skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What happens when the public lose confidence in academic findings?

flat-earthers

half-joking aside, I have come to understand that the academic institutions are part of the state (perhaps I should say civilization?). the point being that academia (as the part of state that I'm saying it is) has a primary function of ensuring stability (same as the most well known face of the state i.e. government); this is mind-bending when faced with the idea that academic research is at the forefront of advancing civilization into uncharted waters (...a PhD must provide an original novel contribution...).

Seems that at some point artists became showbiz employees and at that same time, only scholars kept 'advancing the state of the art'. Which is a role historically fulfilled by real artists of the sort that ain't doing it for money nor fame.
At least until you opened the lid and searched in vain for the missing TrackPoint!
That might have been true in the good old days, before designer drugs with little to no history of human use flooded the market, but now I wouldn't be so sure.

When taking mystery drugs mixed with other drugs, you really have no idea what that's doing to your brain.
I brought up a second topic related to the first — the impact of the medical establishment focusing on racial disparities during COVID.

I felt it was topical because the heavy focus on racial disparities led to other outcomes which also impacted the same ethnic group’s perception of events.

If the context had been black perception of the same events, then I would have posted an editorial about how mandates caused distrust and comparisons to previous experiments on ethnic minorities. But that wasn’t topical this time.
> Do thirtysomething's still use Facebook ironically, or something?

Not among my peers. Facebook is seen as a way to communicate with older and tech-challenged relatives. It's in the same category as LinkedIn -- a social network whose content is mostly cringe and that you're only on as a means to an end, not because it's a good product.
I know there are quite a few companies that have strong opinions around this as well. For those who work there, what do you think?
Interesting.

Consider how the marketing work changed over the past decade to integrate data science. The amount of time spent on decision making might have not changed, but how the time is spent did change significantly.

The article argues that the same thing should happen in software: developers should spend less time gathering information through data science and more time making decisions. This happens to change the nature of programming.
Author here. The data is mostly drawn from how people who work at these companies do in mock interviews rather than how our users do in real interviews with these companies.
Absolutely, and it's not just limited to wheat; prices are up across the board even in industries with very little presence in Ukraine or Russia.
Why don't you expend some effort answering your own questions instead of expecting others to answer a combative person on the internet?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=paperless-ng
"dirtbikes, or chainsaws typically do not have microchips"

Interesting, good examples.

"The wetter the clothes, the more power the heating coils will draw through the resistor, which lowers the voltage of the power the timer motor receives, slowing it down. Once the clothes start getting dry, the voltage goes back up and the timer speeds up again."

Sounds like this kind of ingenuity is on its way out, though. I expect the vast majority of washers/dryers have semiconductors in today.
> hard to use as a reference

How so? I frequently reference specific sections, tables or pages of the spec at work.
PDF 2.0 is not cheap either: https://www.iso.org/standard/75839.html
Definitely a step back.
They didn't "adopt the same model," they were purchased. Almost all bootcamps are owned by companies like Kaplan and the University of Phoenix. I think Lambda School is one of the very few surviving independent ones, although its reputation was so atrocious that it was forced to rebrand.
Building organs in microgravity, a potentially crucial ingredient to make the process work. From what I've seen this is the most realistic near future application.

"When you're 3D-printing a tissue culture on the ground, there's a tendency for them to collapse in the presence of gravity," he says. "The tissues require some sort of [temporary, organic] scaffold to hold everything in place, especially with cavities like the chambers of a heart. But you don't have those effects in a micro-gravity environment, which is why these experiments have been so valuable."[0]

Although I do think, taking human progression in the limit, moving to self sustaining manufacturing in space, using local raw materials (asteroids or otherwise), and dropping products back down to earth will be the natural progression. Space offers what earth does not -- infinite resources, infinite space(heh), infinite energy. Delete scarcity and what remains is purely a logistics problem.

Whether it'll be 50, 100 or 500 years, who knows?

[0] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210601-how-transplant-o...
Arcane Style Transfer with Gradio and Hugging Face
Can't believe no one has mentioned the original black apple laptop - the PowerBook G3.

Also crazy to think what $1500 in the original macbook's era (2006-2008) will buy you today. Almost an entry level 14" MacBook pro! ($2000)
HPC is all about C, C++, Fortran, Python (as scripting language), and now Julia is slowly being the new kid in town.

Stuff like OpenACC, OpenMP and MPI are expected to be in the box, regardless of the language.

On the graphics space, Khronos, NVidia, Intel and AMD are driving the adoption of standard C++ as compute language.

NVidia now has many key contributors to ISO C++ on their payroll and as shown at GTC 2022, wants to make CUDA the best GPU implementation of such features.

Then on game consoles, C++ is the main language on the SDKs, alongside C# and Unity.

