skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, just teach kids that effort and skills are meaningless and it's all luck. That will result in a really pleasant and productive generation of people.

I thought public schools were broken when I was in High School but I think the latest changes might actually do more harm than good to your child.
There is a lot of inertia everywhere. "This is how we do it" is an attitude that is everywhere and you do something for 30 years then run the show, you keep doing it how you were trained to do it when you started. There are also things like company and regulatory standards of how to do things that aren't necessarily based on anything that regularly gets re-analyzed.

An outsider taking nothing as granted can often find big inefficiencies.
You can look up SPECint2017 for AMD and Apple chips. Sure, AMD has to clock higher to do it but the end result is they are still ahead with their year old 7nm chips in both 1T and MT.
Disagree. Atrocities like this website exist precisely because the sort of people who hang around here didn't say 'No' when ordered to create them.
> 1) no benefit in the meantime for the holder (such as a dividend or direct utility from the thing itself - a painting can be hung on a wall to look nice)

That point in the quote doesn’t make sense when you consider holding a stock like Amazon or Salesforce that never pays dividends. Are those stocks then the same as crypto? It seems like an oversimplification. Bitcoin, with this point, is just purely a “growth stock”.
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Somebody wrote down their thinking on exactly this subject: http://canonical.org/~kragen/eotf/
I just watched the new movie today; it's good. The dragonfly-like wings were an interesting choice. It seems like they'd be less efficient at lift than a jointed wing, but then I thought, maybe an unusual wing surface material could be used?

The problem is that when the wings go up, they're pushing air in the wrong direction and propelling the ornithopter down. But suppose the wing was covered in tiny little hinged flaps that close on a downstroke, but open on an upstroke? That way the upstroke would push the aircraft down much less than the downstroke lifts.. (These wouldn't even need to be controlled in any way, they could just be passive flaps. Though being able to lock them closed might be useful for certain acrobatic maneuvers.)
Wired link is the orig:
https://www.wired.com/story/dystopia-tips-prepare-fight-back...
No. Virtually all goods that move by sea (save for commodities like oil) move in containers, which require container ships and associated infrastructure (deep water ports, etc.).
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Paper. It is almost certain that the web will not exist in anything near its current form for another 50 years, let alone 500 years.

Even on paper, people may not be able to read the written words due to the drift of languages.
> It sounds really lame to say, but it feels like what you're suggesting is the exact opposite of what the market wants.

If that's what the market wanted then Apple wouldn't have to spend so much money on preventing their customers from rooting their phones, running any apps they want to run and using alternative mobile app distribution methods.

> People want a device they can give to their kid without worrying that they'll mess it up.

Chromebooks are those devices, which is one of the reasons they're used in education. There were 40 million Chromebooks in public schools and about 53 million K-12 students in the US in 2019.

You can run whatever Android or Linux software you want on them, and use whatever mobile app distribution you want, too, like F-Droid.
also Latin America, where their value offer is strong
I told my Canadian friends that legalizing marijuana would eventually have consequences. Nobody listened.
> The scientific literature says the vaccinated have lower viral load and are less infectious

It appears that is not necessarily the case[1]:

> In July 2021, following multiple large public events in a Barnstable County, Massachusetts, town, 469 COVID-19 cases were identified among Massachusetts residents who had traveled to the town during July 3–17; 346 (74%) occurred in fully vaccinated persons. Testing identified the Delta variant in 90% of specimens from 133 patients. Cycle threshold values were similar among specimens from patients who were fully vaccinated and those who were not.

Certainly, the experience in Israel and the debate in the UK at the moment over more lockdowns would indicate that even very high levels of immunity (from either vaccination or infection) do not necessarily correspond with an easing of restrictions.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm...
I assume you mean a film camera. But you can get a cheap digital camera (equal to a phone camera of a few years ago) for even cheaper. There isn't really a market for such low end cameras given nearly everyone has phones. But maybe as a toy for a small child too young for a phone or something.
Webapps don't have to be terrible.

Don't let the rushed, incomplete web apps of yesterday scare you away from PWAs!
If they’re so valuable to people in East Asia right now, then people in East Asia have an incentive to take a more active role in getting them back.

How much is a train ride up to the Port of Oakland? Less than $5k per rail car? Probably a lot less. So some enterprising person in Asia could organize that and get them on a ship heading back faster than their competitors, reducing their cost and gaining a competitive advantage at the same time. So why isn’t that happening?
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You are being hyperbolic. There isn't thousands. Hundreds yes. Compare him to current Biden, who has been confirmed to have a son that broke law which one of the most detest act in American society, it says a lot about you being agreeable to those kind of acts. Put your priority straight. Focus on the more serious i justice in society than to hop on the bandwagon of making a fuss of a billionaire while a lot of other billionaires are doing it to you at this very moment.
People should be able to take family leave, it is the responsibility of the organization and his “manager” to make sure the job is getting done while they’re on leave.
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the IRS does though, and your income is in an US bank?
"We do not allow our children to have their own computers to prevent the risk of them being radicalized by alt-right websites"

This is a sign of mental illness in parents. Shocking. I haven't seen the equivalent of since Christian parents weren't letting their kids read Harry Potter books in the early 2000s because they discussed witchcraft.

