skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% - I totally get it. Lists like these are always going to have What Ifs thrown in every direction. And the Q700 wasn't exactly popular by the mainstream (honestly, it was too expensive for that kind of awareness). And the list they created is fine even though the ordering could be batted around by plenty.

I was just opining about an anecdotal personal fave. :)
Phrases like "ashes to ashes", "dust to dust", or "worm food" seem so out of place now with people being buried in coffins that don't allow for the worms to feed or the ashes and/or dust to mingle with the rest of the ashes/dust.

The whole being buried thing just seems so illogical to me. I know it means different things to different people, but I just can't wrap my head around its purpose.
> the actions of its government

Except neither the cabinet nor the oligarchs are the one doing the killing, it's the grunts at the bottom.

If every Russian deposed arms, there would be no war.
the first line doesn't end with a question mark. If there's no question then why respond? Someone saying "there's no docs for this" wouldn't get much of a response from me, i would probably think they were talking to themself. Someone saying "where's the docs for this?" is much more helpful to know what response to give.
Melinda French Gates: Epstein ‘was evil personified’
I mean I find these analysis absurd, they seem based on the ideas not just that Putin is irrational but also that he knows nothing about the very things we would assume he knows about, stuff like how treaties and military alliances work.

I could totally understand some guy on the street thinking hey Latvia is nothing, if they won't defend the Ukraine then they won't defend Latvia but why would a guy with supposed knowledge of military history and how alliances can often cause nations who are allied to come in to wars they would otherwise rather keep out of think such a thing.

In fact I would assume his kneejerk opinion would be to believe that the only way to get all these weak nations to actually go to war would be if an attack happened on a NATO nation.
Persecuting Russians who oppose the invasion, who fled Russia and went to the West because they don't want to be associated with the regime, is just plain stupid.

These people are actually your allies and a very valuable resource (intellectual, economic, political). Some of them risked their lives supporting opposition, cried for sanctions for years while your politicians benefitted from the regime's corruption and you did nothing. And now you're persecuting them like they're accomplices.
Your comment is a bit historically illiterate with respect to World War I. All of the fighting was done by the Russian Empire, the Soviets by contrast immediately signed a disadvantageous peace treaty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk).
Reminds me of the Einstein quote: Make something as simple as possible, but no more so.

Paraphrased: Make your information capture format as simple as possible, but no more so.
> If you understand human nature, you also understand that sometimes people are just having a bad day, or feeling ignored, or on their last leg.

A more thorough analysis of human nature reveals that a double-digit percentage of humanity suffers from a serious personality disorder. Some of these disorders involve taking perverse pleasure in ordering others around for no good reason.

Most experienced wait staff that I know can tell the difference pretty quickly between someone having a bad day and a bully. The latter do not deserve good customer service.
Talk to your SO and make sure your ideas about it are in sync.
I'm right there with you. I've been building and running a job board for the last few months, and I'm hoping it becomes my own little SW equivalent of an In-N-Out. It's profitable, and slowly growing, so it's moving in the right direction.

Someday it'll be my own personal Double Double Animal Style.
You can also drag on the main view instead of the slider.
This will explain in detail: https://acoup.blog/2022/02/25/miscellanea-understanding-the-... (long read).
If that wasn't enough to ruin the Web3 decentralization myth, it turns out that the Wizard of Oz behind the owners of Metamask and Infura are....

...JP Morgan, the largest bank in the US. [0]

Now that should tell you about the definitive web3 decentralization scam. It's more like web3 is about re-centralization.

[0] https://protos.com/consensys-lawsuit-jpmorgan-owns-critical-...
How can network be faster than memory?
I assume you're not developing modern web applications then?
> Private schools often have smaller class sizes, nicer physical environment, better equipment and higher expectations

Which covers about 75% of what parents expect out of a gifted program.
https://github.com/TrungNguyen1909/qemu-t8030/wiki/Bringing-...
I have been the unreasonable coworker at certain times throughout my life.

There's a huge difference between taking the time to learn the internals of something widespread and useful, and being expected to spend hours or days performing (literally) exhaustive searches of random internal repos in order to find the documentation for some bullshit internal tool that only one person knows anything about.

We have products to ship. If my options are:
- Work weekends
- Delay a product
- Annoy the one guy in the company who knows anything about Ultrabuild

I'm going to pick C every time.
I've been building apps since 2014 and have made a ton of mistakes along the way
You end up a pile of bones either way. The dead don't care. It is the living relatives that will balk.
Good point. Probably Ukraine would be asked to renounce their claims ?
Exactly. When North Korea and China put so much effort to cut their citizens from the outside information, one must ask how damaging would be that for Putin. To me it sounds like a double win for him: he can play victim, while west does exactly what he needs to push the internal propaganda.
Stop with this "both sides" bullshit. Putin decided to invade, and short of completely surrendering in advance, there was absolutely nothing Ukraine could do. All the plans were drafted, the propaganda filmed and the orders shipped way before the "talks" even started, all of it were just for show to form a propaganda context and fool people like you. There's only one side's decision that made the war happen, and that side is Russia.
My advice is to never actually build anything for a business unless you have paying customers beforehand. I made a simple landing page with Webflow that described a product idea I had and got mid-five figures from a company to essentially build the MVP for them.

