skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you should look up https://mronline.org/2021/07/01/digital-money-beyond-blockch....

Putting our transaction data in a gazillion different RMDBs run by private companies looking to curry favor with law enforcement is no solution. In fact, State accounts are better because the Federal Reserve has far less reason to give a fuck what the goons in the FBI think.

But if you really want privacy, than any sort of money as persistent-account-balances is a red flag, and you want something like that instead.
> Take the example of landing first stage boosters. This was something that had never been successfully done.

Not so! See Delta Clipper ca. 1996: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z46RiuZvh6c

The SpaceX advancement may be more business than tech. They have a way to thrive without pork contracts paying them to build a new launcher every mission. The fat, complacent, dinosaurs will have trouble dieting down to parity.

In fact, maybe that's why Delta Clipper didn't advance to the next stage: not enough fat milk for contractors!
> Sure it's unlikely SSDs will get to 400GB/s in speed but if they could get to 10GB/s or more sustained that latency could be handled by smart software probably.

Yeah, I'm not part of the field, but the 3d guys always point to "Moana" to show off how much RAM they're using on their workstations. Especially since Disney has given away the Moana scene as a free-download, so anyone can analyze it.

The 131GB is the animation data (ie: trees swaying in the wind). 93GBs are needed per frame (roughly). So the 131GB can be effectively paged, it takes several seconds (or much much longer) to render a single frame. So really, the data is over 220GBs needed for the whole scene.

In practice, a computer would generate the wind and calculate the effects on the geometry. So the 131 GB animation data could very well be procedural and "not even stored".

The 93GB "single frame" data however, is where all the rays are bouncing (!!!) and likely needs to be all in RAM.

That's the thing: that water-wave over there will reflect your rays basically anywhere in the scene. Your rays are, in practice, bouncing around randomly in that 93GB of scene data. Someone managed to make an out-of-core GPU raytracer using 8GB of GPU-VRAM (they were using a very cheap GPU) to cache where the rays are going, but it still required keeping all 93GB of scene data in the CPU-RAM.
Weird because that’s exactly the points I feel agile should be help with. In the teams I’m in I always promote the whole team should be part of deciding what to do, prioritizing, and coming up with ideas of valuable things to do, I speak up and give bad feedbacks to PMs that monopolize the decisions

Also the team itself should be very autonomous inside the organization as much as your context allows. In fact, the company I work for had fully independent teams in startup mode for so long, that eventually they started to step on each other toes, there was very few alignment. As company grew, more alignment and therefore negotiations started to be needed but I don’t see much way around that other than staying small and horizontal (which I like too). Still, on parts of the company on “exploration mode” (from Kent Beck’s 3X model), teams still remain very autonomous

As for the small tasks, I see them as a way exactly to promote a sense of achievement, the team is responsible for this big chunk of work and you should be able to see very clearly how things are moving forward. Sure, if you lose connection with the bigger picture because you or your team does not have enough autonomy, then something is wrong and you need to fix it, otherwise you lose this effect.
Interesting that their renders show what appear to be inflatable modules a la Bigelow Aerospace's designs, but don't mention them as a partner. Wonder if inflatable is catching on for space station designers, it definitely has some clear benefits.
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I'm in agreement with another user's opinion that there is no such thing as moderate communism given that several of its core concepts are radically distinct from other forms of government/economic systems. Rejecting private property as a concept is a big threshold to cross. So is a full collectivization of labor. There is only one nation I know of that operated with a similar view but wasn't Marxist and that's the Inca.
Haha fair (but creepy since I guess you had to go crawl my comments or my Twitter to figure that out)
I don't think that's the issue. The issue is that the United States provides such a poor safety net for those with health issues that one person's failing health destroys the economic potential of one or more people around them.

From a sheer utilitarian perspective, healthcare and safety nets are positive ROI. Imagine the job-producing startups that don't exist because "how do you pay for insurance?"
This is a lovely explanation, thank you. I'm ignorant about the Amish save for what I've absorbed from the culture, but now I feel a little closer to understanding them. I wouldn't make the exact same decisions but the appeal is clear (and I admire the resolution).
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i guess my point was that the best outcome would be no ads :)
The Mac doesn't even do raytracing, does it? So you're already looking at a sizable quality downgrade over AMD, NVidia, PS5, and XBox Series X.

I think the eSports gamers will prefer FPS over graphical fidelity, so maybe that's the target audience for this chip ironically.

But adventure gamers who want to explore raytraced worlds / prettier games will prefer the cards with raytracing, better shadows, etc. etc. (See the Minecraft RTX demo for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bb7wKIHpgY)
>Nobody has any interest in building a new environment for Windows Desktop application development for example.

