skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
150W is a pretty good workout sustained for an hour. Humans can do what, maybe 1000W or so at peak? Non-athletes, I mean. But nobody is putting out 1000W for very long. I'd have guessed that over an hour 75W-100W is more realistic. I recall playing around with a bike generator at the local power plant about 30 years ago and it was hard to keep a regular light bulb lit for any length of time.
It's raid 5/6 comes with a warning from the developers not to use it and RAID 1 is a weird arrangement that actually keeps 2 copies on however many disks and can lose data if a disk comes and goes for example with a bad cable.

Bitrot still happens with ECC.
Who mined it?
While I agree that it is important as a developer to understand operations side of things, but I disagree that developers should be doing operations. Not only developers accessing production environments is against various security principles but also it increases employees' cognitive load and reduces quality of work.

There is a reason why in other fields, people tend to specialize instead of generalize.

I think there is some misguided marketing/MBA ideas that developers can learn and do any and all technical work. I have seen in my current company quality of work and work satisfaction destroyed after higher-up decided that we don't need operations and developers should do DevOps now.
We don't currently refine "spent" nuclear reactor fuel, in the US at least, which still contains significant amount of fissile material. When the fuel is "spent" we really just mean that the amount of fissile material is too low to sustain the nuclear reaction needed to collect energy. We would get more energy out of our uranium if we did, but instead we just let it become waste. Russia is very good about refining their uranium for nuclear power. We don't do it in the US for nuclear proliferation reasons. I'm less certain about the rest of the world on this though.
>> The rational centre, however, is unprofitable, and will remain un-catered-to until its profitability increases.

To play devils advocate, this exploitation of our irrational (as in not involving reason) behaviours is a pretty rational process.
Reminds me of https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
Totally agree. I think there is a major risk (probably already past) in making liberal-minded Russians feel that they are the victims of an orchestrated effort by the West. Also, in making them feel like there is no outside world that wants them. Isn't the best shot for peaceful resolution a Russian populace that is against the war?
Aren't a larger number of politicians in China formerly scientists/engineers? I'm not sure if tech people do any better than others in this regard.
In fairness to the Russian military they are probably pretty unmotivated. A lot of them seem to have no idea why they were there having been told they were taking part in exercises. Also had Putin let on they were suppose to kill their peaceful neighbours for his self aggrandisement they probably would not have been enthusiastic.
Trucks and buses for continuous, smooth braking (which would require stepping on the pedal for an extended amount of time, but this is discouraged because brake pads wear out and/or lose grip when engaged for too long) use a mechanical or electric assisting device that has the same name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_current_brake
Just because people use a product doesn't mean its intrinsically good
This is a little different. This is akin to knocking on the door, asking if you can be let in, being invited in by the homeowner, and then having them give a tour around the house.

It's entirely up to the owner of an S3 bucket as to who they serve their static assets to. If the policies are so lenient that anyone can request the resources, then that is a configuration error—not unauthorized access.
> The whole of England itself is statistically one of the most densely populated countries on earth.

No, it isn't.
When and Why to Deprecate Filesystems
I‘m in the same position and agree wrt to the term „cultural appropriation“. One example for IP shared by a culture would, however, be protected terms of origin, such as Champagne or Bourbon.
This invariant has some surprising effects:

- When the target appears multiple times, the search will find the last occurrence rather than the first.

- If you return `right`, then you get the behaviour of C++'s std::upper_bound and Python's bisect.bisect_right: The return value is the index of the first element strictly greater than the target, or `len(array)` if all the elements are less than or equal to the target.

- If you return `left`, you get a somewhat unusual beast: The return value is the index of the last element less than or equal to the target. If all the elements are greater than the target, the return value should be -1 (because returning 0 would incorrectly suggest that `array[0] <= target`).

Initialising `right` to `len(array)` removes one of the special cases (which is nice and can be done regardless of the invariant), but if `left` remains initialised to 0 then a special case would still be necessary to distinguish between "the first element is equal to the target" and "all the elements are greater than the target" (this special case can be eliminated by initialising `left` to -1; see my top-level comment).

Inclusive-exclusive intervals are a great in many cases, but a little pragmatism can make life easier.

P.S. I also write `while right - left > 1`.
>super-power (if Russia could've been called that)

Russia hasn't been a super power in 30 years IMO.
Do these cloud gaming offerings really make a profit with current hardware costs?

Judging by the ones that have gone broke, no.

"Cloud gaming" of the kind where the game runs on a server and the results are sent as video to the client has been tried, on and off, for about five years. Most of the early providers are gone. The trouble is that each user needs an entire server, one comparable to a gamer PC.

Cloud gaming services seem to come in two flavors - expensive, and loss leader.