One can naturally use other stacks, like Embark Studios is doing with Rust, but then it is on them to spend development resources on making it work, and deal with possible integration issues.
I think Cory Doctorow is right about Shoshana Zuboff's "blindspot".
It's not that she's wrong because I haven't seen many strong claims
she makes as to the effectiveness of Surveillance Capitalism. And so
maybe Cory is missing what she's really (not) saying about it.

The mistake is to assume the surveillance capitalism phenomenon is
driven by and all about commercialism.

Or is there another explanation? Never in history did authoritarians
hell-bent on cybernetic social control have a better cover for rolling
out machinery that panders to "what people want". That's the big
lie. Most people are absolutely ambivalent about technology because
they don't "want" it, not in a strong sense. They take what they're
given, like what they know and so know what they like. And as that
cycle continues, become ever more dependent on it.

Meanwhile money poured in through In-Q-Tel and similar conduits has
erected and transferred vicarious control of technologies unmatched by
any official state apparatus.

Of course the advertising industry is good at selling itself, and full
of puff and bluster. What on earth would one expect!? But once you
pull that mask off the ghost at the abandoned fun-fair, those meddling
kids are gonna start asking a much more awkward questions...

If none of this stuff is really making any money, then who is paying
for it?

And Why?
With crypto you pay the additional overhead of gas fees, which are often unpredictable and may cost more than the item itself.
(TL;DR of the following points: Global Supply != Global Availability)

This analysis misses the real issue by focusing merely on global supply rather than the entire system. I'm also not sure of the accuracy of some estimates, that could be fog-of-war, but while the USDA is estimating 7M ton shortfall in exports, Ukraine exports about 24M tons annually [1] and has banned all exports of wheat & other food staples. [2] They've already shipped some grain this year, but the longer this conflict continues, the worse the problem will get.

Maybe that doesn't yet change the overall global supply picture too much, but the author is not taking into account three very important aspects of this

1) Countries that have imported significant portions of their grains from Ukraine will be hit extremely hard by this. It's not much comfort to a country like Egypt that imports a significant amount of its food, a lot of that from Ukraine & Russia, to say "Oh but the global supply is barely reduced!". Contracts & import logistics of this magnitude don't turn on a dime, and there are undoubtedly logistical issues that make Egypt import from its current suppliers rather than another major exporter like the US.

2) During times of great uncertainly, global supply becomes somewhat disconnected from $cost. In terms of food availability, especially in poorer countries or to poorer people in somewhat wealthier countries, it's really not relevant that global supply is up or down a few points when the current price of wheat futures is up 40%. Absent significant intervention (such as subsidies) lots of people are going to go hungry.

3) It's worth noting global logistics separate from #1 above. In normal times pivoting quickly in this way would be difficult. Right now? Global logistics are still an absolute mess. It looks like bottlenecks are marginally better in places like SoCal, but there are shortages of a) ships b) shipping containers c) warehouse space d) trucking/drivers e) probably more. This will not only further complicate shifting to different suppliers, but also drive the end-point $cost higher than just the increase for the grain itself.

[1] https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2022/02/a-closer-look-at...

[2] https://time.com/6156160/ukraine-bans-wheat-exports/
Leaving aside the issue that trucks can't move stuff across oceans, how do you get the extra trucks to where they are needed?
No Facebook/Meta? That’s a little surprising to me.
I guess they have good intentions but you can't simply make a phone have a replaceable battery since phones are tightly packed nowadays, you may have to change the way the phone is packaged quite considerably if the battery is not near the back of the phone.

Also whats the point of replacing the battery of an out-of-support phone? Even excluding Android being out of date some applications will not let you even connect to their servers if your application is too out of date.
I work for a company that makes pledges a lot. We've very much a company known for ethics and environmental issues, and we follow through on the pledges we make, so our customers like it. We (the employees) also like it. Nailing your colors to the mast and defining what sort of company you want to be can be a really strong recruitment tool. So long as you're actually capable of doing what you're pledging to do then it can work out well.

The thing is though, there's very little upside if you're a more typical business - you won't get any media coverage, your customers won't care, and you'll be tying yourself in to something that if you fail at will look pretty bad. For most companies it's a bit of a waste of effort.
Crypto only works as a inflation hedge for a collapsing currency, does not make it easier to transact.
There is a fallacy in comprehend the meaning of Scientific method: confidence in nice and needed to cooperate, but in Science no one should (despite almost all regularly do) trust blindly anything.

Of course we can't verify the entire involved knowledge any time, and that's why the concept of collaborative peer review was born, not much different than the concept of "chains of trust": interest researchers in something verify some others publications and add up their own confirmations or doubt, "the network" do the rest.

The problem there is that such review and network does not really exists. Oh yes there is the ArXiv, HAL, ... papers circulate etc, but the "mainstream" is a network of hi priced journals and hi paid corporate-backed research + equally hi paid PR in the press. That's why people loose confidence: they do not have ontological means to know but they smell actual Science is mostly commerce and just very little Science.

