skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've deployed the full VMware Integrated OpenStack running on ESXi, NSXT, and network attached storage; everyone was happy. Users happily deploying full stacks via API in their own Tenant with tools like Terraform. Operators thrilled to be able to patch and reboot a host without even a notification email because VMware Live Migration. The bosses without a worry because in the end it's just running on VMware.

Expensive as hell though.
The FOSS community needs to stop getting so defensive about usability criticism and start seriously considering non-technical users if decentralized media platforms will ever stand a chance at being a viable solution.

Not just interface layout or visual themes, either— design is a lot more than the way something looks. The whole experience from learning about the platform to becoming a regular user— including for people who don't read man pages on a regular basis— is important. As soon as I need to explain to my parents that "yes, it's all PeerTube but PeerTube is just the server software and my cousin's PeerTube instance they signed up with isn't connected to the PeerTube federated service and so they can't see videos from the the PeerTube for their guitar hobby group" then its all over. There is zero point zero percent chance it will become a viable public service without big changes.
> I’m not really seeing how widespread adoption of arms by the general public has as many benefits as private vehicle ownership.

If you listen to gun fanatics, the benefits of widespread arms ownership is a government scared to overstep. How much that is worth to you depends on how much you worry about the government infringing on your rights, and how much you think guns being around prevent that.

I personally subscribe to that ideology to a degree (not full tilt, but somewhat). The US has the oldest constitution, and that's arguably only possible if the federal government hasn't pissed us all off too much :P
yup, As a society we have to decide if the "justice system" is about retribution, or protection. A society that leans heavily on retribution, as most do, is always going to be unhealthy. If a person is dangerous, they belong in some sort of restrained living condition. If a person has done bad things, giving them excessive punishment because "they really deserved it" is silly.
Are there any public financials for Stripe?
Ask HN: How are you adapting hardware/product design to a world with shortages?
Supply chains are still struggling from Covid, China lock downs, war, shipping rate increases, port backlogs, no fab capacity, etc. Component lead times are long, if not impossible to get.

How are you adapting your products so that you can still get to market?
They had this in SimCity 2000. You'd build these microwave receivers in your city and the orbital solar power stations would beam it down to you. Very clean and convenient. But occasionally the satellite would drift out of alignment and fry part of your city with what you would basically describe as an ultra-high-powered MASER.
Ultra compact GAN ATX power supply delivers up to 250 Watts
Nicely articulated, I had quite the same experience as well.

People under-estimate the energy and effort to find a good second job and so actually best to take the time to get it right instead of jumping from one bad job to another just because of being afraid to quit while there is no job offer yet.

Also, logically thinking, every new graduate who is fresh out of school is just equipped with skills but is able to find a job so it should be even easier for someone who has already even further developed their skills to be able to find a second job even if they've already resigned from their previous job.

It seems like some people just think that they need some leverage of having an existing job in order to find a second job but in reality that doesn't make sense since skills are what is more important.
The info I've seen for RSU indicates tax on vest, even if the stock is not liquid (private company).

Is it really true that tax is only if the asset is liquid? Does the IRS make a distinction between liquid and illiquid here?
Sure donating to PACs can have positive impacts but it also fuels what has made politics so bad: a back and forth ever-growing battle for absurd campaign war chests.
I’m 65 hours into this and only have a vague idea what the main quest line is. I see something on the map and run to it. It’s fun to explore and there is so much. I’ve met a lot of random people that want me to do stuff. My only want in the game is a log of who I’ve talked to and what they said.
It allows for north to always be up without causing mayhem when you try to move over the poles. The alternative is to allow free movement but no guarantee on orientation which can get confusion on things like this.
So it's blackmail to keep senators in line? To keep us in line? To prevent people from outgrowing their station?
Absolutely. Narrative control is the reason for existence of most of our intelligence agencies. TV and internet are absolutely swamped with propaganda. However, I think it can also be dangerous to suspect anyone aggressively following the "party line" of being a bot or shill - in real life, people are less likely to be confrontational about these issues than on the internet. Propaganda works because humans are herd animals that like to follow the crowd, and only constantly challenging and checking our beliefs can have a chance of keeping them reasonably sound.

The return of Cold War-style Russiaphobia of the past decade or so is a bit over the top though. Even Iraq and Afghanistan ("support our troops!") didn't seem to be this overt and heavy.
I was in Myanmar a few years ago as one of the few tourist groups to enter when they (temporarily) re-opened. I saw numerous children, living in huts and on dirt roads, playing Clash of Clans using military-provided electricity and internet (in order to influence votes)
This is basically were I work and probably 80% of small and medium enterprises. We bought a lot of licenses once and maintenance license cost is minimal so far.
You can't say something like that and then omit the details! Are you referring to the overactive automatic braking?
Ford’s first electric F-150 delivery
It’s not really the end of “big data”. There is and will be tons of data to go around for the foreseeable future.

