skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Age and also just health status in general, people with diabetes or heart issues are vulnerable; but to your point most of those vulnerable are now vaccinated.
Thinking about things being N times harder is probably the wrong approach at the current time.

We’re so early in the engineering of these computers that it’s “we don’t know how to make more than X usable qbits in this configuration at any cost” rather than “X+1 qbits is Y dollars more expensive”.

Worth noting that the value of X depends heavily on the configuration and the things holding the qbits; IIRC the D-wave design is scalable but also not a “universal” quantum computer. I’m unclear on the specifics of how and why.
I downloaded the Lagrange browser. but how do I find content?
If you don't collect the data in the first place, a government can't come along and appropriate the treasure trove you just created.

Sure governments can make laws, but most of the laws are far behind what companies are already collecting voluntarily it would seem.
What about smokers? What about the obese? What about people who took risks and acquired HIV?
Consider the already immigrated medical professionals living in the United States right now that are unable to practice because of the above described licensing issues.

To give a couple examples. If a nurse moves to the US and learns he can't practice without going back to medical school, he may opt instead to work a different job and defer his medical career. If a doctor moves to the US and is in the same position, she may choose to remain a stay-at-home mom and let her husband be the primary breadwinner.

There's also the arbitrage aspect here: globally we may have a healthcare worker shortage, but it may be more severe in one place than another. Reducing the friction involved in moving the workforce could allow workers that are in relative over-supply to move to an area with relative under-supply, improving the overall efficiency of the system.
AFAICT, the reasoning was that opening up the glued-together satellite to replace the broken position sensors would have added more risk of breaking stuff than it would have mitigated in the replacement.
I’ll offer a different perspective. If I’m looking for an answer I want a concise and straight to the point explanation.

If I’m trying to understand about the dynamics of an interview or even understand how people smarter than me get to a solution, I might want to go through the whole journey.

I guess this part comes down to an editorial decision: are you trying to offer technical solutions or are you trying to do something else?

Knowing the answer to that question might help you decide what path to take.
Well, here in germany it is quite similar.

That means, I had to wait only a short time once, but that was after a dog bite to my face and it just looked horrible with blood all over it.

But the next time, with an deep open wound in my leg, which was actually way more dangerous, I had to wait quite some time, before they even checked.
You should email me. :D kurt at fly.io
It's not about the OS technology in use, it's about all the practicalities of how it is deployed on consoles vs. on desktops. Things like immutable OS volumes, fixed configuration tested on the hardware, the extent to which they build higher level automation to do what the user expects, etc. "The Xbox One runs Windows" ignores all these details which make it a much more seamless experience than on a PC. The PS4 runs FreeBSD, but try gaming on FreeBSD and let me know how it goes in comparison...

Honestly, it's plainly obvious that gaming on consoles is much more seamless than on PCs. If you don't think so, you're not recognizing all the little quirks you're dealing with on a PC. When was the last time a driver update broke a game on a console? Ever had to install support software to make a game work well with a particular controller? Issues with overlays and system feature integration? Unexpected performance loss due to a weird configuration? Mysterious DRM malfunction issues? Windows Update gone wrong? Those things (mostly) just don't happen on consoles because it's a much more controlled ecosystem.
Caltech had a pirate station when I was there, naturally dubbed "KCAL". The equipment was all custom designed and built by the local EEs. What I remember most about it was the lovingly machined panels made for it. It was a beauty. I wonder whatever happened to it.
delusion is a funny thing.
I certainly hope so, but the numbers (how great the benefit is) keep getting lower. And your stats are just per population. Maybe the people who refuse to get vaccinated are also 2-3x as likely to refuse to wear masks or avoid crowds. We need real stats somehow by randomly testing populations then seeing how they fare.
We can restore the Earth's climate if we want to – and we should
sorry I meant alpha. oops
There's also a lot of little things. Like, you launch a game and there's no audio. Well, Windows at some point decided to switch audio outputs on you. You may have a lot of them. Line out, headphones, a bluetooth headset, a virtual out for streaming software, a monitor with built-in speakers - and now you've got to click the little speaker icon and try to figure out what should be selected, which may be named after the driver or hardware vendor and not totally obvious.

That's the sort of thing that for the most part just doesn't happen with the consoles, because they're limited and tuned for the intended experience.
The push for TOFU really only began about a year after the protocol was first designed, as it was deemed "too difficult" to obtain a real certificate, even from Let's Encrypt.

On the other hand, those that want something SSH-like for the web have something to point to as an example, as well as those that don't think SSH-like for the web is a good idea as an example.
Title should be "Census is broken because it does not handle privacy concerns"

Yglesias once again looking at the right thing and getting exactly the wrong conclusion out of it.
64 bit computing became dominant because of the need to address memory larger than 32 bits. They have the capability to scale quite 'easily' to 128 bits or further if they wanted to, there just wouldn't be a benefit. The Play Station 2 for example has 128 bit SIMD [1], 128 bit computing has been possible for a long time.

