skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the sense that: its kind of true, in that they accomplish a similar goal of sending a document from one person to another over wire, but it discounts as irrelevant the most critical, foundational thrust of why this new technology is interesting. For email: that it is all-digital. For blockchain: that it is decentralized.

This confuses the real-world benefit with the means of achieving that benefit. The benefit of email wasn't that it is digital, but that it is near-instant, accessible from anywhere, etc. It's able to do those things because it's digital, but the fact that it's digital is an implementation detail, not the thing driving people to use it.

It seems the issue facing blockchain is that it's stuck on the “it's decentralized” message without having a good story for why that matters (and matters enough to be worth the other trade-offs) to something like file storage or an ISP.
Why do you think we wouldn't have noticed it in the 90's and 2000's? When hospitals fill up, people are definitely going to notice. There were flu outbreaks in the 60's and 70's and people noticed.

When comparing "different approaches" you need to look at many factors: population density, environment (average temperature), living conditions (like multi-generational families living together.) Countries are not directly comparable for this reason.
That should be enough to know he/she hasn't done "enough" to know anything.
lol "tracks your current GPS"

Starlink is not going to be A#1 target in space in a new world war. Reconnaissance and Mil Comms satellites will be.
This is really cool. I never even thought of using Prometheus and Grafana for other applications despite pretty much looking after the stack full time.
Benford’s Law – A Simple Explanation
Study shows believers in astrology are less intelligent and more narcissistic
Would investors pour their money if they were more conservative and said something along the lines of "look, this is a very complex subject driven by and for humans, we should hire a bunch of non-technical people with relevant industry experience and try to make some bucks of profit before going full scale engineering and AI"?
Wow, never heard of that one, pretty nice variation on an awful pattern. Is it in handicap stalls or does it also exist in "regular"?
very cool write up. i’ve become obsessed with smoking since the pandemic. i’d love to hear about your other automations you mention!
Can we leave it at poor management? I don’t think the “reverse ageist” jab was constructive.
...says someone from an article in an Apple enthusiast column in which all links are either self-referential or point to Apple related sites, and not a single one goes to any actual information directly from IBM. The fact that there's not one mention of Linux, although IBM invested a lot in it since the late 90s, speaks volumes about the credibility of this article.
> I'll go first. I think the Bialetti Brikka is exceptional: https://www.amazon.com/Bialetti-Stovetop-Producing-Crema-Ric...

Sorry for the shameless plug but I have a problem with the Bialetti Brikka. I think it's great, but recently I did a full cleaning of all parts and since then it stopped working. Each time when the coffee is starting to boil up it spurts out of the hole in the lid and makes a huge mess. I checked everything but didn't find anything that might be causing this. Any ideas how to fix it? Thanks!
There is some risk there, although California has pretty favorable laws to protect you. I wouldn’t work on any project which is even tangentially related to the day job or touch any company resources while working on side projects. I’d also never sacrifice my performance at the W-2 for side work. They get absolute priority.

Work in good faith and read up on your rights, but yea even with all that you could unwittingly get yourself in some form of trouble. I’ve weighed the risks and feel comfortable but YMMV.
> Doesn't it have to process through the civet intestine though to get the effect?

Home-made recipes are not always as good as the real thing.
Unless there's a need to show work, you can always take these and go on a walk. I frequently did that during 1 on 1s with my previous manager.
it was just a typo
As much as one could "nitpick" about ommisions or unnecessary points, for large companies these things are obvious yet necessary.

I also liked the writing style guides that Microsoft and Google put out in recent years:

- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/style-guide

- https://developers.google.com/style/highlights
I personally think some of the community DAO tokens are interesting. For ex, $FWB (friends w benefits) is this membership type community where there are members + workers in a DAO like operation that utilizes a token for governance / membership etc. There are a lot of others popping up & I think in terms of tokens there is some room for improvement but some people are making money actually working in these systems.

Sometimes these memberships are in the forms of NFT(s)/tokens for access & that is interesting. DAOs trying to pool money for causes, that are interesting. It's early, yes.

The problems you write about - specifically the Token swapping id done because there was a problem (taxes).
Variants can have mixed qualities. For example, one could be suitable for maximum spreading yet also have a weakness that makes it easier to treat as an illness
Printing will probably suck more and more as we are moving away from paper.

