skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exciting. Chemistry is so stuck in the old ways, maybe things are finally changing. And i don't think is has to be expensive. Someone has to come up with a simple protocol to declare a chemical reaction (inputs, outputs, temp, pressure, time, yield, link to paper) and then it must become fashionable to publish this data with your paper. The resulting database shouldn't be too big for all chemical reactions.

Unfortunately published data so far is highly questionable. I can totally confirm this quote from wikipedia:

"A 2016 survey by Nature on 1,576 researchers [..] on reproducibility found that more than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiment results (including 87% of chemists, 77% of biologists, 69% of physicists and engineers [...]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
If I recall correctly, these were built during Saddam's era to ensure water for his people. Iraq doesn't have many, if any, water sources that aren't controlled by other countries so they were in a rush to build these to ensure a national water supply. They didn't have the luxury to do archeology.
A large percent of students never get a degree. Here’s the best statistics that I could find. It talks about 6 year graduation rates but I think a large percent of those who don’t graduate within 6 years never graduate.

https://nces.ed.gov/FastFacts/display.asp?id=40
In October 2019 I bought two 32GB 2666MHz DDR4 SODIMMs for my laptop for $140 each.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07N124XDS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

You can now get a single 32GB DDR4 3200MHz SODIMM for under $120

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FBNQXC4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
all moot when no one needs your skills anymore. I'm always for founding a company, but that's the only way to stay one step ahead of the machine and it's always a long bet.

I don't know if you're familiar with this American folk legend..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)
The 64 bit installer of the prerelease (SumatraPDF-prerel-64-install.exe) seems to be 404ing. The other three downloads work, though.

https://files.sumatrapdfreader.org/file/kjk-files/software/s...

{
"code": "not_found",
"message": "File with such name does not exist.",
"status": 404
}
I'm trying to fix this aspect of myself. I was bowling in a tournament over the weekend that was way out of my league but I wanted the challenge. I was struggling all day and got kinda mad because I missed a really easy spare in my first good game of the day.

Lucky for me the guy on the other team was so positive and a much better bowler than me and he asked "That's ok, would you have been happy if I told you at the start of the game you'd have 107 in the 5th?" and I realized hell yeah I'd be happy. Same applies here. Of course I should be happy with a free $80 even if I know everyone else is getting $100.
I would be thrilled to work someplace that uses neo4j. Such a good graph dbms. Too many folks believe the only way to organize data is with relational tables.
Yale also has twice as many postgrads as undergrads.
Just write a python script simulating this :)
To expand on this, you can use any distribution that has nonzero density over every interval.
Adobe Reader XI reached end-of-life of on 15 October 2017. [0] It has not received security updates for nearly five years.

Security updates are very important for a PDF reader, particularly Adobe's. [1] I would advise you not to use it, unless it is to open trusted PDF files you created yourself.

[0] https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/end-of-support-acrobat-xi...

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-53/p...
Yes I know basic chemistry, soap would do just fine. But I was under the affect of having spawning pool in my command center :)
Does Tesla's patent portfolio serve as a competitive advantage? I don't follow such things, so I don't know.

Regardless of patent portfolio, I think it's a safe bet that Tesla views their (vaporware-ish?) self driving tech as a competitive advantage. Probably why they emphasize it so much and Elon seems absolutely fixated on it.
They liked him in Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRLe826lyao
I think I know what platform you are speaking of. Mind if I ask why your experience there was brief? I have been thinking about applying there later this year.
In case people what gene editing looks like, this is it. “Selective breeding”. Can do it this way or at the gene level. Same result.
said Aussie game developer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RandallThomas
I think Go is currently the best replacement for Python. Static type system seems to help a lot, also Go is slightly boring to write. One would say it's a bad thing but all those "if err != nil {" give something pretty valuable - the visibility of all the error-handling execution paths to the reader of the code.

