skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Naively: the price of Bitcoin on April 3 2017 when this blog post was published was around $1100, so the author could have bought 3.68 BTC with his $4050. Even if he sold BTC at the all-time peak of $64863 he'd only make a third of what GitLab options would make.
The Moral Panic Engulfing Instagram
There is this cycle where this is blamed on a combination of Brexit and global warming, so they want to shift to even more wind/solar, causing even more outages, and it's a positive feedback loop.

One would think that if you seriously believed that the climate is going to rapidly change, then you would seek out climate-independent sources of energy. It's like predicting the world will be in drought but then advocating for more hydro power. But perhaps I don't understand the full nuances of European politics.
I've been starting work on a long rant title "Counting is Harder Than You Think". In general, I think most people think counting is one of the easiest things for computers to do because people learn counting in elementary school and just forever associate it with "easy". (Someone's never asked the elementary school teacher's opinion of that.)

"How hard can it be, it's just a Select Count() in SQL!" Uh, that Count() is possibly doing a ton of work in CPU/IO that the server could be doing for other things, and sure an Index might speed that up, but you can't really index an Index and eventually you get right back to where you can't afford the CPU/IO time.

People just assume computers have exact numbers at all times. Some of that is just a problem of bad UX design ("why are we showing a meaningless estimate number like 1,492,631 and not 'about a Million things to do'?"), but so much of it just seems to be that people think counting is easy.
A lot of the GNU tools have had dependencies on GNU-specific versions of classic tools because, for decades, the non-GNU versions sucked. Lots of hard-coded arbitrary limits (line lengths, file sizes, command line option counts), quadratic behaviours, crashes, weird corner cases.

Edit - also, lack of updates. POSIX added a new feature to a tool 5 years ago? Well, the built-in tool that came with your classic Unix probably still doesn't support it yet. The GNU tool does though.

If your build system effectively relies on GNU `make` because 75% of the other `make` implementations out there either barf on your makefile, or don't run the build steps correctly, despite it being valid according to the spec; and GNU `make` has a bunch of features that are really powerful and would allow you do some complex things more easily, or even do them at all; then why not just actually rely on GNU `make` and use the extensions?

Similarly, the bundled `cc`s with classic Unices (if they were provided at all) frequently had weird bugs or poor code generation that would go unfixed for years. If `gcc` was the only compiler you could rely on a) your users having access to, and b) to correctly compile your code; and it has a bunch of really cool features that make your code smaller or faster or cleaner, it's hard to resist that. Your code is still portable, because `gcc` is portable, and Free.
That sort of rule would quickly become very hard to untangle. For example news papers are often the only good source of reliable, in-depth book reviews and for historical reasons the companies that sell books and sell news papers are often owned by the same parent company.

In the Kape case I think it is clearly dishonest, and the same can be said for the online order mattress space among others. Most online direct to consumer spaces (for example gaming and anti-virus) probably has some actor that is dishonestly setting up or buying review sites.

But it is not exactly clear how you would in a legal sense draw the line.
I thought I laid out what I meant by that in the following paragraphs -- it was intended as a finger pointed at the moon, not a prescriptive maxim to be taken literally. A goal to work towards instead of "everyone do whatever is profitable for them in the near term"...

In the very long term it would be awesome if our industrial systems emitted only manageable waste heat and the produced good, with all waste streams recycled or otherwise kept from contaminating the environment; but this is pure sci-fi utopian optimism on my part.
Wouldn't that be solvable if it was forbidden to place ads using as search terms the tradename of another company?
I loved that in Seveneves, there was a world treaty that no politician could be part of the Ark
Author said he had NSOs. AMT only applies to ISOs. The income from NSO exercise is taxed at ordinary income tax rates. Depending on his other income, the tax can be lower or higher compared to AMT rates.
And wind/solar is also very expensive once you reach 20% and need storage.
Believing in magic pyramids shows that you think differently
This further reinforces my dislike for Gitlab the company. This is not the first insight into the company culture and they seem shady overall. Kinda like an evil little brother who'll never be as good as their big brother.

Now Gitlab the open source tool was pretty nice back when I used it half a decade ago. Was much better than using that monstrosity called Gerrit. But nowadays I just use Github and don't even think about it anymore. They've won, kinda like Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm.
>Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet

Isn't that standard procedure for any company faced with a 0-day, prudent, and the right thing to do?
I'm operating on the assumption that GHG emissions are overwhelmingly the largest threat to the environment (and thus human civilization) such that minimizing emissions and minimizing harm to the environment are functionally the same thing. I don't know of any serious emissions-reducing proposals which would actually do more harm to the environment than maintaining our emissions trajectory.
The problem isn't Microsoft. The problem is that progress bars are the worst way to indicate progress ever invented except for all the other terrible ways to indicate progress we've invented. Percentage numbers are always a lie and shouldn't even be shown, but some people like the soothing comfort of "number go big".
> I feel like this should fall under advertising laws. Maybe it does and I'm not familiar with the area. Does the review site need to disclose the fact of ownership?