Instead, it feels more like the end of “data science as the sexiest job of the 21st century”.

DS is mostly running reports (so BI) or stats (perennially important niche) or manufacturing hype via “latest research”.

Engineering has been, is, and will continue to be the foundation for success.
So you mean to say it's layer violation soup.

I want to "Integrationware" software that just exists for various vendors to cut deals and piggy-back with oneanother.
Where you get screwed is when some legacy system of record application requires Oracle. So you think, I'll cheat and use Postgresql with an Oracle dialect. Then you find out the application uses tens of thousands of lines of PL/SQL including some of the most obscure features. Now you're looking at millions of dollars to get off the database software you don't like. Oracle, IBM, etc can buy time like this but eventually all the proponents of their software will be retired and the halls of IT will be filled with an army of "never again."

We meet on Wednesdays; the coffee and cookies are free.
The problem isn't that it relies on developer foresight to make the second call to set_fs. The problem (if you look through other LWN articles on the subject) is that the set_fs calls can be prone to not getting restored if the kernel code is interrupted.
Mostly there weren't English language newspapers. I guess I'd have found out about anything truly important on an international scale. But mostly no news. But then even at home most of my news was Time magazine once a week unless something was sufficiently important to reach me day to day.
What were the innovations by Vertica? Is there any link you have
Also seeing this, we're on AWS lambda behind cloudflare. Tried switching cloudflare off, but still seeing the same issues.
> The best are often a big knob controlling a digital LCD timer.

That's exactly how this one worked. I wish I could recall the brand, but I don't; it felt more like an industrial device than a home appliance.
Cretaceous FTW. Looks like I’ll need to keep working on my time machine.
A good place to start is by reading the books and memos of Howard Marks.

His analysis of the stock market and investing is a prime example of critical thinking.
https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/pr5mwwl4vldt
Micro-ops aren't RISC instructions, too complex. For instance, vfmadd132ps instruction loads 32 bytes from memory, multiplies by 8 FP32 numbers, adds to another 8 numbers - yet on most processors that instruction decodes into a single micro-op.
I don't think those articles are very well written or convincing and seem to have a poor understanding of common carrier status and it's history. One of the sources it cites provides a much better picture of what common carrier status means and where it comes from: http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/wp/citi/citinoam11.html

Several parts of that directly contradict the arguments that techdirr is trying to make.

Edit: For example, one of those articles says "American courts identify industries and businesses as common carriers if they do not distinguish between customers or decide what they will and will not carry. " Which gets the relationship between non-descrimination and common carrier status exactly backwards. Non-discrimination and interoperability are legal requirements imposed on private companies due to their common carrier status in exchange for reducing their liability.
Not everyone wants to fix the world, but throwawaycfg stated that he was looking to help. Plenty of folks find that helping where they can is being the best they can be. I think helping yourself is fine, but helping each other is better. People can do far more working together than they can on their own.

My advice is that in the places where you can't fix the problem and help others, prepare and take care of yourself. Either way, keep moving and working toward something.

I've been around for a handful of decades and things at present really are exceptionally bad, but nothing stays the same forever and no matter how different our future ends up looking, there'll be some good times there too. The trick is in getting through to those good days to come.
I've seen a number of day planners fairly similar, but I haven't seen any quite like that. The grids instead of lines, the combined empty space and to-dos, and the additional spaces outside the days.
I'm not sure if I agree. If a startup itself was "sexy", it would show up in discussions regardless of what tech stack it was using.

That they don't show up is more indicative that there aren't that many in the first place IMHO.

Speaking as a former .NET developer, something that impedes searching for a .NET job that isn't at a huge, crufty, old school enterprise company is that the vast majority of .NET jobs are at such companies. So you have to sift through all of those to find something that doesn't fit that mold.
Do you double bill client days? Many client tasks may just be a phone call or emails?
Exactly the same for me, then I saw the wesp32 recommended here this week and got super interested. POE.

https://wesp32.com/
So which metric causes Tesla to be rated lower than GM?

Easy to call someone ignorant, but how about you show it.
I for one, would greatly forgo reward if it were to avoid suffering. I don't think intelligence is simplistic enough to be driven by just a scalar field.
I think like physics, we'll likely need two scalars, or a vector, or a spinor, etc.

If "-1" is suffering, and "+1" is reward, then they cancel out. In my own experience, suffering and reward do not cancel out. They have to be on different dimensions. What are your thoughts?
I think you are talking about a later era.

