skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "As you can see, the most advanced consumer devices do not come close to supercomputing power."

Which is true, but on the other hand, the Nvidia Titan RTX at 100+ TFlops is as competent as the top supercomputers circa 2001. So, for significantly less than the cost of a decent used car (say, $6000 retail), you can have what passed as the world's most powerful computer less than a generation ago.

WHich is remarkable.
"defence" is one of the correct spellings for the word.

Your condescending sic is, ironically, misplaced.
(Just to be clear, that was intended as a friendly poke, not a scathing rebuke. I do think lisps are better suited for SICP than JS is for the reasons others have mentioned, but I’m not trying to be a jerk about it.)
An electric mattress pad is a definite modern luxury up here in Minnesota. Snap it on an hour or two before bed. Toasty warm sheets and blankets.
The largest protein we produce is about 27k amino acids, more complicated than most virophages. That is merely the biggest we produce. I know of no upper limit on protein complexity, and that is before even taking folding options into consideration.

The space of possible proteins - and thus prions - is not at all limited, neither figuratively nor literally. It is most certainly not "countable" without some Nobel-prize inducing discovery.
>Anything that is of interest to the community here belongs here.

False, if that were the case this place would turn into Reddit within a week. This is a purposely curated community. The guidelines state "Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

There's no interesting new phenomenon here to make this worth discussing. It's just a celebrity obituary generating mediocre pop-culture nostalgia and member-berries.
> while the vast majority hears only what it actually says which is "remove funding from the police" and no one wants that.

The vast majority of white people? It's okay to be angry about state executions at the hands of police, and about the legacy of slavery. The wording reflects that anger. If it makes white people uncomfortable that's their problem. (This is coming from a white person who does not self-identify as "liberal")
I know this is not relevant to your point... but padding in C is not "undefined". The amount of padding is implementation-defined, but it can only occur in specific places. The value of padding bits is unspecified. "Unspecified" in the standard means that it can be various different things, but it has to actually be one of those things. As opposed to undefined behavior, which is more of a "poison value" that trims paths from your CFG.
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”

– Max Planck[1]

Often paraphrased as "Science progresses one funeral at a time."

I don't think we really want immortality or unnatural longevity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
> That isn't how wages work. If someone can do the same job for less, they will and you will not get paid.

Sure, but recognizing that is what happens is important for both not patronizing businesses which give their workers the worst deal allowed by law and support for increasing minimum wages to match inflation.

> You can raise the minimum but then you make everything more expensive (the people who build the tractors get more, the guy driving the tractor gets more, the person picking the lettuce gets paid more, the lady trimming and repackaging the lettuce gets more, the truck driver delivering the lettuce gets more, the high schooler throwing the lettuce on your burger gets more...)

You're leaving out a key part: prices only go up for the fraction of those costs which are due to wages. For things like fast food, that's not a large component which is why, for example, a McDonald's worker in Denmark has a much better quality of life while the average Big Mac buyer is paying the same or less than their American counterpart:

https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index

Another big factor to consider is the cost of poverty. The working poor have less ability to participate in the economy so a certain amount of local economic growth never happens, and they're often worse off because they're forced to do things like buy inefficiently because they don't have the reserves to optimize. Paying people at the level minimum wage used to mean would allow a significant number of people to participate in the economy more effectively and we've never regretted growing the pie.
Low skill jobs are the first to be automated. Theaters, quick service restaurants, a lot of retail are pushing customers to use things like apps (for ordering), delivery, and pickup because it removes the need to employ unskilled ticket-takers while simultaneously removing the need to interact with difficult customers.
> but the military is not a major factor for Space X especially at the beginning

The US military funded the first two launches of the Falcon 1. Far from "not being a major factor", without that money, Musk and Space X (and likely Tesla) would have gone bankrupt in 200X.
I didn't think you were supposed to put boiling water in a hot water bottle? at least the rubber ones...
I started looking for options yesterday[1], currently these are the contestants:

* Google Workspace

* Fastmail

* ProtonMail

* Zoho Mail

* Tutanota

* (Mailbox.org)

[1] https://roblillack.net/google-workspace-alternatives-for-fam...
I read it in a much different tone, but maybe that was me reading too much into it.
There have been several companies formed in the past few years whose premise is researching in industry anti-aging or basic science more generally (Calico, Altos Labs, Arcadia, etc.)... Does anyone understand the underlying economics or motivations? They can't be gambles when they raise $B's, and I'm too cynical to believe these are altruistic endeavors. Certainly there is research that cannot be reasonably expected to get funding from academic sources, but what results could be worth the squeeze?
This all feels like the Ocean's 11 version of biotech

The straight laced CEO as foil with an amazing reputation and a ticking biological clock (1)

The mad scientist known for mixing human and monkey embryos (2)

The beautiful and brilliant husband & wife whiz kid team (3)

All funded by the secretive Russian billionaire with questionable fortune originations (4)

Grabbing the popcorn

(1) https://altoslabs.com/team/executive-leadership/hal-barron/

(2) https://altoslabs.com/team/scientific-leadership/juan-carlos...

