skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He realizes he's just so far above the law. Unlike Trump he's an actual billionaire, and nowhere near the same level of negatives or ambition to be a Roy Cohn. Who knows?

Hope it feels good to be a pawn on his board.
git clone git@gitlab.com:asad-awadia/kotlin-server-app.git

Deploy to a VPS on DO or Linode
That's a good one! I guess no.
Of course, but we are without a doubt experiencing exponential technology change. All models are approximations, and an exponential approximation is far better than whatever is going into EIA and IEA advice to policy makers.

We have not yet hit the linear part of the sigmoid, and are not close. But the good modes out there take that sigmoid shape into account.

(Also, why don't Singularity advocates know about sigmoids?)
Ask HN: I’m a CSE new grad with no experience. Should I negotiate an offer?
I have an offer from a small logistics company to do some software engineering. It comes with a base salary and potential for annual bonus - nothing else. I have no previous internships or professional experience or pending offers.

Given the current job market, would it be valuable to negotiate for a base increase or bonus? Or should I just accept the offer since it’s my first job out of college?
Bootstrap Studio is a pretty cool software that I can recommend. It has some good foundation. The problem is that it is paid and proprietary software. However, if you happen to have the Github student pack, you'll get Bootstrap Studio for free!

I've also seen Grapedrop and Silex which are FOSS but I haven't extensively tried them out yet.
Some of them presumably are? Redditors are notorious for not being able to distinguish creative writing exercises from reality. Throw in the various methods of vote manipulation that the less scrupulous marketing folks there are surely using, and it is hard to imagine that a large fraction of highly upvoted Reddit product testimonials aren’t fake
This article means well but these tips are mostly platitudes. What I want to read is how people who do not care about work (i.e. people who are borderline anti-work) find work that is meaningful.

I do not believe that people aspire to not have purpose. I do believe that many people's work life is misaligned with their true purpose OR they don't know what their purpose is. I'd love to read more articles like that.

(I naturally love the work that I do and tend to invent work by solving problems that people think are worth solving. I cannot relate to people who straight-up don't want to work. Articles like the above would help me understand their mindset.)
How much of it is government lockout/red tape?
I expect this is a self-resolving problem. The employee in question is probably using a portion of that "not in the office" time to interview with companies that have more reasonable policies. If the OP just rides this out, it will probably become a non-issue soon.
The outcomes are only contradictory if you interpret them as such. As for me, I don’t believe a person’s choice of vote, between at most two viable parties, is sufficient evidence for classifying their moral beliefs – certainly not to the extent that I can recognize them as contradictory to their actions.
I have a great counterpoint quote from Edward Abbey: "One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards."
Galaxies without dark matter DF2 and DF4
Not just guns but spy satellites. You can spend your whole career in defense and be directly responsible for exactly 0 weapons, just helping to find things in satellite images or make sense of signal data or help naval vessels communicate better
>> The 2020 housing boom will not blow up like in 2008

This is correct. The current boom will not blow up like in 2008, it will blow up in a new and unanticipated way. Likely due to complex and lightly regulated financial innovations that have grown in size since the last crash.
So they are short staffed due to Covid and thus drive through only. Things should get back to normal in a decade or so, when the plague finally abates.
No, I haven't! It just stood out in the ones I did.

(I didn't mean the first part as a claim to expertise; the second was a genuine question.)
I don't see the problem, it's a sort of collective regional trademark that the makers of this traditional regional cheese carrying this specific branding (and their customers expecting authentic product) benefit from.

If you don't have a problem with the likes of Apple litigating counterfeit products using their trademarked brand, why would you have a problem with this?
no problem, that's why it's a fun fact to share and not me attacking you for it

hopefully we all on HN recognize that we know an infinitesimally small fraction of a percentage of all there is to know – at least, I do :)
> What I'm pointing out is that if we are scared of some omnipotent AI, we shouldn't discard existing omnipotent entities

You're only pointing out your submissiveness and apathy. Governments are not omnipotent.

> if we treat both as black boxes

Governments are not black boxes. The operation of governments is legislated. The consequences of government decisions and actions become public, even in the most secretive totalitarian regimes.

All your premises are faulty. If you want to remove yourself from broader society, naively misunderstand the constitution and workings of government, and submissively fail to hold the government of the day accountable then good luck to you.