Also, being boring to write means you seek ways not to write so much, which is also good :)
Yeah I was looking for someone saying this to double down. I think the "paradox" comes down to information loss. The tricky bit is this framing: "when you're holding an envelope, the other envelope contains >= $MONEY, so there's no reason not to switch".

But this omits (loses) the information of "both envelopes contain >= $MONEY". That is, as soon as you switch to the other envelope, the situation is still true, the previous envelope contains >= $MONEY.

So if you forget that your current envelope also contains >= $MONEY you're stuck in an infinite loop, which you break out of only because you can only do a single iteration.
I'm kind of torn here - great, it's electric and not a gas-guzzler. But how many people actually need a 3 ton vehicle? Just the carbon footprint of building the thing must be insane, forget the damage to the road etc.

Edit: just to be clear: I'm not questioning the business logic here, clearly people are buying these things. But it's makes this kind of news bittersweet - if we want to get out of this mess, we're going to have to convince people to stop buying this type of thing
College is still the best investment you can make in yourself, even accounting for opportunity cost. Expected earnings increase by over a million for getting your degree. That's a large reason why people are willing to pay so much.
Yet companies turn a blind eye towards people who abuse alcohol, even throwing parties where people are encouraged to drink alcohol. If your chosen substance is alcohol, you can even be an alcoholic and still keep your job if it doesn't affect performance.

Every hire is full of risks. Nobody knows whether they'll get into a car crash, get cancer, or get shot, or become a substance abuser. Whether they admit their medical history or not. That's because they are human beings. Humans are inherently risky. If you want to eliminate risk, then hiring humans is not for you.

All you do by punishing people who are honest about their history, is to encourage even more people to lie in interviews. Those people are only the tip of the iceberg, and a significant number of people companies hire already have such history but they just keep their mouths shut.
> Their head start for launch is pretty meaningless.

You're comparing something that exists to something that doesn't yet exist, and you have no information on future volume, then calling the first thing "meaningless." I don't understand that at all.

Your point is entirely predicated on Tesla producing Cybertruck in such large volumes that it dwarfs Ford's F-150 Lightning, but you have no factual basis for that claim.
>Did you really miss RedHat killing CentOS 8

It's not death it's just "stream" now, and Centos7 is still without stream

>Fedora CoreOS is built from scratch.

Yes and? It's not death, you don't want to support different software for the same goal, flannel, docker etc.

>the release cycle of Leap and SLES is 3-4 years

Not true Leap15.3 = SLES15sp3. RHEL has the ~same kernel for every dot release, that's not the case with SLES SP's. Every SP has a new/different kernel and new software. You can do that "partially" with modules on RHEL, but just certain packages are in modules.

You can't compare SLES SP's and RHEL dot-releases.
But why would they do that? They will taught these extravagant programs that few want/need/will take advantage of but they will bake into everyone's tuition.
The chad 1x engineer, the virgin 10x engineer
Yeah I mean....of course. My sister got a cheap dishwasher couple years ago and it never broke, it just never cleaned properly, we cleaned the filters, all tubing, all the arms, used the dishwasher cleaner several times.....nope, would still leave residue and bits of food on plates, literally regardless of mode. It was basically useless for its main function. It was under warranty but the engineer came out and said yeah, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just not very good. We ended up recycling it and buying the cheapest Bosch Series 2, it's not fancy but at least it works as a dishwasher.
In the article they mention that the wallet used for the crypto miner had an increase in traffic after the fake packages were published, so maybe?
I'm confused by the Borg pattern. It seems like a singleton that tricks the user into believing there are multiple instances (very bad imo). Is there any advantage over singleton? Maybe some kind of `__dict__` behavior I'm not aware of?
Also check out the Connections Museum, either on YouTube[1] or in person in Seattle if you can! Lots of cool old lost-art telephone hardware and a few volunteers trying to keep it running. Another interesting option is C*NET[2], a VoIP telephone network for connecting collector-owned obsolete telephone hardware together.

