skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would people in the office talking to each other help resolve an issue in the data center?
yeah people are often lazy about adding a requirements.txt
As an alternative in your use case, there was a pretty decent Modula-2 compiler for the 8051 (Mod51). It's a small, safe language and a reasonable fit for embedded architectures. It is a Wirth-ian BEGIN...END language which for some people means it has cooties, but I wrote a some useful stuff in it a long time ago and it was pretty painless, as such things go. There's even some standardization around Modula-2 in the embedded world (IEC 61311-3 ST). Unfortunately, I don't think Mod51 is sold any more; C won in that world.
I'm talking about enforcement and making social media platforms liable if they don't deal with such situations expeditiously.

We don't need such standards per se because neither of us is a lunatic but if I were in this very comment to make threats of horrific violence against you or your family you can be assured that hacker news tiny moderation team would waste little time in removing my ability to post because they give a fuck about the health of this community.

Facebook by contrast deals with a fraction of 1% of such issues.
> the purpose of retirement accounts is to effectively save for retirement

Investing in the company which also pays your wages is a Texas hedge, and as such a terrible way to save for retirement, so this sounds like a good change.
I definitely enjoyed reading your article!

Did you play around with any AI-specific accelerators (eg TPUs?)

Looking at some basic cost analysis from a stranger on the Internet - https://medium.com/bigdatarepublic/cost-comparison-of-deep-l... - you can probably get a decent price reduction in training, especially using preemptive instances (and perhaps a better pricing contract with Google/AWS)

It's kind of crazy how the shortage of GPUs is affecting pricing on physical devices. My RTX Titan I bought in 2019 for $2,499 runs almost $5k on Amazon and is in short supply. The Titan V options you linked (although I think theres a typo because you referred it it as a Titan X) is an option - but it is still super overpriced for it's performance. Of course, this will probably settle down in the next year or two, and by then there will be new GPUs that are ~2-4x flop/$ compared to the V100/A100.
I agree, it needed everyone to step back and make choices as to direction.

Instead, we got the "stone soup" where everyone wanted their favorite feature from some other language added in. You'll see this in most languages, where people want something from another language they are more comfortable with. Privately, I refer to this as the California problem: people move away from California (or anywhere else really, I am picking on California) but then bring all of the baggage and voting habits that made California unpalatable to them eventually.

Python is especially vulnerable to this because it conflicts with "There should be one -– and preferably only one –- obvious way to do it." The more features added to the language, the more ways there are to do something, and we then must invent new idioms and lean on "convention."
Ideas themselves are cheap, and it makes no sense but to share them.
That would have to be Oracle: https://www.oracle.com/mx/cloud/storage/object-storage.html
Exactly. Giving a lot of shits about the reputation of your employer is something people who take high pay and the lifestyle that comes with it for granted do.
I'd agree unless AT&T published your remarks in their publications, yes. Do you really think there is no connection between what op-eds get approved for publication, and the organization publishing them? Do you also think that former employees being published in their former employer's news publication does not indicate some level of ideological aliment? I think that it does. If you don't, that's fine, but the conclusion I've come to is not unreasonable when you consider all the context.
By the Civil War era, there were suppliers of cotton in Africa and South-East Asia that were cheaper and more reliable than the Confederate states.

Hint: they didn't treat their workers much better than plantation owners treated slaves.

The point here isn't who is good and who is evil, I'm purposefully avoiding that. The point is that it's not possible to both have $1,000 laptops and decent wages for workers.

I find it very reasonable that one would say that no, it's not acceptable to treat workers like that, and if that means we can't have laptops, we'll do without.

I don't find it reasonable to claim you can have both.
Wealth is relative concept. So its bizarro in the first place to create this kind of division. Anybody can take his money and put out a business, so he becomes capitalists or them to speak in your terms.

Likewise someone in a poor third world country sees them as working class and people complaining here as rich but a whiner.
I bet they don't have words for sand or coconuts.
Reflecting further:

Wouldn't it be cool if we could get some of the products we use from companies that are structured so that they "serve their customers" and nobody else? Customers (i.e. users) would then have a veto on idiotic new "features" and infelicitous marketing partnerships.

