skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how this is different in any way from bands which employees are placed in based on performance? Im not trying to be combative, I genuinely do not see how this would realize any different outcomes. It just seems to shift definitions around.

If employees A and B both are in the same band, both do not get promoted in a year, but have different performance ratings, I assume they will end up with different 'performance based pay' raises. Where is the difference to moving them to a different place in the band?
Different places have different definitions of good service. For me good service is a server that is there quickly to take my order, brings food at when it's ready (bringing all dishes at the same time unless requested otherwise), realizes when I'm looking to pay the bill, and otherwise is nowhere near the table. Being able to answer questions about items in the menu is also good, though I don't often need this. In my (very limited) experience in the US, I found that servers talk too much (making suggestions or even small talk), they keep showing up asking if I need anything, refilling my glass unprompted, and felt generally phony in their demeanor. I found it very awkward and would not define it as "good".

That said, I have occasionally had bad service in Europe, usually in the form of it being very difficult to flag a waiter when I need something.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of data tapes hurtling down the highway.

Randall Munroe estimates it'll be 2040 before the Internet has more bandwidth than FedEx: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
Perhaps it might help to look where it's going, not where it is
I knew a few things when I was twenty-two. That kid is poking me in the ribs today, asking, "Really? This is how you live now?"
Can sovereigns like the health department be sued under GDPR?
You know, it's funny. I've worked in and around analytics for a long time now, and I've had the thought that blockchain enables the following.

1) A common "universal" transaction data source

2) A shared, readable format

So the thought occurred to me that as soon as blockchain apps/currencies became popular, people would want analytics on them. There would thus be a startup opportunity for unprecedented analytics visibility into transactional data from a third party without needing to build bespoke integrations into high security/compliance systems.

If a blockchain backed currency was widely used, a third party could easily estimate the real-time sales flow of every brick and mortar store location. You could have real-time auditing and quarterly tracking of both public and private corporations available from a third party. Asset transfers, smart contracts, and their real world equivalents could be instantly monitored - allowing the early detection of emergent supply chain bottlenecks.

The problem with all of this is that in the 5 years since I had this idea, the only use cases for BTC and other cryptos has been price speculation. The market for such analytics products is effectively zero.
Seems unnecessary to nitpick innovation between the disciplines.

The technology enables many new tools to be developed and many old tools to be augmented. Saule Omarova (Biden’s comptroller pick who resigned) had some interesting ideas in her papers/essays. DLT-based deposit debtor accounts being offered by the government was one that I thought would be pretty great.
> IIUC most of the mass required to build plants comes out of the air (CO2).

Fungi aren't plants, though.

edit: they're heterotrophs - they get their food from more complex materials than autotrophs, which generate their raw material largely from carbon extracted from the atmosphere.
I’d love to believe this: A Smalltalk universe of objects with a foundation in the Unix files & processes & pipes model would be intriguing.

But it ignores the commercial aspect: I don’t think anyone was giving away an industrial strength Smalltalk development environment at the same time gcc was gaining traction against the proprietary C/C++ toolchains.

What Smalltalk really needed was a Linus or a Guido ca. 1993.
I did my masters thesis with GNURadio 2013-2016 (a frequency-hopping implementation). I often thought my struggles were 100% my own incompetence, but eventually realized it was possibly 50% buggy GNURadio blocks. So much potential in SDRs but damn was this software an opaque mess to use.
Very nice of you to give it a try, and sorry for all the issues. Some of these are known, but most of them are not. So thanks for all the details!
FWIW: Not trolling, but I believe they added this setting in 2013 with Mavericks.

Now, if macOS could get auto-tiling options like Linux has...
Nawww, you're missing the market here.

2000-2012ish, Casual Joes and Janes were buying Point and Shoots. Most folks only bought DSLRs if they were actually doing it as a hobby or decided to take Photography as an elective in college.