OSes like macOS had entire graphics stacks tailored for printing support (quartz uses pdf as its intermediate format). I bet newer OSes will provide much weaker support for printing
It would be easier to attack/sabotage/JAM/DOS the ground stations.
It may have been poorly run, and nonetheless correct that:

- they could not buy houses without overpaying (relative to what they could sell them for a few months down the line)

- the housing market would not recover for several years (so no need to keep that extra 25% of your labor force, especially if you anticipate a decline in revenue from real estate agents coming soon)
Snark aside, interesting business model. Never knew about this website.
Is original antigenic sin due to prior vaccination or natural infection a concern for developing a new vaccine for this variant? Or perhaps the B.1.1.529 spike is so different that the original antibodies won't bind to it, even ineffectively? Or is there a way to design the new vaccine explicitly so that antibodies produced by prior strains can't bind the new antigens?
> Unexpectedly, guanabenz caused nearly half of the chronically infected mice to die within the first 10 days of drug treatment (Fig. 6B). Mice that succumbed to the guanabenz treatment developed classic symptoms of Toxoplasma encephalitis, including lethargy, tremors, paralysis, and seizure. None of these mice showed signs of active infection at the start of guanabenz treatment. These results suggest that the mice experienced reactivation of encysted parasites rather than continuation of a severe acute infection, but we cannot rule out the presence of lingering tachyzoites at the start of drug treatment. The mice that survived the full drug treatment did not display any symptoms of Toxoplasma encephalitis.
Absolutely, the Availability Group and resumable index features are great.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/availab...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/in...
Those are both poison pills. The army didn't want to be responsible for the security of the entire Kabul area and Bagram to Kabul is not a next door situation.
So, SpaceX started taking pre-orders for Starlink in India before they had license to operate Starlink in India.

I understand India being upset, but a pre-order is not the same as service. SpaceX is not going to offer service in India until its licenses are approved. But what's the harm in taking refundable pre-orders?
I started going to psychoanalysis and the analyst asked me: so why do you work in programming? I had to contemplate that for a long while. Answers that I came with were not at all what I thought. I had to really go back in memory to early days of my tech onboarding (teenage IRC years). I think it's a good exercise to go through. I think OP is one of the better examples of why it's a good idea. Because here is somebody hitting 40 and the life decision they are making is not whether to stay on the same path, also not contemplating what other things they could possibly do with the rest of their life (which statistically-speaking is probably another 40 years of fully conscious adult living) but to "see meaningful progression: in salary, in impact, in respect". So why are you in software?
Apple apparently canceled some orders, the social media was full of people complaining about it however the laws don't allow you to cancel orders just like that(when you order something the company and the customers are obligated to sign purchasing agreements that provides ether party with rights and obligations) and many people were quite motivated to sue Apple. Some contacted Apple and the official response was that the cancellations are due to unrelated reasons.

Turkish consumer protection laws are not bad, there are arbitration tribunals and consumer courts that quickly and cheaply resolve that kind of disputes. People use these all the time.

My brother snapped an iPad Air for the equivalent of 450$ and is expecting the delivery anytime now.
Ignorance is bliss.

It is only ignorance that allows someone to so foolishly state what has been communicated in this article.

You will _always_ need people to keep up with support contracts, be that your "no code" systems or your desktop computer.

People will always expect email to "just work" and they assume that it's going to just work, but, even if you outsource your email services to Microsoft or Google: It's not that easy.

What about your assets? If you're working on a product, where are you storing everything? Dropbox? Where's your backups.. because dropbox is not a backup..

Argh, obviously everything is domain driven but this is just drivel. Probably just rage bait for clicks.
And... for reference. In my Microsoft F80 github string repository:

https://github.com/ratboy666/string

(Microsoft F80 was a FORTRAN 66, slightly subset compiler -- no COMPLEX
that Microsoft sold from the late 70s to early 80s).

In there find pop.mac which is a short 4 byte assembly routine to discard
a stack level. That can be used as follows:

ASSIGN 1 TO I -- STORE ADDRESS OF LABEL 1 TO I
CALL F(I) -- PASS I TO SUBROUTINE F
... -- WE WILL NEVER GET HERE
1 ...

SUBROUTINE F(I)
EXTERNAL $POP
INTEGER $POP
JUNK = $POP(0) -- REMOVE RETURN ADDRESS
GO TO I -- GO TO ASSIGNED LABEL I
END

The ASSIGN command puts the address of label 1 into INTEGER I
GO TO I then transfers to that location. Note that we can pass I into the
SUBROUTINE, use $POP to remove a stack level (the return address), then
jump to the variable. Scheme is nicer, which continuations, of course, but
that hadn't been considered yet...

The ASSIGN was deleted as a feature in FORTRAN 95 -- obsolescent by FORTRAN 90.
I guess "very very old-school".

Now, the FORTRAN 66 standard doesn't mention if something like this is allowed... but, since no stack was involved in early implementations, and
recursion was not allowed, I imagine that it would work more widely than
might otherwise be expected.
I bet the author glanced at their site named "Zelda 64" and assumed that's how they referred to OOT not realizing they have other projects (some not even on the N64 now) as well.
Starling receiver receives as well as emits radio waves, isn’t that tightly controlled everywhere?
The metaverse is just the latest incarnation of Las Vegas
Sure, but a younger hiring manager probably doesn’t appreciate that. Business owners (at any age) never appreciated quality.
It’s funny how people still call it Zelda 64 more than 20 years later, despite that not being its actual name.
"Parasite" for feeling lonely? Ummm...

