the rope" (so that they could hang themselves) after two arguments. I agree that two is the upper limit. Unfortunately it took me a little longer to drop the "I told you so".

I also agree with the personal brand section. It's part of the reason I was so argumentative. I worked on internal tools that people were forced to use and some of the stuff that was done was hated by many. I was really worried that my association with the project would ruin my brand/reputation. So I would always argue to try and fix things that people hated.

Eventually I gave up and started writing greasemonkey scripts to make things more usable.
I'm not trying to misread you. On reflection, "letting the terrorists win" is a really loaded phrase. So loaded you might be on the same side of an issue and still misunderstand where someone's coming from. As a guy who participated in sometimes violent protests against the Patriot Act, and our initial lockdown and our invasion of Iraq and the general warlike stance in NYC after 9/11, our interpretation of the terrorists "winning" was that they could put America into a posture where we lost our civil liberties as a result of the fear they were able to inculcate in in the populace. Now, at the time, Bush said if we stopped shopping or you know, otherwise engaging in mass capitalist idiocy, that would mean the terrorists won. To me, they won, because they saw a weakness in our free society where by a careful application of very directed force they could open the dam for totalitarian control and a breakdown of open, free, liberal democracy. By that measure, they succeeded remarkably well, but they really only had to use our own inertia against us.

So I don't mean to misread you. I think our society as it stood was a lot more noble than the Taliban. In some ways it still is. They have brought us down a bit toward their level, and that's something worth fighting against.
Would love to be able to do this for more platform engineering oriented courses. Hope you can add Terraform (HCL) in the future.

Good luck!
Thank you for taking the time to type this. The topic of PoW vs PoS is very misunderstood and I see a lot of dishonesty in online forums.

I am very optimistic about Ethereum. It is not perfect but it is massively and consistently improving. The past few years, all crypto innovation was incubated within the Ethereum community.
I'll be addressing that in a video later today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zXG4ySy1m8

There are situations where the economics slightly favor the Pi, but they're fairly narrow with the current gen.
Please excuse the language “invented”. We simply meant “came up with a form factor” of having the MAC+GNSS present via PCIe bus as a POSIX clock similar to a NIC with hardware timestamping. We are humble to all the awesome products that are out there and we just wanted to present an open source version of a simplified approach to allow others to build on it.
I imagine it would be a lot easier if it weren’t bundled with trillions of dollars for other programs. It kind of feels like climate should be the number one priority and while Republicans are close to worthless it feels like Democratic politicians aren’t much more interested in offending their corporate masters. But in general I agree, it’s hard to get these things passed when so many congresspeople are in the pockets of moneyed interests.
Let's take deaths as an indicator of "pandemic handling". Australia had sub-1K total confirmed deaths which is a very very low value for a nation that large. Canada had 26,635; USA had 615,326.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...

Even single state figures are quite high: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103688/coronavirus-covi...
I suspect Facebook data centers were already using $20,000 network switches that supported PTP.
It's also one of several homes. While it's very nice (I've been to it), he has nicer properties elsewhere. I sometimes think he maintains that house for novelty more than anything else.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22210073

From the HN discussion about the video of "A Conversation with Language Creators: Guido, James, Anders and Larry"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19568378

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csL8DLXGNlU

I posted these Anders Hejlsberg quotes, who co-designed TypeScript, C#, Delphi, Turbo Pascal, etc:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19568378

>"My favorite is always the billion dollar mistake of having null in the language. And since JavaScript has both null and undefined, it's the two billion dollar mistake." -Anders Hejlsberg

>"It is by far the most problematic part of language design. And it's a single value that -- ha ha ha ha -- that if only that wasn't there, imagine all the problems we wouldn't have, right? If type systems were designed that way. And some type systems are, and some type systems are getting there, but boy, trying to retrofit that on top of a type system that has null in the first place is quite an undertaking." -Anders Hejlsberg

[...]
I’m pretty sure Jacobabad has cars.
The average Australian in the past 'rode the sheeps back'.

The average Australian now has the wool over their eyes and is either ignorant of it or okay with it.
We actually aim at education and training, the app is kind of a simplified OBS studio with features targeting the needs of educators, normally a session there last for quite some time, and theme can be very divers. Ads revenue is one of the thoughts we have.
OK, there are some lessons to learn from this article but overall it sounds like tl;dr do the work for your boss, make him shine.