IMVHO the sole way to correct that is build the above mentioned networks. Public, publicly well-founded universities that do research and reviews for the society, very-well separated from the private sector, and share this knowledge with the entire world. At that point the SciHub will be a public, legal and well founded platform and PR can do something but not enough to contaminate knowledge for private interest. At that point people would still not be able to verify, witch is not good, but they have something worth their confidence.
> the EM tried to draft a better product roadmap than the PM had made, it would dramatically worsen the relationship (for example).

Absolutely. But "to lead by example" the EM could ask the PM to sit down and improve the existing one until it's acceptable for the team (or for the EM).

But let's look at the exact scenario that the blog post mentions:

> Both are pushed to “collaborate better” but the team’s impact remains poor

How are they measuring team impact? Why is it important?

Again, leading by example, if impact is important for the EM, then they should find a job where they have that. Our world is changing fast, most people have a status quo bias, tech sector are even crazier, putting all of that together it's no surprise that almost everybody in tech is not exactly where they would like to be. Dealing with this discrepancy is hard (and even that's quite the understatement), but the only true ways are internal change (acceptance, eg. changing with the environment) or taking action. (See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_and_commitment_ther...)

> can come across as being a fake

It's very important to find the environment where you can be authentic. Including being a beginner, doing something that you're not 100% sure of. (IT/tech is again an extreme outlier in this regard, because it's full of people with self-esteem & confidence issues. Needless to say these issues can manifest in different ways, and both kinds are of course bad: impostor syndrome and the arrogant know-it-all.)

> How long should the main character stay in a context where good ideas lose out to bad ideas, and mediocrity rules?

It depends. If the main character finds passion outside work (let's say side business, family, whatever) and can just treat work like a means to many ends, then it doesn't really matter. If they cannot, because they want their work to be meaningful, impactful, they want to have professional pride in their work, etc... then they usually need to move :)
I don't think that valuing something different from the production cost is irrational.

If I never paid more than production cost + some "reasonable" markup I wouldn't be able to buy a lot of things that I enjoy.

A smart business sells things at roughly the price that people value them. A key job of the business is making that cost them less then the selling price.
Yeah, that guy is being a tool. "WHY IS THIS THING I REFUSE TO SPEND EVEN A FEW MINUTES BOTHERING TO RESEARCH, SO BAD?!"
Hasn't there been a massive energy crisis in Lebanon? How much of that energy consumption is cryptocurrency fueled?
From the godbolt link, it looked like most of the vector operations were not getting inlined. You'll need -O2 or higher to have representative results.

I could counter by just writing a Virgil program and turning off bounds check with a compiler flag. We could stare at the machine code together; it's literally an additional load, compare, and branch. The Virgil compiler loves eliminating bounds checks when it can. I know your original comment was in the context of the STL, but it really muddies the waters to see huge piles of code get inlined or not depending on compiler flags. Machine code is what matters.

Regardless, this is still microbenchmarking. Maybe matrix multiply is an important kernel, but we need to benchmark whole programs. If I turn off bounds checks in a big program like the Virgil compiler, I cannot measure more than about 1.5% performance difference.
Not in the same sense. If I use Paypal for example, I can only spend my funds in whatever they decide I should be able to spend it on. They can freeze my account at any point in time, no questions asked.

With crypto, the blockchain is just the infrastructure and no one can stop me from using my money.

Sometimes I wonder if people defending this kind of financial services are actually users. Doesn't seem so.
Interesting question.

* it's surprising how many dishwashers still use spring-loaded timers to sequence their operations. Although at this point mine is 19 years old so maybe that doesn't count.

* Likewise, my iron filter is sequenced by a mechanical timer (run off an electric motor), but my water softener's controller is fully electronic.

* A lot of houses still have mechanical mercury thermostats.

* The flush valve in your toilet tank is completely mechanical and surprisingly complex. Once you take it completely apart you realize that there's more to it than just a float that shuts off a valve.

* I'm always amazed by the centrifugal clutches in weed whackers and small gas-powered lawn appliances.

Should be more things I can come up with...
Crypto Miner Spotted in a Restaurant
Or with descent into corruption there comes the predictable turn to ideology which promises to clean it up (and make the proverbial trains run on time).

So if you don't want ideologues coming to power, don't tolerate corruption.
No, it's not GPSTest but "GPS Status & Toolbox".
> https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Mobile-Apps-articles...

R.I.P.
Do you think remote working has made decision between Consistency and Availability any different?

Is it now easier to be consistent because of conversations happening online, which facilitates usage of tools like slack, gong? (maybe before remote working and these tools, consistency was much harder to have).