Even if they do, they can probably satisfy the requirement with disclosure where no one would actually notice it.

The only kind of disclosure I'd be happy with is if at the top of the page and next to any self-endorsement they would have to show a garish warning banner with a legally mandated design that called out their conflict of interest in blunt terms. It would be easier and better to just ban the practice.
I don't think Zerodium payouts are lump sum... I believe they are staggered in order to mitigate against this stuff.
Here is one recent example: My project was to write a script to support a mechanical engineer in life testing some buttons that I interfaced with. The script development went faster than I expected, so with my "extra" time I decided to learn how to use a new testing technique on the project.
> I'm not sure how well known Processing is within the HN community, but in the media arts and education space, Processing is pretty famous.

Probably relatively well known due to its usage in some Arduino projects.
"if the hackers or botters have become indistinguishable from other competent players, then... Well, excellent! Mission Accomplished"

"... that a problem is absolutely subservient to the integrity and playability of the base game."

If you use hacks/cheats to help you play higher than your natural skill/ability, doesn't that ruin the integrity of the game? The mission is not accomplished in this case. Instead it's just tricky to determine who's hacking.

Headshotting everyone on-sight also sounds like the old days of hacks in games. In my experience, there is more nuance to the way these cheats are used these days. Most people aren't trying to be obvious about it.
Does that rate also hold for flights using the same model or even the same vehicle as tested in previous flights? Shouldn't testing bring the rate down?
Only the other day I was arguing about how good the civil service was in the UK, amongst many other great things about the UK:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28811319

A lot of people don't agree however, and they think the UK is going "down the pan".
True, but you also have to wait for your options to vest. I did make the mistake of waiting too long. With a 5-year vesting schedule it's possible to still get a stiff tax for the last few years.

This is one area where I think the company didn't make the consequences clear. But I also understand that they were trying very hard to not appear to be giving tax advice. Also, my company specifically asked us NOT to do small purchases. I guess there were people doing monthly exercises with each paycheck and the company didn't like that (it wasn't forbidden, just frowned upon).
Looks like opened at $1,318 on the day this was written. If you invested $4,050 on that day into 3.07 bitcoins, you'd have $174,819 today, which seems well less than Gitlab stock, which others are saying would be worth near a million.

That said, if you'd invested $4k on a couple winning horses at Golden Gate Downs in 2017, you could also be a millionaire, so this sort of backwards-looking estimate is of limited value. :)
Nice points about the magic stuff. I always thought that they were idiots.
Can you provide more info around nuclear fuel running out in 100 years? I had been thinking we had an abundance of nuclear fuel available tIo us. I have not heard of a 100 year limit before and am interested to learn more.
Renewables paired with batteries can improve grid resilience, actually. Distribution of generators means less loss in the wires travelling, batteries paired with renewables to provide overnight power and load-smoothing, these are good things. Renewables also are very predictable, so you can use a little natural gas to supplement at night while you build out batteries and more wind. Solar will take care of our day-time needs no problem, it's the overnight stretches and the wind-less winters where nuclear would really shine.
It's a little dicer in the cases where we can pretty much infer that they're trying to get to a specific thing and would have happily used a direct URL to the page if they had the wherewithal to do so. In this case the ad placement is basically a brand trying to hijack my attention while I'm in the process of seeking a thing out.

I struggle to think of a meat world analogy. It would be something like if I dialed my girlfriend up on the phone and, instead of routing me straight to her, I had to navigate through a switchboard asking me "How about talking to these sexy singles in your area instead?" And in order to prevent this, my girlfriend would then have to pay the company to route my call straight to her.

Of course this isn't a perfect metaphor because there's a lot of different ways people use a search bar, especially now that search bars are merged into URL bars. But that sort of gets at what it is about this that feels sleazy.
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It's basically funded by European grants so it does not seem fishy.
You can install Lineage without Play, and only use Lineage.

Graphene does not require Play Services, but it only runs on a small subset of Android phones that are ~$500+ here (heavily discouraged to use anything older than 4a 5G)
$4,000 to exercise and $250,000 in taxes on shares that they wouldn't be able to sell for another four years. The AMT heavily punishes exercising options in pre-IPO companies.
This comment does not make sense as a rebuttal to the article.

The author is arguing that you should use spare time you have after doing "enough" on things that enrich, educate, and grow yourself instead of simply doing more of your "normal" work. They state very clearly that they think you should not do additional work items that provide clear value to the business. They are saying you should give extra to yourself, not your employer.
I haven't seen anyone mention the fact that a big factor that contributes to how the Google Ads "black box" determines how to rank ads is via an Ad Quality measurement.