Rider has support for Avalonia UI and its designer, FYI. So there's definitely some interest, not sure how much.
How can it be much cheaper when some Windows SDKs require VS anyway.
>Is there any way to change dns servers on lte/3G?

probably doesn't matter because regular dns is performed in the clear. There's nothing preventing them from logging/intercepting your requests even if you changed them.

>Odd that iPhones let you change it for wifi, but not cellular.

>What about android?

AFAIK on both changing DNS can be done by using an app that acts like a VPN, and intercepts the DNS requests.
This is an interesting point.

My guess is that this looks like training material for low-level desk jockeys to help do all of the legwork gathering evidence that would be presented in court cases.

Stingrays you would think would be more of a targeted operation and likely handled by a different group of people.
It could be. If you ask the candidate to fizzbuzz and they think the solution is a key-value database of number to fizzbuzz pairs, and then they wonder, "Hey, could that fit into memory?" That kind of answer could raise multiple flags.
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I've actually been off and on programming for a few years and have done my tour in tutorial hell on Udemy. Just thought maybe a bootcamp would give me experience programming with a team like you would at a job. I also have a unique opportunity next year where I will have 6 months off paid, which I plan to spend programming full time. Thought a bootcamp may be a good way to spend that time.
Spelling it that way is a fantastic way to look pretentious.
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No way, it actually worked. Thank you!
That seems more in Palantir's wheelhouse
There sure seem to be a rash of articles (and posts here of the articles) about how Taiwan's situation is hopeless militarily. This may have always been there, but it seems it took a sharp increase after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

I grant that the US withdrawal has given grounds for questioning the US's willingness to commit to a foreign policy that requires military action. And I absolutely grant that the US should not go looking for military swamps to wander into and get stuck in, and that the people of the US should rightly resist getting swept up in another push for war.

All that said, this is still starting to feel like an orchestrated campaign. And then you wonder who's doing the orchestrating, and there's an obvious guess...
On another similar note, I moved from writing flight software for aerospace to tooling for a media corporation. Others around me made similar moves. Many of us had difficulties realizing that rigor around code quality and infrastructure is a spectrum, a knob you could turn, rather than an absolute standard, and would hold up PRs that didn't demonstrate testing and validation of things like CSS changes to an internal tool. It caused and causes a lot of unecessary heartache.
Lambda School was great for me. You get out of it what you put into it. Why are there never stories like these about specific university programs with higher opportunity cost and financial cost?
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I guess that’s a part of the question: is my phone encrypting (with whatever gsm standard) to the overseas provider and the local provider can’t really see anything, or does it go to the local provider in the clear and they tunnel it over to the overseas provider?
> It slowly dawns on the population that a great many of us have had a few decades slashed off of our lifespan by the after-effects of a disease

A few decades? Do you have a citation on that?
"Lambda School placed only 30% of its 2020 graduates in qualifying jobs during the first half of 2020. This figure is in stark contrast to the 74% placement rate it advertised for its 2019 graduates"

It's almost as if something happened in 2020 that reduced the number of open positions available...
I do find the notch disappointing and ugly. But at least right now, it looks like they're hiding it in the menu bar in a way that's not too obnoxious.

I just wish they'd made the notch (and the menu bar) the old menu bar height, instead of almost double the size. Mainly because I think the new height looks a little chunky and unnecessary.
You're talking about the "tank man" that was safely escorted out of the scene without getting harmed? What about him?

https://youtu.be/qq8zFLIftGk
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The government and Google are symbiotic entities. Why would this ever happen?
Anyone else finding themselves wanting to go to Google and try all these searches?
There is the aphorism "Employees don't leave companies, they leave managers".

That article points to a long list of possible explanations, also points out the "bad manager" explanation but doesn't develop that explanation substantially, which is a disappointment.

The most interesting fact presented is that workers are particularly scarce in the "Leisure & Hospitality" which would be a chance to point out that bad management is endemic in that industry, but they never get to the punch line.
Python and Java are probably just as bad as Javascript. I started with Javascript (and self taught) and never had many issues. Javascript is very easy to get running and play around.

With Java you will spend a huge amount of time on pointless ceremony that can seem important to a beginner but is really pedantic enforcement of programming preferences from the Java designers (everything is a class for example).

With Python you have a pretty easy language but the dependency management situation is a disaster. Python in a Google Colab notebook where everything is pre-installed could be good.
> BeOS wasn't half bad. The failure was probably mostly commercial.

