skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm kinda worried about GH now. I actually worked at MS over a decade ago. They had a pattern at the time which routinely drove their acquisitions into the ground. It went something like this: an acquisition happens, and in order for folks who matter to not jump ship immediately, the acquired company would be allowed to operate semi-autonomously for a while. A year, year and a half sharks from Microsoft proper would start coming in smelling the water for blood. Someone leaves (or is stabbed in the back and fired), and MS "mafia" would start moving in, quickly bringing their old boys network with them. Absolutely the most soulless, corporate types imaginable. Dev team then inevitably notices this turn of events and bails. A new, much weaker dev team is brought in to replace it. Acquisition is now in smoldering ruins, sharks start looking to ruin something else. Lather, rinse, repeat. Seen this happen several times in adjacent teams.
ICE contract?
I saw a Solutions Architecture role I was tempted to apply for at Carnival, but they're a MS shop and I'm a Linux / Java guy predominantly. I'd guess for most development roles it's typical of your usual corporate style software. Nothing particularly fancy really (inventory systems, stock control, e-commerce etc).

I'd be tempted, but the salaries aren't great compared to what you can get elsewhere.

Princess are doing a pretty good job with e.g. the Princess Medallion and quicker internet access. Other lines (e.g. Cunard) are stuck in the Stone Age a little (although I once got 7Mbit whilst on the Queen Mary 2 and doing a speed test)!
Not OP, but it's hard to unread things.
I wonder what opinions people here have on this 2D virtual world approach, compared to the full on bodysuit 3D VR-Goggles one.

2D works right now, has already proven itself to lend well to social interaction (Habbo, Club Penguin) and not to mention it works easily on mobile.

Is the ease-of-access enough of a headstart, or is it full immersion or bust?
I usually don't like it when people sidestep the content of a link, to go on some tangent about its typography or aesthetics. But DAMN. This is a gorgeous looking blog, for using only default fonts and minimal CSS.

Apparently he wrote his own static site builder in Common Lisp, but it's SO minimal that the content itself is still written in raw HTML. It feels silly, but this just takes me back to happier days... pre-WordPress and pre-social media... and makes me wonder why we lost our way. I dearly miss the feeling of making sites like this (but uglier!) back in the 1990's. Applause.
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I think right now the most permanent way to store digital data is have enough redundant copies on enough impermanent media one is likely to survive. For example my CD copy of 1998's HARDWAR might be lost due to disk rot, but there's enough copies of copies of copies floating around on various places it's still easily accessible.
I always wonder how much of these statements are PR driven vs PR edited... what percentage of these words actually belong to Nat vs the corporate communications team.
Being able to embed this inside a rust program for scripting/the ability to tweak behavior at runtime without recompiling could be really cool. Although my dream is still that someone makes an interpreted subset of Rust itself.
Did you miss the point? An electric space heater that is also a crytpo miner would be the same efficiency.

Theoretically if every space heater right now was also a crypto miner, it would make any dedicated mining operation completely unprofitable.
Hear, hear.

As I live longer, I realize some people take to corporate speak and corporate values like ducks to water.

It's actually their preferred mode of communication and existence.

Politicians play this game most clearly - they need to communicate allegiance to the rich, their political party and 'the people', which is an impossible ask (because the parties are not aligned and you please one by taking away from the other) but they do quite well by having invented a vocabulary that's interpreted differently by each group, plus they can outright lie, which's a last resort move they try to avoid.

Anyhoo :)
I actually thought OP's take was very pertinent to the situation.

...which was riddled with phrases like:

"With all that we’ve accomplished in mind, and more than five great years at Microsoft under my belt, I’ve decided it’s time for me to go back to my startup roots. What drives me is enabling builders to create the future.

Not even Clark Kent could be this braggadocios.
> The "least bad" option right now just seems to be to spread yourself around

Sounds about right. For e-mail I'm using SES for outbound on my domain, and.. of all things.. Yandex Mail for inbound. SES doesn't seem to have any problem with spam filters, Yandex OTOH, it's definitely a temporary solution, I'm only using it for POP3, but their webmail is also fairly cute. Yandex outbound is treated as spam by basically everything except Yandex
If I was a ceo and I had an assistant, I would definitely tell them to write all the bs company letters for me...
I think daily standups are fine as long as soapboxing and ranting is kept off the table. Daily nagging is not helpful. But daily interactions are helpful.
If the contract is unenforceable, Hetzner has no legal obligation to keep your data.

If you make a typo, you need to remedy the issue as soon as you become aware of it.

You need to use at least your first and last name, unless you are from a culture that does not use last names.
You don't know of any deaths because most physicians and the media steadfastly refuse to attribute any to the vaccine. There are thousands of reports in VAERS, many of them of deaths in very young, healthy people hours or days after getting the vaccine.

