skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't the causes that he is championing worth mentioning tho? Why is there a need to purge him from current public discourse when he did something bad in the past? I don't think we should disprove of bad people doing good things. Just because he did something bad doesn't mean he can no longer make commendable contributions to society.
Second hand dual lga2011 machines are so cheap it’s amazing. Enterprise grade servers are mega reliable I think people overestimate the probability of hardware failure.

A $30 linode box has like 2 vcpus and maybe 4Gb ram.

Where I live I can get a 1U slot in a shared colo rack for $30-$60/mo. Buy a used dual Xeon blade for a few hundred bucks and now I have a setup with 20x the resources. But yeah I admit there’s a lot more manual effort involved.
If you can't raise prices, you can't optimize profits!?! Hospitals, "have all the customers" they're going to get, but prices go up (faster than inflation) every year anyway. Note that insurance companies are often regulated on their cost percentages, but if their payouts keep going up... they're profits can too! Ultimately, that may even lower their number of customers to only those who are most profitable. Win-Win!

I think it's kind of funny that some people think that "deregulated" markets are somehow magically efficient or competitive. Collusion and monopoly are inherently higher profit margin businesses and so incentivized by unregulated markets. Monopolies can be supply, transport, territorial, or temporal, but all optimize ROI.

Note that regulatory capture is yet another method of stifling competition and creating monopoly pricing power.
> union trade positions

But union jobs are at an all time low.
This is great, but you might want to have multiple postgreses for the different workloads. DB postgres != rate-limit PG != search PG. It's pretty hard to optimize one DB for every workload.
> Given that we then expect to find differences of interest stemming from biology, and that we have found a difference in interest, and that there isn't a plausible alternative...

There is a more plausible alternative though. Our society demonstrably raises boys and girls differently, and we know for a fact that the way we raise children affects who they are. In fact, women were much more common in the field of computer science until a cultural shift around the '80s that saw computers portrayed as "boy toys" [1], so we know this affects things as complex as career aspirations too.

Contrast that plausible and well-supported hypothesis with the other one: "There are biological differences between men and women. They affect many things. Therefore it's plausible that there is some effect on personal interest. Therefore it's safe to assume that any given difference in personal interests between sexes can be attributed to biology." This isn't even logically sound; it's fallacious to say that, if X affects Y, any behaviour exhibited by Y is likely attributable to X.

And this is still all a-priori non-empirical reasoning; there's no evidence that sex is responsible for areas of interest at such a granular level as this, while we do have such evidence for culture (e.g. pink used to be a boys' colour [2]).

[1]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-happened-all-...
[2]: https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/12/health/colorscope-pink-boy-gi...
Surprisingly high fraction of dead galaxies found in ancient galactic city
We did that with my son. He was probably five or six when we went to visit his cousins and they were all laying on the floor playing with their portable game devices (whatever they called GameBoy's back then). He didn't have one, so he picked up a travel chessboard that was about the same size as their devices and laid down next to them and stared at the chessboard the way they were staring at their devices and pretending he was playing a video game on it.

Yeah, we bought him a nintendo whatever-they-were-called when we got home.
When you're from Europe, it's funny (in a cringe way) to see the Americans cry because the Chinese spy more than them!
Oh man, this exact thing but for income brackets would be fascinating.
I think it depends on your workplace and environment. I'm not a competitive guy. I simply cannot be bothered.

Starting as a developer in the company I'm working today I'm now the Head of Product Management. Even as a developer I was always focusing on the customer and UX of the features I was developing. Our management and CEOs were great. They noticed that and promoted me throughout the years without me ever asking for it.

I think if you have the right management, just being great in what you do is enough.
Our best bets right now for further exploration are bigger telescopes (even bigger than the WEBB), and trying to intercept laser communication events. I should have mentioned gravity astronomy...that will be huge as well.
This is one of my favourite features of XCode. If you "// MARK:" lines, they'll show up in the minimap.

Eg. https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*j38oOm3Pt5AMnDI3HQ6TGQ.pn...

Screenshot stolen from this Medium[0].

[0]: https://medium.com/@mumtaz.hussain/xcode-11-now-makes-mark-c...
This has been trialed several places before and never taken off, the type of people willing to engage in micropayments at all, but who will never subscribe at any price point, seems to be quite small.
Grad school is worse for public health than STDs (2019)
Control by Adam Rutherford – the past and present dangers of eugenics
They also charge tuition that doesn't exist for grad students. Your classes year 1 or two in most stem phd programs are going to basically be the professors from the department giving research talks trying to get you to join their lab. Then they end and you are doing research or TAing for the department for the next 3-however many years. Only the thing is, the school still makes you sign up for tuition units, for a special class that only has grad students in it, and when you look at your bill you are charged full tution for this nonexistant class that just exists on paper. Your funding, whether it be the from your professor in an RAship or from the department in a TAship or an outside fund like the NSF, has to pay for this nonexistant classes tuition. You might be a line item of 90k a year on the grant budget, but you only see 35k from the nonexistent tuition. The rest just poofs into smoke into the inner workings of the school bureaucracy.