1: https://www.youtube.com/c/ConnectionsMuseum

2: https://ckts.info/
Smell Training
I assume that's your wage from an employer, and that's a totally different number. If that's your freelance fee, you are seriously being underpaid. After paying taxes, fees, insurance (both personal and business), anything less than $200/hour for skilled labor (not even expert professional) is a steal.
This illustrates what energy waste these cars are. Disgusting in times of climate change.
It's a very fast, very low latency network fabric. But it's not coherent in the sense of cache coherent multiprocessors, and it doesn't offer shared memory style programming where you'd just load/store to addresses that happen to be mapped to another compute node somewhere in the system.
lol I noticed it too!
I can be all 3 of those things at the same job. Just depends upon how I'm feeling that day.
This is one of those "...except when it does" takes. It's always been a bald faced No true Scotsman fallacy.

A: "Modern C++ has no problems with memory safety."
B: "But what about X? X was written in C++ last year. X has problems with memory safety."
A: "X is not modern C++."

That "memory unsafe languages produce vulnerabilities" is an empirical claim. I can give you gobs of data. If you actually think, "In practice, people writing modern C++ code do not struggle with memory safety", then you should produce some data that shows this to be the case.

So, my take is -- okay, prove it. Because, my guess is, your claim is mostly a feeling you have about your code (yes, simply good code vibes) rather than something you can demonstrate to others.
Those numbers have absolutely no relation to each other. What would be the point? Those $42B of revenue are from the ICE line, not EVs, so how would a couple weeks of publicity even affect that?
> the amount of these trucks ford can produce is very small. Their head start for launch is pretty meaningless.

Far from it. One, they're pre-selling (note: selling, not taking deposits for). Two, they're making 150,000 a year and plan to make 600,000 in 2023 [1], the latter representing about 5% of the American light truck market [2] and about 50% of the total number of vehicles Tesla builds in a year [3].

[1] https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1134628_ford-f-150-ligh...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/199981/us-car-and-truck-...

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/715421/tesla-quarterly-v...
I disagree, I think even in this scenario the whole thing worked as intended.

It's just rare for people to be this persistent.

I'm supsect that when companies deal with other companies this kind of thing (this amount of persistence) is the norm; it's just rare when individual persons deal with companies.
It isn't really a racial distinction. The Kurds in northern Iraq view themselves as being distinct from the rest of Iraq and even speak a different language. They're. different cultural and ethnic group. They're only part of Iraq because after WWI the allied powers split Kurdistan up and divided it among neighboring countries.
Thanks a lot Joe.

> Lieberman, 67, used his deciding vote in Congress to help strip out a provision for government-run medical insurance, intended to set up competition to the abuses of private companies, by threatening to filibuster the legislation.

> Senate leaders agreed to drop the public option for all in favour of allowing people over 55 to buy into an existing government-run scheme for the elderly. In September, Lieberman supported the measure, as he had when he was Al Gore's running mate. But just as it seemed that a deal was done, Lieberman scuppered it by announcing that he had changed his mind and would block any bill that expanded government insurance coverage. Obama gave way.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/16/joe-lieberman-...
You should really use a nodeid in that case and compare nodeids. So that you can serialize your graph
Sadly it's common with Gnus.
I am not saying that you necessarily endorse this line of reasoning or justification but if this is what passes for talent retention strategies at these firms, they're really in for a lot, lot of pain.
Yeah, this article seems to be bashing the concept of the 10x engineer. I know engineers who I'd define as 10x who are equally excellent at all of these items as well.

If anything, this is just a general definition of an engineer.
Because some say they are fastest computers in the world ;-)
I'm happy you're happy :)
Deliver first, deliver often. Figure the rest out later. Startup playbook.
alternatively, given his obsession with conspiracy - maybe he was unable to establish deep connections with anyone in his life
Housing first sounds great.