You need to validate your ideas before you invest your time. Otherwise you’re building in a vacuum and you will continue to fail.
what is Talibistan?
We're all going to die someday so I would certainly be fine with shooting back.

If you are christian you believe mankind lives on in a happy afterlife event, nobody really dies. So no biggie if you shoot back.

If you are atheist, it's not clear why you should care about the continued existence of a species evil enough to murder your friends and family. Seeking justice for them makes more sense. At any rate it's not reasonable for an atheist to believe our species would live forever. We were going to eventually die anyway.
No, they promised to respect it. That's a very significant difference.

Nothing in that document obliges the US or UK to intervene. It obliges them to go to the Security Council (done; Russia vetoed). They've gone beyond their obligations by providing arms and sanctions.
I think the really great thing you did here, was just lay it out. So little is said/shown on this topic that it's really valuable to just get people conscious of their own process, so that they can compare and contrast.
> It's actually terrible business because constantly having to hire, train, and ramp up new engineers takes up so much more time than retaining staff would.

And who has to go through all that?

The managers.

Trust me, we don't want it any more than the ICs do. But senior/executive management doesn't feel the pain and therefore doesn't care.
I just applied for multiple internship positions, when can I expect to hear back?
I don't see how these email notifications are helpful. Why doesn't Apple/Google send her a copy of the data that was sent to the FBI?
The system being corrupted makes it less likely to have nuclear wars, not more? Idealists are willing to blow up everything for their ideals, people who are only in it for themselves have nothing to gain by destroying the world.
Yeah, I think this time period will be called "The Great Cancelling of Russia" in the history books.
Considering how difficult it can be to install a fence post in glacial till, this sounds like a less than exciting proposition.
Take the money and run. To the superyacht, comrade !
We probably see things differently. As I understand it, this is exactly the use case for "big/little" microarchitectures. Take a number of big fast cores that are running full bore, and a bunch of little cores that can do things for them when they get tasked. So far they've been symmetric but with chiplets they needn't be.
Agree to disagree, then.

Your “readable, self-documenting, maintainable” code is bad and you should feel bad.
I can't speak for a JS virtual machine, but for a point of comparison CircuitPython[1] runs on many ESP32 boards and builds are often under 1.5 MB. It does come with a whole set of modules, with the ones you'd expect to have in Python like "re" or "time" (although they only have a few functions in there), but also with CircuitPython-specific modules like "board" or "digitalio" to access peripherals, or "wifi" for networking.

The boards listed on the CircuitPython downloads page usually have between 2 and 8 MB of flash, so you often have enough for the VM and your own code plus a few files.

[1] https://circuitpython.org/
sure there is, speak swiss french :)
I seem to have a recollection that a cheap DIY system is to get two RCA 18" dishes (or larger) and remove the LNB from the dish (or whatever the horn part is called) and affix a "cantenna" or other waveguide to the arm, then, using the shortest, largest coax you can manage, connect the two cantenna/waveguides together, and aim them 180 degrees apart. I also seem to remember that putting this "halfway", even if halfway happened to be the highest point, wasn't ideal, it was something like 60/40 or 70/30.

Now-a-days, mikrotik or ubnt make doodads you can replace the LNB with that instead provides some wifi band, with PoE, so two of those up on a tower means you have active repeating, and you can probably push that solution out a lot further than 43km.

For the record, i put a USB wifi stick inside of a pirouette cookie can and it was a phenomenal "war driving" antenna. I use folded-dipole-fed yagi antennas now for doing wifi surveys, but in a pinch 802.11B 1000mW+ wifi cards are stacked up in a filing cabinet...
> but I just can't wrap my head around its purpose.

Cultural: To have a place to visit the deceased that is strongly associated with them, as their body is literally there (especially for ancestors).

Sanitation: To keep the rotting corpse away from people and avoid spreading disease or attracting predators and vermin.
Update 9 – IAEA Director General Statement on the Situation in Ukraine
Personally, I blame Charlie Babbage for voice mail spam.
When the Lab leak theory had absolutely no evidence for it, and was being purported days after the start of the pandemic, it was racist.

Later, the longer a root cause was not discovered, the more likely the theory became, and the less racist it became to speak about.
People don't like to see bodies go through decomposition, especially
not loved ones. It's also bad for sanitation to leave bodies lying around.