If I followed those advice I'd probably implode in a puff of black smoke.
It’s great to see you scratching your own itch as a developer, and opening up the same tools for other devs. Almost all learning platforms were built with generic tools (like video or text tutorials), built by non-engineers.

I can see this approach scale beyond just tutorials: at Uber, we had an in-house interactive platform called codelabs we used for onboarding for new systems. It was dead simple to use and engineers created a lot more helpful materials that were easier to understand. Slip reminds me of this approach as well.

Best of luck!
That may have been what he had in mind, but he made no indication as to there being a conditional probability. Furthermore, in the context of where he was going with it, I recall that there wasn't one either so he was getting the wrong answer as a result. He believed the not-looking-at-the-order was the critical thing making it 1/3 rather than 1/4.
Yeah we're definitely focused more on the supply side right now!

We want to be the easiest tool for developers to create awesome and engaging courses.

In the future, as we start getting more courses published, I imagine we will probably swap the home page to be more course taker focused.
Plausible denieabilty.
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>>Now, when things are getting hard, having weak democratic institutions, no political awareness and corporate medling is going to hit hard.

Many living in democracies will find this true for their country.
Looks good! How does Slip compare to educative.io?
Wasn't France heavily involved too?
> a large group of people aligned and unblocked than a bunch of meetings

Could you explain this a bit? Why weren't the interested parties talking to each other in smaller groups? Wasn't there a shared base vision? What caused the blocks? What caused the decoherence of alignments? Also, how many meetings? How many people? Thanks!
1. I'm thinking of it in terms of two different kinds of knowledge that we're going after when we try to (A) understand a proposition vs (B) make a probabilistic guess at the right answer from among a discrete range of possibilities. However our understanding of language works, it's not the same as flagging a maximized probability. If someone says "the bank is on Fifth Street next to the fire hydrant", you immediately know all kinds of things when you take this in - that you're getting directions, that you will soon be looking for a fire hydrant, the address of the bank, that the speaker knows the area pretty well... this big "bundle of truth" emerges from the proposition immediately when we take it in. I just don't see it as analogous to flagging the highest softmax probability score, which at best provides a "most likely" translation into SQL code or a vector, or something like that.

2. If we're introducing concepts like insertion into the model, aren't we then returning to a logical (as opposed to a probabilistic/statistical) language model? Or said differently, aren't we merely introducing our own understanding of language into the model before it's even trained?
I've had a few folks already ask if we would build an in-house version for tech onboarding. It's an interesting idea!

Cool to know other companies are already building things like this in-house. Thanks!
It's weird but to me looking back with your "Australia I love" comment, it seems Bob Hawke was the last true Australian Prime Minister.
Thanks for sharing this. I appreciate the conclusion admitting that there are trade offs to attaining job security. For example, this may not be the best advice for someone trying to maximize their income or title. If you are looking to minimize stress in your career, I think being a hard working, effective developer who’s enjoyable to work with will help you substantially.
Doesn't the key compromise make it even less of a protocol hack?
I think it's both. Many players were not that gentle at the time (and, actually still is nowadays).

Edit: I remembered that my dad frequently added a small coin on the top of the needle to avoid skips. So people weren't gentle with the vinyls and the needles either.

It could also be that vinyl and RIAA encoding was made mostly for the range of the human ears, and such a high frequency would just wear way faster than the "normal" ones, but I'm speculating there. IIRC, the high frequencies are "higher" in the groove.
In that way we know that no one is not doing anything about it, and they are not trying to manipulate us. I say that is fair :)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1efOs0BsE0g
> sooner or later, someone is going to want to display some HTML (or an actual website!) within their application. We’d really rather not bundle an entire browser engine to accomplish this

Theoretically speaking, yes, but in practice it seems most people just gave up and simply ship their apps with embedded Chromium, which is why now almost every single piece of software has installer that's at least 500 MB large.
Again, invented might be too strong. This is an abstraction of what you need minimally to build a time server on an open source basis. We appreciate and are humble to other products in the market
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Traditionally presidents set the agenda and work to get support, but you’re right that it’s a team sport and Biden needs congressional support. It’s disappointing that there isn’t enough support even among Democrats (Biden is trying to push through a $3.5T budget plan without any Republican support so clearly he thinks he can get things done on just a Democratic basis, but apparently he doesn’t think major climate initiatives will be popular with the Democratic crowd?).
Read the conclusion
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The Internet, obviously. But that's the worst thing to happen to everybody, not just Software Developers.
Well, but the thing in a civil war is, 2 (if not more sides) claim to be the official side.

