skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is in the online world you are at places where people expect to discuss. On top you simply don't see the people who don't discuss or comment and just spectate.

If you go to a debate club in real life you will be able to debate just as well, because everybody who is there is there to debate. Ot would be weird for someone to be there if they did not.

If you talk to some random person at work it is very likely that they just want to get shit done with as little hassle as possible. This usually does not involve debating about things endlessly.

I love a good debate. I grew up with debates in comment sections and I am of the type that you can mud-wrestle with until you realize I enjoy the thing. Yet even I don't always want to debate. Sometimes I prefer to eat my food in silence, or not talk to the guy sitting next to me on the subway.

I like debate when I am in the mood for debate. This is often, but not always and not anywhere.
> very unresponsive

AutoHotkey seems to operate at a pretty high level in Windows' input processing stuff. There are lower-level APIs and tools available, but which behaviors are you trying to replicate?
Hopefully what you’re monitoring is valuable to you or the company you’re working for (otherwise why monitor it?).

If you have a personal project and need a few extra monitors (Snitches) then reach out to support. Happy to help out any way we can.
We actually launched with that feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616857

No one took us up on it. What we found is that the majority of people want their stuff to stay up, and the right UX for "shut it down so you don't get billed" is not obvious.

We ended up implementing prepayment instead. If you sign up and buy $25 in credit, we'll just suspend your apps when the credit runs out.

Bandwidth is weird because we have to pay for it (as does every other provider). We aren't yet in a position where we can just make it free without limits. Maybe next year. :)
> it's been estimated that a Tesla Model 3 "needs to be driven for 13,500 miles (21,725 km) before it does less harm to the environment than a Toyota Corolla"

Huh, that’s a factor of 5-10 less miles than I was expecting. Good to know.
No, this doesn’t mean that in Europe. They may charge you 5-10€ for a CD or a flash drive. And maybe 2-3€ for 10 printouts. Maybe another fee of 20€ if it was already archived, and they need to pull it from the archive. It’s about covering their costs, and not about making money. 5 minutes of their work doesn’t cost 300 usd.
> That's intellectually dishonest because Bitcoin is simply chasing cheap power and hydro power is among the cheapest. Bitcoin miners will happily use coal if it's sufficiently cheap. Also, use of certain renewables comes at the expense of other people. In the Hudson Valley, miners have raised the electricty prices for other residents in those towns.

If bitcoin miners are chasing cheap power (which I believe they are), then it shouldn't be possible for miners to increase the price of power in a fixed area, as they would immediately migrate elsewhere where power is cheaper. You can't have it both ways. Interestingly, the cheapest power is where supply completely dwarfs demand. Bitcoin miners should ultimately migrate to those areas of stranded power, and thus under optimal conditions bitcoin miners shouldn't compete with any other buyer of energy-- it would only be efficient to preform bitcoin mining for the lowest possible cost of energy where there is no other customer. It is largely looking like renewables would fit that bill, as the era of low hanging fossil fuels is long gone (aside from government subsidies).
As the article mentions, it doesn't force you to use docker.
> This decision is not made entirely by the CEO

Of course, and the ones who gather and analyze the data tend to be well paid too, for the same reason. But turning data into strategic decisions is an important skill, and one a CEO is expected to have.

> And if the CEO was the only person to make that decision then that is only because it is afforded to them by their role, not like a software engineer or...

So, why don't you apply as CEO instead of as a software engineer if you want the big fat pay? If you can show the board that you are the best suited for the job, they will hire you.

> so there is no reason why they should be getting 100x or 1000x what others are making

Tell that to the shareholders. Do you really think shareholders want an overpaid CEO to eat their dividends if it is not for a good reason? If they are paying that much, it is because they think that a lesser paid CEO will not bring as much value to the company. If you can convince them that it is not the case, they will definitely cut the CEO budget so they can make more money for themselves.
It would be very strange for the current situation to be a long term stable equilibrium for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is a zero sum ecosystem, minus mining fees. So it's a net negative sum by some $20-30m per day in electricity and hardware costs.

