skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a typical misconception.

it's not a misconception. Many productivity measurement metrics are very subjective, except for money paid for work.

Productivity is correlated to the job being done, but only under free market competition conditions, and that all participants have similar bargaining power. Otherwise, slavery is highly productive, but the monies paid is next to zero. But you can use the sold-price of the goods to determine productivity, instead of the wages. So money is still a good measurement, even in the degenerate case.
That's not the same though, AFAIK. You can't set limits such that auto billing vendors will not be able to bill you.
Tracking crypto is a booming business: How crypto sleuths recover digital loot
Reading this I wondered why in sharding posts I rarely see mentions of the default textbook solution to transactions in N systems, namely "two-phase commit". Upon searching I now found an informative Dropbox sharding blog post covering it at https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/cross-shard-transactions... .
Out of interest what is the trickiness in the roll out? Breaking previously deployed containers that depend on this behavior?
> What does this mean?

You don't love Tesla enough. /s
On top of the high price, you don't get the Oculus Store either. I think you can theoretically sideload the consumer apps, but it won't be a straightforward process from what I understand.
I bought a laser B&W printer for the price of an entry level ink printer and a ink replacement, and I couldn't be more happy. It's a bit big but it's fast, the ink last forever and never dry
> specialization is for insects

Read this and everything else in the voice of Edna Mode from The Incredibles, and it makes sense.
Wipers: automatic, overridable with a physical button. Wiper washers, also a physical button. Voice control also works. No need to use the screen. Doesn’t mean you can’t use the screen of course. You absolutely can look if you want to. But no need.

Air con: automatic works great. No need to adjust. Absolutely no need to look at it either. Of course you can optionally do so if you really want to. There might be voice control for this too but I haven’t even had a need to try.

Stereo: There’s a button for adjusting the volume and navigating to the next song, and back to the beginning of this song and then, if clicked again, to the previous song. Also plenty of voice search and voice control options. And sure the screen may optionally be used if you want, but no need.

It would be unfair to expect anyone to learn all these things from a test drive. But that’s no reason to assert that they positively do not exist.
You can, though not for free. https://1dollarscan.com/
> We have CDNs and Rust and all that fast crap.

Lol! Haven't used the service, but the website is fun.
Not sure what you’re looking for specifically, but by far the biggest environmental threat is posed by emissions. Nuclear has the lowest emissions per unit energy of any energy source including the emissions that factor into mining the uranium and building the nuclear facilities, managing the waste, etc.
https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
This post is making me wonder if I did something wrong, but I hated the low resolution in the quest 2 for programming when I tried it.
Actually I’m a fan of algorithms questions! Of course, getting an engineering staff full of IOI medalists is a wonderful situation and will attract more talent. But I and others here are recognizing the role played by practice and grinding on this specific flavor of problem. The author states that intelligence is unchangeable and divides candidates into talent bands - but actually, his test is significantly impacted by factors other than intelligence. His framing is just weird, to be honest. “People who think faster than they can type” isn’t really a meaningful category, yet he’s turned it into a theology of interviewing.
I haven't tried coding on Varjo, but I've played Alyx on their Varjo VR-1 headset. The resolution is incredible! No blur, no pixels visible. While playing, I often just stopped to look at things to see pixels or other flaws in them, but I couldn't really see any flaws. Also, texts looked very sharp like in the real world.
Needs Windows 10, Windows 10 sees it as a risky program because it is not on a white list.
Nice. And why didn’t I think of this? Ha ha!
They do - https://huggingface.co/transformers/v4.3.3/installation.html...
... and, unpopular opinion, business attire!
I collect vinyl. I won't bore everyone with all the romantic details, but I have found one very interesting effect to my listening: having to physically put the album on the turntable, and flip it over, has made me far more attentive to the music.

When I was a teenager listening to CDs on the bus I'd really sink myself into an album, and listen to it dozens or even hundreds of times. Now I'm back in that mode, it's not just passive consumption anymore.
You're relativising and disregarding how power balances occur in practice.

First, there is a massive difference between empires. Sure, the US has done and is doing a bunch of shitty things in the world, but between two evils, would you prefer the American jackboot or the Chinese jackboot?

Second, nobody volunteers to surrender power for the sake of some power balance. Power balance occurs because there's a stalemate.

In the case of countries like Poland, these countries have an interest in playing empires against each other. Let them "bid" for influence and may they check each other's power.
all the time. but its usually more productive in smaller get togethers than in team meetings where everyone 'presents' their stuff. If I'm helping someone else my stuff doesn't matter at that moment.
To quote Charles and Ray Eames: “The details are not the details; they make the product”.
And sending a tx with a fee bigger than $23m wouldn't actually fixed their problem
And the "paperclip maximizers" are IMHO the worst...
Extremely few people outside academia are (1) world class at anything, even in a tiny subfield (2) advance the state of the art (3) can explain it in a way clear enough that you can reliably learn something from what they wrote about what they did and how they did it.

