skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this seems cool for some implementations there is a reason we often have separate boxes for compute / storage / routing. Some of these are much more critical to have consistently running than the others and it also means it is easier to swap out and do upgrades without having to worry about affecting the other parts of the pie. I think virtualized networking devices like routers are definitely the future but I would still much rather have it as its own separate physical box so that if some hardware fault in a server takes it down the network still functions (not to mention having them on different UPS hardware or different levels of redundancy.) And with servers getting smaller and smaller and the compute required getting more and more power friendly I do not see this as something I would like to use unless I was EXTREMELY space constrained.

Where I can see this being super cool though is niche use cases like highly portable servers and whatnot for things like VFX shoots. I once was contracted to built a set of highly mobile and durable servers for mobile rendering of 8K footage. I built the servers into some super durable hard case boxes that are usually used for shipping things like expensive camera equipment, military hardware, etc. The cases even have a valve to equalize pressure in case they get pushed deep underwater (like in the event of a boat capsizing) and a very robust waterproof gasket. Of course for the servers to be running the case must be open (mainly for cooling) but it would have been interesting to network multiple of them together AND other equipment without needing a separate physical device for routing. It would also have made scaling the system much easier if each server could also act as a router - you could bring one or 10 and each could function independently of each other.
How long ago was that? I've bought recently newish dual-port (SFP+, 10Gbit) Connect-X 3 Pro at 80 GBP per piece. And that was one of the better prices.
Still, if Apple had a unique insight, it wasn’t “this movie is a strong contender for a best picture Oscar.” It was more like “it’s worth $25m to us to buy this movie,” which from my perspective remains to be shown.
Any game where you try to improve past a certain plateau becomes more like work imo, it requires deliberate practice.
Edit: I should add, thanks for pointing out a third group - people who think the tests don’t work!

> To me, this showed that the tests are not an accurate measurement of how successful someone will be at college

The test proves you are smart enough.

Like, do you believe you were not intellectually capable of getting through college? That you flunked out for a pure lack of IQ and no other factors? From the writing in your comment alone I find that hard to believe.

There are some other factors you need to be successful in college, like interest, motivation, work ethic. Also luck - avoiding illness for example.

And I don’t think anybody is suggesting colleges should ONLY use standardised IQ tests for admittance, they should try to select for those other things too if they can do so fairly and accurately.

I can’t pretend to know you enough to know why you dropped out. But if I had to bet it wasn’t raw IQ.
These aren't coins, my friend, just normal events/messages/documents signed by your feed id so that they can be referred to by their content addressable hash, as well as verified to be from you by your peers.
I agree with you, but this text is unnecessarily long for the points you are making. Please try to be more concise, otherwise you will not reach those which I assume is your main target - the ones addicted to short sensational news.
Constant speed of light is the main problem…

More infos:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_speed_of_light

Paper:
http://www.januscosmologicalmodel.com/pdf/1988-ModPhysLettA-...
Nice. I recently bought a copy of his First-Order Logic, which is slim but dense.
OP is inquiring to learn more. I think it’s a good question and would also like to know.

No need to for you to be defensive on the scientist’s behalf.
I’ve worked at several companies over 20 years, and generally speaking the quality of the code has been inversely proportional to the number of people who worked on it.
It is a value generating product, better medicine is more valuable. If a genie popped up and offered to make sure I always got the best medicine available in exchange for $100 I'd give him the money for the improved health.

It's just that I am not sure this random startup guy and his four doctor friends are such a genie.
well I mean, userspace would still be up in the air and there's no reason to have google search in a kernel right?
There are people that are allergic to water. That one blows my mind. You are allergic to the very thing that makes up the majority of your body.
I don't want to see what comes next. It's been a continuous negative slide for as long as I've been alive. Goodbye union jobs with benefits and pensions (that didn't require college either!). Goodbye full time jobs with benefits. Hello gig economy, creator economy, social media influencers, etc. Based on that trajectory, I expect our kids will be living in a Blade Runner-esque post apocalyptic grungy world hustling NFTs to pay for a bowl of ramen.
We're looking at a similar challenge. Rather than gate limiting a feature, we want to gate limit debug logging per customer. Currently looking at a way to inject a customer identifier into debug code using a tool like LaunchDarkly or GrowthBook. They seem to support injection of arbitrary variables.
Wow, didn’t know EFF went so deep on investigations like this. Top notch!
Why is Apple virtualizing Intel, but is Intel not virtualizing Apple hardware?
Those relatives/friends/neighbors may very well have a healthier relationship with the news than you do. For a certain set of people (me included), news is addictive and destructive to my life, but for others, it's something they can peruse once a day.

