skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - The 1970s saw the beginning of the trend toward "neoliberal" style economics with lower taxes on the rich and less investment in social and infrastructure programs.

Federal, state and local expenditures and tax receipts as a percentage of GDP has increased since 1970s [0]

Public infrastructure spending is roughly flat as percentage of GDP [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni...

[1] https://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/public_infrastructure...
Did the Rubidium price go up already ? ;-)
320 x 240, is this the resolution of the depth data provided by the LiDAR sensor?
Ask HN: How do you stay motivated and enjoy a tech job?
just to be a little contrarian, i have wondered if the Apple Watch hasn't stagnated.

i have one and i like the product category, but legitimately what has the last several years brought to the watch in term of Kevin Lynch's team? new yearly watch faces? new "dance" activity monitoring?

put another way, if you were to peruse apple fan blogs there are very little "wish list" features being clamored for, no? i take this to mean that the watch is either in a great state...or perhaps it's kind of stuck with a general lack of imagination on where it can go and do.
The Fall of the Cyber Bunker – The Biggest Darknet Story of the Century
The facts outlined below are based on the indictment of the Koblenz Public General Prosecutor's Office dated April 7th, 2020, which can be accessed for the next 150 days in the English translation as a PDF file via the filehosting service xup.in at the following file:
>it doesn't mean there isn't some other way to get access to user credentials

You can always be hacked in some other way, so I guess we should never write anything about security ever?

>edit since I can't reply down level further: Yes I would be very careful about security related marketing and really consider if its necessary at all.

Interestingly, the security people at Google, Cloudfare, Microsoft, and just about every other major tech company (and security company, certificate authority, etc.) agree that openly talking about security best practices is.. well.. A best practice. And that keeping security practices secret (obscure, you could say) benefits no one.

Not sure why you have to shoe-horn marketing in every comment, literally anything a company posts is arguably considered marketing, what's your point?
He's lied several times about various things and, while I can try to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe he misspoke or genuinely didn't know he was lying, my biggest issue is that he doesn't offer corrections for these things when he's called out by people and the videos with the lies and misinformation are still up and continue to get views.

A big one that comes to mind is his remarks on the PCKompaniet case where he continued to say that Apple was suing a mom and pop repair shop for doing third-party repairs that weren't authorized. Not only did Apple not sue them for doing repairs (they sued them for copyright infringement and counterfeiting) but people repeatedly showed Rossmann that the store owner had actually advertised the parts as "genuine OEM" parts on his website and had only changed that advertisement after his parts from China were seized (the page was archived by archive.org).

Another one was a story that was similar about parts being seized by Apple in the US (that actually, at one point, dealt with Rossmann directly as it was his order). Apple didn't seize anything, it was U.S. Customs that seized the parts because the import documentation didn't match and the batteries themselves had Apple logos on them and they contacted Apple to verify the authenticity of the parts. Rossmann continued to claim that Apple had seized the parts as retaliation and continued to claim that they were "original parts" despite actually coming from grey markets in China that refurbished and replaced components (which, legally, make them non-original parts).

Overall, the sad thing is that I agree with him on the general right to repair argument but I feel like he purposely misrepresents certain things to garner sympathy from the right to repair "movement" and I feel like that hurts the movement as a whole. I feel the same way about Linus Tech Tips and their mischaracterizations. If your argument is sound and your principle is strong, you shouldn't need to do that in order to make your argument.
You have to implement it inside the display server or hijack appropriate lower level input system.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29268598
That's true, compiling rust is harsh, but we're are talking about server admins and sysadmins here, I have faith that sysadmins will know how to compile and deploy rust.

TIL the Lemmy Server code is written in rust, hell yeah
Get done with college at 22, work 7 years and retire at the age of 29. This is not impossible. Just most people don't want to do it, but it's totally available.
Privacy. You probably don't want every person who you send a transaction to, to know how much money you have on your "account".
Zillow Tried to Make Less Money
I've heard about the rotting, we've got a plan in about a year or two to do a key ceremony to move stuff onto more permanent hardware we can retain for at least 20 years (our roots last 15)

What that hardware will be is still an open question, but probably BD-R HTL.

Also worth noting (I think it's in the script too from memory) we make at least 3 identical copies of each CD in case of CD failure.
As a side note, only yesterday (on a Windows 7, so not an issue related to the latest Windows) I couldn't initially connect with Chrome to a (of course local) oldish router (actually an access point) to change a setting (Wi-Fi channel) because it "talked http" while Chrome wanted a "https" (for security reasons).
Could be the liability of inadvertently generating descriptions of illegal acts (child abuse etc.)
Regarding Syria and Iran - that's not up to OpenAI. OFAC made that decision for them.
> I personally witnessed a police-vs-robbers shootout

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

Present day Lagos is not that much unlike the Los Angeles of the 1990s or the NYC of the 1970s and 80s.