Once you have the ability to create a processor at 7nm with some bits, scaling is not so tough. Even if you cannot reliably create larger pieces of silicon, you just do something like AMD did with multiple dies connected by a fabric to mitigate risk. Absolutely worst case, you have a motherboard with multiple processors, or even computers in different buildings.

In terms of qubits, it is very likely that the problem can be distributed over multiple quantum computers. A significantly incentivized actor could definitely pull it off. If you can reliably manufacture ~100 qubit quantum computers, it's just a matter of scale.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2_technical_specif...
I enjoyed reading this article, thanks for sharing it. It would have been nice if the pictures that these probes took were also included in the article.
You could probably build one at home for a few hundred if you really wanted and did not care at all about time.

You would just need to 3D print a case and somehow cast your own silicone keypad. DIY electronics is actually not too bad cost wise.
I really want to share logseq[0] if anyone isn’t yet familiar with it, I’ve been using it for a few months and it is absolutely fucking superb.

I like it so much I became a sponsor. Same kinda deal, writes markdown you spaff at gitlab or wherever, but with a graph, amazing linking and soft (unreferenced) links, it’s literally my external brain at this point.

Few tools I can recommend so much, and it doesn’t even have a vi mode yet. I hope to continue using it for many years.

0: https://logseq.com/
I think sqlite is a good counterpoint for the open source scenario. Rarely has any problems but its used all over the place
I don't think test centres are the problem. I live and the UK and the only time tests were scarce was a few days around Christmas when there was very high demand.
I've heard that when you leave direct indexing you end up with all the individual stocks in your new portfolio, or you have to sell them and eat the capital gains tax. Was that your experience?
> Building one qubit is hard, building two qubits is not double the effort.

No, it's much, much more than double the effort to build a QC with twice the qubits. The problem is that you want the qubits to interact with each other, but to be entirely perfectly isolated from the outside world for as long as necessary for signals from one to reach the others. The difficulty of achieving this isolation even for an instant at all increases by something like n^2 or n^3 (surface/volume of the isolated space) with the number n of qubits. Then, the more qubits you have, the more time you need for them to interact, so you multiply by an additional factor.

The numbers above are very handwavy, of course, but the point is that it's MUCH harder to build a bigger QC than a small one. So hard that it's not even clear if the current approaches can actually achieve this even in principle - we may need a different kind of qubit to scale up.
> The current vaccinations are actually reasonably good at preventing Omicron hospitalizations, enough so to be worthwhile on an individual level.

It’s at most halving them. For fit people under 50 the risk low enough to make this vaccine useless.

Thus broad measures like this one are absolutely and insanely disproportionate.
Astronomy has long had an issue with this. Back in the late 19th century when the magnitude system was being formalized, an astronomer named Norman Pogson chose Vega to calibrate the system because it is easy to observe in the northern hemisphere. In this system, which came to be the most dominant magnitude system, Vega by definition has a magnitude of 0 in any filter.

There turned out to be two issues with this choice. The first is that Vega has a very unusual spectrum for a star. This means that more normal stars appear to have weird differences in their magnitudes between different colors. But it's not the stars themselves that are weird, it's just a weird choice of zero points!

A more serious issue became apparent when CCDs became more common in the 1970s and 80s. It turns out that Vega is somewhat variable. You can define the zero point of the magnitude system to be the average brightness over a long period of time, but that doesn't really help you on any given night since the equipment needs to be calibrated daily (or more frequently --- temperature and atmospheric changes require re-calibration).

Another source of annoyance here is that Vega is also very bright. This was a benefit in the days of photographic plates. But modern telescopes with CCDs cannot observe such a bright star. It almost immediately. So this makes calibrating the equipment trickier. (You essentially need a two step process where you use a small, specialized device to calibrate against Vega and then measure the flux from a dimmer reference star, and then measure the reference star with your telescope.)
And there are apparently three new missions in the planning stages. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/overview/
I’m Australian. Vaccination and restrictions were why we never saw refrigerated containers of dead people on street corners, like NYC did in the first wave. Many people would have died or needed to be hospitalized.
Our hueristic for acceptable risk does not properly account for low-probability but extreme consequence circumstance - proverbial black swan events.

Against instinct, we should find unacceptable even an absurdly minuscule chance of (for instance) irradiating the European peninsula for 10,000 years.