Burial rites are also a way to create a wedge to separate your culture from those that cremate bodies.
whoa, any additional practice recommendations for whetting this skill?
How are people practically taking advantage of the increase in speed of SSDs these days compared to network latencies? It looks like disk caches directly at the edge with hot data would be the fastest way of doing things.

I'm more familiar with the 2001-2006 era where redis-like RAM caches for really hot data made a lot of sense, but with spinning rust a disk drives, it made more sense to go over the network to a microservice that was effectively a big sharded RAM cache than to go to disk.

Seems like you could push more hot data to the very edge these days and utilize SSDs like a very large RAM cache (and how does that interact with containers)?

I guess the cost there might still be prohibitive if you have a lot of edge servers and consolidation would still be a big price win even if you take the latency hit across the network.
>> The other side of this is that in the US as a senior engineer making $400k+ every year completely risk free with good work life balance and good benefits is relatiely easy.

Please don't say "in the US" as that's more of a California thing, and probably only certain cities and companies at that.
> As a manager, you first listen to your manager tell you to do something that makes no sense. You push back, but they say your team has to do it. You take it to your direct report and they push back, and now you are forcing somebody to work on something they rightfully don't agree it. Unless you are an a$$shole, it's hard to disconnect emotionally when you are forcing somebody to do something you don't agree with. Do that over and over...it really takes a toll.

Yup. What you've just described is the trap of having all the accountability but none of the control, and it's profoundly demoralizing.
Would it be possible to make a version of this in of some kind of biodegradable material?

I would like to convert my physical form into a tree or similar after death (rather than something inefficient like burning, or horrific like being mummified in a lead box). This seems like it could be an interesting option for that.
Why do you say that "most of the time... you really want a decimal"? I can't think of any situation where I'd prefer a decimal.Decimal over an ordinary float, except for the textbook example of dollars and cents. In most situations, I'm pretty sure decimal.Decimals would be unacceptably slower.
Diminishing returns over the last decade, as expected. It would be interesting to look at the energy consumed by each of these operations across the same time periods.
China-based AIIB freezes lending to Russia and Belarus over Ukraine war
The insurance industry does a pretty good job of “what is the probability that you will die in the next billable period” - but they would never reduce the bet to “what is the probability that you will die today?”

You say it’s “essentially impossible to model” something that hasn’t occurred before.

Nations have engaged in a lot of wars.

Nations have engaged in a lot of wars they could not possibly win.

People have committed suicide to harm other people. Many many times.

Nations have developed weapons and then used those weapons on other people.

Countries that have engaged in arms races and stock piled weapons have then gone to war. Many times.

In some decades we do more of these things and in others we do less.

To say it’s hard to model, or the models are imperfect (as all models are) - fine. To say it is impossible to model - that’s very naive.
I have dreams. Actually following some of them makes me unhappy.
There are two unrelated questions: 1. Should you give up (either your current project or your plans or founding a software business) and 2. Should you get a job.

Lots of people are telling you about 1. I don't know that 2. necessarily follows automatically. Is the only reason you're not working because you want to build this particular software? Or do you just not like the idea of a "job" job and all the baggage that comes with it? My point is don't assume that one choice is tied to the other, especially if you're not pressed for money. You could give up the project and do nothing, raise your children, do some other thing...
No one asked him not to come.
>With IQ tests identifying you as intelligent, you could be in a small class with other terrible students and a teacher who knows how to reach and motivate you.

Actually I've been in such a class in elementary school for students that performed worse. For me, they focused mostly on improving writing and probably something else that I don't remember

I'm unable to say now how much it actually gave me, I still cannot write (handwriting), but that's mostly because I never care about that, I felt like that was useless skill and nowadays I rarely use pen.

>Where would you be if you had the best education?

That's hard to answer, I don't know, especially that "best education" varies by person, but assuming the one that fits my preferences, then probably... I don't know.

The only thing that I still haven't done in my career that I find really interesting is going for a year or two to US and working in CPU Fab or some compilers job, but I'm not sure whether with better edu I'd have it already done, especially that those require a lot of "non-school" effort
>> You mean like a NAS?

Sort of, but I think there is a lot more that can be done than just NAS.
This makes use of a JS interpreter made for embedded devices: Espruino

More details in the Espruino repo: https://github.com/espruino/Espruino
While writing this article, I learned that Ed Catmull has aphantasia. It's amazing to me that someone with a Turing award for work on computer graphics can't mentally "see" those graphics when he closes his eyes. It'd be really eye-opening to somehow get his (or anyone else's) mental state into my own brain, just to try it out for a little.