It's basically money laundering with extra steps, and there is no way out because literally every school does this and too many people on academia have Stockholm syndrome.
I've learned to take this approach with software as well. It just makes sense. While he's not universally accepted, Nassim Taleb makes compelling behavioral arguments for why this is better overall (in the context things like kosher salt and such)

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
"I'm going to need you to attach estimates to your JIRA tickets and join the scrum at 8:15, son"
> while the lower middle class and poor are having more kids

Most statistics show indeed lower middle class and poor are having more kids than higher income families, but in time the number is decreasing for them too
I don't though. I went and got everything checked out after it started but before my insurance ran out (I moved countries and lost my work coverage). There was nothing on any of the tests that were run. And I've no other symptoms of anything really.
The computer history museum had a full sized Babbage difference engine, not an analytical engine.
It was on loan and the owner took it back to put in his living room or something.
Developer Fraud: Modev the Developer Conference Company
See here for the "computer science degree" in question he used to recruit and trick developers/engineers: https://ibb.co/M5ZdNV8

I am posting this because I am ripping mad, as many of us are.

The VOICE conference was the biggest voice developer and marketer conference sponsored, by Google and Alexa, who also sponsored a web series called VOICE Talks.

The producer was a guy named Pete Erickson with a company called Modev. Pete claimed he had a computer science degree and was a developer in order to entice people to join the conference. He said he was one of us. He listed such on his Linkedin profile in the link above.

People called his alma mater who said he didn't graduate with any degree in computer science. It was complete bullshit. Google and Alexa were notified he was scamming engineers and developer. Google and Alexa have done NOTHING except only now are they leaving the Modev production and trying to partner with someone else to do the Voice Talks works and are sharing a RFP to get off of him, meanwhile his stuff is still being sponsored by Big Tech.

Basically Google and Alexa allowed this guy to go around and claim he was a developer with a computer science degree that he didnt have in order to get developers to join his conference, and it was all a lie. I don't know what kind of protection there is for engineers but I find it insulting that Google and Alexa knew this and did nothing, perpetuating the fraud, honestly.
The cynical take is that after dry running it in, ahem, certain sub-groups of the population the powers that be liked the results so much they decided everyone should get it.
Modern factory work is going to need a lot of that "upper-level" knowledge too, due to technical change. Pure "blue-collar" work where one could neglect education altogether is either gone or fast disappearing.
See BIP39 for an established standard to creating a mnemonic sequences out of entropy: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/ad745f2f0155c90f0471ba8...
Hi just so you know, I am you 30 years from now and I have come back to tell you that we are a loser. Now I would not have thought this to be true until a few days ago, my time of course, but I am telling you that we have made a big mistake. You will need to be aggressive and make more money so you still have enough to retire on after the gold digger leaves you.
I have issues with the section "Microcontroller vs Microprocessor: Differences"

Microprocessors are just the CPU, usually with the system bus wired out. Microcontrollers are combined systems, which include a processor and usually some kind of firmware storage and RAM. You can usually differentiate them by whether their pins are address/data lines or gpio-like.

> microprocessors have a memory management unit

The 8086 didn't. Having an MMU seems unrelated to the MCU/MPU distinction...

At least, this was my knowledge until now. Is this like "crypto" where the meaning changed while i was not paying attention?
USDC is not regulated in any meaningful sense. There is no actual regulation for stablecoins, it doesn't exist yet. All they have are attestations (pinky promise) and a distinct lack of audits
I think their super power here is employing a renowned security expert who is an incredibly good communicator!

(And happens to be a top HN contributor)
Yeah, the specific issue is from the first mission where you have to watch a TV segment to continue. Problem is, the proton version isn't built with a package to play video files within the game engine itself. So while video files can be played during things like startup, that's about it. It's a fair amount of work to fix it and it makes noise in my steam setup.. and honestly, it's not that worth it to me.
> But he's also really facile about underlying economic causes. It's easy to blame problems on "our culture has been broken by the wokes!", but many of the problems of young men are not unique to them. Fewer women are entering college, also. Women are dropping out of the workforce, also. More young women are living with their parents, also. Is that because they lacked strong masculine role models?

