skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think a better thing to look at is if a theory can correctly calculate things that weren't built into the theory. I remember reading [1] that string theory correctly calculated some things concerning black holes that none of the people who had developed string theory to that point knew about.

Well if that's true, then string theory definitely isn't useless, so I'd be interested in the specifics. This prediction from string theory wasn't explained by any of the accepted physical models?

> Second, I don't like it from a philosophical point of view. It suggests that if say some pre-Newton gravity theorist had just included enough epicycles, science should have rejected Newtonian gravity because it would not have explained anything that the epicycle theory didn't.

Well yeah, but why not reject Newtonian gravity if everything observable can be predicted by the epicyclical view? The goal is not to generate pretty models, the goal is to make accurate predictions of the physical universe, ideally through the simplest model we can come up with just to guard against overfitting.

Anyway, it's not that I (or anyone, I don't have any physics authority certainly :P), am rejecting string theory, it's just that as far as I understand string theory hasn't had any real use to our physical models. I certainly don't have an alternative to string theory.
I was under the impression that modern Destroyers were a combination of air-defense and anti-submarine defenses.

While Modern Cruisers were closer to specializing in the air-defense role.

But yes, Destroyers have lots of anti-air on them for sure.
Take fish oil.
Thank goodness for the red circle in the top image. I totally would have missed the collapsed retaining wall otherwise.
> https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec...

Fair enough - I was trying to provide some data showing that Graviton is on par and exceeds cost/performance value in some cases.

> Perhaps that will change as Graviton ages and availability changes.

Graviton isn't standing still - AWS bought Annapura labs in 2015, so while older versions of Graviton will obviously shift left in terms of it's value, AWS is going to continue to push in that direction. Graviton 3 was recently announced [0].

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec...
Super cool, but I think your landing page could use some work:

1. First thing is an interactive-looking image, with a play button etc. I'd recommend embedding a real widget built with your tool there.

2. The FUTURE/TODAY sections are really spaced apart and have no images.

3. In the Skada section, "powerfull" is spelled incorrectly (should have one L).

I know that sharing stuff online is stressful - so really want to emphasize that it looks like you're doing great work here, and congratulations on shipping :)
Pretty close tbh. A street-sweeper is left alone to do their job and - as long as its done well - is left alone to just get on with it :)
It's popular to upvote this during outages, because it fits a narrative.

The truth (as always) is more complex:

* No, this isn't the broad culture. It's not even a blip. These are EXCEPTIONAL circumstances by extremely bad teams that - if and when found out - would be intervened dramatically.

* The broad culture is blameless post-mortems. Not whose fault is it. But what was the problem and how to fix it. And one of the internal "Ten commandments of AWS availability" is you own your dependencies. You don't blame others.

* Depending on the service one customer's experience is not the broad experience. Someone might be having a really bad day but 99.9% of the region is operating successfully, so there is no reason to update the overall status dashboard.

* Every AWS customer has a PERSONAL health dashboard in the console that should indicate their experience.

* Yes, VP approval is needed to make any updates on the status dashboard. But that's not as hard as it may seem. AWS executives are extremely operation-obsessed, and when there is an outage of any size are engaged with their service teams immediately.
Don't get nitty about saying "my X". People say "my plumber" or "my hairstylist" or whatever all the time.
Maybe that's why he became a civil engineer!

https://i.redd.it/e1u01yu0y5n11.png
Yep, I think it's pretty interesting, with any other "system" or "product", he needs to sue the owner/controller/company behind it to make them change it. With Bitcoin, there is literally nothing and nobody stopping him from creating the fork he wants. Forcing other people to accept currency from, develop on, or mine on that fork is a different story..
> If it's China's official policy that it blatantly and deliberately attacked a USN warship, why aren't we at war with them?

It is not China’s official position, which is why this supposed “official story” is not sourced to any official Chinese media, but to an email, supposedly sent by the author’s anonymous friend, that contains information that was supposedly authorized by Beijing on the “official Chinese story” which nevertheless the PRC has not released through any of its many state controlled media outlets.

(It plausibly could have been authorized by Beijing for this exact use: divisive propaganda through multiple steps of deniable cutouts that has nothing to do with either the facts or China’s official public position. Or it could just be an invention of the author, or the author’s anonymous, unaccountable friend.)
You are missing the point. This is the language for the REPL, not "compiled to binaries". Python may or may be not be an improvement over Tcl, but that's what you're competing with here.
Right. Accessibility is about more than just accommodating people with disabilities. If communication from the government (public school) is inaccessible to people without a Facebook account, that should be a problem. I would hope that it could be corrected through the school board, or failing that, the justice system. You should not be required to use a particular Internet service, or even have Internet, or even have electricity, in order to interact with a government-funded school that is supposedly open to all.
Yep. I think this is close the worst possible ruling for Wright.