If you want to be an AGI's pet then also good luck to you.
Most of these support standard USB-CCID anyway so they don't even need any drivers. I'd never bother installing them.
Bert Transformers for Natural Language Processing
In our latest tutorial, we examine how the BERT language model works in detail before jumping into a coding demo in a Gradient Notebook. We then show how to fine-tune the model for a particular text classification task.
+ message passing, anti-cheat
I totally understand how you feel, and have similar thoughts myself. I love programming and find technology fascinating on a technical level, but either hate or couldn't care less about most of what gets built with it.

Most people I talk with in the industry disagree with me on this but I firmly believe that most product/service updates are net negative for the user. They get done for the benefit of a company, with a lot of spin and marketing on top to make it sound like it's actually a good thing.
The Vanished Grandeur of Accounting
If you interviewed 3 executives, I’m assuming your senior leadership yourself. Or, at an actual start-up where the execs are still doing IC tasks. I can see the need for a higher bar in either case.

But for an average developer at an average company? That just sounds insane to me.
https://archive.ph/AvaqZ
As a county resident, I also started doing this recently, and I am amazed how much organic waste we were throwing away previously. My regular trash can takes much longer to fill, and I am constantly taking out the little kitchen bin (that was provided by the waste company).
If Excel is choking your business, it is probably not a problem with Excel itself, but with processes and workflow around the data stored in Excel. Maybe migrating to a new tool is the right answer, maybe you just need process improvement. To get an real answer from anyone, you'd need to share a lot of detail on exactly what is going wrong.
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> I always thought that would be the evolution of ads, but didn't realize it was already fairly widespread.

Once edge workers get cheap enough I wonder how we'll be able to stop ads at all. Everything but the bootstrap page could be randomized per user and all fronted by the same 1st-party website.

Think encrypt the real request needed into the url to the edge worker it de-crypts that payload and does the request. Everything except the content will look identical to the users computer.
In that case I disagree strongly with your premise, but that's fine. I don't argue past epistemological closures but (sincerely) thanks for the discussion!
Great article, the first to present what seems like a common sense viewpoint
> The public sector builds the infrastructure, often following decades of investment and work.

It does? I don't think I follow. In your list of components, every single one of those is, at least in the US, largely or almost entirely handled by private companies.

The big semiconductor companies are private. I actually don't think there are any notable public entities that make their own chips. Hardware companies (I'm assuming you're talking about things like motherboards, routers, switches, etc) are private. Fiber optics/communications/networks are laid almost entirely by private telecom companies (and there's actually a big push to take this away from private companies and make ISPs be government entities). The article that you're commenting on is all about a private entity investing money into laying fiber and improving the protocols that communicate over it.

>I have rarely seen a start up on improving optical fiber or electronic chips.

There are a lot of SMBs working on chip design. I'm less familiar with fiber, but a quick google shows at least a couple, all private.
Portable Seawater Desalinator for Generating Drinkable Water in Remote Locations
European wine producers were able to get the US to enforce this, after a lot of difficulty. It used to be you could buy Californian “champagne”.
Always cool to see what tools other authors use to write books. I took a different route with my upcoming book[0] on career advice for programmers working towards a promotion to a senior role.

I started out writing it in markdown but ended up moving to a workflow that was mostly Google Docs. My general flow was:

1. High level chapter outline

2. Outline for each individual chapter

3. Write each chapter according to the outline

4. First draft done!

5. Read through each chapter and highlight each sentence according to color code (Green: good, Orange: good but needs to be revised, Red: bad, needs to be rewritten)

6. Work through each chapter and revise/rewrite based on colors.

7. Second draft done!

8. Developmental edits (Get feedback, move chapters or sections around, add missing sections or talking points)

9. Copy edit (This is where I'm at now)

10. Prepare for publication

11. Done!

[0]: https://www.holloway.com/b/junior-to-senior
Since when is $30K a full time developer's salary? Presumably anyone good enough to work full time on GIMP could make at least an order of magnitude more at Adobe etc.
That's an interesting angle, which I guess would tie in with
1) Nassim Taleb's Skin in the Game concept [1] which would seem to be analagous in some sense to creating community,

2) but sabotaged by a general (lack of) friction in people's ability to move jobs (I'm averaging about 2 years now per company, down from 4-5 years around 20 years ago) and this isn't seen as a negative.

3) This obviously can create large internal friction, especially when every new person brings new challenges (or fads) to the strategic direction such that you can spend more time changing (tooling or process or organisation structure) than actually doing real work.

4) As mentioned in a recent post here, this tendency to pay market rate for new hires, but not to pay market rates to more productive people already working for you also exacerbates this, but everyone just shrugs and plays the game because no-one's invested enough in the process to challenge it (or those that are and do just get labelled as awkward).