You're not wrong, but at the risk of drawing an unhelpful analogy, I'll point out that the "all lives matter" response to "black lives matter" missed the point in the same way. Of course the prospects of everyone is important, but describing how young men have distinct and perhaps underappreciated experiences should be a viable conversation that doesn't get bogged down before it really gets going.
typo: explored -> exploited
It’s a bit ignorant for you think that data is limited to “mic, camera, browsing history, contact list” etc. TikTok can harvest data on the type of content posted and what users interact with. Although it feels harmless, I’m sure there are troves of insights to be derived just from that.
How much of it is even his money and not Warren Buffett's money?
Totally anecdotal / single datapoint: launched my side project in 2018 on Producthunt. Total crickets. 5 upvotes.

We are now a 20+ people team, 400+ B2B customers and $12M raised.
Consistent boring work over time will take you further than being "competitive"; as they say "genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration".
> it's pretty obvious why a good portion of men are now left without anything useful to contribute.

Well that went downhill quickly.

You start out with men and women on equal footing. Then the next sentence men no longer have anything useful to contribute.

Shouldn't the obvious conclusion be that men and women have equally as much to contribute? And therefor you would expect an equal number of men and women succeeding academically?
I do a lot of the same things as others with a custom domain at home with a NAT 80/443 forward to nginx, but I use https://nginxproxymanager.com/ as it gives a dead-simple hostname proxy to forward traffic to internal hosts, and will request/renew Let's Encrypt certs for them automatically.
The government can retain its own experts for opinions, just like how in court they can get expert testimony rather than relying on the judge or jury to know and decide all.
I think you could probably make the case that China, in their own ruthless and meat-grindery way, does try to foster a race + geographically diverse labor pool by normalizing minorities into the Han workforce by whatever means necessary (exterminating local languages, exterminating religions, sterilizing women so they can join the labor force, etc).

I don't think it's even remotely ethical, but from their perspective they are actually making strides on that front.
Suppository is one of those words that I would assume 99.9% of the population knows because of it being common over the counter, and in sitcoms and media. I'm assuming they're including children under 12 in the data? That would explain the low percentages.
Being competitive correlates with advancement at managerial levels. Being competent, productive, and pleasant to work with is enough to put any individual contributor role within your grasp. Whether or not either of those are related to "success" is up to you.

After ten years, I've started equating success with happiness, and as a result my decisions have changed drastically.
I learned that one from Boards of Canada

https://bocpages.org/wiki/Jacquard_Causeway

https://vimeo.com/69572175
Does that TikTok employee you know have access to user data?
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if we put the massive amounts of money we have put into nuclear fusion and fission into bone simple solar panel purchases. I wonder if anyone has done the math.

There’s a fully functioning fusion reactor 91 million miles from us that sends a lot of energy our way.
Acknowledged - moderator. You did not yet make clear however, how you became aware of this issue. I think that deserves a mention; nice to have not required. I can put 2+2 together either way.

Now as my part here, and to conclude. I lost the moral high ground by name calling. It weakened my position. It was an unforced error; nobody to blame but myself. So please accept my apologies.

I'll redouble my efforts:

- Professional managers know how products, services, and assets the company own or run relate to top, bottom line. Managers also know that assets don't run the company nor do they have a profit motive or pay taxes. Assets do not make meaning. People do. And in particular those who have choice which arises out control usually through seniority, ownership, but also common sense are charged with staying on the right side public health. Anything less is a problem. Spotify seems to know that, so good for them.

- Relegating Spotify as a dumb pipe reminds me of a person I knew several years ago was wont to say: "I don't talk ``X"; I just do technical." X was politics/management and related issues. This isn't the time or place to unpack this more. But there is a strong sense of a willful disassociation a distortion really between tech and the environment in which tech is used to the good or bad. I also think that's a problem.

@throwawaysea This reply in context to your original post above is ... well ... is a mixed blessing too.

Cheers!
Ireland is #2? As a culturally ignorant American, that _does_ surprise me.
Not that I remember :)

I went through that LKML thread and it looks like that particular patch isn't going anywhere, but given the general direction of supporting all syscalls in io_uring, I'm confident it will happen eventually.

Support for wait, in particular, would be strictly more powerful than waitv: you could wait for futexes and IO (or any other completions) at the same time!
Nope.

Lots of people stay in business because they just like it AND it gives enough money for a reasonable life.
Some folks need some encouraging. Encourage them!
Cool idea. I recently wanted to draw a diagram of triangles in a code comment, but unfortunately this tool doesn't seem to let you draw lines which aren't axis-aligned, so it doesn't help for that.
Usermode WireGuard would be a big deal. I maintain a list[0] of tunneling solutions, and one of the only limitations of systems built on WireGuard is the requirement for admin privileges. Even with the performance hit from running outside the kernel, UDP-based tunnels have a lot of advantages for multiplexing channels. Pretty much your only mainstream options today are QUIC and WireGuard, and only QUIC is intended to run in userspace.