For me, the Lonely Planet era was after the overland routes to India closed but before smartphones became popular. Flying started becoming affordable, and infrastructure in the form of backpacker hostels and printed guidebooks largely replaced the word of mouth as a way of sharing information. It became increasingly likely that if you discovered something nice off the beaten path, other backpackers had already been there and documented the place in a guidebook.
The 70's were when it started. You can see it in the Sears catalogs (which are available online). For most of the early 70's there's nothing interesting. Then there's Pong. Then there's an absolutely explosion.
The miners are certainly working for profit, yes.

The P2P network consists of volunteers who are not paid for running nodes, and whose contribution is basically guaranteeing open access to all of the data flows (confirmed and unconfirmed blocks and transactions) needed for other participants to join the network and participate on equal terms.

One of the major problems in the crypto space is that people attribute to "decentralization" the properties of openness that are actually there because of the volunteer (non-profit) provision of the open network from which miners/stakers are extracting their profits.
> It's easy to criticize I agree. But knowing how many kWh went into growing a cow is still a huge improvement.

About zero, if it was raised on pasture on land that was already cleared.

I don't see that as an improvement.

> This is the real flow, describes something genuine & truthful. Your throwaway criticism suggests anything not actively hurting us isnt worth regarding or adding to human cognizance, and there I think we quickly depart.

My criticism does not suggest any such thing.
Right, but if you needed to configure a million different things, wouldn't you also loop the configuration process?
Collision avoidance that likes to have false alarms going around curves on wet, sub-freezing roads. Auto transmission that wants to downshift into redline going down hills. General unpredictable behavior on slick roads where it is pretty important to be able to pick your gear.

Partially this is the company’s fault because they turn off a bunch of stuff for “fuel economy”.
So looks like they could be the last player on premise, like mainframes by IBM
I agree Dr. Bredesen's protocol probably can't hurt as it advocates a healthy lifestyle and diet, but there is NO evidence that it can prevent or reverse Alzheimers[1], as he claims. Also, Dr. Bredesen charges $1800+ for the protocol[2] in addition to selling branded supplements.

1 - https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/05/417431/pricey-protocol-not...
2 - https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/clinical-care/alzheimers-...
It makes sense from business perspective but I hate it.

If they don't know who you are, they can't send you hyper targeted ads and make more money from you. They probably get a lot of people to sign in by blocking content so it's worth it to lose the smaller group that gives up and leaves.
> I'm convinced WASM SQLite is the future of in-browser strorage for web apps/PWAs.

In what use cases would it make sense to transfer the entire db file over the network, then pluck out the relevant rows into JSON, versus just doing that server side and transfer the JSON back?

Is the trade off that the server does less computation, but then pay for network bandwidth fees?
A CPU, whether its implementation is a microprocessor or a board of chips, is very different from a game implemented only using discrete components.

It is crazy though to imagine supercomputers implemented without microchips, not to mention vacuum tubes, hell, wood and brass.
Also interesting that this is this person's only blog post ever, and dating from 2017.
I was going to criticize & point out how usb-c chargers at and over 100W are just so small, but there's a photo comparing it to an iphone & ok, it looks adequately impressively dense! (I have a >2 year old 100W charger that is 66x64x30mm, this 250W unit is 170x50x25)

It's been such a great synergy. Energy efficiency has been a concern already yes, but I really view usb-c chargers as pushing the consumerization & massification & development of this technology to the superb, common, un-exotic levels it's come down to. We just got tired of doing less good, actively explored trying to use a somewhat harder to drive switching semiconductor, & have reaped great rewards. Miniaturization mandated optimization & we all win. I really think the interchangable-parts/modularity & resulting competition that usb-c begot started this ball rolling.

(Hoping USB-PD, with it's bump from 20 up to 48V, once again proves another huge win!)
It's paraphrasing Marx.

Satoshi did comment on the need for the network to provide a better incentive to P2P network nodes. He was well aware that a major class of essential nodes is expected to do work for free while miners are handed the profits from consensus operations.
All-Black Climbing Team Makes History Reaching Top of Everest
I believe an unmentioned counterside to the above question is: how old can you afford to start getting into mathematics in order to still be able to make great discoveries?
Power Is Overrated (2019)
“…as we continue on our journey to decentralize and democratize commerce. ”

There’s some special irony in this statement as they attempt to achieve the holy grail network effect of being “the sole” 1-click checkout option!
I certainly don’t expect my FB posts to live forever except on some surveillance server. But tweets? They’re almost all public. They’ve been and are being crawled just like the old web. I’m pretty confident I have a higher likelihood of finding my tweets in some distant future than anything I’ve self-published on the web.
About a decade ago I tried to make a map of PATH by gathering floor plans from each of the buildings and stitching them together. I couldn’t get floor plans for every building and eventually it fell by the wayside, but it was a fun project.