(3) https://altoslabs.com/team/principal-investigators-san-diego... & https://altoslabs.com/team/principal-investigators-san-diego...

(4) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-faceboo...
Most people can imagine that scenario. The problem is that there is literally no other alternative. You either use a VPN (which _might_ be compromised), or you don't (in which case your traffic is even less protected).
Your suggested solutions don't work so well for sitting outside.

When Covid made outdoor socializing necessary, we used out hot water bottles at restaurants and at fire pits.

Blankets and gloves aren't as good at keeping nether regions warm on cold surfaces, and anything that needs to be plugged in is a no go. A minor point too but I wouldn't want batteries/electrics around fire.

Our hot water bottles kept us toasty for hours and you could also tell easily when it was running out of power, so to speak.

We've also taken them to winter cabins when you don't know how convenient electrical outlets will be. You can have several of them for when you're on the sofa, to pre-warm the bed, make the dog cozy.
I think there are a few reasonable arguments in this article but the fact that Apple has lots of cash isn't one of them. I am always amazed at how easily people throw around numbers like 8 billion dollars without a second thought. Even worse suggesting that paying 11 billion would be a reasonable price or in other words paying a 40% premium on a falling stock, would make investors happy.
Yup, there was a literal act of congress that made e-signatures legally valid but it's not worth arguing with anyone who asks for an "ink" signature ime.
Formal Modeling as a Design Tool
I understand that commercial speech is the red headed step-child to political speech but this still seems a little extreme.
Selfishly, from a hiring perspective, it bums me out that the secret is now well-known. I've been working remote/hybrid-remote and recruiting remote/hybrid-remote teams for 12 years. I absolutely LOVED that all the dinosaurs were resistant to remote work because it was a recruiting magic wand. Then the pandemic came along and suddenly everyone was more or less forced to see that remote work works and now that recruiting advantage has lessened some.

Besides that, though, things are not binary. We're never going to go to a world where 100% of all people/all-roles that could be done remotely will ONLY be done remotely. There will always be a mixture, however small perhaps, of people that will do in-person companies and/or in-person jobs even if they don't need to.

One thing is clear though... remote is and has been a trend for quite some time. COVID merely thru jet fuel on that existing trend and sped it up probably by 15 years. And I would say that's a good thing.
Briar is older than Matrix. It has been around since at least mid-2012, whereas Matrix is from 2014.

Disclosure: I was an intern for them in mid-2012.
This is only true if you're looking at the capital market. If you consider the labor market, I would argue it's freer if employees have more freedom to change jobs (i.e. there is some redistribution and social safety net).

Edit: Also, a market with redistribution is more democratic. More actors have money to provide market input (demand or investment) when resources are not highly concentrated.
Thanks, that is a better characterization.
This is a seemingly purposefully single minded way of viewing arguably one of the most benevolent leaders the United States has ever experienced. Does every president have to have freed the slaves to be considered benevolent.

List of Teddy’s accomplishments that come to mind:

1.Square deal
2.Trust motherfucking bust
3.Panama canal
4.preventing Spain from colonizing more of the Americas
5.gave us the idea that the natural world needs to be protected from us.
6.added regulations to railroads
7.added regulations to what we consume
8.served his country well
Wherever you may be hospitalised people are surely a tiny minority
People may not be in the office because of the isolation policies after getting in touch with someone with the flu, which is common, as usual
Well, I prefer to have standard tools to check or a way to compile so it traps on the overflow. Majors compilers provide that if you value security over performance and are not sure about correctness of your logic.
Yeah and it's incredible to think that the 2300s will almost always be crushed by the 2500s, and yet there's a tiny group of superGMs, 2700+, who can crush GMs like beginners.
Some of this increase can be explained by exploding rates of human papilloma virus infection.
It's exactly the same as "undefined behavior" in C. The only difference is in the consequences that follow from it when optimizers get ahold of it.

If it's undefined behavior if BSR is given 0, then therefore the compiler can assume the value passed to BSR isn't 0 (because it's defined that a well-formed program doesn't encounter undefined behavior). Therefore a check if the value is == 0 can be skipped, because it can't be zero since BSR didn't allow it. And since the code inside the if isn't reachable, that probably means now other things are no longer reachable and can similarly be removed. And etc...

That's all the "undefined behavior allows the compiler to murder my cat!" really is - it's just the chain of consequences that result from the compiler following the rules it was told. It was given a rule that a parameter couldn't be null, and so it listened & did what it was told including deleting redundant null checks (since after all, the value was already specified to be not null!).