If they'd found against him on the other claims at least he'd be able to say that the jury certainly bought into his claim of owning a ton of early Bitcoin. There would have been much more damages, but $100 million or $25 billion will bankrupt him equally either way.
People who are in it for self-expression need to pay the bills too.
How many other equally important things are also not mentioned?

I'm going to find "zero" very hard to believe, what with this being a 10 minute general audience video. I seriously doubt I'm just three additional minutes away from being an expert on the topic ready to take on any geoengineering task I could desire.

Edit: Let me put it a different way. While I watch and enjoy his video series, I've been showing them to my 10-year-old and 13-year-old kids, and I'm pretty sure they're not that far out of the target audience.
If subs were companies, they would all be sold long ago to China and India.
Designing Meta’s new company brand
I'm a recruiter for an early stage start-up but have worked with numerous companies (pre/post IPO). In my experience the interview process can be a bit a time-suck/nightmare with larger companies. Yes the total compensation is usually higher, but ownership of project is decreased.

I think you have to ask yourself what it is you are looking for... If growth and impact on a product is "what matters most" then consider looking at smaller companies where you can wear multiple hats. If higher compensation is what you are looking for then FAANG companies are right for you.

I personally focus on the experience candidates have throughout the interview process with my team and do my best to balance vetting candidates with giving them enough interactions to know enough to make a educated decision on what move to make, if any...
> What kind of drones is an adversary fielding in large numbers for a few thousand dollars per drone?

I linked an example of such a drone up-thread; $5k. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/kamikaze-drones-new-we...

> how are they going to manufacture, move and maintenance those drones once we've pancaked their infrastructure?

You build the drones before the war, not during.

> And how far can said toy drones fly so as to reach a destroyer in the first place?

Doesn't have to be too far. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz

We're on a thread about Pearl Harbor, after all. Load up thousands of drones on a number of container ships and do a surprise attack with them.
This would definitely be better than the current system of basically forever minus one day, but still leaves the problem that a few giant corporations own giant chunks of our hearts, minds, and childhoods.

The zeitgeist of our time should belong to us, at least after a decade or two.
I remember there was another article about image uploads and content moderation (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28684250), essentially saying that if you create a open uploading service, you WILL start getting lots of spammy images / abuse.

CF Images always seems like a LOT more $$ than other image hosting tools out there. What other service did you end up going with?
Vectorizing Ragged Arrays
Hot take: All routers completely suck right now, and most of them are built to spy on your network at worst and accidentally expose you to cyberattacks at best.

There are two choices, the way I see it:

1. Invest in a decent router (probably $150-200 at least) and throw openwrt on it. You'll need something with serious CPU beef because openwrt relies more on software than hardware, and most routers use hardware for QoS etc., hence the price tag. You'll also need to actually understand the multitude of settings offered by openwrt if you care at all about security or performance -- this is nontrivial if you aren't already a network engineer.

2. Buy a used Apple Airport router. The last generation support AC wifi, which is... basically as fast as the best things out there right now, barring wifi 6E. On the plus side: this comes with mostly sane defaults and good performance, I easily get 600+ mbps up/down on my gigabit internet. On the downside... I think you can only configure airport routers through macOS (and a mostly-dead iOS app), and they don't let you configure all the settings you might want. A fair tradeoff for good, non-footgun defaults IMO, but YMMV.

There's also the third option of creating some bespoke raspberry pi + wifi hardware solution for yourself, but that's likely to get you punched by your flatmates when it inevitably reboots incorrectly during a power outage or overheats or whatever and suddenly you need to spend 2 hours debugging problems without a working wireless connection and everyone else is pissed they can't use the internet. Unless, of course, you're a brilliant network engineer who would never make a silly mistake or have a bug in their custom router solution.

Which I guess is why most people use Google or Amazon spyware for internet in their homes.
Yes. And why not? That I can do that so easily today even with copyright just goes to show how post-scarcity information is.

The problem, of course, is that the creators of the work still need to participate in a scarcity economy to live. There are examples of efforts being made to fund creators outside the traditional scarcity-based mechanism, such as patreon funding, github sponsorship, and the like, although I admit they appear to only currently be useful for those who would be unable to leverage the traditional system effectively anyway.

While I may not have the answer to funding creators, I firmly believe that we'd be going backwards to insist on forcing scarcity into a post-scarcity space.
Tesla: How Elon Musk Pushed His Vision for Autopilot
You choose the CPU and you choose what happens in a failure scenario. Part of engineering is making choices that meet the availability requirements of your service. And part of that is handling failures from dependencies.