Problem , of course there'll always be a safer place, by the same token people who live in present day LA or NYC are suicidal considering they could live in Montana or Utah, or Zurich.

Where nothing ever happens (good or bad)
Too little, too late.

PHP has nothing to offer. They HAVE cleaned up some of the idiotic behaviour, but much of it still remains.

The stdlib is very poor, and having last i looked everything was still global. Some array functions like map/filter had arguments in the wrong order.

Unicode support is not there. Its a web language for gods sake! How about focus on that as a high priority?

PHP lacks a vision. What does PHP want to be/become? It looks like sometimes PHp steals Javalike features, implements them adhoc and badly, and then again sometimes more scripy features from JS.

The typ system is VERY mediocre. You really cant trust it, at least not with the stdlib.

The execution model of PHP is still living in the early 2000s. The web is real time, and PHP cant handle it without hacks, and even then you cant use any builtins like PDO (blocks thread) or any IO related feature.

Honestly, even if PHP today is ”better” than it was 10 years ago, what does it have to offer? There are multiple better languages for the problem PHP solves, and the other languages have ALSO improved in the last decade.

I cant see myself starting a new project with PHP, there is just too little it offers, and too much thats still broken, and wont ever be fixed because of BC that PHp tries so hard to keep.
I wasn't thinking about HPC at all. I more had in mind "single-node" use cases like a workstation PC.

But even in a small cluster type of use case, I think the main users are scientists or other practitioners who, for whatever reason, don't have the support of a platform team or data engineering team that can keep a Spark (or other) cluster fed and cared for.
This is correct.

I have seen this most with larger projects, and usually the student was encouraged to seek outside expertise (just like one would do in real life).

The only catch was that the assistance from the outside sources needed to be documented.

For teens, they can do the documentation themselves. For younger children, a short note from a parent is adequate. If this is a burden to the parent, then I think there are probably some other issues involved.
They make my farm better. Somebody does have to go out regularly and take apart dams that threaten the road, but it is not hard to do if you never let the dams get high. If they do manage to back up a lot of water they get a lot more productive.

I looked into ‘beaver deceivers’ and similar things and decided to keep with a system that works. We have a tenant who does it for us, he has a great story to tell when he goes to any ‘new age’ gathering.
Maybe it's the other way around? Grumpy people don't fxxc.
"either something strange (undetectable particles)" There is nothing strange here. Undetectable in this context means it would be only detectable by gravitation detectors - all masses/energies have gravitation changes.
Correct it is just the group of sequential commits. You can keep multiple stacks on a branch, but the big idea is the branch is not the unit of review, each commit is the unit of review
As I suspect many of us frequently do, I read the comments (including yours) before the actual submission. I thought I would find myself agreeing with what you're saying, but it turns out that I must say that I really like what OpenAI is doing here with the Content Guidelines!

They seem to be doing the right thing, in trying to steer this powerful and highly likely to turn out very influential piece of technology into a positive and constructive direction of use.

Yes, you might just build something that will be found in violation of their (good!) intentions, and will have to engage in a (at least partially public) discussion of what we, as a society, deem acceptable in terms of automated use of written content generation -- and that would be a good thing!
Definitely not the easiest path to make some $$$ based on new and exciting technology, as lots of challenges like these and beyond are almost guaranteed to come up, but it seems not unreasonable to treat GPT-3 as something you can actually already start building businesses and products on, as long as you bring general awareness, sensitivity to relevant topics, willingness to engage in and maybe partially drive some of the conversations that we need to have in this new field, along with a general interest in R&D style work and the somewhat longer-term vision and resources it necessitates...
A flaw in modern economics is that we should buy more expand the economy. But for environment we should buy less.
That's exactly what the poster goes. Spreading FUD to dissuade people contact suicide hotline.

Not every contrarian take makes sense even if it blows your mind on the first reading.
Obamacare subsidies are based on income. You are likely getting subsidies at this level of income. Will it exist for the next 40 years, who knows?
> It's a hell of a lot harder to squat namespaces as you need to either spoof or steal or buy one domain per namespace, which is not trivial.

This introduces a different security wrinkle, as domain names need to be continually renewed. What does Maven do to prevent unauthorized transfer of namespace ownership when a domain lapses?
Thank you for sharing. This sounds like a nightmare.