That combination describes what a doctoral disserataion is.
Board state can also be stored as as sets of X positions and O positions.
This depends a lot on the alternatives you have. For a lot of foreign PhDs, this may be easily be one of the best financial decisions. You get to move to first world country with education paid for and probably way better salary than you would be able to get in your home country. It is no surprise that PhD programs are mostly filled with non-Americans.
How did you confirm miner identity??
The Gas and Electric Truck will share alot of parts. I know they are billing it as "completely new" but there is far too much of "this is the same old F150" for me to believe we will not see many many many many of these parts in the 2022/2023 Gas F150's when they are released.

It would not make any business sense for the 2 trucks to not share most of the interior, body panels, wheels, breaks, etc etc etc.

Hell I I would not be surprised if the Frame is not the same, just the gas version omiting the battery between the frame rails.

>A year ago Ford's official position was that making their own batteries makes no sense, they'll just buy the best and cheapest batteries from suppliers.

A year ago they did not suffer massive shutdown due to supply chain issues, I think you will be seeing many manufacturers wanting more and closer control over the supply chain for their factories. This means ford will want battery manufacturers to be close to their F150 factories in the US, which likely means they will need to front some capital to get these companies to build said factories that do not exist today
This reminds me of start.spring.io in JVM-land.
There would be suspicion that the block doesn't have any recent transactions in it though.
Everyone on HN is building it. It is the purpose of this entire place. Don't feel alone.
Joe Biden Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Mint the Coin
I needed a temporary Facebook account recently. I put a fake but plausible name and I did what I had to do. That account was blocked in no less than 20min, asking for my ID and my phone number.

I’m pretty sure that Facebook is unofficially « closed » for new « non verified » accounts.

And that’s not even surprising : literally everybody was on Facebook a decade ago, it’s definitely not the social network of the younger generation, and nobody who had the occasion to register 10 years ago is going to change its mind today. So the vast majority of new registrations must be spam bots.
I'd count that as storage. As for storage, I see pumped hydro or lithium ion (or maybe liquid metal) batteries as the best bets.

We will have to remove CO2 too so maybe the kerosene is another viable pathway.
Wibbets product update added Automotive, Home and Garden, and Bath and Beauty sections. Tons of new inventory coming. A reminder that from Oct 1st to 8th we are having a pre-Christmas 20% off flash sale on everything.
The last mile DOCSIS bandwidth is shared among all of its user. So you want to maximise the download which is used 90% of the time. The problem is somewhat solved ( or lessen ) in DOCSIS 4.0 Full Duplex Extension. But as with everything DOCSIS the lead time to market is extremely long.
> every possible permutation of 5 Xs and 4 Os

This would not include all possible end game states. A value is either X or O or empty. It's possible to end with empties.
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So get a job in a field outside your thesis. FAANGy companies are happy to hire PhD from "other quantitative fields".
It depends on when they sell and who too. If you create a neat startup and sell for a lot to a respectable company then it’s praised but if you sell to a sketchy company (like this) long after your prime it’s looked down on
I'm interested but most search engines give terrible results for Australian searches (increasingly true for Google too, which used to be good at it). How does this one go at not being America-centric?

Update: I'll answer my own question. They didn't even let me sign up.
I agree it's utterly astounding what can be done with 'analytic' (ie 'vector' vs 'rasterized') SDFs, (and different ray-intersection/marching methods too) and what IQ does and how much he shares the actual code and ideas just fills me with gratitude every time I read/watch! Cheers for the link above, i'm definitely gonna have a play with some of those functions!
This may be controversial but you could try smoking a small amount of cannabis and listening to some music.

I wouldn't reccomend this route if you have a history of drug or alcohol problems.

Another path you can try is consuming less media and try to make your days a little more boring. You might be surprised what your mind comes up with in those boring minutes. I like to write in the morning before I look at the news or read anything.

If you want to maximize the boredom strategy consider a weekend long hike out camping trip.
You never lived through a period of warm relations during ww2. It didn't change to hatred overnight.

As for the Cold War period which I, too, lived through on the other side, in both sides the level of hostility was achieved after very concentrated efforts by both governments.
This is fucking cool!
Google Chrome Zero Day
An interesting read, but I just don't understand why ONIE was even desirable. Cheap OpenWRT switches+routers can do Wireguard as easily as any Linux system.
> The color wheel is not naturally a circle, purple’s a synthetic addition, used for the purpose of making the colors of the rainbow into a circle by tying the ends, red and blue, together.

It's a natural consequence of seeing what happens when you mix different colors. Magenta-purple is the only synthetic color that exists, and it's adjacent to both blue and red. And then you can ask people how far apart different hues are, and you get results consistent with a circle with a certain spacing.