" We found an excel spreadsheet in Jack’s folder that listed the names of all of his classmates, as well as dates and descriptions of their problematic behavior. Some of the descriptions I saw include “has a mom who is a cop,” “no pronouns in insta bio,” “laughed at a fat joke,” “lists problematic show as one of their favorites,” “mimicked a foreign accent,” and “used cis-normative language.”"

He is simply mirroring his parents worrying mental illness.
> And what does that have to do with eye tracking?

Nothing. But the Quest2 specially also has four cameras that point out at you and your rooms. So it’s the same theme that I don’t really want Facebook seeing anything remotely related to this.

> Almost all VR porn sucks compared to the flatscreen counterpart.

Compelling argument.
>should we be thinking of satellite connectivity the same way we think about public utilities?

Yes. This is something a lot of people are interested in.
https://muskdeer.blogspot.com/2021/10/rethinking-gis.html

In fact India's Remote Sensing Data Policy has specifically recognized this data as a 'public good'.
I feel like it'd be pretty easy to pinpoint the problem with data.

Historical rates of arriving containers to the port, leaving the port, time spent at the port, time spent in yards, number of drivers, number of trucks, etc.

High level, throughput was lost somewhere, or there's more volume, or maybe both.
Heh, California zoning manages to fuck up even more stuff.
I wish we could just get rid of that state and figure out how to do without. We'd probably be better off.
> Skip the nonsense and just check your dependencies in directly to your repo.

Haha, no.

That would increase the size of the repository greatly. Ideally, you would want a local proxy where the dependencies are downloaded and managed or tarball the node_modules and save it in some artifacts manager, server, or s3 bucket
Why does anyone need more than 60Hz? Isn't the difference imperceptible?
In other words, someone put up a Mastodon instance with open signups and it attracted some spammers.
It's not an argument at all, it's just a good joke. I'm actually undecided on crypto. Yes we're a professional community and this isn't reddit, but we can have a bit of humor here and there.
Do you have any sources for the first claim?
I'm talking about the asset itself. You've just sold it for labor instead of currency.
I am reminded of new building built near me a few years ago. To be "in character" with the buildings around it (which are >100 year old brick industrial buildings) the brick veneer includes several "windows" on one end that were "bricked up" with a different style of brick than the rest of the veneer.

The new building has a significantly different aspect ratio than the surrounding buildings (tall and thin, versus low and wide). It's 3 stories, unlike the 1 or 2 story buildings around it. It also has a roof line completely unlike anything close by. It really sticks out visually.

It's got bricked-up windows, though.
The IBM draws around 112 mA from the interface, whilst a modern keyboard draws 1.2 mA. These figures are with the 3 status LEDs (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock) off. Each of these draw around 12mA when lit on both keyboards.

That's a worst-case of 148mA, which even allowing for an extreme additional 100mA drawn by the converter is still well below the 500mA a USB port should be able to supply. I suspect the problem is actually signal integrity, and the fact that modifying the board to add stronger pullups works is more evidence in this direction.
If containers aren't working I'm sure people would be willing to use something like the black and yellow totes given enough market pressure.
Pretty sure the author did it as a troll, in which case it's great, I hate it.

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^ comment on it
Challenging election results is not the same as “overthrowing elections”. The Democrats literally challenged the election formally in 2000, 2004, and 2016. For anyone keeping track, that is all the recent presidential elections in which they lost. They even had legislators voting against certification. Polls showed that after the 2016 election, most Democrat voters believed (and probably still do) that Russia literally altered the votes of the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton claimed for months that this election was illegitimate. Yet to you, challenging an election result is only a problem now? That seems oddly one-sided.

As for your claims about dictatorships, racist world views, and so on - all of these are vague attacks that generalize an entire half of the country. There’s little evidence to support such claims.
From here[1]:

> In the second week of the trial, in which the maker of “Fortnite” alleged monopolistic practices by Apple in federal court in Oakland, Calif., Epic called an expert witness — Ned Barnes of the Berkeley Research Group — to the stand.

> Barnes calculated that the App Store had hefty profit margins, which increased to 78% in 2019, up from 75% in 2018, and generated $22 billion in commissions for Apple last year.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-profitable-is-apples-a...
What’s the expected answer to pass verification?
And if one of those tough books broke, what did Lockheed charge to replace it?
Bitcoin is freedom technology, providing the ability for people to opt out of monetary systems that don't serve their needs. It's a technological-monetary-social-political revolution disguised as a get rich quick scheme. The average person is no doubt in it to make money, but in satisfying their greed they are unknowingly fueling a technology which has a good chance of changing the world in fundamental ways.