Bay Area schooling is yet another thing that makes Bay Area living less tolerable.
A bit hyperbolic, but I think you're on the right track. Here's why, as unintentionally revealed by plain-spoken Charlie Munger:

> “In a democracy, everyone takes turns. But if you really want a lot of wisdom, it’s better to concentrate decisions and process in one person. It’s no accident that Singapore has a much better record, given where it started, than the United States. There, power was concentrated in an enormously talented person, Lee Kuan Yew, ...”

https://fs.blog/charlie-munger-wisdom/

In short, "what you don't want", according to the Munger social vision, is ... democracy. A benevolant dictator it seems, is the only way. But how many aspiring dictators in the long history of this world have proven out as benevolent? The track record of dictators selected by political struggle I would argue is, by any measure of mass welfare, even worse than that of hereditary monarchs.
Emitting org-mode is extremely easy (obviously, or otherwise people couldn’t write it). I myself have not needed complex parsing of them, but simple regexes and perl scripts have served my needs. This is especially true when you impose some structure on your text.

In the worst case scenario, you should be able to just use the elisp code itself to parse the file. There already are exporters to most other common formats.
Mint is very invasive in the Midwest too. You should advertise your mint-killing skills.
It's analyzing the camera feed in real time, so more like a video.
The article says the exact opposite of that. Those marks weren't used for satellites.
"Specifically, the hidden camera [...] reflects the incoming laser pulses
at a higher intensity than its surroundings due to an effect called
lens-sensor retro-reflection. This occurs when almost all light energy
impacting an object is reflected directly back to the source"
Open-ai is pretty damn good. I've been negative about it in the past and I'm still a bit distrustful of its owners but the API itself is really good for quickly putting NLP interface in front of programs. I even use it for personal productivity hacks
101 LoC per day * 10 days = 1,000 LoC, so "1 serious bug slipped per 1-2 weeks" isn't that far off the median rate.

> Because each customer has different requirements, different goals, different language and framework

Sure, but that doesn't match your earlier statement that the senior developers 'wrote almost same code dozen times already'.

That is, I don't see how "almost the same code" is able to handle different requirements, etc.

How much would you pay me to accept your story? ;)
> I'd be very worried about bitrot

That is actually a fair point although I have NAND / SSD storage in mind. I have been wondering what happen to those in terms of long term storage and always failed to find an answer.

We really need to fix this long term storage problem.
Is blue light bad for your eyes?
You can include BSD licensed code in GPL code, but not the other way around right?
I quite liked Unity, myself, but I recall that the Linux community was very upset and vocal at Canonical for having ditched Gnome. It's really hard to please everyone.
What are some examples of the right skill sets? I think I could get pretty good at anything I put my mind to, but I don't have knowledge of what kinds of things businesses consider important enough to spend that kind of money on to know what I should study.
On average. But if you are lucky enough to invest your first few years with extraordinary returns (say the past two years with 40%+ in index funds) that can greatly skew the outcome due to compounding.
This reminds me of David Mindell's work on situated autonomy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0-tafxh7gc
https://www.robotics.org/userAssets/riaUploads/file/20-OurRo...

> The highest levels of technology are not necessarily full autonomy, but situated autonomy

> All autonomous systems are joint human-machine cognitive systems

Fundamental questions: Where are the people? Which people are they? What are they doing? When are they doing it?
Google Maps link with sites marked: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1IudNrZA1xnpWjK...
Well sure... but plenty of people did criticise the model S as being out of the price range of so many people that it wouldn't have an appreciable effect on carbon footprint. To which the response 'it's targeting a small number of people that are willing to pay high prices for something that still has technical glitches, which will subsidise a more widely appealing product later' seems pretty valid. What's the alternative, tell people at that stage about the Model 3, which even Elon thought had low odds of being built by Tesla Motors? There are too many lessons learned between the Model S days and the Model 3 days to offer a realistic vision of those days, the proof was more in who was excited by the S than a carefully laid out roadmap between exciting the early adopters and appealing to a mass market.
I’ve contracted full-time off and on throughout my career and am in an ‘on’ period at the moment. It gets easier with time, you get better at it like anything else and learn to outsource and delegate to other small businesses and freelancers as well as build up steady recurring work.
This is amazing. Immediately useful. Intuitive. Small and fast.
Rather, a man who is engaged in an erotic relationship with an adolescent boy.
I'll say it simpler than the others: JavaScript isn't "old", focus on quality of work environment.
Pretty much any country rich enough to have cameras in busses does that... because it's common to have crimes on public transport and cameras help a lot with that. Do you expect privacy while on *public* transport?!
wait wtf why wont they just charge it then

ffs

i thought its 30 per month and thats why they dont do it, now i am even more upset for all the spying..
Taxes in Italy are absolutely insane.

You'd be better off moving to some other country with lower taxes, shitty public healthcare and then pay for a good private healthcare.

The cost will be a fraction of a good US private healthcare (the high cost is the main problem of US healthcare, not who's financing it).
The adults in the room don't take it seriously because they're blind to future advances. They think the current system can be upgraded and patched, but at present, that is impossible. It is fundamentally broken. The younger generation is already faced with unimaginable hardships and because of that has a tendency to be extremely dynamic and adaptive. They see the true problem as a coordination problem and crypto opens a new door with unexplored possibilities for coordination.