Why would it stabilize around this particular value?
Yes but once there's no longer the financial insentive of bitcoin rewarded for mining, fees need to have the same insentive relative to bitcoin market cap? Otherwise double spending becomes the most profitable for miners surely.
On 2, I don't think there are any commercial truck manufacturers in the US that don't offer electric models.
Even small companies should be multi-region, if they care about uptime.
Pepper Potts
You’re just repeating the same thing over and over. I still don’t think at any point the bank is multiplying money in any kind of real or concerning way.
I understand the cross-over also destroys phase — so I think you're still losing the headphone-like quality that full range give you.
I also deliberately avoided using them as they (IMO) belong to the "bad parts", or at least the parts that most mortal frontend devs don't need to use outside of interviews.

With frameworks, it's easy to avoid them and unless you write lots of vanilla or you roll your own framework, they just don't come up, and therefore I expect my colleagues (and me) to just mess things up when we try to use them.
> I'm guess (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that the major difference between the world OP and yourself describes and my experience is mostly in that it seems you two are trying to get "a job" (any job) whereas I'm saying, I find companies that I think I would enjoy (pre, during, and post interview) then tailor my application and approach specifically to that company.

In my case, you wouldn't be completely wrong or right. Both are in-part hampered by a number of factors. The first being the absolute critical mass of companies jumping on the bandwagon of these hiring practices. So among the companies you want to work for and make your resume look spiffy for, there often isn't a way to mitigate much of this, except with numbers. Second is the spotty work history, so even in the ideal case where you do bypass any of that, you don't really have much of a choice. The one area that I'd say is worthwhile to do, is always asking about the interview process. If they don't tell you, they're off your list, but the next 10 might come back and say "Hey, you look great for the role, just talk to our CTO, tmand our entire marketing department, and of course Joe over in Boston, after you complete this take-home project" which is just so much risk off loaded. I even had a guy—literally Joe from Boston—and the CEO agree to hire me, after going through all of that, and then get cold feet and back out because I'm in Canada. That was 6 months ago, and I was already on the verge of being homeless, having soent all my savings on just basic necessities between jobs.

If you've got a stable or consistent work history, are well-spoken enough, technically competent, you're probably fine, such as in your case. Otherwise, it's brutal.

For me personally, I don't interview anymore unless I speak to someone on the team first. That's enough to eliminate 95% of all potentials I look at, and it's only possible because for now because I'm already on a contract. Those 5% carry the rest of the risks, and there just isn't enough out there most of the time to be that selective.
Agreed (especially on the devops overhead), some options to lower the bandwidth usage using request blocking:
- block ads
- blocks videos, images
- css stylesheets

In the past I've built scraper infrastructure (headless pools, credential stores, proxy managers, agent profiles) and managed to get a pretty efficient service by tracking cpu,memory,network usage per each job and writing specialized versions. I got pretty far trying to automatically generate specialized scrapers from previous requests but I moved to other projects.

Scraping becomes boring really fast if you don't use the data in meaningful ways.
I've always been fuzzy on Excel's precision. It's frequently described as preserving or storing fifteen significant figures. I wasn't sure if it rounds before storing, or if that's just how it displays. After some experimentation, I've satisfied myself that it can store more than it can display.

For example, =PI() displays at most 3.14159265358979, no matter how many digits I ask it to display. If I add 1.999E-15, I get 3.1415926535898. If I type 3.14159265358979 (omitting the invisible trailing 3), then add 1.999E-15, I get 3.14159265358979.

In other words, Excel uses double-precision floating point, but never displays more than fifteen significant figures. You may be in for a surprise if, say, you round trip a spreadsheet through CSV.
>the major difference between the world OP and yourself describes and my experience is mostly in that it seems you two are trying to get "a job" (any job) whereas I'm saying, I find companies that I think I would enjoy

I'm in the second group, for the long term goal on finding companies I'd like to work at. It's in the thread's title.

