skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest I don't want to stop working.

I think once you stop working you start dying. I wouldn't like a survival job at that age, that'd be hell, but working for myself even if it's taking care of a small farm or anything that keeps you busy and gives you the chance to solve daily problems.

Sitting on a bench after retiring until I die is not an option.
There's a channel called GameHut on youtube that has some really interesting videos, eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRzKAe9UtoU
The main thing that matters is training managers properly. Training management to be clearer about how they communicate goals and how transparent they are. The fault is not with candidates. Making sure a candidate can communicate clearly and effectively and has some passion for the position is all that you can really do at the interview level. The rest is quite frankly having better management and a culture of being helpful.
Metrics on your org should be about how clear are the processes and planning toward goals and how well do they get communicated and executed. I worked for a MAAAN company and this one didn’t get it right. I figured they just made the decision that it is better to crank through people than actually grow them - since they were never short of candidates. This was pretty clear from their promotion culture and assessments that rewarded selfishness.
Bottom line... train managers. Build the scaffolding to grow competent, empathetic, managers. Communication and clarity and empathy wins over everything else. F** programming test hazing. Commit to the people in the organization. Done.
> Why is it imperative that philosophy is able to identify "evil", and to what extent?

There are many branches of philosophy and it is perfectly fine for a philosopher to study other topics. Ethics, or moral philosophy is a branch which “involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior”. If you set out to practice this particular branch you will be asked what is your opinion on behaviours commonly refered as “evil”. That is “evil” don’t have to be a technical term in your moral philosophy, but it will be one of the edge cases it will be evaluated on. So it is not imperative that philosophy identify “evil” but if someone sets out to talk right and wrong and their system of thinking results in sillyness in practical cases then that system is not worth much.

> Is identifying something as "evil" subjectively somehow not good enough for me to condemn it or act upon it?

Maybe. It can make collective action hard. Lets say there is a group of people who spends their time finding people with freckles. They then torture them and murder them. It is kind of their hobby. And someone else says “this is terrible and we must stop them”. They alone are weak and powerless, can only stop the “hobbyist” if enough people agrees to do something (like for example setting up a police force and outlawing murder) If then and then a moral philosopher drifts by and says “my dude, you should chill out. You think murdering people with freckles is bad, they think it is not. You should work on accepting other people more.” That kind of talk, if taken seriously, will not result in collective action and in effect will let the murders continue. And then we can scratch our head and think if it was the right outcome.
Actually it can create fiat currency... in a roundabout way...

The core of the coin ecosystem are the stable coins, which are generally pegged to fiat, but are only backed by fractional reserves of cash. So the same USD can be recycled many times to buy Bitcoin.

Not only that, but the stable coin operators are under no obligation to exchange their coins back to you for the pegged currency at face value.

Tether is essentially an unregulated bank with nominal deposits totaling 73 billion USD, no obligation to pay depositors, a huge amount of minimally disclosed liabilities, and unaudited financial reserves.

Ponzi was but an amateur.
Don't you realize that HBO made a whole TV show series that made fun of people who say stuff like that?

Erlich Bachman Vs Psilocybin. (Making The World a Better Place.):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tLvzyb3_Uc

Silicon Valley: Making the World a Better Place | SXSW Convergence 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE9Dvd_NEBg

OH GOD this is hilarious! Zach Woods is so perfectly in character that I'm afraid he may actually be as deeply disturbed as the character he plays on the show. His impression of the Little Lord Fauntleroy of the Grindr empire was perfect! The setup starts at 3:40.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Woods

I won't transcribe his NFSW joke, but later there's some excellent clean discussion too (starting at 13:18):

Steven Leckart (Moderator, Writer and Filmmaker)> You guys need to understand, these guys get pitched all the time by Silicon Valley. Like, we were in the back room, and there were guys from a -- can I say who it is? Should I say who it is?

(Off Camera)> Naaaaaw!

Leckart> But like this tech company that we've all read about in the news is coming up and like handing business cards, and cornering them, and telling them all about their, like, business strategies. And there is no hint -- it's like a deer in the headlights, right, like? Like you are just going to take this conversation and find a way to weave it into the show. And I sort of wondered, like, does Silicon Valley, are they just completely out to lunch about what you're doing? Like, why does anyone talk to you about this stuff?

Martin Star (Bertram Glfoyle)> They want to be a part of the show.
Oregon city courting Google data centers fights to keep their water usage secret
this isn't about encouraging on-site, its about Google and other tech companies moving to a lower salary range

their profit machines have been built, they only need to be maintained now

HN has been clinging to the fantasy that FAANG work is the ultimate goal for any techie...this meme will take a long time to die
UK music streaming services face competition scrutiny
Show HN: How does JAX allocate memory on a TPU? An interactive C++ walkthrough
Ok I’m curious. What sort of industrial area needs 20 coal power plants in a 15 minute ?drive?

