skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you don't need answers in a hurry, there is no need for all the thinking bits to being one place. A lot less of that is needed because everything doesn't need to be done all at once; the same bits can work on different stages of a problem. It is safer to distribute it all more or less evenly throughout the organism. The bits can do other jobs besides, when not needed for thinking with. There is no need to connect everything directly to everything else; trunking and switching is more efficient. There is no reason to think we would recognize the cells they think with, even if anybody had bothered to look.

A tree can afford any amount of thinking-stuff, because running it slowly can be an arbitrarily tiny part of its energy budget: trees can afford to be very, very smart. What remains is to find how intelligence could enable reproductively advantageous adaptive behavior in trees. What could a smarter tree do to outcompete rivals?

It would be foolish to assume there are no such opportunities.
As good a time as any to remind everyone there'll be a total solar eclipse traversing the US in 2024[0]. If you haven't had the chance to see one before, this is likely your best shot until 2045

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_April_8,_2024
Cryptocurrency mining isn't analogous to Gold mining in this way. The purpose of cryptocurrency mining isn't to produce cryptocurrency, but rather to secure cryptocurrency transactions by making the order of transactions hard to reverse by any attacker. Mining produces cryptocurrency merely if it is designed to reward those who secure the network.

Mining specialization is against the purpose of cryptocurrency mining because it gives specialized attackers (a centralized group) power over the rest of the stakeholders (not just owners, but users).
> the cheapest power is where supply completely dwarfs demand. Bitcoin miners should ultimately migrate to those areas of stranded power

There are lots of other uses for surplus power eg Aluminium smelters, desalination plants, decarbonization machines, cracking H20.
Fear of White Replacement in Life and Gaming [video]
It's probably been mentioned before, but if you want something that is:

* A fair bit more grunty than a Pi

* Fairly power efficient

* x86

* More of a standard computer

You should consider picking up what Servethehome has coined the TinyMiniMicro nodes. They're the kind of computers you typically find strapped to the back of a monitor in a doctors office and usually are fairly power efficient machines. I, for example, have a Lenovo m710q - which has an Intel 6500t (a quad core CPU), 16gb of ram, and a 512GB SSD, which I paid around 200USD for, that is significantly easier to manage than a Pi (since it's 'just' a computer) and sucks back around 10w of power at idle (which is roughly triple a Single Pi 4) - but still in the realm of negligible. It actually replaced a Pi 4 for my self hosted home stuff, and it was a fantastic choice that I do not regret.

Lots of this type of computer are available in all sorts of configurations, and the more 'standard' nature of the machine opens up a lot of possibilities the Pi either makes more difficult, or impossible. For example, my node hosts a bunch of services for me, but it also acts as a Steam In Home Streaming machine that I have connected to my living room television, which allows me to stream games from my desktop to the TV fairly effortlessly.
That's certainly helpful to remediate, but not to prevent these things from repeating in the future.
Is this in answer to my last question? Because I know how RPython works.

The question is: Given that meta-tracing is about extending a JIT from a host language to a guest language, could you not then extend the JIT from the guest language to a guest-guest language recursively? You simply have to use annotations (like the start and end of a loop). But the principle stays the same. To experts: Does PyPy enable this at the moment?
Some countries also prohibit selling laptops without any OSs because they're unusable in that way, so this is a way to sell a technically "fully usable laptop" for people who'll install linux anyway.
Can you elaborate on why is that?
I didn't describe any model at all, so how can my non-existent model be "wrong"?
I tend to stick to linear switches. I think I've tried them all (all of the popular and semi-popular ones, anyway, not necessarily the random japanese ones) - most of my keyboards have them. I also like different styles/layouts like Alice, Splits, Ortho's, and more standard.

My fav is a 40% alice.

I usually have different keyboards for different types of activities, or games. I like playing Path of Exile on an Ortho as an example. But World of Warcraft I play on a larger keyboard, 65%. Programming is alltogether different, where general web browsing/forum commenting/twitter I am not so picky.
For some, agreement is submission and defeat, which cannot be tolerated. So word games happen.

Word games are a big thing here, in the land of words, disconnected from reality. We can argue literally anything. Black is white, up is down, desirable is undesirable, disease is health.

Thus we get a lot of bullshit.

Science is one great shovel for clearing that away.
I just want to stress that while Jabras statement sucks, you really should be reaching out to Apple.

Have the same issue on my MBP with Sennheiser Pxa550. With Monterey I actually had to install a plug-in for Chrome that keeps my volume at max during meet calls.

List of my issues:
- audio doesn't work
- audio doesn't switch from call mode to HiFi mode
- if I have a call running, it will not switch or work via my headphones
- audio balance switches to right headphone
....

I tried every recepie and thread I found online. Nothing.

Apple sucks.