Shadow PC is in the expensive category. Price is $30/month. When you connect, they launch a server for you and load your environment into it. So you're buying a part-time VM. Apparently you can stay connected as long as you want, although I'm not sure if there's a limit they are not mentioning up front.

NVidia GEForce Now is cheaper. Price is $10/month. You get kicked off after 6 hours. For $17/month, you get a better server with an NVidia 3080 and 8 hours before being kicked off. There's a free tier, where you wait to get in and get kicked off after an hour or two. Originally, the prices were lower, but that was in the loss leader phase. It also helps that NVidia makes GPUs. You can only run games that NVidia has ported to that system.

Google Stadia is $10 a month. Games have to be ported to it, and there's suspicion it may soon join the long list of former Google products.

Vortex's site now says they are no longer accepting new users, and their blog is a Google Stadia ad.
I feel the same way about the 2013 Mac Pro, which I purchased refurbished in early 2017 and used as my daily driver until January when I switched to a Ryzen 3900X build. The 2013 Mac Pro has a wonderful design, but it's a shame Apple never upgraded it, though it would be sweet if Apple brought back this form factor since Apple's ARM chips solved the thermal challenges that made it difficult for Apple to upgrade the cylindrical Mac Pro.
We will somewhat disagree, partly because I can't help using calculators as a scientist, so my opinion is particularly biased.
However, I don't like the trend to hide everything that looks technical. On the long run, letting people play with advanced features (that won't break things) is a win-win.
Why does it matter where this person was 8 years ago? Undeniably, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a bad thing. Please be mindful to leave constructive comments that add to the conversation
i also wonder, if there are parts of features of zfs/btrfs in other parts of fs systems... someone should build a comparison matrix :D
Yeah watch how ex-USSR states at central asia give FU to russia and choose China instead.
I’ve seen many cases were version pinning has caused issues at the worst possible time (like missed delivery dates because of a breaking change in dependencies being pushed by maintainers at an inconvenient time for us).

Ultimately there’s no perfect answer here but given a choice I’d rather opt for a known risk than an unknown one.
> makes it seem like there's some dice game being played by the gods for the human race.

Have you ever read Small Gods by Terry Pratchett? Great book. Your comment reminded me of it because it includes the gods of that world dicing over a war of their followers
> I argue that it's still unethical and fails the basic principle of democracy, though.

this is the very much the norm for democracies

off the top of my head: Ireland won't let EU citizens vote in referendums (or for president), France won't let EU citizens vote for president (and so-on)

> We were talking about the vote being denied to UK citizens abroad too - UK citizens affected by Brexit who had no say.

the franchise is still quite generous (you can vote for 15 years without being resident)

(anecdotally... everyone I know that voted from abroad voted Leave)
>I don't understand how someone can consider the death penalty monstrous, but forgetting someone for decades in a brutal, hopeless prison environment is perfectly fine

Neither do I.
Reopens implies you didn't write unit tests for that bug. That's bad and will slow dev not speed it up. If you are ion a feature drive you need to be sure not to break existing features.
Since SFH owners tend to view living next to a 4-plex as a disaster, it doesn't seem to happen the way you envision. Almost all apartment here in Silicon Valley are built on boulevards, often displacing low end retail. Nice apartment, too bad you have to drive four miles to the nearest dry cleaner.
75% of assembly programming is writing comments.
This seems like it’s not a “for everyone” calculator, and built in OS calculators are always going to go “simple desktop calculator” design as that’s what the vast majority of people want or need.

That said I just type equations into spotlight - it doesn’t handle user defined functions, graph results, or anything, but it has a reasonably full suite of the standard arithmetic functions and operators
Is less efficiency okay though if selling back to the grid results in more clean energy overall?
I'm not really into the ecosystem but I do read about it once in a while and I did hear about "yearn" for sure. So I think they aren't that small.
Philosophy, like sciences, are broken down into domain functions.

You cannot simply take one statement and apply it ad-hoc if it suits you.

Twain was certainly not speaking to the larger sphere of existence. Is the earth murdering you and consuming you when you lay down to die of old age? We are all subject.

Twain was speaking in the voice of the dogmatic Christian Satan, who was questioning the Christian God’s righteousness and design.

It was metaphor to show the flaws in rooting your philosophy in something grounded so poorly. This (might makes right) philosophy that Twain was dressing down is the same Putin and Russia are using to press upon other nations.

I can understand what you’re trying to say, but you’ve got your reasoning all kinds of backwards.
Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood on Everything from Deflation to Elon Musk
If i am allowed to joke, I was expecting to read an article on Rust.
On more than one occasion I got called to a 'please explain' meeting to clarify that Freshmeat was not a "barely legal" porn site.
Also in Ontario:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/long-term-care-pandemic-cov...