Recently I chatted with a less experienced engineer, he currently works at Lyft and has had internships at Intel and Github while at college, along with related extracurriculars. That is what inspired me to make this thread. I'm trying to build a several years long plan to do what is possible for a self-taught in order to get to a similar position.

So my aim right now is to plan a itinerary that is suitable from getting noticed the way reputable tech companies notice future graduates with good internships and credentials. I will have to earn my own credentials differently (not necessarily with a job), to position myself in the same way. You can think of this plan as a "school away from school" on the way to get multiple offers from reputable companies.

There is a risk that it may backfire from a hiring standpoint, since this plan would probably further delay my re-entry into the workforce. However, without the ability to pass job interviews, I will have to obtain other accomplishments without work experience. Also, I'll probably cut my oldest jobs from my resume to shorten my experience.
Necessarily so.

It's been over 7 years since mining on anything except ASICs is a guaranteeing a loss.
Broadcast media is regulated because it uses a limited resource deemed for the public good - the broadcast spectrum. There is no equivalent to the broadcast spectrum on the internet. Note that non-broadcast media like cable is far less regulated for that reason.

Also, incitement to violence is already against the law and the TOS for social media platforms.
People want brief explanations of reasons for outputs, and a 10gb pile of weights isn't really what they mean.

Human explanations meanwhile are often invented to fit evidence to personal biases and beliefs, and are thus typically deeply flawed. But we're more ok with humans making suspect decisions than ML, in many cases.
today i bought 9$ wired 3.5mm jack headphones (noname) better than 90$ sony and 300$ bose

everything is a scam
Let's call the coin "Entropy".
Why Are Running Shoes So Chunky?
That'd be fun. Intel would be providing services to customers for running their own spy platform on any supported Intel processor.

Not unlike "Other OS" on PS3. Same theory, different application.
You don’t need to route every write to primary though, but only those writes that have dependencies on other writes. Things like telemetry can be written in edge instances. Depends on your application of course, but in many cases that should be only a tiny fraction of all requests needing redirects to primary.

And why would you get 20 instances, all around the world right out of the gate? 6-7 probably do the job quite well, but maybe you don’t even need that many. Depending on where most of your customers are, you could get good results with 3-4 for most users.
The article mentions that MD and DE rates have also gone from 31c to 41c per kWh. That’s a 32% increase. Wasn’t aware that we were seeing electricity price increases anywhere near that on this coast.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t care much: I rarely use these networks except on occasional long trips, so the extra $6-8 per 200 miles driven isn’t a killer. But hopefully this is not the first sign of Tesla exercising its vendor lock-in to juice profits. The supercharger network is currently the best selling point for the car.
It's not like these folks don't know you can have multiple wallets. How many whacks to the head would you or your family have to suffer before you admit you have more coins somewhere?
Or solar panels on the roof
>The amount of electricity is not proportional to the market cap
This misses the point of the argument, which is to say that if the market cap of bitcoin goes up, the marginal benefit of mining by definition goes up. This in turn drives up demand for electricity, until the marginal cost of additional mining units and associated power equilizes. That's not to say that there isn't a benefit to a more efficient proof-of-work scheme, as in theory if the scheme can support _all_ future and current transactions like the current banking system, then there's a cap on energy consumption. However, what OP points out is that the speculation and monetary utility of Bitcoin both act to increase power consumption due to basic economic forces.

>Also, when you add the energy that goes directly from sun light to soy beans, I think that we are in Argentina still using a little more more energy than bitcoin.