If Mozilla had been such an organisation, then perhaps Firefox wouldn't have slid away from the top spot.
That would accelerate the flight from facebook. We put up with the awful aspects of it because there are no alternatives that perform the same function in a less awful way.
Ugh. Python could be fast, but the python core team / GvR put so many ridiculous constraints on what can change that maybe at best it gets like 10% faster, some day. Anything meaningful means breaking compatibility with extensions, and they absolutely won't do that. I feel like GvR got burned in the python 2->3 transition, but he learned the wrong lesson. The lesson he seemed to learn was never break compatibility but what he should have learned is don't break compatibility for stupid things nobody cares about. Making the interpreter much faster is something people would care about, but they'll never modify it in any meaningful way nor will they ever endorse something like PyPy.
I'm surprised how smooth the curve is, the author never has streaks where he loses a few hundred rating points. In fact I'm struggling to see he ever dips more than 50.

I've been on a similar journey over the past year, where I'm now around 1500 rapid on chess.com but in that time I've had streaks where I've been down 250 rating from my peak.

I don't know if I tilt super hard or if the author is remarkably resilient to tilt. It might also be a difference in how the different sites do match-making or adjust ratings and k-values.

I'd echo the benefit in learning some basic opening theory. It's not worth rote learning theory but it is worth having a consistent approach to games so you learn from the same patterns and can avoid opening traps.

If you play the same opening moves then over time you build up a memory of moves that you like in those positions and which will get deeper as you get more experience.
I'm worried about undue influence of Tech Billionaires.
If you hold the belief that "Global warming is real", "and the world has too many people." How pernicious those two beliefs put together could be. You couple that with some Eugenic beliefs in creating a super human race. And find out that Epstein had those views, and then you find out about the flight logs of people that visited his island. It just breeds distrust.

[Edit]
Some proof:

Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/jeffrey-epstein-...

Bill Gates: Gene editing can help humanity
https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2018/04/bill-gat...
I like how the progress bars moves off screen if you get too excited with the button. Point made :)
It was a very funny "no, no, no, see, this is a Facebook product that's sooooo integrated with our platform and totally isn't something you can spin off easily!!" moment.
A friend introduced me to localblox.com a couple years ago to get some company data, though it looks like they have already closed up shop.

These guys seemed to have everyone's data. The demo started off by showing me the company data we were interested in, but then veered into picking a random person's life to delve into.

The deep dive began by showing work/education info, then went into where they live, the cars they drove, how many kids/pets, then even deeper into the location data...

They showed detailed maps of everywhere they went on a daily basis. The routes they took to work, they places the visited, etc.

Any of the data was for sale if we wanted it. It was beyond disturbing. We obviously passed on working with them.
Populism is a political ideology which pits working class and low income common folks against the ultra wealthy and ultra powerful.

The people who own these news networks are literally the people that populists position themselves against.

The campaigns against populists (Ron Paul, Bernie Sanders) are usually successful. In the case of Trump, they weren’t. I think what we are seeing now, where the news has basically just given up and semblance of even trying to be an indicator of true things which are happening in the world, is that elites are trying to course correct.

Like it or not 2019 was the best year that the working class and low income have had in the US for a very long time. Real wage growth was record high, unemployment was record low. It was an incredible time (if you don’t see this: please try to diversify your fried groups. The people in the country who usually get forgotten about we’re happy and hopeful in a way they haven’t been in a long time).

So why are the news people lying? Because they want people to forget that, and they really need to be right about their idea that electing an elderly, senile, corrupt, career politician is the solution. So they just lie about it.

Edit: when you guys downvote this can you please just give at least some kind of explanation? I really wish some of you could have seen the level of hope that the poor and working class had for the first time in a LONG time, and what this lying and gaslighting has done to them. It’s horrible.
Additionally, Paddle is completely ignoring that Apple's 30% doesn't only include payments. It includes everything required to make those in-app purchases function - hosting, downloads, updates, management, reviews, localization, etc. All this would mean is that Apple will get to collect that money from 2 sources instead of one which complicates the situation for both developers and for customers.

Until a judge rules that Apple doesn't have control over its own App Store (which the Epic ruling explicitly reaffirmed that it does), this is only going to get silly and bloated.
I never have sold ads, but I've sold other things and have heard customers complain: "why can't your pricing model be easier to compare with our other vendors!" Don't you get the impression that Google has heard that too?
A majority of men support nuclear power, a majority of women opposes it: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3726846/mo...

I have a hard time interpreting this as anything else than being the result of greater female risk aversion and their increased influence in politics.
> Quite far from it. Have a read!

I've read it, along with his entire bibliography as Aldous Huxley has been my favorite author since I read Doors of Perception as 16 year old boy, and I think that both are still highlighting the pitfalls of centralized planning of Society as in the case within Brave New World.