At the time, DSLRs were a worse video experience for casual users, if they supported video at all. Point and Shoots were anything from pocket sized to 'DSLR' sized and typically (but not always) accordingly scaled in relative capability.

In any case, Point and shoots are what got killed in the last decade, or rather, got moved to niches. It's still the best option for certain things (e.x. Superzooms like Sony's RX10 IV or Nikon's P1000) Whether DSLRs/MILCs get niched out remains to be seen.
As a bootstrapped founder, the whole post resonated a lot. In fact, I felt like I was him in many situations that he was describing (e.g. something breaking on a Friday with angry customers while your wife is pissed at you for not helping her with stuff).
Its diplomatic writing.

It is fuel. And it should also be criticized by people not susceptible to theories.
Gas stoves transfer very little of that heat to your food, most of it goes around your pans and into your kitchen. And the thing with high heat is that it gets drastically less efficient. Large flames push way more heat around the pot than they push into it.

We're not not talking about 100% differences, we're talking closer to 400%. At least that's what I've found when measuring boil times for a 1200w plug in unit compared to a 15000btu gas burner.

Of course 240v is an absolute must for a 4 burner range, but that's not uncommon nor hard to get. Almost every home in the US has at least one 240v connection in the house, and it's usually $200-300 to get one installed. That's not nothing, but it's way less than it costs to install a gas line.
When I visited Taiwan service was universally excellent, far beyond what I am accustomed to in the US. Tipping is also not a thing. A friend of mine tried to leave a tip and the barista chased us two blocks down the road to return his “lost” cash.
You have a great deal to learn about the prehistory of South American civilization. (So do we all.)

Before old-world explorers showed up, the Amazon population was on the order of 100 million. Most of Amazon jungle was, essentially, a big orchard. We find remains of elevated causeways tens of miles long, evidently for getting around during flood times, and levees and berms to retain water long after the flood receded. The dominant trees today all show evidence of domestication.

10,000 years ago they were already well along with their tree breeding program. The Amazon basin never froze, so people living there were able to start civilization well ahead of people in temperate areas. The main mystery is why it started as late as it did, and not 100,000 years earlier.
But to buy bitcoin on an exchange, even if it doesn't have KYC laws, you'd need to have the money in a bank account first to do the wire transfer to fund your crypto exchange account. The problem of money laundering is how do you get it into the bank account in the first place. What I'm saying is that you'd have to do actual cash transactions, meaning giving someone paper money and getting bitcoin into your wallet. That's quite a problem, especially as the numbers get larger.
Thanks for the response.

I had previously gone though the Oklo COLA, which is indeed hundreds of pages. But quantity is not always quality. I have seen the same types of submissions from other reactor proponents, and they are far more detailed, comprehensive, and informative and they are mostly at earlier stages of NRC engagement in pre-application discussions. As an example, I can't find a basic dimensioned or labeled reactor drawing or system diagram in Oklo's COLA. As far as the COLA illustrates, the Aurora design consists of an A-Frame drawing and a cylindrical vessel in a dugout. The safety analysis provided are generally simplified, rarely showing uncertainties or limitations of the analysis. See the NuScale or GE-Hitachi designs in pre-application or even the Transformational Challenge Reactor (TCR) as an example of a well documented research thrust that has not even begun the regulatory process if it ever will: https://tcr.ornl.gov/publications/

As far as spent fuel goes, the EBR II fuel that Oklo plans to use took decades to reprocess at a cost much greater than 0, which Oklo is not paying for. EBR II is not a civilian power generating reactor like all LWRs and BWRs currently in operation. Perhaps one day, reprocessing spent fuel will be cost effective. But today, it is a totally unnecessary activity as there's plenty of uranium and spent fuel storage is not an issue. I think telling congress that Aurora will consume spent fuel from today's reactors is false and disingenuous, both because it is extremely expensive to do so and because it is not particularly useful.