Funny thing tho, I actually have a pair of Jabra 75t. And they seem more stable than Pxa550.

Again - direct hate towards Apple. I'm guessing all works with Apple headphones, as they sprinkle that secret sauce in their drivers that nobody else has access to.
Shipping your PC with "some linux distro" means you have to support that linux distro.

Selling it with freedos, you only have to support freedos, and people who buy that option will install something else anyway.
The official suppliers are required to sell at MSRP. People buy and then resell at higher prices so you can usually find them on amazon and eBay for double or more the MSRP.
If no company will do it your numbers are likely wrong.
Do they? I feel like you're just uncomfortable with line-item pricing and prefer flat all-in-one pricing. What are the other competitors that offer actual PaaS instead of static-site hosting?

* Render.com charges $0.60 per custom domain after the first 25

* Heroku gives you "free" custom certificates once you're on a $7/mo minimum.
> when the music stops

When the music stops, your account in the global open distributed ledger is stored in hundreds of thousands of harddrives distributed evenly throughout the entire free world.

And when the music starts again, your account is still exactly where it was when it stopped, available to you wherever you want to go in the free world.
Chat is a multi-player CLI. Anything you would do in a terminal that your team members should also know about can profitably be integrated with chat.
Sleep or time? I find that time softens the edges of emotions which then makes them easier to deal with. Sleep is a way to accelerate the passage of time - assuming you can get to sleep.
> It might be justified if bitcoin could replace the traditional financial system (think about how inefficient that is), but I do not think it can.

Bitcoin is already way more inefficient than the current financial system. Just compare cost per transaction between Bitcoin and Visa, for example. People seem to think that Bitcoin will somehow replace the entirety of the financial system when it's not even designed to do that and only really handles transactions.
They'll just slack at work. They'll watch tiktok on their phones, hang out at the coffee machine, chat with their coworkers. It's worse because their activities will waste other peoples time, not just their own.
They’ve been doing it for 20 years, so I’d guess that there is some sort of contractural rationale between HP and Microsoft.

HP ships Ubuntu in thin clients by default. So the fact they are doing this implies some specific reason.
which leaves the question of why going through the hassle of creating this mess instead of just Linux.
I've got a news flash for you about the scientists that America is educating...
> very annoying

They should use machine learning to learn how to not be annoying then. This is possible, it's just big companies have too much momentum to make useful products nowadays

> highly battery-draining

Having demand will will be motivation for better battery research.
Most of the time. If heroku is having downtime. Then Amazon is having downtime. Then half the internet is down. Let customers know Amazon is down. Sit back and relax.
Berkshire's ability to commit to long-term planning (at least currently) instead of levering up to boost short term returns to equity gives them an advantage over the traditional conglomerate model.
Obviously this discussion is INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS to post online, so this video is not mine and not my perspective but: #meToo, every time I, as a Cajun lady, walk into any kind of game store, tobacconist, gas station, or grocery store in the United States of America.

American friends keep saying over and over and over again that this is "unique" to American culture but I have never felt this under threat in any country I've ever been in with the possible exception of Austria/Poland between 2014-2021. I am so used to "hackers" in the MIT/CSAIL sense covering up the damage of other academics in order to protect "their own" and it's not ever been cool, and I refuse to respond to anyone who expects me to reply to anything here ever in Yiddish.
The companies that hire these engineers either pay them to work there or pay them to work here. So you are competing with them regardless. But the US can benefit from both migrant farm workers and skilled laborer immigrants. And unless you're one of the few natives in the US, your ancestors got the same benefit. Let's just let them immigrate here and then we get the benefit of their expertise and their culture.
Most American educated scientists aren't American, unless that's what you meant.
https://twitter.com/JuiceSimpsons/status/1523551892432953345

I intend to make it my duty in life to never understand what any of this shit actually means.
Because they are American-educated and a demographic can't beat themselves.
Because they they have to support that linux distro, with all the drivers, update etc.,...

And the FreeDOS just works. Doesn't do much, but what it does, it does well.
You do realize that leading world in R&D is a prerequisite to having high paying jobs?
In my experience, when people have no other methods to become whole (when wrong was done against them), they *will* lash out in ways you might disapprove of.

If anything, advocacy of violence shows just how far down our societal belief that we wouldn't be wronged, is nearly gone.

I'm for limited violence when all other methods have been exhausted. But then we have to decide exactly what "violence" is.
But customers can also order this laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled. Why offer both Ubuntu and FreeDOS, especially if the latter is just running inside of a Linux VM anyway?
Hawks and owls require multi-year effort in Falconry licensing (at least in the US).

First 2 years under a sponsor--you can get a very specific hawk or falcon (which hawk or falcon is geographically dependent)
After 2 years & sponsor approving it-- you are now a general falconer. Have fun with other raptors, including owls.
OTOH....
Wild Owls: excellent pest control.
> Current U.S. immigration law limits the number of green cards issued per country, and people from populous countries like India and China are disproportionately affected.