>> Several of the assessments noted unsafe conditions that could help spread COVID-19, including instances where patients who had tested positive for the virus "were allowed to wander" and staff members left with inadequate personal protective equipment.

Personally, I believe the virus would have spread regardless of the isolation techniques used (and can be demonstrated to have in other places with stricter policies).

Regardless, why the residents themselves weren't in charge of the policy on lockdowns is stupid in my opinion.
yes

which is why stating "it wasn't legally binding" like it's abnormal or some sort of important insight is disingenuous
Look, undeniably, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a bad thing. It's not constructive to dredge up unrelated bad actions from other actors
It's not just a theory. It's real. There was enforcement and everything, and decisions made to increase profit at cost of harm to the consumer. Veritasium did a video on it if you'd like to follow up there, and it's sourced.
You are reading a bit too much into my comment. The accidental use I am implying is that 'Z' seems to have originally stood for a merely administrative marking on forces in the west of Russia. The 'Z' evolving into a symbol of the conflict as a whole and the (Russian-perceived) righteousness is the new meaning. It turned from a administrative minutia (thousands of trucks being marked with it for logistics purposes) into a way to mock the opponent and rile up the supporter (how the athlete used it). However, according to the sibling comment, my comparison to the "ok hand sign" seems to have been flawed, because it seems the ok hand sign has been troll-ish from the very beginning.
"Now, to be clear, if you ARE saving babies or working on software that does, for crying out loud, don't breathe and make sure you've got unit tests!"
Intuitively, I disagree with the article, but for some reason I'm having a hard time articulating my concerns.

You've definitely helped here (helped me) and my biggest problem is that analysis wasn't done on the type of replies. As you mentioned, the quality of the reply might be even more indicative of stock price fluctuations.

In general, without seeing additional numbers and some data to see if there is a trend in the sentiment of responses, I find it hard to adopt any hard and fast rule based on the article.
Andre is an innovator, both of protocols and token distribution methods. He invented the notion of a "fair launch" with YFI. Nobody was ever forced to interact with the contracts he published, they chose to. But of course he became a big figure and then got untold amounts of shit dumped on him.

Anyway, here's hoping he continues as an anon. That's really the only way. People are ridiculous.
That can be really hard. You need time to learn this as you go, no blame there. Set lots of boundaries around time & activity types. You need time to not-be-explaining things, so they can discover/play/ask questions/soak it all in.

I'd first build yourself time to interview those who are there, and understand why they are there. Trust them and save their words for later, make sure you can describe their progress in terms of the words they themselves used.

Ask them if they learn best in narrative style (ground-up, first principles, etc.) or if they prefer the outcome-first style (opportunism + fast break-fix cycle = speed of outcome, also connecting back to integrate first principles opportunistically/periodically).

Confidence is a high-risk, comparatively low-reward terminology/mental model that can be replaced by lots of other helpful things. For example, what if instead of being confident, you focused on them and made them present, teach, or demonstrate to you? An extreme example (it's usually some mix), but confidence almost always has the risk of placing too much importance on the speaker/teacher's subjective role. This can torpedo any teaching gig. Keep in mind students are there with lots of self-expectations, those need to be discussed and leveraged. Good luck.
> I think this framing gives undue weight to the fact

yes totally (in this argument) ignoring anyone that might have been historically or currently been agnostic, atheist, or anti-theist.

> this is basically an appeal to authority argument no?

I think so. And I couldn't think of a better example then what you just gave with mentioning "appeal to authority". The fact that we deconstruct language the way we do in order to decide the validity of the argument is already a scientific process.

Sibling comment just mentioned trust which I also agree would be an important element of religious belief systems. In scientific process this trust is only temporary until we either managed to learn enough about this subject to see the truth for ourselves, or gave up on it and trust that those specialists who know (your appeal to authority argument) are qualified to know it for us.
The Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine (2009)
Fun fact, China has greater gdp per capita than Russia(nominal, Russia is still ahead in in ppp).

Russia gdp per capita for 2020 was $10,127
China gdp per capita for 2020 was $10,500

Their descend into mineral rich vassal state of china seems inevitable. I wonder how much effect the economic transformation/collapse in the 90s had. They lost the status, economy, respect/fear, rule of law. Military and resources is about the only thing left. And military doesn’t look too great.

Anyway, lesson for the future: don’t rely on “invisible hand” and optimism to transform economy. China did it correctly, Russia didn’t.
I think that's more an effect of the gender of the opposing candidate than anything else. You can't deny that sexism played a huge role in the public opposition to Hillary Clinton's campaign. It was plain to see if you followed any of the discussion online, often becoming openly misogynistic.