Crypto and thought schools adjacent to it combine elements of Libertarianism and Socialism in ways that were unable to exist before their advent. These typically contradictory ideologies can be combined in a new way that help us overcome these systemic coordination problems and let us execute collective action faster. Find me another cause that has raised 40 million dollars in less than a week where funds are held in escrow by a computer contract.

To expand on that the field I work in is communication by nature and I'm literally planning on pitching a project to a startup DAO this evening. This project may quite well open the door for people in my field to jump start a new way of funding projects which makes sure that Consumers, project contributors and everyone involved are compensated in a fair way while also not requiring a private investor. This literally would have been impossible without a DAO.

If the pitch goes well and the project is successful it would allow me to undercut all of my potential competitors. As people who enjoy a free market might say "That's just business baby". Then on top of that, because of the nature of how it's structured, nobody is exploited and no rent is extracted from a private party.
Updated with correct url. Seems the above one leads to a 404

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/18/peng-shuai-con...
I'm saying the absence of it is unlikely to be a reliable indicator of poor outcomes. The presence of it may be useful. My point is that this is not some general trait that some people have some people don't. This is a cell marker that tells the larger system that the cell should be killed. The cells only start to express this when they're doing poorly.

Many people start to do poorly only after they get the disease. I would also reckon that known comorbidities are likely to be a more reliable, significantly easier to measure predictive feature for estimating risk before they get covid.
A couple years of serious illness for you or anyone you're responsible for (spouse, children) will still ruin your retirement plans, if you try to retire early on $40,000/yr in income. A "Silver" exchange plan, even if the premium were $0/m, would still expose you to so much financial risk ("max out-of-pocket") that you'd be rolling some not-very-friendly dice, trying to retire early.
Any hacks you can share?
such a great grounding. it really helps so much to consider what tech, software are, to build context around it all. the definitions & ideas here are a great possible decomposition or framing we can use to understand what it is we're up to, to assess & view the world about us.
You wouldn't do 40 completely unrelated things, they would be 40 aspects of a single thing. I would think 40 is getting a bit big as I have trouble getting stacks of more then 15 past a reasonable review, but the good news is ( at least with some tooling ) you can commit partial stacks, so I can let my team review the first 10, while I am working on 20-30 and everything still just works ( even after I merge the first 10 into the main branch )
Halifax is still livable/affordable as a remote dev-- far more affordable than places like NYC or SF. On remote engineer salary the increases in cost of living aren't so much the killer as the insane income tax is.
They'd only have to track for 1/400th of a second, it's definitely possible.
The Ottawa Senators Are Fully Vaccinated–40% of Team Tested Positive for Covid
Regardless of the wording, the family example still comes off as extremely rude IMO.
Yes. Single ZFS server attached to 3 JBODs(60 disks each). Well, single ZFS server per namespace. We have 3 similar configurations for logically separate storage needs.

Yes, nodes have NVMe SSD local scratch space for fast compute needs. Large datasets reside in central storage. Smaller chunks are usually brought to local scratch to let compute jobs do their thing. Results go back to central storage again.

I built it for our needs based on freely available docs and community support. The server runs FreeBSD + ZFS + NFS and nothing else. Snapshots from this primary storage gets shipped over to a secondary location that has a slow mirror(similar setup but with cheap SATA disks). Our need is only minor geographical data durability and not lower downtime DR.

Experience: beats most commercial stuff we have run so far. Minimal setup of FreeBSD, ZFS, and NFS runs buttery smooth with almost no operational needs. I run upgrades on OS after it has been in community for a while, and it has only been smooth. We didn’t find a need to buy specialist support as our setup is minimal, and workload not any crazy, and availability targets not so strict.

Performance wise this setup far exceeded our expectations in all our usecases. We do have 768 GiB of memory for this that ZFS happily makes use of. ARC is about 60-70% of mem most of the time.

I will happily build the same again should there be a need for storage.
It’s all perspective. In some parts of the Bay Area 1M buys you little more than a shack to live in. 1M where I live would buy me a great quality home on an adequate plot of land.
Hiring developers to work on specific package improvements is what is normally done. Could be legally binding, probably would be a standard employment agreement but you could do it through a hippie way (coding circle?).
Easy to say now, looking back on history and seeing that there wasn't a civilization ending nuclear war.

I wonder what the odds were of that happening? Did we get lucky and eke by that period with 1% odds? Or was there only ever a very very small chance of a nuclear holocaust, and people were worried about nothing? The answer to that question is what I would need to know about whether it is reasonable to nuke 10M people.
My ideal search engine would be 2008-2012 Google results but filtering out anything that even remotely smells of blog spam containing affiliate links.