That doesn't extend to ridiculous lengths but as a rule you should engineer around any single point of failure.
Pretty sure this comment is as hyperbolic as the one your replying to. Not everyone has the same feelings toward music you do, some are quite indifferent because we are all quite different. Case in point people who are asexual.
> Schedule subsequent interview rounds close to each other

Pre-covid, if you were not from the bay area, this happened naturally. You just tell the companies that you are traveling in the bay area in a given time frame and would like to schedule your interviews in that period. Not sure if post-covid it has become simpler.
It's like wondering about the English Professor named William Shakespeare. Would he have become an English Professor is named by any other name?

https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=188354
This fits with everything I've heard about terrible code quality at Amazon and engineers working ridiculous hours to close tickets any way they can. Amazon as a corporate entity seems to be remarkably distrustful of and hostile to its labor force.
No, I'm not. When I say "I'd love to see" I'm of course being facetious. Of course I don't want these individuals (including yourself) to be held liable personally to him. But if he did win, he wouldn't get the coins, and it would demonstrate that bitcoin cannot be forcibly regulated.
Back in the Correct Horse Battery Staple days and earlier, when password managers were still nonexistent or frowned upon, I used to recommend that if you had an executive that has trouble remembering passwords, they should use a phrase from a book in their office (make sure they have more than a couple of books in their office).

For all we know somewhere there's a wallet whose password is the first sentence from Moby Dick, or one of Hamlet's speeches.
> We started Quill with the goal of increasing the quality of human communication.

I'm sure Twitter also had that goal on their first day.
It's hard to say from the webpage, but this looks actually like a (frontend for a) place-and-route tool. No idea why to reinvent the terminology.
Thanks for reading the docs! The only open manufacturable PDK is skywater 130, I wish there were more. Flow supports other commercial PDKs but for obvious reasons we can't publish those.
> You can't have it both ways.

Sure I can. I created the art, I own the copyright to it. If I choose not to sell prints of a piece, that doesn't give others the right to do so. Why would NFTs be any different?

And yes, somebody could copy my art and sell it on RedBubble. The difference is that nobody's claiming that a RedBubble shop is a definite proof of provenance. (But why not? "First RedBubble store" has the same level of credence as "first minted NFT," and it doesn't even require gas fees!)
how do you see this?? i'm a newbie to web development and selected https://github.com/yuanqing/single-page-markdown-website for something clean and minimal in design.

but those are crazy stats! what would you suggest for newbies like me?
It's not too difficult or costly to frame+finish a corner closet if you have the garage space to spare, especially if the garage interior isn't already finished.
Can web development make you rich?
Came here to say #1. If I see a play button, I expect to be able to push said button. I went to grab the scrubber with my mouse and I got nothing. I was quite disappointed.

Definitely use a video showing features above the fold. A picture doesn't communicate very much to me, especially for something for animation/motion.
Freedom of speech is not absolute in United States either, see https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-re....
Or, maybe I just don't enjoy interacting with strangers very much? It seems pretty insulting to insinuate that just because someone isn't very social it means they are fundamentally flawed.
> The "Joe Rogan takes horse dewormer" was ridiculous and really made me distrust the institutions.

What institutions? CNN or the CDC? I don't remember the CDC ever coming out and saying something about Joe Rogan, but the CDC and FDA came out and rightfully said taking Ivermectin is a bad idea.

If some private citizen wants to find some quack doctor that prescribes them drano, what can they do?

What this is really about, is two competing medical communities... Joe Rogan's quack doctor and CNN's Sanjay Gupta, but don't make this about some higher level issue about "Institutions" the CDC and FDA are doing its job just fine.
I agree in the case of planned maneuvers for sure, however if you want the result of the "5 Whys" (kinda joking) then my answer is: because the contractors that build this stuff SUCK ASS. Sorry for the harsh language, but I worked on a pre-com ship during my time (an LCS, go figure) while it was being built, and the absolute lack of standards on every level (from the top of the SWO military chain through the dogshit contractors) is part of what made me leave the Navy.

I'm not gonna complain about it too much, but man oh man, I think you and I could build better software than what I saw, and I don't even know you from Adam.
Yes? If you are worried about CPU microcode failing, then you do a NASA and have multiple CPU arch's doing calculations in a voting block. These are not unsolved problems.
This is interesting to think about. The Disney retellings in some ways are evolutionary winners that are also dead ends. Outside of Disney they can’t evolve unlike pre-Disney. The Disney retellings are so popular that other retellings are almost extinct. When Disney goes away, does the story lineages disappear? Do copies of older retellings resurge? Do totally different story lineages take the place of the Disney stories?
Ask HN: Shifting my career back to Software Development
Hi! More than a decade ago, I was an enthusiastic software developer who was also passionate about security and hacking. Six years ago, I had the opportunity of moving to a security role that I loved, and began a career that has been lately focused on code reviews and pentesting. Sadly, it feels like I already had enough of reviewing others products and pointing at their mistakes.