You could also say it's like a trojan horse. Irresistibly beautiful, but inside lies the seeds of destruction that could free people from oppression and allow better and more efficient human organization. A Bitcoin moonboy in the USA fueled by their selfish greed is helping to empower someone on the other side of the world living under an authoritarian regime with hyperinflation and financial censorship.

I think this is a beautiful alignment of incentives. We accept that people are greedy, and provide them something that satisfies their greed, which is used to build a better financial system for the world.

Slightly tangential, but I'm generally fascinated by the idea of aligning incentives to create mechanisms that do good in the world. Instead of expecting people to be different than their base natures, change the game they're playing such that allowing them to follow human instinct effects positive change in the world. I don't yet have a clear idea how this could be applied to something like environmentalism, but it does make me wonder if it's possible. Is there a way to incentivise greed and harness the power to reduce CO2, clean the oceans, and restore ecosystems?
The truck driver is a part of the solution, but not to any of the primary issues right now.

Just saying “give truck drivers more compensation and better working conditions” doesn’t fix the fact that their destinations aren’t open 24/7 so keeping the ports open for an extra shift doesn’t do much right now.

It doesn’t fix the fact that the truck driver depends on someone else to take their container and/or chassis at the end of a delivery and many delivery depots can’t or won’t right now.

And the biggest asymmetry right now has nothing directly to do with truck drivers. There is a shortage of empty containers in East Asia and a glut in the US. Container ships aren’t waiting in the US ports to load up with empty containers, so thyme are exacerbating the issue.
Drone-sized ornithopters have become reasonably flyable outdoors. But scaling works against you. One the size of a large helicopter, capable of vertical takeoff, is tough. Mostly a power problem, like all VTOL.

Dune, like much of SF, runs on Rule of Cool. The skilled knife fighter, even shielded, is vulnerable to many of the standard anti-riot weapons, such as projectiles which throw a net. Being hit by an RPG round with a solid warhead would at least knock someone down hard, despite shielding, from sheer momentum transfer. And tanks work just fine in the desert, as has been amply demonstrated in the Middle East all the way back to Patton.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJA5C-ghj4s
I tried reading a Forbes article earlier today, and gave up within 5 seconds after the third popup prevented me from reading the article.
Because we all know how those don't need to be fact checked.
People don't do this because `node_modules` can be absolutely massive (hundreds of megabytes or more), and a lot of people don't like (for various reasons) such large repositories.

There is a deprecated project at my work that committed the entire yarn offline cache to the repo. At least those were gzipped, but the repo still had a copy of every version of every dependency.

It isn't a good long term solution unless you really don't care at all about disk space or bandwidth (which you may or may not).
Too bad the "manager" is a vegetable who doesn't know where he is half the time.
Intel was the leader in process technology. It was reasonable that they wanted to reserve the leading edge for their own higher maigin products. What happened was that smart phones eventually generated much higher volume than PCs, which gave TSMC the gross margin dollars to leapfrog in process tech. Meanwhile with less volume to amortize capital cost, Intel was conservative with EUV lithography. For a while they were actually hoping to get Nikon to be an ASML competitor in EUV. But to their advantage Moore's law has slowed down. They are still competitive in density, but they need to catch up on power consumption. This whole competitive dynamics is rather dissimilar to Nvidia's.
The parents' letter is a little bonkers, but the response is totally reasonable. I feel like the responder was trying to politely say "this isn't OK no matter where you're coming from on it" without saying it.

When they say things like "Given the long history of white people policing Black existence, I question whether Jack is the right person to be taking on this task and whether it would be more appropriate coming from a BIPOC person." they're missing the point. It's not "appropriate" to keep annotated lists of every single behavior someone does that you don't like. This isn't adult men committing sexual harassment, it's teenagers with Instagram accounts.

Likewise, "On the other hand, I am proud of how committed he is to this cause and I don’t want to stop him from bearing witness to injustices within his own community." That's not what this is. It's a burn book.

The idea that they'd even consider support his doing if it weren't being concealed from them is absurd. This behavior shouldn't be normalized and will fix nothing.

I believe in and agree with most of the causes people consider to be under the umbrella of "social justice" (my post history will bear me out) and this is absolutely way past the mark of being OK.
Won't happen without attracting the best engineers, many of whom could be making a lot more elsewhere. So far, it looks like Pat has brought a bunch of old timers out of retirement, but I haven't heard of his plan to attract fresh blood. Recent grad compensation is abysmal.
well then - help me out :)

I've re-read your post several times.