I'd have to dig into the details more, but something like this might allow you to implement a simple tunneling system based on WireGuard that runs in the kernel if you have the privileges, otherwise falls back to usermode and is no worse than QUIC in terms of performance. That would be awesome.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
I'm more bothered by the omission of "s". The S in teraflops is not plural, it's part of the acronym.

Your computer has 1 teraflop performance? One trillion floating point operations per _what_, then?
> In order to clean the toilet bowl, people will use highly poisonous cleaning solutions. How will these cleaning solutions mixed with the stored urine affect its usage as a fertilizer? Even if it is eventually dehydrated, wouldn’t some of the cleaning solution still be present?

An interesting implication of that is that bacteria will break down parts of the urine into ammonia, and a little bit for feces but not as much.

If someone were to dump bleach into it, it might create chloramine gas. Emphasis on might there; I'm in no way qualified to evaluate that risk.
I can 2nd this. I lived at a Greystar building for a couple years and it was a much better experience than the one I moved to afterwards.
Excel and Google Sheets made easy with the A.I. – onetap.ai
We launched onetap.ai, an A.I. tool for Excel and Google Sheets.

It translates your text - requqest (what you want to achieve with Excel/Google Sheets) - into formula/s.

In one second!

Thoughts?
The internal heating element isn’t strictly speaking 100% efficient on AC as it’s producing a changing electric field etc. It’s just generally ignorable in practical terms.
We decided to throw a 2017 Macbook Air in the on top of the developer servers and make it accessible by VNC (through the built-in Screen Share option). Its not ideal, but it is COVID proof (remote working).
Huh. Must vary by community. I've only heard them pronounced in concordant ways, and closer to your first.
Wow this is horrifying. It's time to abandon the ship and take your very valuable skills someplace they will be appreciated. In my experience with people like the CEO described here they are usually people whom are unable to engage in self reflection, but somehow delivering that rating to the CEO to see how miserable his rating is may be a much needed wake up call.
> IE beneficiary needs $X for a rational business investment, but can only get $X/4 out of the trust within the timeframe, even though 1000*$X in total is in the trust.

I mean, the trust can (usually) invest money without it being considered a distribution. I suspect that happens a lot based on the trustifarians I see in capital-intensive businesses and crushing it (due to below-market cost of capital).

I feel bad for their competitors having to prove themselves to a bank or other arms-length financier.
Some men are relatively emotionless, and there's nothing particularly bad about it, but it can be difficult to find healthy role models who are wired the same way.
Very sorry to hear about your daughter but there has never been a better time in the history of medicine to be working on biotech solution to rare diseases. You will have to become an expert yourself in some of the pathways and therapeutic avenues that may help. But you can now fund academic research by directly sponsoring research at an academic or clinical lab, including doing so through Molecule.to (not involved w the company but a fan) that enables research funding from passionate communities. Just keep going one step at a time. Zen
I call Bull... Non replicability on this one. Maybe half the guys have heard or seen femtosecond, but I don't believe if you polled a random sampling of men that they would know off the top of their head what its actual duration is.
This needs some heavy checking... (line 1029)
I find it mildly entertaining to casually browse random 17-year-old code lying at the heart of the Linux kernel and encounter gems like this.
There is good science being conducted in China, but there is a high proportion of faked, nonsensical, or just clueless papers coming from that country as well..so much so that I often hesitate to cite relevant papers coming from China if they were not published with co-authors from non-Chinese institutions.
You are talking about a subset of reasonable feminists.

Feminism also contains the culture that wants six year old boys to be held back, feel shame and suffer for the sins of their fathers.

Feminism also contains the idea that being a man is some kind of disease, something to be ashamed of.
I only knew this one. I have a lemon verbena. It makes great infusions. I highly recommend it if you live in a warmish climate. They grow very fast.
And we are one of those 400+ B2B customers. Didn't know you were just 20+ people!

Really, really solid product. Checkly is a very core part of our infrastucture.
> If the 2D sheets would be small enough to slide over each other and insert between other sheet fragments, so that plastic deformation would be possible, then they would also lose any advantages over traditional polymers.

I suspect that as with many composites, these qualities fall along a spectrum, and that there are significant nonlinearities (as in "a little goes a long way") that can be usefully exploited.
It's tough to say because the campaign is a signpost on the way to an eventual end goal. But the end goal is easy to describe: "a working fusion power plant."

The end goal is so far away at this point, not a single player in this space is even trying to do it, even on their farthest-out roadmaps...