Besides which, it's not like a majority of people will ever quit the news. You alone doing it is not doing anyone else a hardship. It's not like anyone is thinking, "Ugh, I have to keep scrolling twitter so that I can keep my news-less friend in the loop."
I get what you mean but 'prestigious'... doesn't seem the best word. The idols they looked up to had all written a lot of their own stuff (Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly seem like the archetypes there). The Beatles sort of invented the 'self contained group' (singers, songwriters, performers all in one) and it seemed to become almost mandatory for groups after that to at least have a go at writing.
>What set me off (not the one you're responding to) about your comment was the bit about not having a right to a good outcome.
Depending on what one means by "good", that one doesn't have a right to it is a fairly strong statement of political opinion, but it was presented as a universal truth.

I think this is a really important thing to highlight in what I think is a real contradiction that is exposing its self and largely driving our global political narrative. Does one have the right to a "good life"? It looks like oop edited his original phrasing, but I'd like to take a moment and step into this question, because to me, it seems like its one that is still working itself out in real time. Its a question that for me, the US declaration of independence and framers were trying to address (for their identity, not necessarily for others).

Does one have an inalienable right to a "good life"? Do rights exist if we aren't will to fight, tooth and claw, to maintain them?

I think there is a real divide out in the wild about ones right to a 'good life', and a lot of people are being swindled by failing to think through and understand where the right to a 'good life' is borne. So many on one side argue that

Oop is getting a ton of flack for their framing, however, for me, it was once I adopted an almost identical framing that I started getting my worth at my place of employment. I started understanding that I was responsible for and being paid for or paying for all of my time. I may not like the game, but I didn't make it and playing ignorant to its rules wasn't going to help me.

There's clearly a lot of hate for neoliberalism in the responses to OOP's comment. I despise neoliberalism as much, and likely more than most of those respondents. But you can't fight something you don't understand. Sometimes its important to think through and understand how another group might frame something. Just because a belief happens in your mind doesn't mean you are that thought. Its ok to look at things from other perspectives, especially those you disagree with.
In our sample, we found that people really cared about those topics but they were not urgent. Hence the reference to the Eisenhower Matrix.

The current state of search tools doesn't make it easy to answer complex questions so complex questions go unanswered. By lowering the activation energy to do an activity, the market for that activity increases. That doesn't mean that activity didn't ever matter.
souls. Give me your soul.
Bitcoin, no question.
It's not that uncommon for one software engineer to outearn another by 10x, assuming a little job hopping.
$600, 5 year old laptop user here. A couple years in I put another $500 in and upgraded the disk to 2T, and 32G of ram. More recently I put a wifi 6E card in it too.

Its still fine for most things, if I need to compile something large, I connect to my 64 core build machine. But of course I tend to use my (also fairly old) desktop more than the laptop anyway.

PS: It is a cheap dell 14" inspiron with a 1080P screen, integrated GPU, and its a bulletproof linux machine. Supports S3 standby, and idles at a few watt's. So even with its sorta crummy 3 cell battery (also replaced once) it lasts 8+ hours just browsing the web and running a text editor.
I felt this way about an indie game that was actually very well received (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Metro_(video_game)), and it was fun for a while, but it quickly grew old: the graphics are rudimentary (not expecting AAA-level stuff of course, but still, simple monochrome vector graphics get boring pretty fast), the gameplay is wildly unrealistic (stations popping up out of nowhere that you have to connect to lines which you can instantly change, even erase and rebuild everything, ad infinitum, trains that can be instantly teleported to a completely different line when needed etc.), and every game inevitably gives you a sense of failure, because sooner or later your network is swamped with passengers and collapses. So not really realistic, but the need to constantly optimize the network while the game keeps throwing spanners in your works quickly felt like drudgery. For some time I kept coming back because of the daily challenges and other stuff designed to keep things interesting, but after about one month I decided enough is enough and uninstalled it.
At google's scale, if they had an alternative basis for hiring people they could judge candidates by both and hire randomly use one method or the other method to make some of their hires, then compare their performance over time and at least say if there is a significant difference or not.

But as you note, the lack of obvious good alternatives is an issue... and we can't pretend that there isn't an enormous difference among candidates. If we though that unfiltered candidates were broadly similar then "hire at random, dismiss after N months based on performance" would be a great criteria, but I don't think anyone who has done much interviewing thinks that would be remotely viable.

(Though perhaps the differences between candidates are less than we might assume based on interviewing since interviewees should be worse than employment pool in general, since bad candidates interview more due to leaving jobs more often and taking longer to get hired)
What do you suggest when the true self is something like "serial killer" or "violent abuser" or "drug addict"?
Love it, very fun!