An argument for safety with an attached “even Chernobyl was [mostly safe]” corollary should be suspected of unsupportable optimism.
RasPi isn't a handheld though. And AFAIK there's no off the shelf case designs as nice as this.
My experience exactly. We used to do this but gave up many years ago. Better to have individuals develop bare-bones ideas and then review with a group. Better yet, have a ranked voting system with a large but somewhat informed group to winnow down the list.
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I think it even applies to "never implement crypto on your own"---are you sure you've taken into account side-channel attacks? Timing attacks? Random number generation (if it's required)? Cleaning memory after use? That memset() isn't optimized out? There's a lot to get right ...

Edit: a few more examples.
What kind of role did you have when you switched to real estate? I have actually been thinking about becoming an agent since you can make decent money and the licensing process seems rather simple for what it is.

I have been interested in software sales as well but that seems like it could be hard to break into as an engineer.
My point is that it is NOT a pointless distinction, and there is a huge discrepancy between "unvaccinated - prior infection" and "unvaccinated - no infection" cohorts. Countries that track prior infection (there are a few) show this in their data, and if you separate them you will see the "unvaxxed - no infection" get worse and the other much better. If the subject matter were something less politically polarizing I'm suggesting this would be a split group in everyone's data.
I use two markdown editors. One is for quick notes, the other is for writing focused stuff without distractions.

It works better that way for me.
:lol_sob: Why can't we have nice things mrcrumb1?? Hahaha.

But yes. Yes, I'm advocating that people be just a little bit more open minded and flexible about this issue and, ideally, the so many others like it. Sometimes it's quite depressing to consider the giant gap between how society functions today and how it could function if it operated by different rules.
Except that requirement IS crazy--when you put all the other stuff around it.

Must work at 2.4Ghz--even in the face of 200 WiFi access points and 3 times that number of devices.

Must stay in sync to within a millisecond ... even though there is a large bag of RF absorbing water in between them.

Should work on a battery smaller than a thumbnail.

Should process audio but not generate enough heat that you notice it in your ear.

I can go on. The engineering requirements are quite severe.

... for something that we can do with a 10 cent wire, ironically.
We can restore the earth's climate if we want to -- and we should
(part of the Stanford EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium)

David Henkel-Wallace is a 30+ year valley veteran, hands-on technologist, and entrepreneur. He has worked on everything, pioneered open source and Internet companies. In 2021 he co-founded Blue Dot Change to remove anthropogenic methane from the atmosphere

[Abstract] We are all busy engineering the planet to make it inhospitable to most species, including us. Although there has been plenty of scientific work on addressing these problems, with few exceptions actual public policy has ranged from indifference to kicking the problem down the road. This talk is on the subject of climate restoration, which might even be achievable within the next few decades if public will would support it.

The first half of this talk will be on climate restoration, or repair: what are the biggest problems and what are some plans to address them. The second half will zoom in on the problem of atmospheric methane and what our team is working on to address it specifically.

Livestreamed at 4PM Pacific Wednesday, January 26th. Use the link at http://ee380.stanford.edu which will be available at 3:45PM or so. If you miss the livestream, it will be available later on YouTube on the Stanford EE380 channel and on Stanford Canvas. While you are at it, you might consider joining the EE380 announcement mailing list.
you can sideload on WSA too! Though turns out a lot of stuff doesn't work if Google Play services is missing, so you might also wanna patch the system image to include OpenGApps.
I actually think children are much better off with what you call "long-term damage", this generation will now be way more likely to be ready for the next pandemic which is _not_ a question of if but _when_, with this first-hand experience hopefully they will avoid many of those failures you complain about (when many of the reach political positions in their adulthood); and is not like they are getting anywhere near serious long-term damage like during the black plague when most children saw half of their family die and there was no internet, or electricity or any of the niceties they now enjoy.
Love having you guys featured in here!
It's a new internet protocol not designed to make somebody rich.
I was a contractor for a few F500 and all of them had separate DevOps teams that we were supposed to interface with; we didn't even have access to the cloud console. But I was also a contractor for few large companies (but nowhere near F500) and we did all DevOps ourselves and had full access to the cloud panel.

Both models had DevOps consultants though - someone who advises the management on the best ways to do DevOps so each developer doesn't do it in their own way & so never-ending discussions about what's the best way are avoided (those didn't write a single line of code).
Judging from the documentation datasino is easily the best data generator I ever came across! I will definitively give it a spin. Love your tech-stack: S-Expr, ClickHouse RowBinary, Kafka, nix and Ocaml. A man of culture!
Bad sleep quality associated with an increased risk of starting to drink coffee!
Rejections at bars associated with an increased risk of ugliness!
Overloaded servers associated with HN article voting!
Wrinkles associated with an increased risk of ageing!
Tendency to reject loaded titles implying causality is associated with an increased risk of studying statistics!
Facial bruises associated with an increased risk of punches!
> laptop with 2 hours of battery life at 100% CPU usage

Is there any laptop on the market that lives up to this. Even top specced MBPs I've gotten from work fall down when you actually use the CPU with compilers and VMs.
Regardless of my stance on gun rights, this is means testing equivalent to a Poll Tax and is unlikely to stand up to a court challenge.