To demonstrate the problem in a different language, let's say I have this code:

float asFloat(@Nullable Integer i) {
return i == null ? Float.NAN : i.floatValue();
}

You'd expect the null check, right? But let's say I call it from this function:

void sayHi(@NonNull Integer i) {
println("Hello " + asFloat(i));
}

The optimizer comes along and inlines the two together and now sees:

void sayHi(@NonNull Integer i) {
float temp = i == null ? Float.NAN : i.floatValue();
println("Hello " + temp);
}

Does it still need to keep the null check? After all, I defined that 'i' isn't null, so surely the null check is just unreachable code & can be eliminated, right? If it doesn't, it's obviously wasting performance. If it does, the internet gets angry about the compiler "abusing undefined behavior." Even though as far as the compiler is concerned it isn't undefined behavior! 'i' is defined to be not-null!
That Japanese vaccine that helped your immune system target half dead zombie cells seemed pretty promising.
The common use for "bootstrapping" is using personal capital and then funding the business with its own proceeds.

If you'd say "How we grew our business without traditional VCs" that'd be an excellent title. What you describe in your comment here sounds like an interesting alternative approach.

But the way it's introduced looks like an article about how a 25 year old bought their own house, and step 5 is "my parents took the mortgage and I pay them rent."
I couldn't come up with any primes, nor I'm any good with numbers, so I started with the prime from the game example:

71429

Than I already had one digit guessed and simply clicked the unused numbers from the virtual numpad below and got to having all digits with just two being in the wrong place:

35869

Now this was easy to figure out.

Got the following score: 20 3/6
Exactly this haha. Even a relatively mild workout keeps my body warm for hours. For cycling in the winter (which feels especially cold after a warm bed) I used to take cold showers before going outside. I can really recommend this, as the outside temperature feels way more pleasant this way. Instead of shivering the whole trip, I actually enjoyed going outside. Besides, it mentally wakes you up like nothing else.

Edit: and indeed, don't forget the winter socks! I prefer them in wool. Also a baggy fleece sweater/vest made of polar fleece (which I can't find anywhere anymore) with the thickest and highest collar possible.
How far/long does the owner have to be away from the AirTag before it can be detected by others? I noticed my neighbor had an AirTag on his dog one day and so we tried to detect it with my Android Phone using the App and never could.

To the stalking concerns, if the AirTag doesn't think it's lost then it doesn't chirp. It also seems to remain undetectable to others. Does that mean someone could put an AirTag on someone and as long as they are close by it won't alert others?
The nice thing about mapping peoples apps to overpowered hardware is that it flattens bursts. We need capacity for, say, 10% of apps to burst at any given time.

The nice thing about spreading hardware around the world is that we have excess capacity wherever it's dark. If you're doing latency insensitive work like batch jobs, we can schedule it somewhere that would otherwise be idle.

Aggregate capacity is smaller than the sum of the individual apps capacity requirements. So we both benefit.
Blockchains are inefficient always-on distributed systems. If people stop paying to run all of that infrastructure, it's effectively dead even if someone else did make a copy unless they can afford to run a scaled down version — and with little demand, the ceiling for that is quite low.
VTFET: IBM/Samsung have created the next revolution in chip design
When I tested peer-to-peer messaging a couple of years ago, Briar was the only messenger that was able to sync messages and data without needing a common router. Was very happy to see.
What I found interesting about this was the bluetooth / offline communication part.
Boom times are back on Wall St as Goldman partners mint $15M pay packages
No they're not. Other processes can pass you an fd at startup, you can send/receive fds across a Unix domain socket, and there are even syscalls for copying another process's fds.
Basic info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensete

Interesting that the fruit is inedible; it's the roots and stalk that are used.
@Daolf - congrats on the building, definitely NOT easy to do.

What growth metrics did Tiny look at? Did the investment come at a time when the business was needing to "survive, sustain, or grow"? [every business has all of those phases]
It seems like going with an SPAC itself is a negative signal. For one thing, you lack the social proof of getting institutional investor buy-in, which would happen as part of a regular IPO 'road show'.
Given this is "according to an email viewed by Bloomberg News", I can't help but be reminded of the "An Anatomy of a Bitcoin Price Manipulation" article that was posted here recently.

[1] https://www.singlelunch.com/2022/01/09/an-anatomy-of-bitcoin...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29966533
Moving my blog from Cloudflare to Netlify
I made a Python version of “business card raytracer”
Hi Hacker News!

I stumbled upon Fabien Sanglard's post about "Deciphering the business card raytracer" long ago. He explained step-by-step an extremely short C++ code that renders a complete 3D scene with ray casting and advanced 3D effects. I wanted to practice my programming skills.

So I ported this code to Python, introduced changes in the scene, and added new functionality - now the scene is animated!