This is a non-sequitur. The point of using Argentina is to illustrate that in verifying transactions, Bitcoin uses as much energy as millions of people lighting their homes, watching television, running air-conditioning, heating water, charging their phones, etc etc etc. Nobody is claiming that Bitcoin consumes more metabolic energy or solar energy, OP's just highlighting that Bitcoin's electricity costs are potentially unsustainable.
That's probably because it doesn't have a traditional VBIOS.

...which makes me wonder whether it's possible for the community to write one, given how much docs and source code Intel have released for their GPUs. Of course, how VGA-compatible it is is another thing to consider.
Play Pokemon Emerald in my Twitter avatar by replying to a tweet
You can now play Pokemon Emerald by replying to this tweet (https://twitter.com/dixitbavu/status/1525844862209511424) with commands start, select, A, B, left, right, up, down which updates my profile picture every 15 seconds with the most replied command

Gotta Catch 'Em all!
having just gone through that, my pro tip is: look at implementing promise.all() as well as extending the code to have a limit on concurrent promises/etc. very popular question.
Fair point. When our town was cut off by snow and all the roads were closed, I couldn’t use my bike to get out.

I used the train. Class 43 power cars and eight carriages don’t give a shit about snow on the line.

But I guess your heated car would have kept you warm for a while stranded on the B4437.
>The direct block reward goes to zero over the years, but the miner's fee will still be a positive amount.

Yes.

>Each miner will be competing for the miner's fee, and will buy more electricity if they can mine more blocks (and get more miner's fees).

Yes.

>The rewards will be proportional to the market cap of bitcoin. If it goes up, so will the investment in electricity.

No.

You're conflating two different things here: A reward-dominated bitcoin and a fee-dominated bitcoin.

The reward takes money from bitcoin owners in the form of inflation. It decreases the market cap by increasing supply.

The fees take money directly from bitcoin users.

In the reward-dominated case, miners are funded by new demand for bitcoin, which props the market cap up. In the Fee-dominated case, miners are funded by bitcoin users who compete with each other for limited bandwidth. In either case, the money being given to miners by these two parties is always greater than or equal to the money spent on mining (power, hardware).

What we've seen so far is a reward-dominated bitcoin in which demand is very high and the market cap increases as the block reward decreases. I predict the demand will stabilize and the reward will continue to decrease. This means there will be less mining. Eventually the reward will asymptotically trend to zero in which case bitcoin will become fee-dominated.

Fees are dependent on the supply/demand for bitcoin bandwidth (the supply is a static 1MB/10 mins), not market cap or price.
> In my mind, something must be systemically wrong here.

It is. Three things are at play here: The power of consumer protection agencies is way too low, the standardization group (=Bluetooth SIG) doesn't give a fuck, and the Bluetooth standard itself is a horrible mess dealing with a lot of historical baggage.

In an ideal world, cases such as "won't operate with a standard-issue Mac" would cause an investigation by a consumer protection agency and the party found to be at fault by violating the specification would have to remedy the issue and/or face substantial fines (obviously, the larger the company the bigger the fines).
I have a weird old nylon cutting machine connected to a DOS machine over a serial port. It would not work with a USB/RS-232 adaptor?
It's very generous of you to assume we're focusing on underlying platform. It's true! But it's a difficult thing to notice when our service gave you papercuts.

We've just now grown large enough to have people focus full time on the in browser UX. If you feel like fiddling around again in a few months, let me know and I can hook you up with some credits. :)

The billing UI is definitely cobbled together. This is because I built it over a weekend and it's marginally better than "no billing UI". I have learned that if I'm building features, they probably aren't gonna be very good.
I've found this to be very common among all generations, particularly boomers/greatest generation. Everyone has ingrained beliefs and nobody likes when those are contradicted, particularly in public and with factual points that can be hard to rebuff, at least on the spot.

There are so many things I have to be careful not to say to my parents and older relatives lest they burst a blood vessel, as well as my senior neighbors and coworkers. My peers, however, are used to hearing all sorts of things and are usually happy to discuss or debate any topic without taking things personally or as an insult to their heritage or tradition.