To me both seem like a direct response to the perils outlined in Artic Hay, which is to say that effective centralized planning of Society and Human Organization can be successfully achieved provided you include the basic needs and wants of the Human Condition while catering to it's pleasure seeking nature to make one's servitude acceptable (include Genetic modification as in the case of BnW) all while omitting the need for strife, challenge, and adversity that makes something feel fulfilling for Humans: hence the story of the savage.
Exactly - and FB itself knows that there is no wave of exits following a scandal. They learned that. They can have a conversation with one group and know the other group / the business is not really touched by any of this.
Well, ye. There's always elite classes with special rules. Social media is pushed to censor 'misinformation' while news media can lie all day. Entertainment media need to clearly label product placements, news media can make 'sponsored content' nearly indistinguishable from the other content. If you have a blog with 'questionable' content you can be fined, news media can have 'opinion' columns advocating for genocide and there's no issue. If you get arrested at a riot, you can just say you're a journalist and you'll likely be let go as they don't want to bother with the potential outrage..
Thanks, I'll pass along to my infrastructure team. Glancing through the blog post, its quite light on details, and I wonder if we just have a very different data load pattern.

Our dataset size is actually reasonably small (10s of TB), but our transaction throughput is very high. Glancing at our dashboard, baseline is 250k/s, with sustained daytime load in the 500k/s region.
This gave me flashbacks of last winter's energy outages.
Random aside - how do you dry off after using the bidet?
“That’s why Joe Biden's Build Back Better plan includes billions of dollars to reshore manufacturing, invest in basic research, and beef up domestic supply chains.” – everything has to be a political propaganda.
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Hi, I'm Luke, a front-end leaning developer based out of Vancouver, Canada. I've been working with JavaScript (and various component libraries such as React, Vue, Angular), HTML, CSS, Python, and others for some portion of the last decade. I find a lot of satisfaction in troubleshooting obscure issues and incrementally improving products, while working with good people or solo.

I burnt out and lost my previous position after COVID hit, and since then I haven't found anything, instead working on side-projects and in whatever non-tech jobs I can in the meantime :) I recently received an offer that could have been life-changing, but it was rescinded upon the company's realization that hiring a remote worker in Canada was more complex than they were prepared for. I'm quite defeated by this, and by the interviewing gauntlet that I've been doing for over a year, but am still open to full-time, part-time, and contract work as an incorporated entity.

In my next position, I'm looking for something where I can see where my value to the customer is going. Working at too high of an abstraction level from the problems I solve isn't healthy.
Most code doesn't actually run in a shared memory parallel context precisely because of the GIL, so I think the "chaos" would be minimal. It will still be painful, and would require the ecosystem to adapt (and therefore will never happen because the Python ecosystem lacks the necessary leadership), but it's technically feasible and it would be politically feasible for other language communities.
Operation Warpspeed was a miserable failure. They promised 100 million vaccines by the end of 2020 and managed 5m, screwing up at almost every step. And it’s not like they did anything to speed up vaccine development, because that was all done in Europe.

Realize that as soon as Biden took over then there was zero chance of any conservative doing anything to help Biden “succeed” in any dimension, regardless of how many lives are on the line. You don’t see Trump on Fox News telling people to get vaccinated do you?
In fact, this only works if combined with a Secure Boot disabling exploit. Secure boot (despite the MS key...thing) still would prevent the modified bootmgr.efi from booting.

The article works very hard to bury that bit.
Gasoline has a shelf life of 3 to 6 months. Max a couple of years if it's chemically stabilized and stored hermetically sealed.

Mad Max should have been about a heist of solar panels and batteries :)
The problem is that it's more than price that drove some of the manufacturing overseas. For example, from my life, I was looking at getting an 'American made' large piece of woodworking equipment.

All manufacturers, regardless of label, get their cast-iron parts from the same place in China. This isn't for price; we're talking about different brands that range in price, for this tool, from $500-$2800. The top of the top end is what I purchased, because I had extra money due to no travel during covid. It is built in America with American parts, except the cast-iron; it still has Chinese cast-iron.

The reason was because of environmental regulations.

So, if we do shift manufacturing back, we need to either be cool with shit-tons of pollution, or be searching desperately, now, for solutions to that pollution.

To be clear, I desperately want more made in America goods. The quality is just better. From woodworking - Pony clamps were made in Chicago, Il, and are still the best clamps your money can buy. Now they're made in the clamp factory in China and the quality shows that shift.
I mean this comment is just silly.

A problem can have more than one cause.

The rest of Europe is dealing with the pandemic, we are dealing with the pandemic and brexit.
> ...This post is aimed for home and small office networks. So if you know about ARP, DHCP, and NAT, and if you wonder how these work in IPv6 networks, this post is perfect for you.