"Religious prescription makes it possible for otherwise not cruel people to make animals suffer. Blurring the distinction is not helpful or smart in any way."

I think there exist valid distinctions; e.g. a vet who needs to make an animal suffer temporary pain while providing long term relief is an important distinction.

However, what I've put forward is that currently, we are giving TOO much credit and distinction for people who desire cruelty upon animals (and many other things) due to religion alone; vs other arbitrary personal desires and preferences. I think we need to blur that distinction, or support it with something else than "because religion".

In other words, to me:

Group A: Inflicts temporary pain to animals for purpose of long term relief or some other quantifiable objective benefit to something or somebody somewhere

Group B: Inflicts pain to animals for no good reason / for enjoyment of cruelty / for fun / for religion. I deny your claim that people who desire harm upon animals for religious reasons alone, are "otherwise not cruel people". I think "Cruel" is precisely what they are, and I deny them using religion as valid ethical excuse that means anything else than "because I wanted to", because religion is freely chosen and freely obeyed and we remain agents of free will. Or to put it another way - what about humans? If people want to harm other humans for only religious reasons, are we still treating them as "otherwise not cruel"?

I'm willing to listen what your alternative hypothesis/point/statement is - why are people who desire cruelty upon animals for religious reasons alone "not otherwise cruel", or how DO you narrowly define cruelty then?

(and again, it took me personally 30 years to stop giving religion a culturally-conditioned, social-norms free pass on these things; and I still have to fight this ingrained reflex to not instinctively believe that "because religion" is a superior reason to "because I want to". I don't expect anybody else to make that journey in 15 minutes debating internet strangers even if they want to).

[Final note: IF your point is more along the lines of "we should understand the details of reasoning and motivations", absolutely; but I did not see that line of reasoning in your original post. My point is I see no moral distinction or superiority between "because religion" and "because I want to", and one should not be given more credence than the other -- which is not to deny that understanding the motivations in detail is a useful and positive effort]
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Even a 110V plug still counts as a public charger. The point is that you still care about them. Even if you go out of your way to not think about them, you're still forced to use them from time to time.
Are current Apple products still worth that trust ?

I had to repair an old Macbook, and while Apple is still in business they won't take repairs for out of support products. Official repair shops seem to have some access to old pieces, but I don't know how long it will last, my laptop got its part from another junk laptop.

Then the current crop of Apple product have unreplaceable parts for third party shops, especially anything touching the secure enclaves.

I kinda doubt Apple being in business will help on the supoort side for 5 or 10 years older products.
Um, not just heroin, also digital ownership of URLs as well
> PMs made all the decisions. Engineers (at least at my level) had very little influence.

This is interesting given Google used to have a reputation for being an "engineer led" organization, I guess that's slowly changing over time.
Emphasis here on “bit”
Our approach to solving this on our open source project:

1. Enforce use of lock files
2. On any PR that changes any hash in the lock file, run a static analysis that looks for “permission” changes in any source file. E.g., used network, used env vars, used filesystem
3. Comment on the PR with any observed permission changes

It is very alpha-quality and not yet generally available but here are some details: https://deps.semgrep.dev/
Longshoreman make an average of $147,000/yr + benefits in the Bay Area.

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Ever since I came across a Tcl programming book in my college library I've always been fascinated with it. I return to it every couple of years to play around with meta-programming ideas that I've come up with.

For example, here is a really naive example of implementing a DSL that allows you to write something like

SELECT name age FROM person INTO name age

and have the values of the selected columns be placed in variables specified after the INTO keyword.

Implementing that isn't too difficult:

# a pretend database

set language(name) Tcl
set language(created) 1988
set language(created_by) "John Ousterhout"
set language(stable_release) 8.6.11

proc SELECT {args} {

### Lowercase all the args to make things easy
set args [string tolower $args]

set from_index [lsearch $args from]

set cols [lrange $args 0 [incr from_index -1]]
set table [lindex $args [expr $from_index + 2]]

# Get access to the global variable with the value contained in $table
global $table

set into_index [lsearch $args into]
set vars [lrange $args [incr into_index] end]

foreach c $cols v $vars {
upvar $v local_var
set val [lindex [array get $table $c] 1]
set local_var $val
}
}

After that, you could "SELECT created name created_by FROM language INTO x y z" and then

puts "$y was created by $z in $x"
>Tcl was created by John Ousterhout in 1988
If any Tesla engineer is reading this please change it in the Tesla. I want the road on one side of the screen and a big huge cover art of what I'm listening to on the other side, big enough for everyone in the car to see as we drive. It's a huge missed opportunity. Right now we get a tiny postage stamp of the cover art and a meaningless track list in text.

https://i.redd.it/vcp3nr7ibje21.jpg

This is an abomination.
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Would you mind sending me an email at stefan@stefanyas.me?