It's not the Pfizer vaccine, but the AstraZeneca vaccine has been publicly acknowledged as the cause of BBC presenter Lisa Shaw's death.
That makes sense but my argument is since further material (some examples which I listed) assumes and builds upon the standard approach, you'll likely be better off taking that path.
IIRC when I couldn't use DTA anymore I used to take a local copy of a page, change 'a' tags to 'img' tags and 'href' to 'src', and then save web page complete. Got me a folder with the downloads in it. Rough and ready!
I don't think they did...
Thanks for the rabbit hole ( I've never really studied evolution outside of CS applications ).

Your point of view about detachment makes quite a bit of sense to me, and if the spandrel idea proves true I guess we (Homo sapiens) will just have to take it on the chin...
Nice work! Gonna be trying this out today. Quick question — aside from the custom domains aspect, what’s the difference between read.cv and something like LinkedIn?
This is what WiseMining.io is addressing with their Sato “bitcoin boiler.” It uses hashcards (daughterboards populated with mining ASICs) immersed in coolant to augment a typical heat pump setup.
All you are saying is the same I’m saying except you’re using different language to say it.
Very excited to hop into one of these, hope they expand to Brooklyn soon.

I feel like alarmbells must be going of @ Uber HQ with how fast Waymo is scaling
What’s Missing for Designing Chips at the System Level
Others have already commented appropriately, but I also wanted to point out that most investors set up separate LLCs for each property to self-contain risk, which could bias the ownership distribution you listed. A single individual may have 3 properties, each with their own LLC.

In Texas you can use a series LLC to separate risk between properties with a single LLC, but it is the only state I know of that offers it (*I may be misremembering based on a BiggerPockets podcast from a couple years ago).
24v100Ah LiFePO4 battery pack is $428 on AliExpress. You need 20 packs to get 48KWh,480V, 96KW, 400kg battery pack.
Honestly, people can eat what they want, mind your own business and get out of the faux outrage industry. I appreciate pointing out hippocrisy, but I don't always sense that's what's happening.
Open source MongoDB drop-in replacement, built on top of Postgres
1. Don't we need a good internet connection (& VPN software if needed) to pair up with this setup?

2. Also the bandwidth of our video conferencing service (eg. Zoom)?
Oh and I should add that it was already rather compulsory in order to be able to log in to your account on "public" computers (think printing services, schools, ...), as google would straight up block the login unless you got an existing device to confirm your login (i.e. a phone with google apps and services, which I don't have).
With the 2FA enabled this no longer is a problem as long as I have a device nearby on which my OTP key is stored...
My Favorite Gnome Extensions-Stephen Ajulu
At a glance I didn't find a percentage of compatibility with c python. Is it tracked somewhere?
There was nothing more frustrating than trying to download a file of a few megabytes back in the long, long ago, and then something would glitch out at 90%, and you'd have to start over again on your dial-up connection. Download managers that could resume an interrupted download were a game changer.

Modern browsers still suck at dealing with downloads if you have a flaky connection that gets interrupted, but we mostly don't care because you can slurp gigabytes in seconds on fiber connections, so it takes a really, really jacked up VPN connection or intrusive proxy to make an impact.
Immersion cooling makes it quiet and efficient, totally suitable for in-home use.
I don't think I've seen anyone suggest that there is absolutely no impact on transmission. Teenagers were previously a population in which the virus could freely circulate where now there's at least some limited curtailment.

It wasn't my point, but others in this thread have also noted with sources that the level of impact on that younger population (and even small children), including long covid, also appears to be generally underestimated by the general population.
Rather than inverting 12V DC to 240V AC and back, you could skip a step and use a laptop car charger, converting 12V DC straight to ~20V DC.
Not for Rust itself, but there's an interpreter for Rust's MIR: https://github.com/rust-lang/miri
Coca-Cola Buys BodyArmor for $5.6B
All of this is perfectly reasonable advice, but I think it'll fall on deaf ears. The jobs these bad emails/messages are advertising are often terrible, and while making a better pitch will let you attract the interest of better candidates, those same candidates will surely not accept the terrible job you're offering, so why bother?
It's been a wild few years. My only sibling overdosed and died in 2019 as well, on Easter weekend..

There are some interesting similarities between heroin addiction and cancer..

I don't need anything from anyone but I appreciate the sympathy, the amount of views that my video received from this post is crazy. I'm very touched and I hope she is too.
Why not create incentives to mine crypto with solar?

Lower or eliminate any sort of capitol gains taxes on crypto mined with solar, make solar panels tax free for companies that mine crypto, and crypto would not only go up in value but the solar industry would also be supported.