I think that there are always going to be generational differences, and that it isn't helpful to blame generations. Instead, we should all work to identify and solve issues rather than point to the "others" and say they are at fault.
Fly.io isn't as much cutting-edge as it is a rethink on what devex on Cloud should look like. It is a fantastic offering that despite its shortcomings is really a delight to use. I use it for toy projects (mostly stateless, or state stored elsewhere but not on Fly.io), but there are plenty who run pretty serious workloads. Give it a spin! You'd be surprised how butter-smooth all that cutting-edge is.
Well, most training happened before the brain is even born.
Interesting. If they have only very recently tried Zipf's law then there may be some other more advanced stuff they haven't tried.

I'm thinking word embeddings. Like maybe you could do a word embedding based on cooccurence and look for similarly shaped clusters in Linear A and Early Greek.
At what point does one decide a pinata is empty if there is 0 evidence available that a pinata might not even be a pinata?
Maybe? But even that wouldn't have required pixelating the whole device, unless someone was just being lazy.

Or, we could get all Kremlinological about it, and assume that the pixelation is meant to obscure the fact that something specific is being hidden (if the black device has some prominent design detail, eg. glowing stripes on the temples, which were either covered in tape or blacked out in the video, the pixelation would hide that fact nicely).
Do you have to live in Europe, or could I travel there temporarily to engage the act (or even just pay a lawyer there on my behalf).
Ultimately, the open question here is this: are uncomputable functions just a mathematical fancy, or do there really exist processes that can only be fully correctly described by uncomputable functions?

Personally I lean towards latter view. I’m the first to admit that I have no proof. It’s just my belief, because I find the metaphysical evidence compelling. I don’t object to investigating the former possibility, but I also don’t care for it just being baldly asserted.

If the answer is affirmative, that means that science will probably never be solved and we’ll just have to content ourselves with incremental improvements in our understanding. That’s observably been the case up until now. Granted even if all processes are in fact described entirely by computable functions we might still never discover what they are.

I hope it’s clear how all that relates to the concrete problem of understanding human cognition and the brain.

I'm nowhere near smart enough to even begin to conceive of a mathematical framework for taming noncomputable functions in a pragmatic way, but I earnestly hope some genius comes along who is, supposing that noncomputable functions are needed to completely describe our reality.
So, logically, the robots will use us for batteries.
I don't believe social media does eat up other forms of interaction, at least not for most people. People still speak, they still read, they still watch tv, talk on the telephone, communicate in every way they used to.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll fix it ASAP.
I'm still amazed how few Americans are capable of caring about the health and lives of other people, their neighbors, their communities. And thoroughly in denial that anything could ever befall their perfect selves.
The Rumpelstiltskin Principle
I implied no such thing.

You, be contrast ("do your own googles") implied that I lack the work ethic or skill to determine this. But I did give it a quick go, and searching phrases like (birth trends by income decades) didn't yield anything to support this assertion.

I doubt you are dishonest; I just don't know the facts myself.
Relevant: "How (and why) developers use the dynamic features of programming languages"

<https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-012-9203-2>

<https://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~rrobbes/p/EMSE-features.pdf>
This is very much my experience.

Especially during times of duress, I find that if I allow myself to be conscious of how I’m feeling, there’s a really good chance that I’ll wake up the next day with a clearer idea of the next step in the process. It’s almost like there’s a limit to how much I can process per “awake period”.
well, maybe

but, my expectation as a PaaS customer in 2022 is that you shouldn't need to pay for a SSL cert

the expectation is because nobody else charges for them anymore, not even their competitors
Anonymity often brings out the worst in some people.

In the middle of that mud we can also find honest feedback, often unfiltered and not-sugar coated.

IRL people are often too overly concerned about too many things that don't matter.
There was no way to verify before that Apple wasn’t tracking you either. Whether or not you trust Apple should have nothing to do with Private Relay.