Interesting that we share some conceptual similarities in how we think about numbers, but they're expressed through different pathways (language vs. visual.) I wonder if the people who imagine pen-and-paper stuff when doing mental math just don't have these pathways set up, and instead recall memories of math-adjacent experiences in lieu of another internal representation of numbers.
With long options, JSON output, and no extra Python dependencies:

rip() {
curl \
--data-urlencode "q=${1}" \
--get \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Accept: application/json' \
--silent \
'https://dontbeevil.rip/search' \
| jq '[ .hits.hits[] | { title: .fields.title[0], url: .fields.url[0], highlight: .highlight.text[0] } ]'
}
Most points are already covered by other commenters, esp the one about not doing market research first.

Anyway I just wanted to add one more thing from my own experience. Don't build and sell technical products that you aren't willing to commit to for a long time. What happens is you will probably find 5 customers who will invest their time in money understanding your highly technical project but as you don't get orders (or if you have clinical adhd like me) you'll want to move on to a new shiny object while those 5 people are left holding the bag. It's not fair to the people who trusted you and migrated their infrastructure to get the benefits you're offering only to later realise that the project is dead and no updates or bug fixes are coming. Just something to think about.
>> But they’re even more of a shit show.

How so?
But no Ukrainian was banned from playing? Were any even invited?
'Don't be Google': The rise of privacy focused startups – The Japan Times
I've been trying for just as long too. I lack some key skills that I don't care to get better at.

I learned so much along the way that it helped me get better jobs.
And how do "we" change the profitability equation? If it were more profitable to do more social good, then more companies would be doing more social good. It seems like we agree on that.

Why, then, isn't it profitable to do right now, and what solutions exist to make it so?
He could move out of Russia, give up his Russian citizenship, and then play.
What.. that sounds a little bit over the top lol
If you're looking for the old school experience, I got it working with Crispy Doom as:

./crispy-doom.exe -iwad ./DOOM2.WAD -file ./one-humanity.wad

Latest Crispy Doom build is here:

https://latest.chocolate-doom.org/
Newsom proposes to force some homeless people into treatment
Nothing new here. Nintendo hates emulation with a passion. It passionately hates ways people enjoy their devices and platforms in ways they didn't intent. It hates fan projects, it might even hate its fans. Nintendo has a long history of lying in legal documents like DMCAs to take content that doesn't please them down. To be a dedicated fan of Nintendo's franchises is to be a masochist.

The Steam deck doesn't just threaten the outdated hardware of the switch in terms of games and gaming performance, it threatens Nintendo's platform on its own turf.

Nintendo can't compete with the Steam deck on hardware terms or even game availability. Brand exclusives and a low console price are all it's got, and they seem to know that that's not enough to keep all of their customers glued to their platform.
I don’t know, I have observed in my workloads, booting, game load, and building programs, that super fast ssds make almost no difference compared to cheap slow ssds. But any ssd is miraculous compared to a spinny drive

Presumably video editing or something might get more of a win but I don’t know.
I use Frigate (https://frigate.video/) on a rPI for recording and doing person detection for 3 Reolink cameras. Connecting that to HomeAssistant for dashboard and notifications.
It works great!
I boot the rPI (model 4 with 8gb RAM) from a USB-SSD to not worry about SD-cards. I connected a Coral USB device for the person detection since the rPI itself can only manage about 2 frames/s.
Even though I am ambivalent about gifted programs, when you consider the difference between an average person and someone who for various reasons is one sigma below average intelligence, and then consider the difference between someone who is two or three sigmas above average and the majority of people near the average, it makes sense to separate them somehow.

As a thought experiment, if your IQ were measured at above two standard deviations from the average (~100), it may be worth asking whether meeting someone with an IQ below 110-115 on Tinder could raise ethical questions because of the relative intelligence differences.

It's provocative, but when groups of outlier intelligence people can now find each other and co-ordinate online, you're into mutant powers risk, where someone could, for example, create a new world currency they alone controlled the value of out from under central banks, build a total surveillance panopticon in their dorm room, forge a conspiracy that infiltrated the cabinets of world governments and subordinate them to a single agenda, encircle the planet with a million cryptographically sovereign network nodes in space, enslave millions using a credit system, etc. We should have gifted programs to integrate these people socially and elevate the people around them, because otherwise you're just going to get super villains.
Writing the bottom line first
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/34XxbRFe54FycoCDw/the-bottom...
I was too. all the AP classes. a grade ahead. and then I got to college and I had no idea how to actually study and learn real things
It’s interesting that L2 cache has basically been steady at 2MB/core since 2004 aswell. It hasn’t changed speed in that time, but is still an order of magnitude faster than memory across that whole timeframe. Does this suggest that the memory speed bottleneck means that there simply hasn’t been a need to increase availability of that faster cache?
It's not actually a storage optimization. A number is either NaN (mantissa != 0) or Inf (mantissa == 0).