Oh yeah. The Federal Reserve and the central banks need fiat.
> A person born without an appendix has no actual advantage over a person who has one

Untreated appendicitis is quite deadly. I would say there is definitely some advantage.
The problem is the financialization of housing in the first place. You have to figure out a way to reverse that. Making speculation illegal probably isn't feasible, but could you require that renters earn equity offsetting some portion of rental profits?
Thanks for making this! I too used it back in the day. I thought the project died with WebExtensions, good to hear it's back.
The recurrent laryngeal nerve is actually common to all tetrapods, not just mammals. Birds have it, probably dinosaurs had it.

https://bioone.org/journals/acta-palaeontologica-polonica/vo...
Thank you for such a time-saving extension! I got much more time to read while it was doing what it was doing, instead of endless "right-click, save as" sequences.
AFAIK you should be able to remove your phone number from your account after adding some other type of MFA (authenticator app or key fob). Did this change recently?
Don't fix what ain't broke. the year 2000 was the second skipped skip after 1600. If the Gregorian calendar could make it through those four centuries, with the increasing rate of political and social upheaval, it's not going to change much now. We've got almost 3 more millennia before we've lost a full day compared to the tropical year.
Interesting post to see how this solution is accomplished, but how is this a one-person company, if there are contractors? How are the contractors utilized and how much do they cost on average? Are the contractors needed or could this be done by a single engineer?
Heh, heh. Wonder what Microsoft did to piss him off.
Wait, it's not called Rython?
Nitpicking: a more correct view is that the set of points on a straight line is an affine space, so the points are neither scalars nor vectors, but elements of an affine space.

The set of translations of the straight line is a vector space a.k.a. a linear space.

So the vectors are the classes of equivalences of the differences between 2 points on the straight line (i.e. the differences between 2 pairs of points, where the distances are the same, are equivalent and they determine the same vector).

While the vectors are classes of equivalence of the differences between 2 points, the scalars are classes of equivalence of the quotients of 2 (collinear) vectors, i.e. a scalar is the ratio between the signed magnitudes of 2 collinear vectors.

If you choose a point on the straight line as the origin, you can choose as a representative of each class of equivalence that corresponds to a vector, the vector corresponding to the origin point together with another point. This gives a bijective mapping between vectors and those second points.

If now you also choose a vector as being the unit vector, which will correspond with a second point besides the origin point, together with the origin point, then you can choose as a representative for each class of equivalence corresponding to a scalar the ratio between a vector and the unit vector, which will correspond to a third point, besides the origin and the point corresponding to the unit vector. So you obtain a bijective mapping between scalars and those third points.

Because on a straight line there are bijective mappings between points, vectors and scalars (after choosing 1 origin point and a 2nd point as the extremity of a unit vector), they can be used interchangeably in most contexts, but it would be good to remember that all 3 are in fact different mathematical entities.
> Daily stand ups are _hell_ because they always end up taking ~1 hour for 3 people.

In the one team I was in that had standups, most of the developers would definitely leave after 15 minutes whether someone was talking or not. This put pressure on the others to keep it short.
You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they've exhausted all other options.
A few comments when posted 9 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28982749
Can a micro satellite be launched from a hydrogen filled balloon?

NASA has calculations of hydrogen balloons up to 90km, carrying a 10kg object. [0]

Wind at that altitude can be as much as ~50 m/s, and occasionally even travel from west to east (important for orbital launching). [1] http://www.ccpo.odu.edu/SEES/ozone/class/Chap_2/2_4.htm

Low Earth orbit requires at minimum ~6.5km/s, so launching from the equator into the right stratospheric wind could allow a 10kg launch into orbit from a balloon if it can accelerate from Earth's natural rotation plus the wind speed, totaling around 500m/s, to 6500m/s. [2]

Traditional small rockets seem to have a lower limit in the 100s of kg total mass.
Using a solid microrocket(s) [3], you might be able to get a payload into orbit between 10-500 grams. I know MIT was working on this as well as micro-jet engines... [4]

[0] https://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/Numbers/Math/Mathematical_...

[1] http://www.ccpo.odu.edu/SEES/ozone/class/Chap_2/2_4.htm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_speed

[3] https://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/projects/microrockets/mas...

[4] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Performance-of-a-High-...
If you look at Scotland on flightradar right now there are a dozen private jets in the air alone. It's a joke
This was originally “Yahoo! Traffic Server”, was developed by Yahoo! in the early 2000’s and was used in part to power Yahoo! CDN. At the time Yahoo! relied on Akamai and its own network.
Because this is a corporation. Why would he say it in his own words? This is not a dinner party with aunt and grandma, it's a multi-billion dollar business with lots of liability.
We used to call it "Executive Storytime". We'd even project the status doc onto the screen AND have everyone read their part aloud to everyone in the room. Although in reality, the message was entirely for the VP and other big shots in the room, who would occasionally have questions. I imagine these are the kinds of things you think about on your deathbed, while you wonder if you spent enough time with your family throughout your life.
I'm sorry for your pain, a 1 hour stand up isn't a stand up at all.