Hardly a home user friendly introduction. An acronym soup begins right at the start, where the author describes his network setup.

Not sure if users would feel convinced to adopt IPv6 on their networks without understanding the benefits first.
> I don't know if that's a bias of my own (I'm open to hear a counterpoint!), but 2016 really stands out as an inflection point in my mind.

Cheerleading the Iraq War did it, for me. Especially for the NYT, but media generally. I sincerely wish them all the worst.

Then again, journalists as stock characters in fiction have been morally grey at best for just about all of the 20th century, at least, and I think to a substantial degree before that, too. I'm not sure where the idea that journalists have typically been, or been regarded as, forthright and virtuous, in the past, came from. The whole thing seems like a fiction built on a very few examples from a narrow time period (Cronkite's usually cited, for example)
You have a fair point, in that pure redistribution rarely causes an issue. But the general point, that you need to make sure an abundance of something exists for the government to ensure it is available to the poor, very much applies to housing. . Rent controls and requiring new developments to include affordable housing lower incentives for developers to creating more housing, which results in the general market's housing prices being even worse in another decade due to static supply with increasing demand. Progressives trying to ensure both new and old housing is distributed to the poor has just made the housing situation worse in the cities it was attempted in. The government would have been much better off just building massive housing structures itself to deal with the issue, if it wanted to take a direct hand in it (the government producing things directly being the other way an abundance agenda can be pursued).

Where the quote goes wrong I think is bringing up progressives as if they're at fault for the current lack of abundance. The situation in the article is one where our attempts to create a massive economic surplus through global free trade have backfired. (Global free trade being a conservative/neoliberal plan where an abundance agenda is pursued by capitalistic methods.) This situation is a reminder that in capitalism, we optimize for profit, and optimizing for profit generally means having very little wiggle room for disruptions to a system. Making sure an abundance is available even during times of disruption is something that likely requires government intervention, not a lack of it.
Not just mainstream media - the most upvoted comments on HN were those "debunking" inflation by claiming it was transitory, baseline etc
Google does this too. As I understand it, their choice is to remove the app or stop selling devices, software, and services in those countries. This is definitely something that tech companies could do better at. I wish they would choose the latter option just once.
Is Twitch's footprint big enough internationally that they have to worry about it?
Some have heaters that blow dry air.
Agree it's more fun without the elo anxiety. Personally 3+0 blitz hits the spot for me, everyone sucks so dropping a piece isnt a big deal. The popular advice is that blitz won't improve your game, but I don't buy it.
Of course they’re transitory give a loose enough definition of transitory.

Most of the supply chain experts are predicting that it will be years before this is unwound. Years.
I told the recruiter at the start of the pandemic in no uncertain terms that I would never work for facebook or any company owned by them, and to not contact me again. I haven't received another request since.
Mostly the latter, but I also don't think these results (especially the first one) are organic.
The feature list says that Apple doesn't allow "Define your own pricing", "Local pricing control", "Subscription pausing", "Ability to refund". I don't manage any apps with IAP (or any apps for that matter) but I feel like these are all possible with Apple.
It’s hard, unless you work at a company small enough for everyone to know each other.
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With all due respect, there is no reason to have had sucky jobs over the last 8 years. The market has only gotten increasingly hotter... if you're in a tight spot career-wise, do the work to get into a better company working w/ better people.

If it's an issue w/ passing interviews at better companies, interviewing unto itself is a skill that should be regularly honed.

When I was a younger engineer I was stuck in a job that was unsatisfying for about 5 years... every 1.5 years or so I would interview w/ 3-5 positions, usually one or two would be close to an offer but I ended up empty-handed, would get deflated and give up.

Over the last decade I've taken the job search much more seriously, usually interviewing at 15-20 companies so I can end up w/ 3-5 offers to choose from. Yes, it's very time consuming (probably some 60-70 hours of my time over 5-6 weeks), but the quality of the companies I've worked at has been consequently more satisfying.
Yeah but what you are talking about is a nuanced viewpoint and those are out of vogue.
> This is a far cry from the critical reporting of the 2016-2020 years.

You almost answer your own question, but mistake cause & effect.

They weren't reporting critically, it just happened that their preferred (leftwing) political option was out of power. They were lying against Trump / for Democrats, just like they're now lying for Biden. The only difference is, who's in power.
Why not just use your product as a source of income in itself.

Start the first podcast, get subscribers and stop taking a salary.

That would be a fantastic way to show the viability of your platform.

As a customer I'd love the idea of premium podcasts assuming the content is good.
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