Aurora is ostensibly a tiny fast reactor, though I have to guess at this as there are no dimensioned figures in the COLA. Neutron leakage is going to be big and burnup low. This might be why Aurora is limited to 1% burnup. Maybe Oklo plans to make much larger reactors in the future, which have very different safety characteristics but can achieve higher burnup. It's curious that of the 70+ reactors in development, there are no fast spectrum and tiny reactors except for Oklo. There are fast reactors like TerraPower Natrium but they 200x larger than Aurora.

The calculation for tons / GWe-yr is as below assuming a 33% efficient power cycle (reasonable given the low temperatures of the heat pipes, but maybe the sCO2 is really good). GWe-yr is a unit of energy.

1.5 MWe * 20 yr means you are producing 4.5 MWth for 20 years, and must have fissioned 35 kg of Uranium (you get 200 MeV per U fission which is 2.6 MWyr / kg U). If 1% burnup is assumed, as indicated, Aurora is using 3500 kg or 3.5 tons of HALEU. I think this would change a bit depending on the spectrum.

3 tons HALEU / (1.5 MWe * 20 yr) * (1000 MW / 1 GW) = 100 ton HALUE / GWe-yr
I had a huge backpack full of DSLR gear in the early 2000s. I still have a backlog of unprocessed RAW images I need to get through... =)
Not all novel things are "shocking." But all the edgey rubbish people think will get them unjustly cancelled are not novel at all. As you say "they are part of the orthodoxy's FAQ." Which evidently a lot of people do not read.

These ideas can be disturbing, or alien. But they can also be just unexpected.
Things that can be bought can be sold again.

Modulo sunk-cost-fallacy.
I dropped to a micro 4/3rds setup for walking around for this very reason.
The lightest body and 2-lens setup I could configure was about 5-6lb depending on how many spare batteries I wanted to carry as well.

My 4/3rds setup with flash, 5 lenses, and a few batteries was only 2.2lb. I don't even notice I'm wearing it.
I have always heard that currency devaluation was a large factor in the fall of the Western empire, but Professor Devereaux doesn't mention it at all.

I also did not realize that Alaric lived within the borders of the Western empire, as an independent king. I can see how that would be problematic.
Yes. Cloudflare is doing many of their own stuffs recently: serverless, image processing, stream processing, mail forwarding, storage etc.
Funny I thought usually things feel more dystopian when the government is the one exerting the force or control. In this case it’s your perception that government law enforcement is routine where as private security firms are dystopian?
Plus no one pays taxes on cash tips regardless of what the tax authorities say.
The parent said trading in stocks. You said investing.

These are different things (yes, there is a qualitative difference).
Many eruptions are explosive[1], like Mount St. Helens in 1980. Here's a small explosive eruption where you can see the shockwave and eventually hear it when it hits the ship the cameraperson is on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUREX8aFbMs

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_eruption
A cool trick, although takes practice to get it right, is shoot with camera through a binocular lens. Can do that with SLR lenses too, similar issues: light leakage, stability, edge effects, etc.
But it's fun.
A more generic equivalent seems to be PyFlow: https://wonderworks-software.github.io/PyFlow/.

GNU Radio is targeted to a specific domain and the collection of existing nodes reflects that, similar tools exist for other domains, e.g. for CAD there is Sverchok which works with Blender: https://nortikin.github.io/sverchok/.
Parameterization, modularization, and the like have big hacker appeal. As a coder, I feel that, too. But our lived experience applying them to license terms has been rough. The Fair Source License. Ongoing confusion about what "Creative Commons license" means, and the fact that there is more than one of them. The Cambrian explosion of small tweaks to MIT and BSD terms.

In the end, for this license and others, I think the benefit in building recognition of and standardization on a fixed set of terms outweighs the cost of "one-size-fits-all" figures. The most important potential variable, what the paid license will cost if and when you need a paid license, isn't fixed in Big Time.
Past related threads (not about this article, but in case anyone's curious). Others?

