skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree more or less with with how you remember it.

The evening before Thanksgiving we got some flurries, and that’s about it. Nothing I’d call “measurable”.

In September I also recall a few pleasantly rainy days, but overall it’s been uncharacteristically dry and warm. It’s going to cool off next week, but it’s mostly been in the 60s lately with a few days in the 50s or 70s.

I also only blew out my sprinklers last weekend because we’ve only had one or two light frosts. That’s the latest ever for me by over a month.
Long gone are the days when Python was a hacker tool. It’s been an enterprise thing since startups got wind of the fact that it could be used to attract programmers, to attract VCs.
I'm willing to disambiguate between a company and its employees provided that the company identifies the employee by name, gives an appropriate punishment, and puts into place practices to mitigate damage in the future.

Until they do, the company is represented by its employee. The 'corporate veil' works both ways after all.
I agree so very much with not only your framing, but that of the original tweet(s) and the distillation formed by my own experience.

I'm proximate to development (information security/penetration tester). After university, my journey to graduate neophyticism had begun. As such, my exposure to the techniques, tools, and glue that helped build this industry was certainly sitting high up on the shoulders of giants. And I wanted to be up there. I deeply yearned (and if I'm going to be honest with myself as I write this, perhaps a small part of my still does) to be in the same group as these folks. But it just hasn't happened yet, and I still kick ass at what I do. I know how to use the tools, understand them, write miniature bastardized versions of a subset of functions when need be. I know the space, understand it (as much as someone who has ~10 years of experience, so granted a long way to go :)).

I'm just....average. And that's okay.
Sometimes I enjoy these articles that are strawmen, because then you get an interesting discussion about the topic on HackerNews.
Note that they use BCT (Base Carbon Tonne) instead of BTC (Bitcoin).

> At time of writing, the APY [annual percentage yield] for staking is above 75,000%. This creates a lot of demand for KLIMA, because people want to be exposed to those gains,

That's insane, even looking it from here in Argentina.

> The protocol is currently extremely over-collateralized, i.e. they have way more BCT tokens in reserve than they have issued KLIMA tokens. At time of writing, there are 3.6M BCT in the reserve for 740k KLIMA tokens in total supply.

With that interest rate, it will be under-collateralized soon. Some back of the envelope calculation: 75,000%. is like x50 monthly. 3.6M/740k is like 50. So let's say a month.
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I wouldn't assume good faith. There have been psych studies on virtue signallers and victim signallers, and they found much higher levels of narcissism and psychopathy than in the general population.
Past related threads:

In 1930 the Indiana Bell Telephone Building was rotated 90 degrees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26534718 - March 2021 (2 comments)

Indiana Bell Building Move (Of 1930) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26530546 - March 2021 (9 comments)

Indiana Bell moved a functioning building in 1930 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21468788 - Nov 2019 (24 comments)

Rotating the Indiana Bell Building (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20901264 - Sept 2019 (5 comments)
In my case, because VLC opens and plays flawlessly any video file you throw at it and that other players struggle with. That and it's FOSS and available in every OS I ever used.

What else is there to think about?
The media portrays the vaccine-hesitant as stereotypical anarchist militant anti-vax. But all the ones I actually know have pre-existing illnesses which are not being adequately treated by their medical care system, and which they are fearful will get worse post-vaccine.
It’s interesting that on mobile the original one is actually nicest (to me).
Upvoted bc Three.js is amazing. Hopefully this project is amazing, too.
Somewhat related, Lambda has the concept of provisioned capacity. So you can have a certain number of lambda containers running at all times, which will help a lot with the cold start. Obviously this is more expensive so you will have to weigh the benefits for your use case.
The original question was whether a small company can make a better device than a very large company.

Here you've defined "better" to include "can ship very large quantities", which is almost a circular way of defining the answer to be negative, no matter what the company does.

If it can ship very large quantities, it's not a small company.
One somewhat cynical way of describing the mentality at play in more militant wokeism is to recognize that a lot of people consider social capital to be a zero sum game. A power struggle. In order for one faction to make advancement, another faction must be weakened. Dialogue from this perspective is not going to be productive if there is no common interest. This perspective on social power is by no means a recent invention. Even within science itself it's undeniable that there are power struggles. Plank famously said that "science advances one funeral at a time".

It's very jarring to find yourself on the receiving end of something that appears to be an unprovoked attack. And you might be totally justified in that belief. But it's worth considering for a moment if there might be some amount of truth in what they are saying. If you are living your whole life inside an exclusionary fortress of social power, you might be totally unaware of the battles happening outside the walls.
Yes, good question!

We have good results for c. elegans, mice, and fruit flies. These have all had their lifespans extended by quite a lot for c. elegans, or iirc about 40% for mice.