I described how I have done it on Medium and put the source code on GitHub. You can now also read about the code, experiment with it, and enjoy rendering your initials in 3D using this code. Although to make the code understandable, I had to add comments and give variables meaningful names. So, my code is much longer, so it won't fit on the business card or even an A4 paper.

I doubt it is useful, but I hope you find it fun!

Cheers, Dimi
Just taken it for a spin, really intuitive and worked beautifully! I love that it has 'rough' shapes built in, I'm already a huge Excalidraw user and fan and having a native alternative is exciting.
> I'm interested in what seems to be the growing incivility toward other people.

Is it growing, or is it just unpleasant/impolite to state that a large segment of the population consists of jerks so we keep forgetting?
While I can't answer your question as asked (and am not OP), I can at least point out that that when I ping my Contabo VPS I see

- 308ms from my landline ADSL2+ (not on the NBN yet, hopefully soon),

- 350ms over 0-bar 4G (house in blind spot, yay),

- 300ms from EC2 running in ap-southeast-2, and

- 312ms from Oracle Cloud in ap-sydney-1 (okay the x86-64 one was 309, the ampere one was 314-317)

which sorta highlights the sore-thumb reality of transatlantic cables: I'm 16,267km/10,108mi away, and there's very very little I can do about it.

The only thing I do really wonder about is if Starlink does p2p backhaul between the satellites, or if they're just floating mirrors... but after just clarifying that radio waves can't go faster than light I'm now unsure whether that would actually make a difference. Hm.
Which might entirely be explained by us getting better at detecting cancers, but I would have to see evidence.

The purpose of cancer detection is to be as early as possible, allowing more time for treatment. It is not to count cancers. I would assume the vast majority of cancers are eventually detected, unless you die of something else before they become a problem. So, unless I'm missing something, your claim is that at least 33% to 50% of head and neck cancers would not have ever become identifiable as cancers without improvements made since 1993, which I think is insanely high.

edit: and seeming high doesn't make it impossible, I know that there are a lot of slow growing prostate cancers where people die of old age before ever noticing them. But we know this because we checked for them after people were dead. Is there anything similar connected to particular head and neck cancers that you can point out?
So if I start with $1M of my own money, is it bootstrapped?

If family (with fuzzy conditions) ponied up $250k, is it bootstrapped?
I used Linux 95% of the time at work and generally it is a mess when it comes to proprietary stuff. Even if it is decently supported there are about 4 different ways to install it and because I use Debian and not Ubuntu I have to hope the package just works with my distro or use snaps.

I've distro hopped around and packaging is a perennial issue no matter which distro you use. Some proprietary apps only support Ubuntu, or Redhat based distros but not CentOS/RHEL and only Fedora even though they are kinda the same thing.

I think at this point I might just download the tarballs and install it manually because I think that might actually be easier.
It's kind of disingenuous to try to make this same comparison across different people.

What if you borrow money from family in order to start your business? Are you no longer "bootstrapping"?

What is Bezos decides he's bored, and wants to start something new. Really looking forward to seeing the "most successful bootstrapper of 2030" be Jeff Bezos with his self-funded $5B "startup".
Sorry, I meant 'banned for use in food' - I'm not American, so my terminology's likely inadequate.
I'm curious how you came to that conclusion. How are you measuring the level of harm as a result of her books?
democratizing stalking since 2021™
An alternative would be something like a bag of rice or cherry stones. You can microwave them and they won't feel cold when they lose their heat.

(See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30025026)
Finally

Too bad I dont know what theyre doing but Ive been really annoyed that I couldnt get FAANG compensation to write smart contracts, and thats the only kind of thing worth coding right now, from a purely market based perspective the market is saying write smart contracts and ideally get paid while learning/improving how to do so. Other Web2 organizations are not competitive in compensation. Bi-modal compensation paths.

Web3 organizations also have their own bi-modal pay scale, with Silicon Valley VC backed startups with pitiful startup compensation for unnecessary equity on one end, and higher base salary + token swinging organizations on the other end. Although there is an extremely high probability of the token compensation turning into annual million dollar compensation and the luxury of a much faster vesting period, its still not exactly on par with the guarantees of a FAANG compensation structure. Over the last 18 months it has gotten extremely close though!

But not good enough for me, since launching smart contracts individually is still way more lucrative but requires way more focus. Working for someone else doesn't require focus it just require showing up, while gaining public consensus and references on your skillset. so it would be nice to have all that downtime compensated but only if it was high enough.

If Google begins working on the right thing it’ll pull all the comp up.
This is completely wrong. The IRS requires children to have an SSN to qualify their families for tax credits, and SSNs are required for most employment. Even if you are a member of a group that does not have to pay into social security, you still need an SSN so that the SSA and IRS can track that you are exempt.