On Fexprs and Defmacro - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24932701 - Oct 2020 (10 comments)

On fexprs and defmacro (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15209377 - Sept 2017 (3 comments)

Alan Kay on Lisp and Fexprs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1125109 - Feb 2010 (15 comments)
When I worked in food service 20 years ago, it was common practice to fire anyone who asked management to make up the difference regularly.
FXP was the thing that made (and to some extent still makes) the warez scene possible.

There were specific people whose main role was that they had access to one source server and one or more target servers. Without spending more than a few kB of their own bandwidth they could transfer files between big servers easily.
Does it support byte-range? so it can be used as a “server free” SQLite database:
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...
I'll throw out I don't try to be a bad guess but occasionally very rarely my kids and I end up going to a place like IHOP or something and I often try and tip extra to compensate for being a "bad table" not because I was bad but events outside my control made the table bad and I want to make it better to the waiter.
I think this restart ability counts the same way as saving/loading.

I have forgotten that "iron man" mode is not universal, but indeed, some games are not balanced enough by default to play without saving and loading (UFO: Aftermath would have been very nice otherwise).

So yes, the save/load facility is rather normal and a departure from roguelikes.
Hmm. As someone who has never in his life measured the temperature of anything on top of the stove, maybe this is overkill?
Vertical integration.

But break up the telecom oligopoly too.
And the mighty walled garden breaks into smaller walled gardens. Eventually each country will have its own version of each app to comply with local laws.
Mirrorless cameras now have much better low light through the viewfinder than a DSLR. A viewfinder is limited to around f/2.8, while a mirorless evf can do any aperture your lens can. The sensor of the camera has around 3-4x the sensitivity of your eyes. So we're at the point where even running the sensor at a fourth of its capacity and binning or throwing out pixels, at 120fps, is going to be better in low light than an ovf.

Lag is an issue, yes. But the 20-30ms latency EVFs now have is really really close to the blackout lag of a DSLR.

As far as Sony having no incentive to make you buy a camera, I don't think that's true. They're making at most a 1$ profit on smartphone sensors, and certainly around a 50$ profit on large sensors. If you buy their cameras, they're going to make something like 100-200$ in profit, and if you buy a lineup of their lenses, it's going to be somewhere like a 1000$ profit. So they definitely want you to make more cameras!

As far as photos being seamlessly transferred, new Sony cameras do have that. As soon as you start the app, it will transfer images you take in the background, but I don't know if it works with RAW images.
The thing is, the people who use software bokeh don't care about how bad it looks. They see a blurred background and they are happy.
Anti-work and pro-union are orthogonal, and there has been restive pro-union sentiment on this forum for years. It has not really increased during this time, even though the present moment (a local maxima of labor demand) would be a prime time to start organizing.
I think the difference here isn't just that Spotify is hosting this content. It's that Spotify is actively recommending it to people.

There's a difference between self discovery of content vs when a platform highlights one above others.
This reads to me as B2 / Cloudflare are no longer in Bandwidth Alliance?
I think the 1.0 magnitude is there as a placeholder. The advisories say to ignore it:

>Please disregard earthquake parameters
Really enjoyed reading. This also resonated with me as a bootstrapped founder.
Ideas like "ESP works" don't seem that heretical, because we'd all be thrilled if anybody could prove they're true.
Home Office for Two: Common Mistakes and Proven Fixes
Some manufacturers still make dumb signage displays which are also more rugged and durable than consumer TVs. They cost a lot though.

Also, Sceptre in the US and Swedx in the EU still make dumb TVs.

https://www.sceptre.com/

https://www.swedx.com/

If anyone knows of other brands making dumb consumer TVs, please let us know.
Worle – Wordle with UK town names
This is just silly. Minimum wage workers move across state lines all the time. The distance can be just several miles in some cases. You don't really need to do anything to do it, other than make an appointment at the DMV to update your license. Aside from that, it doesn't take any more resources than moving in-state.
My 2022 high-end Linux PC
There are a few companies that produce packaging alternatives for EPS that way.
In order to have nice bokeh (a function of the aperture of the lens), you also need to have a shallow enough depth of field at a fairly close range.