As a matter of fact, I would love to shift my career back to Software Development and focus on building stuff again, but I feel a bit lost. When I left, AWS was the new thing and nowadays people will deploy their thing on a kubernetes cluster that have been deployed with terraform. Scrum was the fix for all team problems but now it feels like a concept from the past. Coding in Python was pragmatic and trendy but now it sounds unprofessional if you dont do it in Go or Rust.

Honestly, I feel like a dinosaur and I feel overwhelmed, but I'm sure coding is what I want to do in life.

What tip would you give to somebody like me?

Thx <3
That looks interesting.

Any more papers on the subject that you can recommend?
This is looking pretty good for Europe: 98 new unicorns (albeit _very_ unevenly distributed), huge amounts of new funding, and even starting to approach the US.
Yeah, and to extend on this: simply because music has been used in capitalism to make other industries more profitable doesn't imply that music isn't valuable on its own. Music is life enriching for an uncountable number of people, no matter its profitability. Same with Free Software, for that matter.
that's how i feel about all these python "micro frameworks".

you start simple, but then you realize you need some kind of db access, some kind of caching, some kind of authentication, maybe some admin interfaces.... aaand you re-implemented django yet again.
This reminds me very much of edalize[1], which does something very similar.

[1]: https://github.com/olofk/edalize
I think both what you said and what the op said can be true at the same time.
100%! Look for recruiters with longer tenure, bad sales people don't stick around...
(Author here) I mostly worry about security for this. If you have nothing private on your network it's probably fine, but if you have, say, a NAS that isn't using proper authentication (pretty common), an os/nginx vulnerability could end up exposing stuff.

Of course there are much simpler ways to lock things down also :)
You can always run routeros on X86 hardware. I think the problem with things like mangle rules run into. Had loss and a hell of a lot of reorders at just 500mbit through a CCR1036 the other week, disabled 100 or so mangle rules and it vanished, but from looking at other routers I think it's more of a limit in the linux kernel (perhaps just the 2.6 one). Maybe routeros7.1 will be better, something to test in the coming weeks.

10/25 feels like a CCR2004? Or are you just talking switching.

If routing remember it isn't full bandwidth - the 170gbit of ports is squished into 2x25 before hitting the CPU[0]. Not sure how much is offloaded to the PIPE.

[0] https://i.mt.lv/cdn/product_files/CCR2004-1G-12Splus2XS_2004...
Virginia and Massachusetts have surprisingly aggressive mottoes (MA is: "By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty", which is really just a fancy way of saying "don't make me stab a tyrant," if you think about it). It probably makes sense, though, given that they came up with them during the revolutionary war.
Most movies make most of their money week one. Most songs make the bulk of income within a 3 month period. 3 years is longer than necessary.

Perhaps this would affect less known artists. I would be willing to keep the copyright until the first 100,000 or 1,000,0000 worth of product is sold.
Ideally, yes. In practice, most are hosted in a single region but with multiple availability zones (this is called high availability). What you're talking about is fault tolerance (across multiple regions). That's harder to implement and costs more.
Interesting! Of course, I never stated "everyone is ... so power can": I the idea was that democracy is increasingly fit when populations respect a certain profile according many dimensions, and to the statistics HK peaks in some. But also regarding this juicy info that «people are latin or let's say sanguine»: there is an issue on measurements and it is difficult to get a "complete" idea of a population on quantitative data only, because many fundamental qualities are not measured. Regarding people being "sanguine": it is not a fault ("father Dante [Alighieri]" wrote of the existence of a legitimate state of being rightfully irate), it is not that a warm blooded human has less senses than a posed or "repressed" one: the issue is more with how civilized and cultivated a population is. Failing that, populations do look at the most humble profiles and believe them "a potential saviour of the Fatherland" - we could call that an effect of "ignorance", and it is a frequent phenomenon .

About «democracy why not»: traditional democracy is not "the goal / the end of the path" - but one could suppose it should take an advanced society to achieve its milestone reform, its improved successor, its next perfected form.
I'd think that one either cares about privacy, then smart phones are a no-no or one doesn't and then Android seems to be the obvious choice. Help me understand, what's the use case for such Linux phones?
I don't agree. I think there's still room for "purpose specific" social media, and in the case of music that would be being able to follow people and plug into their feeds of what they are listening to and what playlists, sets or charts they put up with what tags, and let them stream. Spotify has something like this but the UI is only usable on the desktop client. You can do something like this on Youtube or Twitch and a lot of artists do. There's also sets on Soundcloud.

Kinda like what Beatport does but with a more social and better website, and without the gatekeeping and heavy editorializing. I think Last.fm was on the right track with social features but didn't get the streaming right (I think mostly because of IP issues). What some projects like everynoise.com do with Spotify tags for genres is pretty amazing but of course it's missing the social features.