I honestly do not dare to judge from the outside. I know it is a complicated mess, with lots of hypocrosy and lots of foreign powers playing geopolitics.
Lots of Russian bots here on specific topics. They are fairly easy to spot by the same talking points they've been rehashing for the past 20+ years. When somebody starts bringing up Bill Clinton and Yugoslavia in 2021, you know who you're talking to. Everyone else has forgotten it.

And HN is a prime target. So many people here may have influence over millions of people right now, or will in near future. There's a lot to gain from implanting a few untrue memes that dismiss Russian, Chinese, Saudi or whoever else's actions.

A popular one is to depict NATO as a aggressive organization that subjugates countries in Europe to encircle Russia, thus making Russia's actions "defensive". It's ridiculously untrue and totally detached from the actual political history of post-1991 Europe, but if you know nothing about NATO in Europe, then it may be believable and you may convince yourself or others that Russia's aggression (like the war in Ukraine) is justified, and that the US nor EU should not get involved in any way. That's what they want. That's Sun Tzu's Art of War in practice. It must have an amazing ROI given the ease of capturing Crimea, which they have fought over several times in their history, but without any human losses this time around. Amazing innovation in warfare!

Plus a lot of westerners are already inclined to self-whipping over the colonial guilt narrative, missing what rest of the world has been doing, and in many cases, is still doing. This supports the implanted ideas.
There is an organized crime component in the recent fires in Europe and US that nobody wants to see or much less deal with it.

Is all old history repeated again and again with decens of fires starting mysteriously at the same time and all the typical stuff. Only one of each three wildfires currently active in some parts of Europe are caused by lightning. This means that the majority are caused by man. Either by negligence or are -just- a crime. A boycott.

Blaming environmentalists where somebody is serially trying to burn people alive in their own homes, is just the extra laugh and cherry on top of this system.

We need better laws, harshest punishment, more resources and more political desire to investigate wildfires. And we need to stop assuming and repeating again and again that fires have a nice side, a good side, and are good management of nature. Period. We are not in the same situation as before. To release purposely much more carbon in the atmosphere when what we need is more time is a suicide.
Or drones.
Agreed. It’s going to be pretty lame when Biden tries to convince the world to do better on climate at the upcoming summit when Biden can’t get significant policy implemented at home. Anyway, every country needs to do its part and ours, like many others, is failing.
You are not far off. China used Chinese students in Australia as a pawn in geopolitics to support the regime.

The previous generation of ethnic Chinese is better integrated, but the new generation is very patriotic and loyal to the communist party.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/hundreds-gather-in-sydney-for-po...

The West always hoped China would turn into a democracy, but that turned out to be an illusion. As long as maximising profits regardless of the consequences is a priority, this will continue.

It's often forgotten that China is and has always been playing the long game where in the West policies can change after the next election.
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All I know is that in the midwest, before Uber, there was maybe 1 taxi company near-ish (usually from a newarby town). You couldn't just call a ride- You'd have to look up the taxi company's number, schedule days in advance, and pay somewhere between $2-4/minute.

After Uber, you can get a ride even in less populated areas (almost) on demand. The price is definitely lower, but not significantly. But we went from only using a taxi to get to the airport (if you could find absolutely no one to drop you off) to being able to take one home from the bar or concert.
IMHO the D&D books are quite trashy - which can of course be enjoyable.
But my favourite RPG/Gaming books are Michael Moorcock, Jack Vance.
Making the sensor smaller and cheaper also enables larger sensors at the equivalent cost and form factor of a current sensor though, which would change photos (if you think higher output resolution is a change to an image). The benefit doesn't have to be taken as making things cheaper.