Fair point. You could probably say this of other attempted microkernels too, to be even fairer. But that doesn't really change the fundamental point that just cooking up "a better OS design" doesn't lead to it being successful. There's a lot more in play that "mere quality".
Pichai certainly could be arrested for refusing to comply with warrants and court orders.
That much is true. I get so nervous in technical interviews, and it has definitely lost me some jobs I am confident I had the technical skills for.
> It's entirely plausible he was crooked, but he also claimed the NSA backed out of a deal with Qwest and then the insider trading charges showed up after he refused to comply with their (illegal) requests to spy on their customers

Read the charge sheet [1]. Is it possible that the NSA walked over to the SEC and asked them to prioritise this? Sure, why not. Is it also pretty clear cut that he insider traded? Yes.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2005-36.htm
at the very least, t-mobile has static-routed public resolvers like google's to their own in the past.
That might work if its a few decisions here and there that look like they're being taken with much gravitas.

But I'm not sure that would work if you're pivoting constantly and in a downward spiral. There are simply too many decisions happening for "we need to cut costs" to feel valid all the time. Lambda school appears to be in that category so far as I can see.
I think the current ISS is hosting an experiment at making ultra-high-purity optical cables.
Just wanted to say I'm a big fan of your journalism and CoderPad.

One question I have about this: Do you think Lambda is uniquely problematic in this space or are they perhaps a more typical case? Are others worse?

Anecdotally, back in 2019 I asked our internal recruiter to reach out to Lambda school to see about graduate resumes sent our way for jr software development positions. He emailed them but claims they weren't terribly responsive and never sent him any candidates. At the time, we just assumed fancy startups were getting first pick. Now I think the well was dry.
I’ve always thought photos make people look less attractive than they do in real life, so maybe this is a matter of opinion.
If you're a Linux person, just skip all the other non-sense and create a systemd-networkd file. It's by far the simplest solution I've used, and doesn't require goofy unit files to start/stop/restart via wg tool.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.net...

Then choose your firewall of choice to setup NAT and forwarding. I used firewalld, but not sure I'd recommend it. It's just the first solution I got working.
As the landscape gets more competitive, the promises will only get larger leading to lots of disappointed students sadly
Though legally speaking, there might be a difference between logging dns packets going to ??? and dns packets hitting the provider’s dns server.

The latter could be construed as necessary logging while the former is spying for the sake of spying.
A nobel prize winner in physics, who I had an office across the hall from, once asked me ~10 years ago if I knew how to write ħ in Microsoft word.

Unfortunately, I did not, and I was unable to help him. I was glad he asked me though. I probably should have tried what I just did though, google it, and copy+paste.
Thank you, sometimes while reading I want just to stop at this very moment.
useRef can be used to hold a reference to DOM elements, useful for breaking out of Reactland or to hold and mutate values that should not cause a rerender.
I would think that it largely depends on the age. I would agree with you for ages 3-9 years old and probably disagree for 12-18 years old, with the 10-11 year olds being a toss-up.
> How can I take this seriously?

I mean sure it's hyperbolic, but is it wrong in the context of the US? Cars are dangerous, there's no doubt about it. There are lots of wealthy, developed countries that put safeguards around cars in the forms of pedestrian safety standards, low speed limits, strict licensing restrictions, strict road enforcement, and effective road design. It's not like the US is the only wealthy country in the world with cars. It's a well-known joke to get a license in the US, and teens and adults in the US joke about hitting parked cars, stop signs, trees, and mailboxes all the time. America has a non-existent safety culture surrounding the _outside_ of a car; cars are only meant to be safe for their inhabitants.
I can confirm that this is a reference to an entertaining internal video with Fox Girl and Broccoli Man. Fox Girl just wanted to serve 5TB of data and Broccoli Man was explaining the many, many steps of configuration, services, and monitoring that were required to do this at Google. I agree with scottlamb; I only heard "I don't know how to count that low" in reference to the video, not as a "sign of superiority" that the post describes.

The video was also described briefly here: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/04/06/5tb/
A billion users IS a goldmine. Ask Google, facebook, twitter, reddit. None of these companies had any significant revenue for the first couple years.
Replying to myself as I reread the thread: I found a comment a few pages in about Apple's stock being down $1 on the day. So what if you'd skipped the iPod and just bought $399 worth of AAPL? According to this site which seems to use real data, it'd be worth... $211k today. http://stockchoker.com/?s=AAPL&d=20011023&a=399
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I don't get the dongle people. You can just buy USB-C to USB-B cords. They cost about the same as dongles. I replaced the cords on all my devices years ago and never looked back.

https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Micro-Braided-Jacket/dp...

https://www.amazon.com/JSAUX-Charger-Braided-Compatible-Exte...

https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Printer-USB-C-Black/dp/...
I've loved the interviews you've done. You're one of the sane people in this industry. Do you have a podcast or are you considering starting one?
I'd recommend just using Tailscale. It's wonderful.
Wikipedia is more dangerous, because it appears as legitimate and credble when it is not. For the most part it is a more formal front-end for all newspapers and journaling sites, further promoting the already-prevalent western cultural biases and mouthpieces. Most of the edits are made the same people (organizations?), that are in the double digits.