Major aluminium production and mining , chinese crypto hub ?
On websites, drop GA for “simple” server stats. Or one of many options now available.
In my experience, upgrade everything all the time only works if you can keep your dependencies to a minimum, which can be harder in JS/TS land, but not impossible. I used to think every line of code you write is a liability, but have come to realize that every dependency is also a liability. So it’s about balancing the two.
Ask HN: What is the easiest/fastest way to set up a blog for a developer?
> "Crypto currencies have no place or value in the western world"

If the current demand for it, as measured by the market price is any kind of indicator, you have your work cut out for you trying to convince people.
>You might argue that it's "safe", but the bureaucrats won't care about your opinion. They'll be worried about perception in an era where people set communication towers on fire because they want to stop 5G "radiation".

I agree with all the other stuff you said, and I would accept this as a fair characterization of what is in store for nuclear plants historically. I wonder though how much of that experience would transfer in the event that we have real fusion reactions, given climate considerations and a novel technology that won't necessarily become entangled in the same narratives, and (maybe?) comes with a different set of environmental implications than traditional nuclear power plants.
Think of every company that got bought out by a bigger fish in the last 10 years, and the ones that after getting bought out were gutted or otherwise destroyed. The fact is, it isn't just Big Tech that is the problem. It's Big * that is. M&A's have been rubber stamped regardless of outcomes or promises to actually do better for consumers/stakeholder's, yet we see the opposite out one of what regulators are told will happen if $M&A is approved. Kudos on them for doing something bout Trusts, but it needs to be across the board.
I think the interfaces aren't high level enough for the average programmer to adopt it. It needs what https://autokeras.com is for neural nets.
A friend from India is a recent immigrant (arrived on H1-B) and is now a US citizen. He is working for a company that also has a lot of fellow indians on H1-B visa. His salary is rougly 50% higher (for the same profile), and he gets to go home by 6 PM while they still slog with all the extra work they are expected to do.
Makes little sense - customers upload data to you and they don't want any data back? Really?
A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life
I'm wondering, is it possible to make the invisible text layer visible and editable somehow? Would be great for proof reading and editing incorrect characters.
It hat the same place as encryption for the same reason. And it is being fought like encryption was, for the same reasons.
And then sometimes you see them fly away to another job after not much time
Yup like oil and car companies going "green(TM)"
As much as I do support free software, there is a limit. Just because I can run free software doesn't mean it's always the best option for me.

Running your own servers isn't free, especially if the task is more specialist. SaaSS gets me a guarantee and support that what I need will work. If something burns down, it's not my fault. Mistakes happen, but hopefully if the company is dedicated to providing that service then hopefully they'll make less mistakes than my sysadmin through just being more heads.

As with any issue, there's a balance, too far disagree or too far agree and it just can't work.
Yet is cheaper than processing for the death penalty

https://www.amnestyusa.org/issues/death-penalty/death-penalt...
Not for me, since I got my first e-ink reader. Convenience and portability and access to content blows all the tactile and olfactory joys out of the water.
You already can't keep child porn on your computer, nor are you allowed to run programs that requires a license if you don't have one, nor can you share or copy IP protected works etc. Banning crypto mining wouldn't move us noticeably closer to governments regulating everything you do on your computer.
Class 1 / Class 2 Problems
Alas you are a tad optimistic.

The majority of the common cold cases is caused by rhinoviruses. But yes, like 20% (ballpark) are caused by coronaviruses.
That's exactly what most publishers care about, the first weeks.
Yep, we use Shake at my work. :)
I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Is my comment unwelcome because you said something similar?
and when did we think we would have got fusion?
We can't rely on pipe dreams when solving the climate crisis
Dust Devils Leave Their Mark Across Martian Dunes
The problem is, the really big publishers have a cachet to the point where ad targeting works against them.

As an advertiser, why would I pay big money to target an ad to the affluent New Yorker reading audience when I can target those same people for pennies on the dollar on other websites?
There are plenty of companies working on this. Hundreds of millions of VC money invested already.

And the situation is already pretty good considering there are no piles of lithium batteries being dumped left right and center. Just not a thing because they are way too valuable for that.