I did have a slight problems when dragging letters. The functionality when dragging a letter from the bottom buffer to the top didn't always let me place the letter where I wanted to.
or more that Russia goes on a witch hunt and disables several of their figures. which they already did btw.
> but the whole comment was framed around operating effectively within the market economy. That's explicitly what it says.

Exactly. So where does all of this other stuff about being a robot and only optimizing for profit come in? The topic is work, and he's telling you how to think about work, not how to think about relationships with colleagues, hobbies, life goals, etc.
Nuclear is fine with load following. Most plants run as baseload because it makes sense for them to do so, given the surrounding energy mixture and capital costs, etc, but it's not some sort of immutable law of the technology. Many existing designs have that capability even if it's not used much. They're not great for peak generation, but if you're price insensitive, or could lower the capital costs enough for it to make sense, they could do that too.
Jupyter notebook is a lot like Mathematica. I’m wondering if visibility to variables is similar to Matlab? With Matlab, I have a list of all the variables in a nice little box, with summary of their contents (byte size, dimensions, type, contents if it’s small enough to be displayed, etc), and to see the full contents, I just double click on it.

Looks like Jupyter Lab and Atom/Juno is what I’m looking for. Still not as well-integrated as Matlab is.

I suppose that’s my attraction to Matlab. There’s not a bunch of different programs/environments to juggle to get a good, consistent experience for rapidly developing scientific code (for simulation, modeling, etc). All still possible.
Cloud project Gaia X no longer receives money from Germany's federal government
> could the same happen for these radio wave patterns

Perhaps he was just seeking knowledge. There may be an interesting reason why these radio wave patterns may or may not be affected by lensing.

Also, if you have been around as long as I have, it is not that uncommon for experts to be missing something obvious, or for science articles to exclude certain details in order to appear more fascinating.
That method has its own problems, though.

For one thing, if a school has grade inflation so bad that even an A+ from that school isn't enough to get into Yale - is that a problem?

For another example, if adjustment for grade inflation means Yale will ask for an A+ from Martin Luther King High, Detroit while they'll accept a B from Phillips Academy, Andover - is that a problem?
One of my employees got in an accident, and I immediately had the vehicle moved to my property from the impound yard to avoid storage fees. We had them move it to a spot far in the back of my building and around a corner. There is no way anyone knew it was there.

A few days later, a couple of guys came to my property, and a video shows they went straight to that vehicle and cut the catalytic converter off of it, then looked around for other stuff to steal.

I'm SURE it was people from the towing company, mad they didn't get a chance to charge more fees.
Alain De Botton makes this argument in Religion for Athiests.

https://www.alaindebotton.com/religion/
Would they feel safe voicing any other opinion? If not there may not be anything further to say.
A lot of {large/complex} concepts can seem more difficult to learn when we're older; learning languages is valuable for the collective group achievements that it makes possible, though.
Q: What is a color that isn't red?
A: "The color that isn't red is magenta."

(included is a link to a site explaining that the red color of Mars is only a few inches deep into the soil)

Edit: Added another question

Q: when is an appropriate time to cast your loved ones entirely in wax?

A: You can cast your loved ones in wax at any time.

Very glad to know!
Isn't there even a formal specification that hot code maintains values or-ed with zero internally as integers?

(I think, this had been originally introduced by Mozilla and propagated to other browsers to varying extent. This optimization allowed a significant speed up for things like EMScripten before WASM.)
This reminds me of a scene in My Big Fat Greek Wedding where the aunt, when told the groom doesn't eat meat, responds with "That's okay, I'll make lamb."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFemw_6a-Tg
I just want to read about/see things created by people who like what they are doing and who aren't chasing fans/subscribers/patrons. The most interesting stuff on the Internet, to me, is when a person puts up a crappy HTML page with 5 years worth of notes about using a particular hiking backpack. The presence of a single affiliate marketing link makes anyone's opinion instantly suspect. A link to a Patreon page invalidates the very "authentic" feeling they were striving for.
EVs

Seeing how US automakers have nearly unanimously announced a complete EV future, I don't see any other alternative options other than nuclear that will allow us to keep up with electricity demands.
Unfortunately we are not running the search concierge service indefinitely. But we will translate the findings into a search tool that makes it easier to answer complex questions. Sign up for our mailing list or shoot an email to outresearching@gmail.com . We will let you know when its ready.
In some cases for sure. Our speculating was about some oddball cases—like clothing stores that are never busy and only open a few hours a week. And dealing in odds or purely consignment goods. They must be hobby projects (expensive ones, considering the rents around here).

But for others, definitely that's the case. And it's been this way for so long I'm sure it's just a known and we're essentially tethered to Hamilton via transit and highways so there are a ton of options just a few minutes further down the road.
Could we just post gzipped titles and distribute a plugin to overcome the limitation? This is hacker news after all.
Probably the weirdest math I’ve ever encountered is the Frobenius method and more generally power series methods of solving differential equations. I remembered encountering Taylor and Maclaurin series in Calc I, and thinking “oh, that’s a cute trick.”