I never trust anything I read on wikipedia, not even for so-called objective issues and common facts, because there are always interests hiding behind even the least controversial topics. Just read the sources it provides, and even then it's flawed because they pick and choose the ones that fit their narrative best.
I agree that people shouldn't trust the answers they receive.

All of us frequently give inaccurate explanations for our actions or attitudes because people often act on feelings, not on logic. Even when we want to be honest, we often lack the self awareness to know what what we're feeling and why.

On top of that, there are many who don't want to be honest, and will give an answer, any answer, just to make you stop asking and go away.
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Yeah the layout is mostly the same, but the costs for a dirt/gravel/cobblestone road are much less and there wouldn't be as many roads out to the middle of nowhere. There would have been decades of building density in the hearts of cities, something which is lacking now.
I think even for casual users LyX (a LaTeX editor) is better than Word for documents with simple layouts or many equations.

Word is really complicated to understand and often makes formatting more difficult than it needs to be. So this doesn't seem like an elitist thing.
You can look up terrorism incidents in the US [1].

Far right extremism is far more likely the reason for terrorism in the US vs far left extremism. In recent years, 115 far right attacks vs 19 far left (from 2008 -> 2016). And that's with adding another category for Islamic terrorism (63) (which, in and of itself would be far right terrorism.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States
There is. It's called macOs. The screen is 16:10 and then the menu bar, with the notch is extra space on top of that.

I can't even be frustrated with you. This is so humanity. "I hate what they did! If only they had done this instead!" They did do that. They talk about that a lot. The article talks about that. They solved the problem in a way so obvious that it's what random people on the internet come up with, but of course the same random people on the internet are so convinced of their own superiority and so sure of Apple's inferiority and also unable to read TFA.
> “Danner, who invested $1 million shortly after Lambda School's Series A, compared the complaints to his own experience launching the charter school Rocketship Education, which received public backlash for teaching elementary-school students on laptops without instructors for part of their day.

"They said we were experimenting on the backs of children," Danner said.

"But when SpaceX launched their first five rockets and they blew up, was that OK?" he continued. "We're in a more high-stakes world of human development. Still, you can't say that you don't like the way things are but don't want people to try new things."

This is one of the problems of mixing VCs in the education space. “Move fast and break things” doesn’t work when the “things” are humans, not code and technology.

Also, last time I checked, SpaceX wasn’t promising 80% of its rockets would work back in its early days.

Good ol’ fashion false equivalency.
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I wonder how many university students are jealous of you? I spent three years doing a Bachelor of Engineering, which I consider three years lost. The piece of paper got me a job, but I certainly felt I was less valuable after finishing the degree than I was before it (negative learning is a thing).
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I've owned one. But that was a million years ago. It's somewhere between the size of a box of matches and my current phone, but that's a pretty big range.

Edit: OK so maybe the reference of a gen 1 ipod is actually quite useful to me. But it's a 20 year old reference to use. Surely there are plenty of things around that are more useful as a reference point if you need one (or just provide measurements).
There's a lot to like about this and I really like the direction they're heading in. So I wondered where did they come up with the specs?

> Star Labs was formed in a pub

I think I've had many similar conversations but they usually start and end in the pub. Good work lads.

Will be seriously considering the 14" model when it's time to replace my XPS 13.
Would you like this middle of the monitor webcam?

https://www.thecentercam.com/
It will never work. While your online words aren't ephemeral, the context is. So 10 years from now your rational, heart felt, and good intentioned argument will be used to show what a horrible person you are, simply because the context is gone.

It would be perfectly fine to get rid of anonymity (in some situations) if those words weren't there forever to haunt you.
In startup parlance, by the time you need to shard your DB you have already solved the hardest business problems.

Without being to condescending to our 'inner engineer' - doing things at scale is relatively pedantic compared to building something that people want to pay for in the first place.

Yes, some of these problems are hard, we need to respect that - but they are ultimately, mostly problems to be solved - like difficult questions on an exam. You'll find the path through and that's that. It's more akin to operational complexity, just a party of doing business smartly.