This, and the existence of several multicellular organisms that do not appear to age, is the basis for optimism for eventual success in extending healthspan. Like, so far we haven't found any fundamental biological reason that living longer is impossible.

(it is worth nothing that Blagosklonny's paradigm of programmed aging seems to me to lead to more pessimism, but I don't know if he'd agree)

Matt Kaeberlein's Dog Project, and Celine Halioua's company Loyal, are both focused on extending dog lifespan, as a much larger model organism, but are not there yet.

I also agree with your second paragraph :)
I remember this 'proof' from an exercise sheet in a first semester math class. You had to explain why the argument was wrong. I liked this one :)
Realistically they make BS government jobs like the TSA.
George Hotz said something once that most modern developer jobs are depressing because you're not doing any actual programming. I.e. you're not given a problem to solve with code, you're just taping together frameworks and pieces of code that someone else wrote to order. It's a bit like studying to be a chef for five years and then having to put together one of five types of burgers.

Like everything Hotz says it's spiced up of course, but there's a kernel of truth to it.
In a world of generosity people would anticipate what their fellows want and help where they can to let them find what they want.
nah, now it's just imaginary.
I love the unikernel approach and I have been investing in researching it.

I have not heard of this company before but that doesnt mean much.

I have fallen in love with Mirage OS and the world around it.

I am curious what the integration is between Kubernetes and
the unikernel applications?

Admittedly I am not all familiar with K8s but I have not read
about something like that before.

I am interested in learning more.
Yes, that's actually referenced in the Discussion of the paper if you want to look at a mouse textbook. But while that can happen, it obviously has not in dogs given their results. It'd be nice if it had, but it didn't. (I'm not sure why: perhaps lab mice have gone through far more generations, with much more stringent selection on overall health, and that is how much it takes to purge all the exposed bad recessives etc?)
It does not, it's about history. If you want to link it to science, its ethic and epistemology, or philosophy? Not STEM at least. That's why the comment is interesting, it is the same stuff than "woke people against classic letters at Princeton!!!1!". I seem to fall for it each time, then research (or in this case, read comments!) about context, and then i'm disappointed in myself, two years ago this would've tingled my bullshit senses, nowaday i fall almost every time. I should stop working for a bank
"Before enlightenment: Ifs and loops.
After enlightenment: Ifs and loops."

:)
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It seems as though you are asking why anyone would want to delay immediate consumption in favor of saving for the future. Think of all the major expenses we take on on life healthcare, higher education, housing, retirement. These all generally require saving. Can you not imagine a world where it would be beneficial to individuals to have access to a savings vehicle that offered massively superior returns vs putting money in a savings account in the bank?

In fact, unlike saving in a bank, saving in Bitcoin over the long term has proven to consistently outpace inflation. In fact Bitcoin’s return on investment over the past 12 years has 10x’d the equity market.

Some may argue that Bitcoin is risky or speculative. I would argue that none of those who dismiss Bitcoin as risky or speculative have actually done the research to go down the rabbit hole to understand the economic, game theory, technical and social innovations of the Bitcoin protocol. Anyone who has spent 10-100 hours studying Bitcoin instead of dismissing it out of hand discovers an amazingly rich world that promises to deliver sound money to the world.
From the comments section of TFA:

>> By Nabii in Denmark, 30 Nov 2021 11:49

Funny name; "Nabii" doesn't sound very Danish to me.

>> This headline seems created to create clickbait. Hoping it will get picked up by other sites and pushed into the wider info-sphere?

Geesh, defensive much?

>> It's only a matter of time before I'm being told "LEGO makes sets that can't be taken apart now, that's why I don't buy it".

Yeah, so? If that's what's happening, WTF is wrong with letting people know about it?

>> It's almost irresponsible to take a single $700 dollar adult set and extrapolate it into saying sets for 7 year olds will in future be made so kids can't take them apart and play with them the way they are designed to be played with - as a building toy.

What the heck is "irresponsible" about that?!? This guy is sounding weirder and weirder.

> This has made people comment above 'sad to see what this company has become' - Well how about 'it's sad to see what this website has become'.

At this point, I was beginning to consider getting a user ID on the site just to reply along the lines of: "Better watch out how much of a fanboi you sound like when you're posting from Denmark, or people will start wondering if you're a Lego employee astroturfing".

Then a bit further down there was this reply:

> By Huw in United Kingdom, 30 Nov 2021 12:05

This whole comment is differentiated by a yellow background, in stead of white like almost all the others, so it's apparently by someone associated with the site -- perhaps a moderator or something?

> Thank you for your input, Mark.

Oh look, it seems Huw knows who this is -- he doesn't refer to them as just "Nabii".

> I agree that the headline is deliberately click-batey, but it appears to be true, and nowhere did I do any extrapolation.

"...did _I_ do..." -- Oh, so this is apparently the author of the article.