Edit: also, this source seems to disagree with you: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/11/11/once-aga...
Might just be the translation, but their propaganda is so simple... Provide very little actual content.
Because we know that we aren't far behind if such a madman is allowed to exist. It's better to go out with a boom than let a dictator win. --Love, an american
While science is a method and not a dogma, a lot of dogma gets called science and treated with exactly the kind of religious fervour science is supposed to be able to cut through. The number of people who could not run an experiment or parse a research paper exhorting everyone to 'trust The Science' over the last two years truly irritated me, less so for the religious beliefs they were pushing than how enthusiastically they were diluting the meaning of science as a method.
I found it hard to tell which words were and were not part of proper nouns, and which were organizations or things and which were people, in this headline. It reads like gibberish.
Microsoft are the kings of backward compatibility. Since long has been 32 bits for the last 20 years, it shall remain so until the end of time. Linux compilers are free to be a little more pragmatic. The standards are flexible enough to allow either behavior.
Whether someone steals your zero marginal cost good has no effect on whether you will update your software. If the thief would have paid it might, but if they wouldn't buy your product anyway you're no worse off.
Google speeds up Chrome on macOS and Android
Learn the following skills, or hire people who have them. Details depend on what you're building.

- Electronics
- PCB design, with software like Altium or KiCad
- CAD software like Solidworks or Fusion
- Program emebedded firmware in a low level language like C or Rust
- Learn how to read datasheets, and interact with hardware at the register level
- How to select parts and manage BOM
- How to choose manufacturing techniques, like injection molding, extrusion, milling etc
- Regulatory compliance. Eg, are there safety concerns? Does it contain lead? Does it radiate?

Short answer is, you need to figure out what your project requirement are, and learn the relevant skills.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30588891
"If employment is terminated for any reason or no reason at all by either employee or employer within the first year, incentives must be returned. "

good luck with that...
Are there any plans to add any of these functions to Go stdlib?
Prometheus and Grafana. Datadog. Managed services.
Pretty much all large organizations still have hierarchies, even in competitive marketplaces where the most effective model can be expected to win out.

I don't know all the reasons for this, but I imagine one reason is that someone needs to get credit for successes and blame for failures. When decisions are made by consensus, there is no clear way to assign credit or blame, so the incentives to create success are weaker.
I mean virility, and I mean that they do it to appear virile, not that it means they’re actually good in bed. You see the same thing with men and gun culture.
I made no assertion on the success of their campaign pledges :)
Anyone report him to the SEC and DOJ Crypto enforcement division yet?
China is smart enough not to weaken their allies, when they need them to weight against their rivals. See what they're doing with Iran: https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20220119-china-plays...

Maybe the US should do the same with their European allies (by encouraging them build an independent defense instead of toying with each country's interest at the expense of a strong EU that could keep Russia in check and allow the US to fully focus on China).
If it’s possible to prevent some action entirely by technical means, then there is no need for law against it. The prohibition against murder is also “unenforceable” in the sense that there will never be any murder.
Yes, and comparable announcements have happened before. They have never lasted very long. Things might be changing, but they also might not. You're just making a proclamation of faith, here.
Incompetent or can't be arsed? If you were conscripted into the Russian military what would you do? Personally I'd be happy to go for a tea break while some farmer towed the vehicle.
Their reasearch:
"If we lobby really hard, get someone's political career tied to the success of our project and sink enough public funds into this so backing out is no longer considered an option, we'll make tons of money. p=0.05 btw"
Depends on what the trade-off is.

If that efficiency would have gone to shareholders, sure.

If that efficiency would have gone towards building utility-scale renewables, no.
Yep, and this is one of the reasons why devs don't care about Stadia, with NVidia and Microsoft offerings they basically have to fine tune existing code to cloud workloads, not rewrite it from scratch betting into a vendor that is know to kill products.
I could imagine they already have contracts in place, even at a higher price tag. It's Rolls-Royce after all, also, they mention they have some MoUs in place.

(This is not based on any facts, it's just a moonshot) If they manage to drive cost down to 1/10th of that, while actually delivering and showing their design is safe (which I think it is), this could be a global energy game changer.

The world's total energy consumption from "dirty" sources is ~140,000TWh, one of these SMRs could plausibly produce 3TWh/year, so about ~45k would be needed to match our current energy demands. The world is not going to switch to 100% of these, obviously, but nonetheless their market is HUGE (trillions!).
Consider Analysis 1/2 by Terence Tao for introduction to analysis.
That's true - but how does that put bread on the table? (With the possible exception of invading other countries to steal their bread - which we can see isn't working out great for them right now).
The Amazon c6i and other _6i types are very fast and put the lie to the Graviton2 cost story, however, it's instructive that at this present moment all _6i instance types are stocked out in us-east-1. So, they're fast but you can't use 'em.