It still shocks me how many of my friends from $top_US_university got kicked out of the country (or almost did, saved only by marriage). Like, do we really want to kick out a half-Iranian nuclear engineer, who now wants to work as a SWE, because they were born in India?

I get that we can't open the flood gates. But it _does_ make a bit of sense to retain the top % of immigrants based on education in scarce fields, no?
This is cool, I’ve always thought db optimization would be a great place for ML
but the Linux they are shipping underneath that FreeDOS also works. And they also offer Linux preinstalled, so they need to "support" that to whatever amount anyways.
A clarification: every static site or full stack app can have up to 25 custom domains for free on Render. Most sites only have 2 (apex and www).
Both, and screenshots from all views.
Yeah, `call` got supplanted by `bind`, and `bind` got supplanted by arrow functions. `apply` got supplanted by spread parameter syntax.

I've used them before for doing stupid reflection hacks (literally just used them today to build a debug UI where I can make sliders out of objects), but it's not code I would really want to ship in production.
Only for rooftop batteries. The estimate for utility scale batteries is entirely lower than coal.
File Violates Google Drive's ToS
It indeed is something easily fixable. The one thing I dislike about wireless communication is that, besides relying on software that (hopefully correctly) implements scarily complex specifications, it uses invisible radio waves. For wired connections, you can see and touch the thing that connects your two devices. Thus they're much easier to troubleshoot.
If we assume no blockreward then the fees will be whatever motivates miners to include your transaction. If the fee was zero, then no miner would even bother.
I'm pretty sure the article's numbers were UK ones, by the way - I certainly knew the UK Domino's large pizza number from personal experience, and the photos of e.g. peanut butter were ones I recognise from UK supermarkets.
I think computer BT announces many more features, and they weed out problematic BT implementations much better.

I'm running an old Philips SHB3075 with my MacBook Air M1, and it has no problems whatsoever. The connection takes a bit longer compared to my iPhone, but I think it's negotiating a lot of things over the air during that connection.

I've attended half day long meetings, and join 2 meetings on average over zoom and Skype. Nothing shifts, nothing drops.

So, BT is a complicated protocol with a lot of baggage and layers, and proper debugging is much better than finger pointing.

Jabra can update the firmware on the device, but they're lazy or there's something wrong with hardware. I own a 45 (previously called Stealth), and the family got 5-6 software updates over the years.
I moved myself and my job to Canada (L6 engineer at FAANG). It's been alright, I wish I could stay but didn't really see a way forward in the USA, immigration-wise.

I think folks in the US fail to see that they'll be competing with engineers of other nationalities - regardless of if they're in the USA or outside, and there's really nothing that Congress or anyone else can do to prevent remote jobs (and the trickle-down monies) from leaving the country.
> Jobs worth caring about are extremely rare

Yes, co-ops are rare.
Are STEM PhDs in the private sector struggling?
This is beautifully put, I'm saving it in my notes to remind myself of it later. The point about market cap was especially striking.
Hey sorry getting to this late but two routes I laid out in the first issue:

- premium tier (released 3 days early, higher Idea tier/grade average)

- advertising blurb next to the tl;dr

Will probably do one or the other — that’s all I can think of right now!

I mentioned this in the first issue as well!
Render has native automatic backups for PostgreSQL: https://render.com/docs/databases#backups

Review apps on Render are called Preview Environments: https://render.com/docs/preview-environments
>Almost everything uses simple JSON APIs

I wish that were true. Maybe most new web projects do. Unfortunately, most web projects are not new.
Sleep (article)
Good call, I'm not texan so I wasn't aware of that. And probably a good decision too.
I think people misconstrue the benefits of k8s to be related to reliability or similar.
Ultimately it's about the API and the consistency and productivity it offers.

For larger teams having a well defined API that delineates applications from infrastructure that doesn't require extreme specialist knowledge (it still requires some specialist knowledge but vastly less than direct manipulation of resources via something like Terraform) is a massive productivity boost.

Of course none of that matters if you have 4 developers like OP but for folks like myself that routinely end up at places with 300+ engineers then it's a huge deal.
The first way is that it's subjective; you have to trust the initial source of the data to give you the correct validator set to use layer. This is a vector for censoring some stake.

The second, probably more important way, is that validators in PoS can decide to ignore or slash a particular validators stake. This can't be done in PoW because the hashes are fungible and stake is not.
You’re right! I do think a premium tier could work though.