You say landfill, I say lithium mine with extremely rich deposits of lithium. Much richer than most natural deposits of the stuff. People are investing in companies that are extracting it from brines that have no more than a few hundred parts per million. It's that valuable. A battery that has kilos of the stuff is worth the kilo price (about 25-29$) minus the price of extraction. A typical Tesla would have around 60-70 kilos of the stuff; close to 2000$ if you can extract it. The lithium in a completely spent EV battery is worth more than many second hand ICE cars that are still driving around. And that's just accounting for the lithium. There is also copper, nickel, cobalt (at least for now) and a few other nice things in there that are each pretty lucrative to attempt to recycle.

Good old lead acid batteries are recycled as well for the same reason. They are still worth a few dollars because of the raw materials. ICE cars are routinely stripped for anything remotely valuable that can be reused or recycled before the rest of it is melted down so the metal can be recycled.

Anyway, consumers don't need to be sold on anything. They've been fine burning obscene amounts of petrol coming from places they couldn't care less about, mined under nature destroying circumstances they never cared about either. All while not caring about the lethal effects of the pollution they are causing in the environment where they and their loved ones actually live and while not feeling the slightest amount of guilt buying SUV type ICE vehicles guzzling many times the amount of fuel they would actually need to do their shopping and school runs. There is more than a bit of double standards being applied here. Hypocrisy would be a better word for it.
Unless our evolved traits to find puppies and kittens cute came first and that has transferred to other animals.
Good question. Ohio v AmEx ruling specifically states:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/16-1454

> The antisteering provisions do not, however, prevent merchants from steering customers toward debit cards, checks, or cash.

So Ohio v Amex is about having different prices for AmEx compared to Visa/MC/Discover, whereas Expressions Hair design was about having different prices for cash/debit compared to credit cards.

I think what happened was due to Dodd Frank in 2010 explicitly allowing cash/debit card discounts, and political focus on credit card processors from states to drop their requirements that merchants not have different prices for cash/debit/credit card purchases, all the processors backed off from
preventing merchants to not give lower pricing to cash/debit card users. However, Visa/MC even backed off from preventing merchants from giving lower pricing for any other card processor, since they wanted to avoid anti trust scrutiny since they are already so prominent. However, AmEx decided to fight it, and won big not just for AmEx but other two sided markets.

It definitely leads to a logically inconsistent result where merchants can display different prices, but the route taken to get to each decision was wildly different. Amex could have maintained in its contracts that merchants could not offer lower pricing for cash/debit cards, but I think AmEx wanted to avoid the way that would make them look (Amex versus Visa/MC is a David v Goliath case, whereas AmEx vs cash/debit is rich people versus poor people).

Here is a good comparison of both rulings:

https://jobs.luc.edu/media/lucedu/law/centers/antitrust/pdfs...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/15-1391
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> make his own breakfast at 4AM so he can be at the yard by 4:30AM

So, what time of day was he previously stopping at a diner for breakfast? And how long did that catered breakfast take? Longer than a bowl of cereal and two bits of toast?

> Should he cook his own lunch too?

Who the hell cooks lunch? And if it takes you 30 minutes to make sandwiches and grab a piece of fruit, I feel for you.

Kudos though, that was an amazing linked list of reductio ad absurdum fallacies. Have you considered going into media relations for a political party?
A static site generator and github pages (that way Microsoft foots the bill!)

If that’s too complicated, you can join a writefreely federated instance, like https://write.as, or self-host your own.

And if that’s too complicated, just use something like Medium (although I think they started adding paywalls to blogs)
That's a misleading line, referring to peak viral load. If you read the rest of the article (or probably the study abstract), you will see vaccinated people are infectious for less time.
Ballistic missiles are already hypersonic. Nuclear submarines can already fire without exposing themselves. What's the difference?
The first thing that comes to mind is a "reliable" (that won't overcommit) memory allocation syscall, but one might fear that it will abused (everyone wants the best stuff even if they might not use it after all). The second thing that comes to mind is to able to probe a (virtual) address (address range) within your addressing space, to check if it's actually there without doing weird stuff, and eventually just wait until it becomes available. But at this point maybe you could just use file-backed mmap for big data (effectively managing your own swap space)?
Kinda. There are currently two chains that can be called "Ethereum" right now, commonly known as Eth 1 and Eth 2, and funds have started moving to Eth 2 via staking (currently the Eth 2 contract running on Eth 1 is the largest holder of Ethers on the Eth 1 network). You can use Eth 2 already, but can't transfer funds back to Eth 1 yet and the chains haven't been "merged" yet.
Yes the instruction sets were simpler, but the developers at the time had invented a lot of clever solutions to solve hard problems.

I think the most innovative timespan was between 1950–1997'ish, and hope we get back to get the most out of hardware again as common sense.
> but it's completely useless even as a proof of concept

We might have different definitions of "proof of concept", but I think that's exactly what it was (if you're referring to Google's experiment).