I wonder if anyone else has done it since. As far as I could tell, there was no “official” map in much detail beyond an outline of the connected buildings’ footprints.
Matlab and SciPy both have ‘cumtrapz’ for trapezoidal integration.
Can’t speak for OP but if you’d like to talk to me please shoot me a DM :)
> I suspect there was no enterprise level push for XMPP anywhere.

At the about the time when federated XMPP could have gained momentum at the enterprise level, 2005-2010, SaaS and then cloud began to take off. Enterprises began to shy away from hosting their own services. Even though many were still hosting their own e-mail and web servers, it was already too late for XMPP, especially given all the other factors--IM wasn't yet a killer business app, etc.

Without a large, diverse group of players effectively forcing federation, there was nothing countering the incentives for big players to create walled gardens.

I worked at company, Barracuda Networks, that acquired an enterprise XMPP appliance product around 2005. They also hired the main developer of one of the most popular open source Windows XMPP clients to help them integrate enterprise features (LDAP, etc). After a few years they basically put the project on life support. If there was more enthusiasm, and Barracuda worked harder with other vendors to build a large installed base, improving the overall value-add and "creating" a market, maybe things would have worked out differently. But that's a big ask for a bunch of medium-sized, short-term profit-seeking companies. Eventually startups like Slack ended up doing something like that, but using proprietary, walled-garden, hosted services, a model where they could capture entire markets--i.e. a big enough potential pay-day to make it worthwhile. :(

Another alternative scenario: maybe if anti-trust regulators came down hard on Google when they began to close-off federation. GTalk could have been (and briefly was) an important anchor tenant for a nascent federated IM ecosystem. Not sure it would have been legally viable, though, to restrain Google that way given the state of IM at the time.
Death of the narrative that SiliconValley pushed to regular companies and made them believe that they had a big data problem. Mostly the companies that invented the solution had the problems. 99.99% of others didn’t.
"Reward Is Enough" is an interesting paper, less for its content, more for its place in the zeitgeist or something. It has very little in the way of novel "theorem proving" but it has sparked quite a lot of discussion. It's a paper which manages to be really great in some sort of subtle way, just because it inspires so much conversation.

I'll plug my own response, "Can reinforcement learning learn itself? A reply to 'Reward is enough'", in which I ask: ok, if creating good enough RL agents can lead to AGI, and if AGI can do anything humans can, and if humans can write good RL agents, doesn't that seem to imply it should be possible to use an RL environment to incentivize RL agents to write good RL agents? https://philpapers.org/archive/ALECRL.pdf
> So how long does the microchip shortage continue?

Warning: Paid Pessimist point of view (I've done computer security for far, far too long).

Indefinitely. It doesn't recover. Because (modern, leading process) microchips are the sort of globe spanning supply chain problem that works great, right up until it doesn't. Coolant for some laser is made in this country that's at war. Some critical surface processing chemical is made by that company that had a major power outage and their facility caked up with goo that has to be scraped out. Some semiconductor fab has a worker shortage. Or a water shortage. Or got blown to pieces when some other country tried to invade (TSMC would be nuts if they weren't wired with demolition charges and quietly sure China knew it).

There will always be "something" that interferes with the smooth generation of chips. And there will be some supply, but not as much as people hope for, and they'll be rough around the edges, and, besides, you can't get those surface mount resistors in any quantity right now for your design. And eventually, this starts impacting the funding of the companies working on the newest, latest and greatest process tech, and they don't have the money to continue pushing forward.

We're long past the point when anyone but the most well funded multinationals can even consider a leading process tech foundry - and there are only a few companies on the planet who can make the hardware for it. The supply chain for foundries is just as bad as anything else, if you have a couple billion to drop on one.

And at some point, enough people will find workarounds that don't involve modern silicon that (at least in my arc of the future) demand will drop, so you won't be able to justify the investment in a leading edge fab much beyond the current stuff. Throw a solid recession/depression in, and consumer electronics spending is likely to drop substantially - so there goes a lot of the leading edge demand for some while.

The question, "How much damage can an efficient, just in time optimized global economy take before it fails?" has been discussed for many, many years, and the pessimistic point of view as of now would be, "Less than it's taken and is going to take in the next few years." And at some point, things like "food" and "basic energy" are more important to keep working than the latest consumer toys.

I'm entirely aware this doesn't paint a pretty picture of the future, and it certainly doesn't involve us going to the stars in any quantities, outside perhaps some token boots on Mars. But it's the sort of ragged decline we've seen throughout history, and, I'd argue, that we're firmly in the middle of right now. "Rattling down the backside of the arc of empire, undergoing catabolic collapse" seems to better predict things than a lot of other mental models lately.
I have customers running Tanzu.

It is slick, but niche. Incredibly rock solid - in ways K8S is not - and you pay for it.

It is on its way out as a product.