So it's interesting the "fetish" for OKRs in many spaces that can make people look good, but how often do they actually track the actual "costly" actions like

a) perpetual people leaving -> hiring -> training/getting up to speed cycles

b) or number of hours wasted in meetings or context switching due to interruptions or

c) deciding to outsource something you've just spent 9 months insourcing to a different company than the original one you insourced from at great financial/opportunity cost (assuming they even succeed and it doesn't take 3 attempts) etc.?

d) Let's rewrite everything in new tool X I need on my CV because you won't pay me market rate so I'm now looking after myself...

Without surfacing these costs, how can you make effective decisions???

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chKZ5BVxTfY
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I suspect it's backed by loans to bitfinex.

Basically tether mints a bunch of USDT, 'loans' it to bitfinex which then creates an asset on tether's balance sheet of the loan. Bitfinex then goes and buys BTC with the USDT raising the price of BTC.

The problem here is that there is no actual USD anywhere in this system. Net, the system is just one where tether is getting minted out of thin air and then sold to the public for BTC or whatever coins.
As someone who is squarely outside the industry of "side project entrepreneurism," it sounds like the problem is obsessing over minor details about the project and never launching it.

The other person literally said they tried like 50 things and you two haven't launched any yet.
Grouped convolutions can't really run faster than groups * conv(ch/group) and I believe that's close to where they're at?

Note that for ch<O(512) (varies by GPU & hw) you tend to be memory-transfer-speed limited, not compute limited.

So unfortunately depthwise convolutions end up having terrible performance.
You willfully ignore the point the author makes that having cars imposed as a regressive transport tax upon all fuels highways strip malls and all that is wrong with our sprawling misdesigned modernity
Did they say that this will power the next (Google) Wave™? ;)
Well technically they proved that that WAS true. We don't know how much money they have backing it now after spending $8B.
It's in the rind, which you'd be hard pressed to eat!
contracts but will still exceed production, that should read.

It has exceeded production since 2020/21, and also did in 2018/19, per the same graph in the submission (which isn't itself so dramatically titled).
it's so that when he completes the twitter acquisition and welcomes back Trump to the platform, during the PR cycle of democratic leaders whinging, he can say "I told you so".
this is why I think hydrogen will be a huge part of the system.

even if the round-trip efficiency is 20% and all you do is mix it into the gas turbines, eventually the numbers are going to work out to "why would you not, why would you leave the money on the table"

even if the tanks leak like sieves a 10 - 100Hr buffer will go a huge way toward smoothing out winter lulls.
If you don't like microplastics, then you should be pro landfill.

A very large fraction of those are from plastic waste in Asian countries that gets dumped into waterways instead of being landfilled.
There are 300+ yr old timber frame barns etc in Europe, so it seems to be plausibly a net zero impact.
Contrast with Japanese residential housing:

> An unusual feature of Japanese housing is that houses are presumed to have a limited lifespan, and are generally torn down and rebuilt after a few decades, generally twenty years for wooden buildings and thirty years for concrete buildings – see (§) regulations for details. Refurbishing properties, rather than rebuilding them, is a relatively uncommon practice in Japan, though its prevalence is increasing, indicating that attitudes towards older houses may be changing.[1]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_in_Japan

> Raze, rebuild, repeat: why Japan knocks down its houses after 30 years

* https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...

> Japanese Homes Aren’t Built to Last—and That’s the Point

* https://robbreport.com/shelter/home-design/japanese-homes-ar...
Submit the evidence to them! I know some friends who work in dictionaries, and they are more than happy to do revisions on things like earliest printed usage of a word, and people frequently do write in providing exactly that kind of evidence.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/contact-us

Seeing as this one was so easily googlable, the following point will seem a bit silly, but the research performed by dictionary editors is only as good as the source material they can get their hands on. There may very well be earlier documented usages of many words that they define, but if they can't find those earlier usages ... well, the oldest usage at hand is the one that gets documented.
The occasional exciting startup changes the world, but most don’t. Jumping from exciting failure to exciting failure might make for a fun career, but is it really fulfilling?

Boring companies are what the world runs on. Your contributions at a boring company, even if not revolutionary, can still have a real impact on the lives of millions of people.

And as with any job, it’s important to consider the main reason most of us are working for a company at all: you need money to survive.

I think the big tech company salaries are an incredible gift we’ve been given in our industry, and we should enjoy them while we can. You never know when the job market might change or you might have health problems that prevent you from working.
It's not that they regret starting their businesses, it's that it consumes them and their life outside of work. They have no work-life balance. Their work may be rewarding and satisfying, but they aren't living happy lives.