This FAQ explains this quite nicely:

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=4317
This is really good. I can’t complete some of the puzzles so it will keep me interested for a while. If interest picks up it would be fun to have real time races.
Fewer options can create more optionality
Great discussion! Early on, they mention what I think is the book Applied Concepts in Microcomputer Graphics. It sounds like it would be right up my alley, but I can only find it with very expensive shipping.

Does anyone know of a book like it? I'm very interested in getting started with software rendering from the ground up, mainly to scratch an intellectual itch of mine. I learn better from well-curated books than online material in general.
I'm also not a fan of cryptocurrency but you seem to be living a privileged life in a country with a stable currency. Crypto is godsend for people where their countries cannot be trusted.
happily ?
The Dalles sues to keep Google’s water use a secret (https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2021/11/the-dalles...)

33 points|mountaineer|5 days ago|9 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29072337
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One point to make is that back then, consoles were the thing -- and while their specs were pitiful by today's standards, they had one huge advantage over PC's -- predictability. You knew exactly what hardware was going to be available. You could count CPU cycles by looking at assembly code.

The gist of programming console games of that period is I suspect somewhere between an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi.
Excuse my pedantry, but in an aviation context this is referred to as “aerobatics” while “acrobatics” refers to feats of the human body.

Just some meaningless trivia.
> ... it greatly decreases your time-to-market to do things in a straightforward way ...

I'd actually like to link the YouTube channel of a person who is writing their own game engine and game at the same time: https://www.youtube.com/c/RandallThomas/videos

You can see how using Godot, Unity or Unreal (or most other engines) would have been much faster in regards to time to market.

Similar differences show up when you try to build the same project, once while using an engine and another without it, the performance can be much better if you write your own optimized code (supposing that you can do so in the first place), however the development still takes much longer, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tInaI3pU19Y

Now, whether that matters to you or not is a different matter entirely: some care about learning a lot more about the lower level stuff, others just want to develop games and care more about the art/story/etc., while others care about selling them ASAP.
Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sweden-stockholm-school-app-...)

515 points|hakonbogen|2 days ago|343 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106398
Sleeping longer than 6.5 hours a night associated with cognitive decline
It's analysis looks excellent to me, in being able to put concrete words to a phenomenon that everyone should have noticed already.

And I think that the same thing is happening with government and politics in our modern "democracies".
Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player (https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1454230585933631488)

531 points|fortran77|7 days ago|204 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29048819
It's a distributed finite state machine, that anyone can engage with on equal footing. The biggest issue right now is just that the fees are still so crazy.

But once they get L2/L3 chains properly into place, so that every interaction is just a fraction of a fraction of the new state, and you can deploy say a little chat room, or a game world, or a marketplace, a collection of router configs, etc, etc, and not have to think too hard about the state, that's getting pretty cool to me. And combine that with the dev experience starting to get good (I recently used hardhat to make a fully typed, hot reload front end, working with hot reloading fully on chain backend) - it's going to be a new frontier for hacking and side projects like the early internet was
Installation on macOS is still broken, with no signs of progress. Quite discouraging.
No, it isn't. Building up the needed capacity will take decades and cost an enormous amount of money that is better spend elsewhere. Fuel supply is limited, with cost for exploration quadrupled over the last 15 years, and a doubling cost for uranium fuel over the same period. Commercially viable known uranium reserves are used up by roughly 1/3 since 1950, depleting ever faster with more reactors. Even if we had the reactors already, even if we wouldn't need to spend trillions, the fuel simply isn't there for cost effective usage until the end of the century. Alternative reactors, thorium or fusion are experimental at best. So no, nuclear won't change anything soon.
> this Chinese equivalent to GDPR will benefit private citizens when they interact with tech companies.

I am confused, the planned digital Yuan is said to have very negative implications on privacy. see https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/02/china-dig...

I think might want to put the state more into a position of direct controll, sort of a digital Maoism. Is that the direction? What do you think?
That is the state of archeology. When thinking about how hard it is to make anthropology and sociology “proper” sciences even today with social media as datasets - just consider how hard solving the same problem, inversely, based on whatever scraps survived today is.
I second the request for being able to upload a custom list. Looking for dual culture/language names at the moment and it isn't easy :)
Scribe: An alternative Medium front end
That sounds incredible! Do you have a YouTube channel?

I can't really answer your question but there's some videos of people doing portable solar: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=portable+solar+...
How many millions or billions or trillions should we spend to extend let's say clinically brain-dead person's life? Is there no limit when we should stop? Should we take the money away from some other things like welfare, or food from the starving? Just so we can keep single brain dead person a live for a few more days? Even if that would cost millions?
How many people who aren't software developers are aware of the iOS app publishing process?