Kind of hard because ideas are somewhat worthless without execution!
“Western” capitalism happened.
> Many of us work far too hard at jobs with people we don’t like — not a likely path to happiness. Dr. MacKerron and the economist Alex Bryson found that work is the second-most-miserable activity…

True.
This!. I've been searching for a set of speakers for my lounge room with a nice big cone in them, but I just cant find that is not priced for audiofiles. I have been looking second hand, but everything I can find is over 40 years old and the cones have all started disintegrating.
Sacrifices always seem to be presented as the killer or the people giving up something they value, but I would not be at all surprised if it were basically a display of power — killing people those who are poorly-connected or who are rivals in some way.
Heroku was magic for hosting college projects of 2010's complexity. The failure wasn't in the prohibitive cost at scale (though that factor didn't help); it was that for most real-world stuff we need IaaS, not PaaS. That has become more and more evident over the last ten years.

I think if fly succeeds, they need to figure out edge IaaS, and not put all their eggs into edge PaaS. And I hope they do! I'm curious what a successful edge IaaS looks like!
> [...] despite its shortcomings [...]

What do you see as some of its shortcomings? Do e.g. semi-broken docs (or other instances of unclear/uncertain messaging) factor into your impression?
> It's easy to forget that most companies are a handful of people or just solo devs.

I have the same complaint all the way down to simple sysadmin tasks. Ex: MS365 has a lot of churn on features and changes. It’s like they think everyone has a team of admins for it when in reality a lot of small businesses would be satisfied with a simple, email only product they can manage without help.
> If bitcoin miners are chasing cheap power ... 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

Um, no. That presumes there is somewhere cheaper to move, for one. If powers costs $0.08/kWh in one place and the next best option is $0.12/kWh then even if you assume no moving costs you've got all that headroom before it even makes sense to move.

But consider the concrete example of Pittsburgh [1] (emphasis added):

> A few years ago, miners “descended upon” the city of Plattsburgh, New York, about a hundred and fifty miles north of Albany, which gets much of its electricity from hydroelectric dams on the St. Lawrence River. The power is relatively inexpensive, but, once Plattsburgh uses up its allotment, it has to purchase more at higher rates. Bitcoin mining drove up the cost of electricity in the city so dramatically that, in 2018, Plattsburgh enacted a moratorium on new mining operations.

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-bitcoin-is-...
Most of what you said I agree with, but not your last point:

> Either way, we're going to need Fusion to run it in the future.

In my understanding, the economics of Bitcoin mean that eventually mining will be performed with predominantly waste energy, which is by definition that which has no other practical use. The existence of a practical use for the energy other than for mining will push its price higher than is economical to use for Bitcoin mining, because other miners using waste energy will be able to pay less to mine the next block. It's likely that energy for Bitcoin mining will come from sources like heat from flare gas, currently just burned at oil refineries and released as photons into the night sky, leaving Earth forever. Or energy from wind turbines or solar panels during periods of low demand. Or a hydroelectric dam 1000s of km from civilisation willing to pay the transmission costs to use it. Or, heck, even heat extracted from sewage in Vegas hotels, if it's enough to run a steam turbine. Basically anywhere where otherwise useless energy can be extracted in quantities sufficient for mining. I don't think, given the costs of the infrastructure likely required for fusion, we'll be seeing it employed for Bitcoin mining long term.

This is one of the aspects of Bitcoin I find most beautiful - it monetises waste.
The censorship doesn't happen at the network level but at the protocol level, by removing a validators stake.
You mean by pouring money into the sectors where these immigrants would theoretically work?

> China competition bills passed in the last year by the House and Senate seek to pour money into the National Science Foundation and other federal research agencies. They also seek to incentivize high-tech companies, especially those that manufacture semiconductors, to build facilities in the U.S.

Looks like they're on it.
You're right that there isn't a direct causal relationship between fees and market cap, but I think the ratio between them is important. If miner revenue becomes a tiny fraction of market cap, 51% attacks become a very real threat. Then the community would need to do something to increase the ratio, such as establishing a permanent block reward.
I don't find that perverse. Netflix is confident that they offer both top of scale pay, and top of scale satisfaction. And they want their employees to be happy. That kind of employee is maximally productive. They actively want to get rid of less than dedicated, top performers.

Yes, if you are in a weak position as employer, not confident of your ability to retain employees, it is perverse. Or if as an employer, you don't judge quality of employee so much as long as you get SOME output from them.

Your argument amounts to: unsatisfied employees shudder might leave, or even worse be encouraged to leave by this policy. I believe that Netflix actually desires that. Unsatisfied employees are not maximally productive employees. We can see this in their recently updated culture deck -- "if you don't like it here, don't let the door hit you on the way out."

As well, the mere projection of such power (encouragement to seek outside offers) is enough to keep most employees satisfied that their employer is paying them, and every one around them, fairly. Without them having to act on it.
Long term endorphins from not eating?! Maybe once, the first time you ever successfully don't eat, but surely it stops being a surprise after the first time.