This is what I've observed, anyway.
Desalination will be the new pumped hydro.

I kid but I don't.

(I don't actually know much about desal - there's details, but is it power in = water out, plus a bunch of facility maintenance and operations?)
> The promise of Bitcoin is to bring a monetary system politicians and bankers cannot manipulate. Whether that’s a good thing or even realistic is a separate discussion.

Never heard of any politician giving up power voluntarely.

And money is the power: no more printing - need to work hard for money.

Not gonna happen.
Please, always link to the article instead of a tweet with the link to the article: https://www.protocol.com/workplace/facebook-docs-hiring-recr...

(Also, I read the article, and it doesn't even say this.)
A bit old now, from 1996, but the classic book-length Wired article "Mother Earth Mother Board" by none other than Neal Stephenson is a peek into how this actually gets done from the physical cable laying pespective: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
Depends what you mean by "major environmental problem". Landfills aren't going to singlehandedly cause anthropogenic climate change, but they contribute significantly to it, and a poorly sealed landfill leaching its contents into the local water table can cause some pretty drastic problems with the local environment
That’s very idealistic that you think “justice” is what the US has in mind for him. If you haven’t noticed from the Assange case, the US fed gov’t rewrites the laws and creates its own definition of justice to try its best to murder anyone who exposes its crimes.

If the US was interested in “justice” for Snowden it would have awarded him a Congressional medal of honor instead of hunting and trying to prosecute him.
I also do the same as the author, but I only build websites with a clear monetization model. Every project I've done after my first successful one as been in an adjacent audience.

Doing roughly $700k revenue yearly right now over the 2 main projects. Hopefully with a 3rd coming this summer.

https://siliconvict.com/projects
I'm not suggesting, I'm stating.
Generally, the rule test for this is "can the person do the job they were hired to do", and if they can't, it's fine to fire them, so long as you have properly documented their inability, and given them sufficient time to rectify it (typically 6 months to 1 year). I understand this is unpleasant (and almost feels "wrong") to do, but, ethically, I think that a good manager has an imperative to do this.
You just described Planet Fitness to a T.
It's very easy to separate metals from plastic. The paper mixed in can just stay, as can most other waste. That's one of the nice things about burning it - almost all trash will burn, except for metal and glass. Metal is easily removed before, and glass can be removed from the ash.

> Are there even any WTE plants that burn only plastic?

Tons of them. There are more of those than classic recycling. They just stay under the radar so people don't get upset (since like many people in this thread, they think it's dirty when it is not).
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Actually “champagne” in the US is not a generic term: https://www.terroir-france.com/wine-faq/american-champagne.h...

There are a small handful of producers that are grandfathered in with being able to call it that though.
The obvious consequence would be to immediately stop the use of food-grade crops for producing bio-fuel, as long as this war is going on. The amount of loss is mind-blowing - every day, Europe alone is burning the equivalent of 15 million loaves of bread for wheat alone [1]!

The next step would be to tighten meat consumption to further improve the amount of wheat available to feed humans and outright ban Brazilian meat imports when we're at it to stop further devastation of the Amazon rain forest.

And the final step would be to sanction China to hell and beyond for their hoarding [2] which was a major price driver even before the Russians invaded. One might be inclined to believe China fully knew what was about to go down and decided to profiteer.

[1] https://www.euractiv.com/section/biofuels/news/biofuels-impa...

[2] https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/China-hoards-ove...
Predatory Journals That Publish Shoddy Research Put People’s Lives at Risk
Read the Mutant 59

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2368220.Mutant_59
The main subject of the post is a temple that has been torn down and rebuilt every 20 years for over a thousand years. It’s an example of continual, dynamic renewal rather than static permanence.
I don’t think they ever did. The main source of this seems to be papers in Iran. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16971/does-the-...
The Australian legislation makes no such distinction. If the government wants to spy on someone or requires you to make a backdoor, you must do it, no matter the consequences (or even compatibility if they are providing the backdoor software). This legislation applies to all citizens, even if they have migrated to another country, btw.

I'm sure other developed nations have similar power to compel their citizens.
First Patient Dosed with Experimental Cancer-Killing Virus in New Trial
This also opens up the terrifying prospect that the calculus of level 5 autonomy changes not by way of self driving ai getting better so much as by human ability getting worse.
It looks like the patent covers an integrated on-chip solar cell. I wonder if the output is by on-chip LED or radio, and if they keep that a trade secret or if it is covered by patent also.