> It's an isolated case and perhaps given the set is an 18+ display model it's excusable.

Hm, yeah... OK, I guess -- but I would perhaps not have been this generous.

> Perhaps you could ask your colleagues to explain why this particular solution was felt to be necessary?

Muahahahahaa!

Seems my guess was correct.
How does it compares with jitsi?
I believe there's an easy explanation. The "woke" are usually thise nonconformant personalities who got ignored, mocked and often bullied in schools. They couldn't fight back, so they had to bottle up their anger and this anger has disfigured their personalities. They hate the archetype of their school bullies - conformant, often good looking and smart, but cruel white males. They can't reliably distinguish their bullies from an average white male, so they hate them all equally. Some people at the top have realised that if the woke's anger is released, it can be directed against political enemies. This is why they've been putting the woke in administrative positions and giving them some protection and publicity. So they are just a tool in a power struggle.
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Could you DM me where you worked? It sounds like a great place to work personally!
Wasn’t the Scopes Trial a farce
I've had no shortage of the leftists in my life saying directly "White Supremacy is _everywhere_". They absolutely will take evidence of things like race agnostic capitalization as somehow being evidence of "white supremacy".

Just look at the "open letter" signed by 1,288 "public health professionals" (https://archive.md/v8ehj) which demand an unequal response to the "protests". Demanding strict condemnation of "white protesters resisting stay-home orders" which "are also rooted in white nationalism and run contrary to respect for Black lives."
Discussed at the time:

The team that powers VLC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21620300 - Nov 2019 (49 comments)
Are you generous enough to give me what I want right now? I don’t know if you anticipate mind readers, but communication skills are essential, most people don’t know what they themselves want and can’t communicate with themselves even.
No, because 5g is a shared medium. It can deliver... 3 gigabit/s? or something like that? Let's say it's 10Gb. That's 10gb shared with everyone in the vicinity, which is not great especially in high density areas like apartment buildings.

Furthermore, you still need to run fiber to the actual base stations anyway.
> everything except scientific computing or insanely optimized code

for insanely unoptimized code, such as accidentally ending up writing something compute intensive in pure python, its very plausible for it to be compute constrained -- but less because of the hardware and more because 99 %or 99.9% of the operations you're asking the cpu to perform are effectively waste.
I don't get your point. They had goals and chose technologies and approaches to achieve those goals. They cite their task model - would you call that some sort of 'task evangelism'? They cite that system calls in their OS are synchronous, and how that enables some optimizations that work well with Rust's borrow checker.

All of this works together and feels relevant.
I don't think this is correct. The main argument uses a very specific inductive invariant of applying transitivity of equality to a non-empty set. The argument doesn't apply in the base cases because it is vacuously true so the minimal base case is actually a set with 3 horses because that is the only case where transitivity of equality can be used non-trivially.
How do they get a building on the rail?
I mean, it’s a $1 Trillion dollar market so it would take considerable horsepower to meaningfully move the Bitcoin market today. It will get harder and harder over time. Like I said, a large central exchange could conceivably wash trade to manipulate the market, but I would ask what would be their motivation and also what is our justification for trading in conspiracy theories without evidence?
Per month, it'll be ~150k. CDN ~70k.
Sounds like selection bias. Do you live in a region with high vaccination rates overall?

I certainly also don't know any unvaccinated-by-choice people personally either in my bubble. My city is up to 82% one dose, 71% fully vaccinated and I expect it to keep going up.
Sure, but I think assuming bad faith is a big contributor to how we ended up in this mess to begin with. So I assume good faith as much as I can, until I have a convincing reason to believe otherwise.
70-80% of McDs costs are labor, why wouldn’t their prices go up as their labor costs did? How do you have anything in services that isn’t dependent on just in time labor?

McDs stock prices always goes up during economic recessions for good reason. In many places, they are the cheapest game in town. Even in enlightened places like Lausanne Switzerland, only a few kebab places could compete on cost.
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Yup, the only place my backup account is logged into is.. my phone. Whoops.
> Although Ruby element is basically a Japanese thing

It's commonly used in textbooks for different Chinese languages. I have ministry of education textbooks from Taiwan, and ruby characters are used for both Hokkien and Mandarin (the Hokkien one has two different ruby character scripts which is quite visually busy).

I would imagine it would be handy for Hindi learners as well. And probably hundreds of other languages, though I can't speak if it is used.
More visually pleasing, and several keystrokes shorter, for rapid input on an unattended store demo machine:

10 print "poop ";:run

FWIW, the very first version of BASIC in 1964 supported FOR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC#First_Edition). I never used DOS machines but https://gunkies.org/wiki/Microsoft_BASIC claims that BASICA was based on Microsoft's BASIC, and that definitely had FOR.