A decade later, I’m casually working my through an introductory QM textbook, and realize that somebody had actually put the stuff to good use. It felt like power series methods are literally just tricking the hard differential equations around single electron 3D atoms into giving up their secrets.
> What do I mean by working as hard as possible? I mean someone who can finish all the work that is expected of them in less than the total time that they are meant to spend working and then asks for more, similar, work to do.

I was surprised the author didn't use the term 'workaholic' but I'm older so maybe it's an older term. Google trends does show a steady decline in the use of the term [1]

Oxford defines a workaholic as "a person who compulsively works hard and long hours." There are too many reasons for this compulsion to go into in a comment...

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=w...
Or as Jay-Z puts it "I'm not a business man. I'm a business, man."
10 mins per problem sounds extreme except for something that can be answered in no more than 5 lines of python (no code golf of course). Even then its signal-to-noise ratio (from an interviewer's perspective) can't possibly be too high. Most places would ask you to solve a moderately nontrivial problem in 30-50 minutes
Mind showing me your firefox version & OS version? I will try to fix it.
Mr Tambourine man is another great example.
You didn't explain how anything actually works, you gave a very crude prediction with a lot of holes of how you think something will work in the future.
Who says it's spherical?
"Of the three stars, one was missing. There was a white cloud of dust in its place, like the feces of an abyss whale.

It’s already been cleansed. Nothing more to do."

- Death's End, Liu Cixin
As a middle class going poorer higschool student (dad lost his desk job, mom had to start working again to keep the house, tried moving to cheaper city and it didn't work out, had to apply for scholarships for stuff, never had money to go out weekends, etc, etc) I think the thing resourceful people overlook that "rich" kids have in higschool and "poor" kids don't, is a space to study. Just a personal quiet space where you can deploy your book or laptop and write some stuff maybe with headphones maybe not but definitely without your parents screaming or the TV blasting stuff about social protests or whatever.

In college most of my other "poor" friends that made it either also had a space like that or were taught by their parents to study in public libraries or other spaces designed for concentration.
I posted about this yesterday! My reference was Hurt by NIN.
Or the energy may get captured and stored as chemical for example.
I have! I love it but it's very tedious. The controls are just much clunkier than Minecraft (for example). It's been a couple years since I played it though, maybe it has improved a lot.
I'm confused as well. How can you run an RDS instance alone for 7 people for $150 a month? Let alone the other infra? You probably need a VPC on each account, with a NAT Gateway, which easily costs $20/month or so.
True, but this problem is greately exacerbated by the incredible complexity of this sort of architecture. And running dev in the cloud doesn't completely solve it either as configuration issues have always been a major cause of the "works in dev" issue.
Hmmm so if I don't blink for too long I expose it?

I don't know, I'm not worried about corona anymore but much more about this :)
I think for niche portable use cases this could be very cool or anywhere you are super space constrained.

I agree with you on most points though - and finding good people who know how to even use RouterOS seems like it would be a pain for companies as well.
That seems not relevant to my point, which is that semi-namecalling commentary is pointless. If you have a real point of any sort that would be better be it addressing the point that people prefer coal to nuclear, or changing the topic to "why oh why can't we offer an alternative base load generator?"
Elon Musk’s Starlink helping Ukraine to win the drone war
It's a great read.

RPC like blocking IO is an inadequate pretence.
Speaking of sane defaults, I wonder how many people are aware that Caddy serves dotfiles by default.
I would find this compelling if I hadn't heard this argument many times before.

"What could we ever do with 1GB of storage?"

"What could we ever do with 1GB of memory?"

"What could we ever do with a much faster internet connection?"

etc
Ask HN: What do you do when your offer letter got rid of the bonus promised?
Has this happened to anyone? I was too excited when reading the letter, it didn't occur to me that a unicorn-valued San Francisco startup would put the starting bonus in the offer deck they presented, but omit it from the offer letter. I didn't even notice until the bonus never came and I re-checked the actual letter.
Intel is incumbent, so most software (short of ios/android apps) are already written/complied for x86. Because of this, there's no real need for intel/amd to support ARM.
> Can I ask, what's the disability?

I would rather not specify, as it is quite personal. Suffice to say that I'm very affected physically and mentally day-to-day, so I'm typically unable to put effort into my appearance.

> When a company wants a video meeting, what are, to you, better ways to say "please join the meeting with video, but if you have a disability that makes you not want to use video, that's totally fine"?

I'm unsure how to best communicate that; the only thing I can think of is to just state up-front that video is not required. I typically don't have issue with just never turning on a webcam.