Is consistency even more important in a remote setting? If you prioritsed availability in a remote setting, there would be even less consistency than before remote working (due to less corridor catchups, informal context sharing etc.)
When you get some time to breathe, I would love to hear a "retrospective" about how an account suspension turned into a redirect to a loans website. Did a bad actor notice your account was suspended, took over it somehow and then they sent traffic to their website? Is this standard protocol for your hosting provider (similar to those domain landing pages which link to all sorts of weird crap)?
> I think it is ok to let the free market to pick the winner.

Seems to me the market is calling for regulation, because it’s a huge barrier to adoption. Ask any skeptic (who doesn’t have a moral issue with it such as environmental impact) and 9 times out of 10 they go “it feels like a scam” or “I don’t want someone to hack my money.”

People like to gripe about regulation, but we also find a little security in it. It often makes us feel safe at the end of the day - and when it comes money, that’s a cornerstone feature that needs be present.
I initially bought the Fastmail $50 plan for personal and a 2nd for business. After getting everything transferred from Gmail, I realized that I only had 3GB of email stored at Google after over 10 years, and most of that I never looked at. So as an experiment, I converted the personal account back to a $30 account with the 2GB limit. My focus is on keeping my Inbox nearly empty except for actually pending things. FM says my storage is 6% full and I'm using 0.1GB of 2GB, but even that is just trash. I have the Trash folder set to autopurge email after 1 year and think I won't ever run out of space. And if I do, I can just delete the trash earlier.

For me this isn't about the $20, but more about making do with less. If I had a higher quota, the only thing it would allow me to do is accumulate more trash email! I do agree with you though that for $30/yr, they should allow custom domains.
I can imagine some potential scenarios at the borders of some countries where this might not be such a good idea but this is exactly why they allow you to get a copy passport.

Another example of needing a copy would be if you had an Israeli stamp and you needed to visit one of the countries that doesn’t allow that.[0]

[0] https://thepointsguy.com/guide/israel-entry-exit-travel-requ...
Social media may affect girls’ mental health earlier than boys’, study finds
It's the same with the black Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard: an extra $20 for the color.

Most people will choose the regular silver accessories. That makes the black accessories stand out even more. And as we know, being unique is very valuable in a secular and individualistic time.
I feel more like it's analogous to driving a stick shift or baking your own bread. "This is superior; everyone should be doing it!" The problem with that sentiment is that it's 100% true yet totally unrealistic (for reasons unknown -- I don't know why every grandparent out there can't learn to use the command line, from a neurological perspective), and the dissonance erupts like steam from a geyser when those people see the folly of not doing those things.
Which is hilarious that you say this when we're talking about Sasha Shulgin.
> Violence relieves someone of their Bitcoin keys just as easily as it does their dollars or gold.

Wrong. It is significantly more complicated to use violence to steal bitcoin from people than it is to use violence to steal dollars or gold. With bitcoin, I need to coerce you to give it to me. That could mean torture, sure, but do exist multisig key structures that make it impossible to steal bitcoin by coercing a single person.

On the other hand, if I want your gold, I just shoot you in the head and spend however long it takes to rummage through you house to find where you stashed it. I don't need to coerce your mind to give it to me.

This might seem like a small difference, but it's a hugely important one. It completely changes the economic calculation for the use of violence. Violence is a risky endeavor for any perpetrator and only continues if the economic rewards of engaging in violence outweigh the risks. Bitcoin increases the cost, which necessarily should decrease the incidence.
I came for some stories about starting a bookstore and all I got was a bunch of platitudes about adveristy.
> I think it is ok to let the free market to pick the winner.

You mean:

"I think it is ok for a _regulated_ free market to pick the winner."

An unregulated free market has scams we're seeing today.
My blog using Cactus Comments for reference: https://karmanyaah.malhotra.cc/

There aren't too many useful or any toxic comments, but I attribute that more to the lack of readership and interest than anything else.
Thanks for this, without this I had no clue what the article was referring to.

It would be nice if there was a fairly stable kernel API (or ABI) so drivers like this didn't have to be in the kernel. Out of tree drivers are a nightmare to maintain.

I maintained some out-of-tree drivers for years at Myricom (version of myri10ge with valuable features nak'ed by netdev, MX HPC drivers). Doing this was a massive PITA. Pretty much every minor release brought with it some critical function changing the number of arguments, changing names, etc. RHEL updates were my own special version of hell, since their kernel X.Y.Z in no way resembled the upstream X.Y.Z It got so bad to support 2.6.9 through 3.x that the shim layer for the Linux driver was almost as big as the entire FreeBSD driver (where nobody cared that I implemented LRO).
You can still use their products without a dedicated box or cloud accounts by running the UnifFi admin console in your own network. Can you clarify what you mean?
'Waste web' tracks movement of hazardous waste around the globe
Supabase Edge Functions
Every time I look under the hood of tether I shudder a bit.