Each ad is given a quality score, and since your own website will be guaranteed to be the most authoritative source for a keyword search with your own branded keyword(s) in it, by default the quality of your own ads will be much higher than your competition.

This means in practice that the cost for a brand to be shown first on their own branded keywords is much lower than their average CPC, let alone the cost for their competitors to be there.
Forever? No. For the design life of the reactor? Possibly, for a purpouse designed reactor type.

If you want it today, there's the nuclear radioisotope thermoelectric generator, in use since the 50s and used on many spacecraft.
What's SafetyNet have to do with anything? It's opt it device attestation the app creator has to implement

It's not Android/Google forcing SafetyNet on you, it's app developers insisting you need some special end user setup
Heck, we could keep social media as-is and merely ban likes and engagement-based sorting. That would be sufficient.
This article is 2 months old. Most of the state New South Wales (including Sydney) came out of lock-down earlier this week.
State of Victoria (including Melbourne) should do so by first November.
I'm 99% positive there are entire companies dedicated to financing the tax bill for these types of taxes, just to get a cut of the equity.

EDIT: See https://www.esofund.com/
There are other newer places also like https://join.equitybee.com/

Also, brokers who create a secondary market for this equity will also arrange financing, but it depends on the "hotness" of the equity.

SIDE NOTE: If you have SpaceX stock, and you're going to leave it on the table due to taxes, reach out to me and I can arrange for something also. But go to ESOFund, etc first of course - those are professional outfits.
wouldn't his shares have likely been a little diluted in further rounds of funding?
My brother is doing it now very successfully with a 1 year old and a 4 year old. Kids love spending time with their parents - take them to the park, take them to the beach, walking, playing, being outside. None of those things cost any money.

It is simply about being careful how you spend money, because the more you spend, the more you'll have to go to work.
>Plus Apple has a history of being incompetent and slow on this

Have they, really? Just because you find this instance here and there of such a story where they were, doesn't mean they have a history of being incompetent and slow on this (the same way someone who hit 99% of their three-pointers doesn't have a history of being an awful shooter).

That's how they fare long term:

https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/mobile-security...
Any way you slice it it's a million dollars.

4 times your annual salary in one lump payment is a life-changing sum of money for most people.
There is still a ton of diversity (underline color, curly underlines, synchronization, and image support for example), but it's nearly impossible to figure out what features are available in a given terminal. I just finished adding vt400 support to iTerm2 this week but I doubt any of it will be used because it's not widely available enough for people to bother.
Yep, similar experience here. My first computer was a Tandy / Radio Shack Color Computer. It had a 6809 processor (8/16-bit precursor to the 68000) @1.8MHz, 4k of RAM (upgradable to 64k), 16k or 24k ROM memory with a quite expansive MSFT Extended Basic Interpreter (supposedly the last ROM OS & BASIC that had assembler written by BillG himself).

I taught myself BASIC, assembler, graphics programming and game programming on that machine over a period of about four years of hacking around on it (including hand-commenting some significant chunks of the ROM). By the time I retired it for a shiny new Amiga 1000 in 1986 I'd upgraded it to 256k of bank switched RAM with a soldered-in hack board, added four floppy drives, various I/O boards and learned OS/9 (a UNIX-inspired multi-tasking, multi-user OS) and hacked in my own extensions to the ROM OS (including adding my own new commands and graphics modes to the BASIC interpreter).

It started out as a lot of trial and error but, on later reflection, ended up being a surprisingly thorough grounding in computer science from which to launch my career. That 6809 machine was also the last time I really felt like I was aware of everything happening in a computer from interrupts to registers to memory mapping down to the metal.
Not completely unclear. Renewable energy can be even more local than nuclear plants. A good grid is a valueable tool, but not the only solution. The zero-energy-house is a working example for self-sufficient development. Large office buildings or small residential houses are already being build this way. It's a matter of where to put the subvention money - to the big old coal companies (and their lobbies) or the innovative smaller engineers.
Senior Visual effects artist here. Hi! 20+ years in the industry, worked on movies from Final Fantasy The Spirits Withing to Disney's Enchanted and a whole mess of forgettable cinema and TV shows.

My axe is SideFx's Houdini. I've been in love with it since I first set eyes on it in 1998, but didn't use it in work until 2010. Until then I was using Maya. Yuck. It's now off my resume and I've left studios that made me use it. It makes my hands clench up in pain.

I've also used Shake and Nuke, After Effects, Photoshop, etc... But Houdini is really my jam. And it keeps getting better all the time. Best damn customer support in the industry, bar none!