> In any case, to stand by your claim that either red is close to purple or that all these models are wrong, you must first define what red being close to purple means. Rob couldn’t do it, can you?

All these entirely different ways of laying out the colors in the article seem to put purple and red a lot closer than green and red.

And you have the observational charts like https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/IMG/shepard.gif

> This doesn’t seem to be particularly helpful here. Do you have an opinion on the left-hump of the red response curve? Do you believe Rob that it has nothing to do with the perception of purple, or any perceived closeness between purple and violet?

He didn't say it has nothing to do with it, he said it's "insignificant" for a lot of the closeness to red.

For my point of view, if the opponent process is relatively accurate for how vision works, then the signal from the blue cones is likely factored in to the "red/green" signal and tilts it red at very short wavelengths independent from any bump coming from the red cone itself.
> If they are leaving for industry after PhD, why do a PhD in first place.

Either of the following are good reasons:

1. To do research in industry.

2. To gain the knowledge acquired via a PhD.
I do not have a complete answer for you. But I've developed this simple hack that worked quite well for me. That is, before working on anything, play a little game or solve a puzzle. I learned this after reading "Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World"[1] by Adam Grant. You can watch his TED talk here [2] to get some ideas.

How do I know it work? This might be survivorship bias but whatever, I believe it worked for me. After practicing this for around a year, I developed a custom 3D visualization for our 3D scanner[3] which greatly improved the UX. Our customers loved it. We even filed a patent for it (pending though)[4]

For me, that little puzzle is usually a leetcode[5] problem, or to solve a non-trivial rubik (my humble collection here[6]).

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XIYGCDO

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxbCHn6gE3U

[3]: https://bodidata.com/kora-1

[4]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210018608A1

[5]: https://leetcode.com

[6]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cubers/comments/nrzc62/just_my_humb...
Seems this page hasn't been updated in a while. People interested in open source FPGA toolchains might be better off starting at https://symbiflow.github.io/ which is the umbrella project (of which icestorm is a part), and is more up to date.
> letting foreign countries take your citizens hostage without repercussion can threaten your chances of being reelected.

Hence why two Canadian spies were detained.

How this episode could possibly be framed as Chinese aggression, I have no idea.

Your claims are also disingenuous. Why do you emphasize "international"? Only one party was interested in prosecuting Meng on ridiculous charges - the US.
An old discussion but I still think that interview questions like the TicTacToe example completely miss the point. The vast majority of engineers are stopped by questions like: Why does this version of a library no longer work? How do I address this legacy API I need to include in my program?

These interview questions exist only for the purpose of filtering out as many as possible from an enormous number of candidates, not to find the most suitable engineers.
A few of the ideas, yes, but not the whole thing. But you could probably get those ideas just as easily from the linked summary.

In particular, stuff like digging beneath requirements & feature requests to understand the root cause and their current behavior. And probably also the general idea of opening up a safe space for open learning at the beginning of each conversation (which is also a common idea in other sales approaches like SPIN Selling).

Also, it would be more useful while scoping out a new product/market, and less useful for products that are already mature/defined.

So my guess is that you'd get a couple useful ideas, but not a book's worth.
Streisand effect would suggest that this is a self-scrub to drive attention.
>Getting a tenure track job often leads to looking for a new job after seven years, with the "rejected" sticker.

Could you elaborate on this one? I thought tenure professor is as stable as you can get in terms of a career
Boris Johnson puts army on standby amid fuel supply crisis
"Kazakhstan number one exporter of Po̶t̶a̶s̶s̶i̶u̶m̶Uranium. All other countries have inferior Po̶t̶a̶s̶s̶i̶u̶m̶Uranium" https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...
https://nextup.com/ivona/
Correct me if I’m wrong, I did not study US history as part of my education, but wasn’t the attack on Pearl Harbour sold to the American public as “unprovoked”?
I'd much rather my engineers have spent their time practicing their actual jobs and not brainteaser interviews. To wit, the interview questions I ask are usually in line with the role they're assuming.
How does some tiny org harvesting some data harm FB? Will FB sell fewer ads because some third party extracts mother's maiden name, make of first car, home state, and whatever else is revealed in response text? Will the third party org serve ads to those people outside of FB? Or, will they use that information to hone a FB strategy, potentially meaning a net increase in the number of ads bought AND giving FB enough distance that it wouldn't be an actionable scandal when it was inevitably discovered (like with Cambridge Analytics)?