Young you must have arrived at the concept of a for loop without knowing there was a keyword in the language designed to support that, which is pretty cool!
the two snippets you posted do different things

In a list

John
Jonhatan
Joy

searching for "Jo" returns all three of them in the first example, it stops when the first has been found in the second.

Start including the tedious bits about adding found items to the list and the waste of intermediate variables and your "clear" code is wrapped around a lot of repetitions, that only add noise.

It just happens that you are more familiar with the second style, but pipelines are better in many other ways, clarity of intentions being one of them.
Growing only by virtue of sheer population growth (religiosity is well correlated with poverty[1] and thus a higher fertility rate).

Proportionally it is fading.

[1]: https://news.gallup.com/poll/142727/religiosity-highest-worl...
We’ve been here before in the 70s, and what you predict did not come to pass. It might be different this time, but I doubt it. Prices and salaries will just adjust up to a new normal, and…the only thing that really gets hit are savings.
> Another thing you need to keep in mind is that the number of people with the skills necessary to use this is low.

Then maybe the Eternal September will pass, and October will finally come.
Certainly, but many "wasteful" operations are reading/writing main memory unnecessarily - and since a single trip out to memory and back can take many many CPU cycles, typically optimizing memory access time does more for "bad code" than optimizing the number of CPU cycles per second. But obviously, you're right too - faster is faster after all :)
> and use the issue because it fits his hobby horse.

I was talking about the columnist from the Spectator, not the scientist.

> I mean really, what did the guy that was so bad that the university decided it needed to take disciplinary action?

The university didn't take action (apart from the email from the VC, the full content of which we don't have to hand). It was the Royal Society of New Zealand that set up the panel. Totally different. I think your question here is answered by the text I quoted in my earlier post:

"To respond as fearfully as these seven professors, from the top science university in the country, to a single sentence that suggests taking a critical look at the involvement of science in colonisation of Māori, does the public face of science no favours at all. This failure in terms of academic standards explains the strong criticism of the letter that was expressed by the Royal Society as well as many leading scientists and academics."

edit:
>Is he being investigated for taking someone out of context?
I see what you are getting at, but I think the issue is more that the letter publicly misrepresented something in a way that was in itself not scientific.

I'll have to think about it, but I'm leaning toward thinking the Spectator columnist, at least, is badly misrepresenting what has happened.

Beyond that I actually don't really have strong feelings about this yet because it's honestly the first I've heard of it, even though I live in NZ.
Assuming no selection is involved, merely global mating completely at random where any dog could breed with any dog, they would never 'revert'. You would instead get a global average of current dogs, and then there would be a very wide bell curve around that mean, which would throw up lots of extremes at random. Genes are conserved, and get randomly distributed among offspring.

It's like how red hair pops up in some families. The red hair gene never 'disappeared' or 'got averaged out', it just kept being passed on until it met another copy. Another example is interracial families: you might think that the kids would all 'look like' the average of the two parents, but sometimes one kid will look just like one parent even though they are biracial. (Apparently this can cause problems, like if a little blonde-haired blue-eyed girl is walking around with her dad from Africa.)

On a historical note, this was a major issue for Darwin & Galton trying to come up with a statistical model of 'genes': the initial efforts of 'blending inheritance' predicted that everyone would quickly become the same height etc, which is both obviously not true (short parents can have tall kids and vice versa) and would mean evolution is impossible (no variation to select on!).
Hello gus_massa, Jitsi seems to not have file sharing between participants and the collaborative whiteboard. What do you think about it?
In the 90’s there were people trying to solve this problem by putting a small CPU on chip with the memory and running some operations there. I routinely wonder why memory hasn’t gotten smarter over time.
And here I was hoping someone was deep diving the prog rock
rabbit-hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma_(band)
> While religiously unaffiliated people currently make up 16% of the global population, only an estimated 10% of the world’s newborns between 2010 and 2015 were born to religiously unaffiliated mothers. This dearth of newborns among the unaffiliated helps explain why religious “nones” (including people who identity as atheist or agnostic, as well as those who have no particular religion) are projected to decline as a share of the world’s population in the coming decades.

https://www.pewforum.org/2017/04/05/the-changing-global-reli...
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

Add to that cults, religions, organised crime, justice system, corporations, institutions, unions, syndicates, conglomerates, cartels, states, families, couples, any entity bigger than an individual. Besides that, I suspect insanity in individuals is actually broader than suspected.

As a whole, everything just kinda work mostly because kind, sane and sensible individuals can be found anywhere, everywhere. Let's say we need more of these.
Also, it looks like we have to manually update them in 1Password. Out of hundreds of cards, I had only 5 listed for reussing. Why only 5?! Why not hundreds?
I'm skeptical of this. I would expect many of those wasted instructions to be expensive memory instructions. I'm pretty sure regular Python code allocates a lot and the interpreter spends lots of time chasing after memory references.