Any questions?

My opinion on Blender is: Sure, if it fits your needs. It seems kinda quirky, but the community looks good.
I think the author's point is "if you have leftover time, do this" not "everyone has leftover time."
You can run one of those os's without any Google services. Paid apps are almost certain to not run, and a bunch of other apps that rely on the services. But almost all the apps I use work great.

I have used CalyxOS and it's a great os. I did use microG and 98% of the apps I use worked flawlessly. If you have a supported phone, I'd definitely give it a shot.
The article isn't about highly precise INS development. It's about an INS so accurate it didn't need any external references, and says such applications haven't been necessary in decades.

Submarines still use external referencing. Unlike a missile, a submarine can use the earth's magnetic field to determine orientation in at least two axis. They can also reference fixed sound sources, know their depth, and so on.

I believe highly sensitive magnetometers were used to help correlate position - namely, the Navy had done surveys and so a record of magnetometer data could be 'fit' a track to the map by a computer.

That's the point of the article. So many navigation systems can use at least some sort of external reference, a completely independent positioning system isn't necessary.
I just booted Win 11 using legacy bios. Just remove those artificial checks in the installer and no more problems.
I'm not sure if we were able to purchase before vesting. I'm assuming if you left the company the money for any unvested shares would be refunded?
Nuclear is dangerous and needs to be treated as such.

Flying is also dangerous and is treated as such.

Just like the aviation industry has had an excellent track record in managing the danger, so has the nuclear industry. Just look at the number of victims of nuclear in the past 30 years. One (1) dead at Fukushima.

Chernobyl killed thousands, but it's as relevant to the safety of the industry in 2021 as a 1950s Antonov is to an Airbus.
precisely. or people who never really had to hustle.

i know its anecdotal, but the loudest cry babies around me are the most pampered individuals...
We're not talking about building _new_ plants here. We're talking about maintaining the current fleet. Is this expensive? Yes. But what's the alternative? Burning coal and importing gas? This should simply be the cost of transitioning off fossil fuels. Once renewables are scalable and reliable, there will be no reason to build nuclear plants. Progress over perfection.
Question is are you playing real game or some made up game.

"Ethical" is made up game - I can be ethical to my close ones, because that is what I expect from them.

I don't expect "Ethical" play from some random big company that is somewhere in the cloud.

I think related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28608436
I guess that's more a customer satisfaction problem for Google, than it is a problem for advertisers.
Yes, and the next time a 50-hour task comes up, they'll expect you to do it by tomorrow.

The problem with faking your way into being a 10x rockstar is that expectations grow faster than compensation. The other problem is that if you can't sustain the pace, you're going to burn out and your life will be utter crap.
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Presumably that's how the liberals in Texas and Florida feel, too. This comment would be better without the last sentence.
Do you spend a lot of time in Breck? I bet that really self-selects for pilot-programmers. Not dismissing your point, I think it's cool that you know "a lot of pilots".
Unfortunately, the enforced values are being dictated by technocrats who subscribe to scientism and utilitarianism and value "safety" above everything else.
Good catch. I missed that they were NSOs.
If you had to compare modern-day at will employment - the social construct through we are all earning our living - with slavery - something quite illegal in the entire world - your argument doesn’t hold much water.
Thanks for the feedback! This was just a demo I shared in Twitter and didn't expect it to be shared so widely by others. We're training a new CNN for more classes and we might switch to another dataset for the image retrieval part. It's really a very small pet project :D
It seems like the last person you would want to dick around would be someone who seems to be extremely good at finding extremely valuable vulnerabilities.
No amount of personal lifestyle changes will affect the end result and the only thing that will affect the end result is policy--specifically carbon pricing and border adjustments. So while I don't think "voting democrat" is sufficient (because they seem to do little more than lip service toward the climate), "personal responsibility and lifestyle changes" are a distraction (and a deliberate one that the fossil fuel industry invests in). Indeed, one has to raise awareness ("talk frequently about climate change"), pressure their representatives, and of course vote. Everything else is penny-wise and pound-foolish.

Note that I'm not a partisan, and any Republicans who want to help conserve the world (including the economy) are welcome at the table as far as I'm concerned.
The article says AIRS accuracy was not necessary back in the eighties for many applications.

It's important to note they mean drift over time. When you have at least some sort of external reference, drift is much less of a problem to compensate or correct for.
Presumably not on mainline kernel.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Heck, there are still major parts of RT Linux being released in the upcoming kernel:

https://lwn.net/Articles/867821/
Could anyone clarify if the 90 day window is driven by tax regulations or driven by private company conventions?
I wish Apple would do a feature freeze for iOS and macOS for a couple of years, then focus on fixing bugs, improving security and optimizing performance instead.