As the sensor gets smaller, and the field of view remains constant, the depth of field increases and so the opportunity for bokeh disappears.

For pleasant bokeh in a video call, you're going to need a larger sensor than the ones used in camera phones or laptop screens - probably significantly so. Additionally, the lens is going to be quite a bit larger to have good illumination across the entire sensor.

From a cost perspective, the cost of the sensor has to do with the yield of the wafer. It costs about the same to make a wafer no matter what you put on it (with certain caveats of the complexity of what you put on it).

https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/53826/why-does-inc...

If you're working from a full frame sensor, you can at best fit 24x 24mmx36mm chips on a standard 8" wafer. Going to a 13.2mm x 8.8mm sensor you can put 244 of them on the same wafer. Then there's the yield on top of that which further reduces it.

This gets it to the point where "to have a nice depth of field for a video call, you're going to need a camera that has similar costs and dimensions of a good digital camera." Adding that to a phone or laptop screen isn't possible.

That said, I wouldn't be unhappy to find an affordable usb capable video camera with a nice lens on it (and maybe paired with a ring light or off axis hot lights)... but that's probably easily in the $300-$400 range.
China's HTR-PM pair of test reactors is now grid connected. We'll see how it performs over the next few years.

The demonstration High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor - Pebble-bed Module (HTR-PM) at the Shidaowan site in Shandong province of China has been connected to the grid, the partners in the consortium building the plant have announced.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Demonstration-HT...
So it looks like the eruption happened right at dusk. For some reason that feels to me like that would make it worse for the people.
The rubber grips are cheap and take 20mins to replace.
There is merit in Cybersyn. There's serious theory, analysis and work put into it by respectable individuals.

But if you could compare the performance of Cybersyn against a self-regulating free market economy, my instinct tellsm me that Cybersyn would underperform in comparison.
Interesting to see how nobody cares about exit code 2. Modify your grep command to have syntax error and you will always think you have all the translations.

Edit: ah.. forgot the whole point.. In Next Generation Shell (author here) this doesn't happen: ngs -e '$(grep ...).not()' does right thing. grep exit code 0 becomes 1, 1 becomes 0, 2 becomes 240 (exception)
The A7r2 can do 42MP. It's not really practical to have any more megapixels.

The rest of the things are useless to 99.9% of people, so it's just a gimmick or convenience update. That's where we're at for cameras.

Phones however still see big image quality improvements, and you could take pictures that were previously impossible as they added and improved suppmentary cameras.
what "cancel culture"? joe rogan is literally being paid millions of dollars by spotify, is constantly being advertised all over their platform, and has millions of listeners. this letter is asking the platform to stop spreading harmful misinformation, not to "cancel" rogan.

per the article, "Rogan, whose show reaches an estimated audience of 11 million people an episode, has repeatedly downplayed the need for coronavirus vaccines and used his platform to flirt with misinformation about covid-19."
Bandwidth Alliance isn't a thing anymore? My deployment is still serving multiple TB a day free. Do you have a link?
lol, ok I'm not quite sure how discussing fractions of an integer would change the conversation in this case since we're already trying to compare one person's $120k to a statistical median of ~$35k.

If you're actually interested in the numbers on different groups they're here [0]. For ex $120k is ~5.77x the median for a woman without a college degree.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
Mozilla included such a terminal in the early seamonkey days. I can’t recall the name. You could “cat foo.jpg” and it would render inline. It was a neat novelty. I think graphics is where it goes too far.

Mainframes and minis modeled many apps as “screens.” Some blend of the streaming style text we have now, with screens, with a new and understood set of protocols that are similar to what we use everywhere else. I think some sort of table in console html would be about my limit, various “modern shells” already support tabular data with, like, their three magic built ins.