If we want gun rights reform you have to take it to the Constitution; anything after that erodes the rest of the rights by creating case law that a right can be limited in some way by some level of the gov.
> From this standpoint, I could see [..]

there are so many different standpoints you could take from the HN population.

- "HN focuses on tech; novel tech tends to be anti-regulation => HN must be anti-mandate."

- "HN focuses on engineering; engineering is often an optimization game that involves balancing tradeoffs => HN must believe COVID response relative to all the other risks we face is an over-reaction."

- and of course the one you presented.

my theory is that opinions within any group are just more divergent than people realize. some groups do a better job than others in (a) understanding that and (b) working with that. it's almost all cultural: do people in your culture publicly voice their non-conforming views, and to what degree do people in your culture update their beliefs when they hear new information?
I hadn't thought about that, but it seems likely. I remember when Reddit decided to enforce their IP rights more and forced all applications with Reddit in their to change to something that either didn't use the name Reddit at all or only used it at the end in the form "for Reddit"
Demand is currently greater than supply in so many ways (see: computer chips). A lot of inflation is because the suppliers can "gouge" customers. It's why the car makers are really profitable but selling way less: they only sell the expensive versions of what they can make, and then there is gouging on top of that by the dealers for example.

But if you raise rates, then consumers and business buyers can't access as much money on cheap credit, so they buy less / delay / make do with what they have.

Demand for goods drops, so the difference between demand and supply evens out.

But slowing the exchange of goods and services means GDP slows ... is another way of saying "recession".

Western economies have been floating on zero/negative credit for so long to keep their economies "stable" aka propped up.

We'll see what happens...

If you don't understand why the FED changing interest rates has such cascading changes, it's because all the banks that you would get a loan from peg their interest rates to the FED's (plus a markup), because the FED supplies money to banks when they need at by loaning it to them ... at the federal rate.
to me what gemini lacks, is a sense of information ergonomics

so far it seems less usable than a badly coded as400 terminal applicatoin
How Zoom's web client avoids using WebRTC (2019)
hmm, I'm not sure how to feel about this story (now, 35 years later). On paper, the lessons seems pretty clear: look productive and don't be afraid to be a bit fancy or cryptic to flaunt your talents. This is (IMO unfortunate) standard workplace stuff you'd learn in any field.

But nowadays... I'm not sure with the strict hierarchies on if Alan would actually be promoted. And ofc, in todays' unprecedented environment there's probably more Charles out there than people want to admit, who's still providing value to companies. Very interesting story, one where you can argue that there's no obvious moral to take away when considering this 80's tale in the 2020's.
> Since the JWST design started, there's been a revolution in the "easiness" of launches.

Producing novel observation platforms is going to be expensive regardless of which platform, because of launch costs.

> I wonder if a future evolution of space telescopes will be some kind of interferometric (obviously extremely hard for IR or visible light, but easier for radio and microwaves) swarm of cheap semi-disposible telescopes than one enormous one.

With space recovery and repair mission capabilities like https://nexis.gsfc.nasa.gov/osam-1.html growing, a single large asset could be easier to repair than constant refresh.

Anyways, small satellites = small sensors.

There is a big difference between a projected life of 1-3 years, and a prestige mission with a long lifespan. Hubble has been operating for ~30 years now.

> Then you can add to the swarm, upgrade elements, and retire failed elements without having to eat a multi-billion helping of humble pie.

Keeping a swarm of space assets ideally situated over time, with proper attitudes and control is a non-trivial problem. Look at Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission, that is considered a hard problem.

Software solutions don't always translate to hardware.
> Does a lot of software depend on pkexec?

If I try to remove polkit here, it would result in the loss of various parts of KDE and Gnome, PCManFM, and virt-manager. I'm not sure if it's a hard dependency, a dependency of a dependency, or what. I'm also not sure if they use pkexec specifically.
A SpaceX rocket will soon crash into the moon
Subreddit r/antiwork goes private after fox news interview debacle
Turing Pi Trouble with PayPal
Automatic rebalancing is not that useful as long as you're contributing, because that rebalances on its own.

Betterment's tax loss harvesting is good… unless you're expecting your tax rate to go up next year, in which case you want to harvest gains… also, it'd be better to not lose money in the first place. Since they have alternate portfolios like "smart beta" now which try to do that, their features conflict with each other.

The main problem is that every robo uses the same Modern Portfolio Theory based investing which despite being "modern" is from 1960.
I use this at work to keep my notes on our code base. There's a bit of a strict policy about using unapproved apps, and it makes me a bit nervous there is git integration. I definitely wouldn't want anything to get pushed someplace somehow.