The entire set of recommendations for that is rather eyebrow-raising.
"more carbon emissions 'should' be more expensive, and conversely, stuff that caused less carbon emissions 'should' be (relatively) less expensive"

It's not clear that such policies would reduce shipping stuff from 5000 miles away -- except by reducing the total amount of stuff made -- so I don't see a direct connection to the topic of this thread.
That’s the one!

The XR did manage to upload all the photos to iCloud when we got in range of a cell tower. Also the rear glass didn’t break, only the screen. Apple replaced the screen under AppleCare and my daughter still has the phone.
Quick answer to a possibly rhetorical question: You cannot get money from these lenders as a business, unless you have already created a crypto token as part of it.
Rumor is that they had to put their thumb on the scales (i.e. tweak the model) to get enough sellers to sell to them. In other words, if paying what their model actually thought was the right price, not many people sold to them. Instead of saying "our division's whole business model won't work, you should fire us", they tried to cut the margin too close, resulting in losses which got the CEO's attention to the problem.

This kind of thing is difficult to confirm from the outside, of course. But that they adjusted the model to pay more towards the end is pretty widely known.
Varies widely by state; in Texas I had to fight and turn down offers to even get a contract that would give me full rights to the stuff outside of work-hours. So I'm not going to toe that line.
> There were flu outbreaks in the 60's and 70's and people noticed

No, they didn't. The population back then wasn't as depressed and anxious as today's population.

They didn't extrapolate figures and trends and charts. They were not bombarded by news on 5 different screen devices.

They'd notice when 5,6,7 or even 10 people they knew, and in the same age/health cohort as them would become incapacitated for more than 4 weeks, but in order to really notice it the same amount of people would have to be dying from the disease.

How many people you know became incapacitated for more than 4 weeks because of COVID? 2 years into it how many died?
satellite internet is not a new technology.

come on now, you've been a superpower for over a year. get with the times.
I'm not sure I would call 1600 objects scattered over an area about as large as the surface of earth "pretty close together". There's plenty of empty space between them
Just came here to plug Nicolas Rougier. He’s got some fantastic and very pretty-looking Emacs packages. He’s got good ideas of where Emacs should be in terms of usability in my opinion.

https://github.com/rougier
This is pretty much true, but if you're doing a coding test, don't just provide a naive solution full stop -- if you can _also_ provide more scaleable solution(s) or at least a discussion of how things could be made more scaleable in the readme, you'll do better
They did not exclude possible charge for major upgrade.

I am not relying on typora. I use it for WYSIWYG markdown editing with equations. Actually I like more the functionality to copy pasted image to a folder - that is the only feature I really like.

I still have not convinced myself to pay for it.
The reality is far more prosaic than many people seem to believe.

Starlink has been reported to be taking "pre-orders" for the service at $99 in India; without having a license to operate [1][2]. This might seem like peanuts to the HN crowd, and the move to do pre-orders is completely in line with the "move fast" ethos of SV startups, but $99 is a non-trivial amount of money in rural India.

IMO the Government is right to at least warn people that they might not get the service promised, even if they do end up getting their money back. Also, in case Starlink decides to take the dynamic and innovative step of just keeping the money, it is unclear what recourse these prospective customers will have.

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[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/telecom/teleco...

[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/india-spacex-needs-a-license-to-o...
OK point taken about China, even though I think it still is not clear how much they innovate by themselves and much they are just stealing, and how much they really still are socialist.

It seems they have a kind of dictatorship bent on exploiting their population to get ahead. Another example perhaps were the nazis who also made a lot of technical advances like building the first rockets. They presumably throw a lot of resources (manpower) at things, too, because they don't care about the individual.

The European variant of socialism is more like a class of leeches that simply wants to extract as much energy as possible from the unsuspecting population.

I live in Germany and I have worked for a big car company as a contractor. I think many big companies are very slow moving and excitement for new ideas is difficult in such an environment. Even the product I was working on was basically a huge expenditure to be able to comply with some government regulation (privacy laws regarding employee monitoring).

Yes, there are people here in Germany who are excited about technology and startups. They have to fight an uphill battle against all the regulation, though. And any successful company is regarded with suspicion. Also government jobs are very popular as they come with many perks. Here in Germany it might not yet be as bad as in other European countries, but the class of government employees is growing. A couple of years ago I read about Greece that ALL the elite students did expect to get comfortable government jobs. That would of course also suck away talent from innovative companies.

My other comment about the Gigafactories in Texas and Berlin was downvoted for some reason, but I really am curious. Which one will be finished first? The one in Texas was started at a later stage. I live nearby the Berlin one, so I hear a lot about the ridiculous regulation struggles they face.