My company has a hard 15 min limit for ~8 engineers.

It's a good opportunity for people to speak up if they can help, and give a simple "let's talk after about this".

Tech details get shut down by the PM after a minute or two unless it's actually useful to most of the people there.

It's very rare we go over the 15 min mark.

That said, I still have some long and pointless meetings, but I'm thankful I can throw them to a third monitor and keep working in the background.

Doing a boring meeting in person would be hell without that ability imo!
I read this as a tongue in cheek joke?
You missed the quoted HISTORY.
The NSO Group is clearly being punished for being caught. If you agree that the intelligence knew about this earlier, they could have punished them years ago and prevented basically all the intrusions found in the leaks.

And taking the most favorable view of the Biden administration on this move, "Biden punishes foreign private competitor to US intelligence agencies" wouldn't be a sign of him addressing US intelligence.
I do agree we're living an eternal september for the past months and comment quality has gone down to reddit-level, but I also agree with the commenter about this specific post from GH's founder.
NeuralBlender
> There aren't any unknowns waiting to be discovered. The mechanism is fully-understood and easy and safe.

I am sure many people felt that we had figured it all out w.r.t. planet motions etc. with Newton's law of physics :)

You are mistaken if you think I am anti-vaccine or something. I merely tried to point out that there are always unknown unknowns and that we should remain cautious when it is people's health that are at risk.
This article completely brushes over the fact that not all children end up leaving the house. what about children with a lifetime of complex special needs. What should happen to those children and parents, is it even worth it?
Summary: Leaving.
Literally everything you can make to solve a problem leads to XKCD standards.
If we go by XKCD logic we wouldn't have Netflix because it would just be another "standard" alongside all of the other film distribution methods.
In recent versions defer is basically zero overhead if no loops are involved. It's just a function call at every function exit. Basically what you'd do yourself manually.
Specific example:

Coinmint in upstate new york is located in an old Alcoa aluminum smelter plant that has long shut down. It gets power from Moses Saunders dam a few miles away. The factory was originally placed near the dam so that it could provide massive amounts of power to keep the pot lines hot 24/7.

The whole place is super remote. I've seen the costs for carrying hundreds of MW just a few miles and they are massive at this scale. You can't just economically build more lines to send the power elsewhere.

Short of firing up the superfund site again and smelting aluminum, a bitcoin mine is literally the most profitable thing you could use this power for. The dam needs maintenance and a constant draw of power to keep it operational, and this pays for it.

Since the power lines are direct from the dam to the plant and the contracts were all drawn up decades ago, this has zero impact on the local community prices. Never mind that the local community doesn't draw anywhere near enough power compared with what the dam produces.
Had my house once fill up with natural gas for many weeks.
Much to the surprise of the gas company it did not explode.
Of course everyone has severe long term effects from that.
So don't rely on coal and nat gas?

What about solar? Wind?
> As it implies the close spacing is for some kind of mechanical/electrical mechanism within the core of every cell’s nucelus.

It is interesting, but not for the reasons you may be imagining. And not a mysterious electrical mechanism.

It's well-known in the field that (e.g., in humans), chromosomes fold in on themselves in structured ways [1,2].
The functional consequence is not precisely mechanical or electrical -- rather, these folds bring regulatory domains close in 3D space to the sequences which they regulate (which may be far in 1-D sequence distance). These can be elements like "enhancers", which increase the level of transcription (DNA->RNA copying, the first step of gene expression); "insulators", which break up coherent blocks of gene regulation, etc. One of the mediating mechanisms is that regulatory proteins bind to these particular sequences; bringing them together in 3D space allows the assembly of a protein complex that actually carries out the relevant process (eg, transcription).

So, what's interesting here? There is extensive evidence of these contacts within mammalian chromosomes, but limited evidence _between_ different chromosomes. Insofar as the paper shows that mammalian macrochromosomes have homology to multiple reptile/avian microchromosomes (really, to their most recent common ancestor), it may be (speculation alert) that intra-chromosome contacts recapitulate contacts and organization seen in the ancestral microchromosomes.

(There are also "simple" interactions like wrapping of DNA on protein complexes called nucleosomes, like string on beads, but that's less interesting in this context.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_organization#DNA_loopi...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_organization#Chromosom...
People don't build hydroelectric plants in, say, northern Quebec and suddenly discover that there's all this free energy and no one around to use it. The build those hydroelectric plants and the transmission lines to places (say, Montreal) where people need that energy, even if those lines are 1000s of km long.

The electricity may be cheaper next to that hydro station because you're not also paying for the 1000km transmission line. But your use of that electricity would preclude the people 1000km away from using it.