I really don't see much actual downside for FB in allowing this kind of data collection. The people (like myself) who are disgusted with FB and think FB is a profoundly negative force that is strangling local journalism, toxifying the discourse, and stroking rage are already against FB. But most people just don't care (and may actively appreciate those effects) and won't change their behavior in response to FB allowing another likely election-outcome-altering disinformation campaign to do recon work. And FB knows that. As long as Zuck feels safe from regulation, he's not going to stop, address, or reduce any non-CSAM thing that would threaten growth or time-in-app.
I'm not excusing anyone's inactions. I'm saying the US has to do more. Period. Full Stop.
Well, you know that MAC filtering is really useless, right?
How much could a banana cost? 10 dollars?
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That shouldn’t be the case. Email me if it is. I’ll make sure we help: matthewatcloudflaredotcom.
Haha oh man, when did I even publicly mention that?

I doubt I'll ever release it as a book (since it needs a full rewrite and my enthusiasm for it was very tied to that moment in my life), but maybe a couple of the ideas will slip out eventually.
He's saying if you don't get tenure, not only have you spent years failing to achieve your goal but now you also carry a stigma with you as you try again.
The fact that google made some aspect of their website behave better in chrome than in firefox is not really an argument that firefox is doing it wrong so much as yet another example of browser wars 2.0
Very good points. It would be good if they had calc what that would be for an avg human. Let's say a very hungry person eat 1kg of food. Then they should consume more than 5kg canola oil. Bon appetite.
I built a "creative" website over the last few months. I had to jump through many hoops to get very standard css behavior to work on safari. Transform scale for example leads to text being rendered pixelated while transformZ is not 0. Firefox and Chrome don't have this bug, which has been around for years on Safari. Last time I checked, CSS was not privacy invasive.
The name reminds me of "DCOMbobulator", another software whose purpose was to turn off something that caused endless trouble and which you never asked for in the first place.
Evergrande, Ever Given: Why are so many Chinese-language brands prefixed “Ever”?
Calling this a "contradiction" is, imo, unjustified.
It is not the accountant who I am calling (more) confused (though if the accountant believes what they are doing to be "impossible" they are still somewhat confused).

It is the person who asserts that the thing which they know exists, "is impossible", who is confused.

If you have a partial function that takes in a beardnacle and a frompulin and (where it is defined) returns a brimwich, and one has some conditions under which, in the cases it is defined, certain patterns have been shown to hold, and one has found a number of cases in which, it seems as if, if the function were defined at some of the places it isn't, and the value fit with the patterns which have been shown to hold where it is defined, in that other things are consistent with that, even though no brimwich can actually satisfy those properties, a logician can perfectly well ask "well, can we define a concept which generalizes the concept of a brimwich, in order to make this partial function into a total function, in a way that keeps the patterns we have shown?" .

This does not involve any contradictions. There are no contradictions here. And yet, this is doing the same kind of thing as generalizing the natural numbers to the integers.

You are either using a notion of "contradiction" which is quite unlike the everyday concept (and, if it differs, also quite far from the mathematical concept), or you are mistaken in thinking that there is a contradiction.

Like, what is the alleged contradiction? "I want to subtract these two numbers, but there is no natural number which is the result of that subtraction"? That's not a contradiction in the sense that [people who aren't talking about dialectics] use.

If you couldn't use it in order to derive False in a theorem prover that allows the relevant statements to be expressed, then it isn't a contradiction-in-the-ordinary-sense.

"John is married" and "John is not married" are contradictory. "Smith has 6 apples" and "Smith has fewer than 3 apples" are contradictory.

"John has a banana, but Gerald really hates bananas and wishes John didn't have a banana." is not a contradiction-in-the-ordinary-sense. It may be a conflict, which may be resolved in some way, but it isn't a contradiction.
When you think about it, it's kind of funny in the year 2021 in an increasingly secular "democratic" country, your recommendation is probably similarly effective to most any other option out there.
Are the first two of those going to apply for anyone doing their PhD? (I'm not sure if they're boring, but I assume it's a bit of a grind for most?)
Well said. You know, sometime soon I need to make a stand. My gut check was that this wasn't the hill I'm willing to die on.
The first 5 digits are directly correlated to DOB and birthplace, the last 4 are mostly random.
https://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10975
There's a pretty interesting study done on this.
To be clear, it’s not “the US”, but virtually the entire world including a great many Russians.
And so is expiring passwords but every company does it so what?
That’s not really the point—the point is that Russia has been observed using its natural gas as political leverage.
Is there even a prototype?
This is my experience too (business/customer facing CRUD systems). Perhaps we don't spend long enough thinking about the problem before we start or planning enough, but most software I write starts with a business problem that needs a solution and data, inputs and processes will evolve as it's written. Normally because what comes out in business analysis and stakeholder interviews is close to but not quite what is wanted, but also because of user feedback from user testing (sometimes of a mockup, sometimes prototype software) which is so valuable but now the inputs change again.

I enjoy writing tests when developing libraries where the inputs and outputs are well defined. It's relaxing to do this kind of programming.