Then again I read that some Tesla employee was awarded north of 100 million dollars because his colleagues supposedly called him racist things. So I worry about the future of the US, too,
Do we really need to apply the term genocide to groups that aren't even human? Or is that an emotional appeal?

Have you ever met a turkey in real life? Not the wild ones, the domestic breeds. They are so stupid that they will drown in their own water feeder if you don't keep an eye on them.
This is a stupid question, but can you run a VMWare Modern instance, and inside of that have a VMWare Ancient instance that runs Windows 95/98? I've never heard of nesting VMs, but I've never looked either.
Oops! I nearly lost my lunch on that one :)
Good news; when the economy implodes there will be no financial costs, but you’ll have skills.

5% of the public hunts. My guess is, should society collapse, there will be plenty of work cleaning up the bodies as millions go nuts in shock and kill themselves at home before a civil war can get off the ground.

More optimistically it’ll be like 9/11, NY blackouts; shock, awe, but people settle down and figure it out.

Who knows, maybe this is all embedded paranoia from the Cold War era and complete social collapse is impossible.

Local urban areas will surely clamp down and secure infra. Going it alone in the woods seems like a fine recipe for just putting the gun in your own mouth eventually.
Ask HN: Material for Learning Tensor Math?
I’m a student interested in deep learning algorithms. I’ve been reading some material on matrix algebra and matrix differentiation, but I would like to learn more about tensors.
You can fix your website: the post has a <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.blockloop.io/" /> in it, which tells the HN software that the main URL for your post is your homepage.
Ah I didn't notice the source website. That makes a little more sense (on the reporting side at least). I wonder if the fan site is named that way to avoid trademark issues with the full name?
ACH - the only reason checks still exist, really. It's essentially free to do ACH, but there's a per-transaction + percentage of the transaction for a credit card transaction.

The per-transaction fee of a debit card transaction is slightly higher than a credit card transaction, but there's no percentage. That's why they want you to run transactions as debits

Realistically, the reason you can't do that is because Visa, MasterCard, Discover and Amex make tons of money from credit card transactions, and the usurious interest they get to charge when they're South Dakota corporations.
why would starlink have different rules than any other ISP licensed to operate in India?
Hm... people put money into a pool, and then there is a random chance of payoff? Sounds like plain lottery, something that is sold at every gas station ever. for PoolTogether, there is a twist that this seems to be incorporated with interest-bearing accounts, but presumably you can get the same effect by investing the money manually, and periodically withdrawing interest and using the money to buy the lottery tickets.

And "blockchain based wikipedia" sounds interesting but has a lot of real-world interaction, and so is substantially harder than existing examples which purely interact with blockchain.

Overall, this whole conversation reminds me of the the new programming languages:

- "My new language is very great! Look, it can do HTTP requests!"

- "But existing languages could do HTTP requests as well?"

- "Yes, but my language automatically deserializes the request using Mozart-Rachmaninoff type system, which eliminates the whole classes of the bugs. No other language can do that! I am going to write a new OS in this language now!"
Mine is certainly not the normal path, and there were several significant projects which only peripherally advanced my career, so ymmv (greatly). But I guess my best advice is to find a niche. There are endless numbers of "Java Architect 2"s or whatever in the labor market, but far fewer highly skilled engineers who understand deep business domains. Find your niche. You don't have to be a manager to develop close relationships with customers/users and understand their pain points. Become seen as invaluable (or at least really hard to replace) by your peers and senior management. And, of course, most engineers are underpaid. In case you've not read it, Patrick's essay is required reading for comp and career development. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
Good luck!
This is propaganda. The US sanctioned Venezuela to because they do not want anyone in their sphere of influence nationalizing important export industries like oil.
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I think that the worst thing is that the Teensy 2.0 microcontroller board is scheduled to be discontinued during next year.
A turkey is merely a substitute good for other foodstuffs. It's not like people wouldn't eat on Thanksgiving if they didn't have a turkey. It's not like they'd go hungry for the next week without all the turkey leftovers...
Given the interview experience at that company described in a sibling comment - why should we bother?

Facebook was by the far the worst, and I interviewed 2x for 2 different roles. YMMV but 2 Leetcode q's read off by bored, mid-level employees. Not a single question about anything else. Maybe that's a fine process for college grads but for someone with decades of experience? As a former hiring manager I honestly found it comical
Just wait for what’s in store in 2022!
If the assumption is that you're going to lose half your money up front, then my plan would be to make sure "my money" is as little as possible: learn based on smaller bets. It sounds like Zillow built the Sea Dragon first, when they should have started with the Redstone and moved toward the Saturn V.

If Zillow thought they had all the data they needed, there would have been little harm starting with $100 million in properties -- if the loss there ended up being $5 million, they would have known immediately something was up and that they had work to do.