Until you actually implement it and discover that the problem isn't housing, it's drug use and mental health. After all, homeless individuals have "stable" housing in their encampments (which is why they form in the first place).

And then you realize that the problem isn't solved until you can force the individual into rehab or into treatment, which you can't do because the homeless advocates will fight you in court to prevent treatment and cite stories like the above, but these homeless advocates are the reason why the bureaucracy doesn't work.
2022 Transit order books closed months ago. The 2023 order book information and opening dates land tomorrow (so goes the rumor) in the USA. iirc deliveries of 2023 Transits are projected to start in the fall.

The 130 mile range on the E-Transit is plenty for the current target customers who are buying them as fast as Ford can make them, but not enough for more rural uses. Give it time, more electric vans are coming. Rumor was that 2023 would see introduction of an actually orderable Ram Promaster, probably as a 2024 model but with optionally more battery than the current E-Transit.
No union. Supercharger network. Battery factories. Solar cells. AI and software. Much less baggage as a newer company.
The article also made an absolute statement calling the blackouts "climate driven". That's inaccurate.
Well, I don’t have any machine lying around. (I do have an RPi which is acting as my home server today. But it’s only 2GB and that’s why I am trying to replace it.)

So, my options are to buy old desktop, old enterprise server or build a new desktop. The first two are similar price points on eBay, but I am not sure about the noise and power tradeoffs between the two.

Like, if a 1U server is to noisy and power-consuming compared to the desktop, probably not a good choice for my case.
I worked in a university system for a while, and my observation is that the expectations have absolutely grown. Yes, someone has to be the first to think of some new thing to sell, but once they do, all of their competitors have to do the same thing to keep up. So many of the questions from prospective students and their parents are of the form "do you have X" or "do you do Y," all being things that other schools they are considering have or do. It's very hard for an individual institution to buck this trend if they wish to stay competitive for students.
I own a model S but I think the F-150 is truly the next competitor. Other cars were either niche (Taycan) or not that great (i3, leaf). The bolt really was the second best option. Lucid is great too but they're not to scale yet.

Once the lightnings are easy to acquire at a dealership, I think Tesla will have its work cut out for it. The F150 is the best selling car/anything in the US.
The error is that the probability of winning is not 0.5, it’s a function of how much they have in their wallet. They probably don’t know the true distribution so they can’t calculate the actual expected value. But clearly your chance of winning is better if you have $1 than if you have $100000
Tesla always accrued competition pretty fast in whatever domain it explored, its big advantage being brand and battery life.

For my part while I'd like a vehicle with Tesla autonomy, the appalling QA/finish (Teslas still look cheap) and the support policies mean I'll go to an EU or Asian brand when I finally pick an EV (at least if there's anything left by that time that doesn't look like some trashy gamer mouse on wheels).
I want to make a computer runtime which doesn't execute the program but instead allows for a programmer to understand what's going on.

a metacomputer of sorts; maybe epicomputer would be a better name?
Dyson working on secret robot prototypes to carry out household chores
Tesla's supercharger network still seems to me a lot more reliable and easy-to-use than Electrify America (which Ford uses), but EA is building out fast. I'm also a bigger fan of Tesla's cylindrical batteries than Ford's pouch batteries, but time may prove me wrong.
Or they can borrow a strategy from boot camps and hire their graduates to boost the numbers.
> Universities have a broader purpose than training people for the workplace. Ironically, increased costs is a large part of the reason why society's vision of universities has become so limited.

What is that? Instilling values some people think is important and not others?
I think you're possibly misunderstanding what these supercomputers are for. They just aren't designed for whatever single-threaded workload you personally have, so it's not in scope.
You win if you have less
The one-language world has been a recurring dream over the centuries, but it's only in the past century that we've been really verging on a truly universal lingua franca. But even now most people in the world still don't speak standard American or UK English with native fluency, so I think regional languages will be stickier than some people give them credit for.

Minority languages will continue to die out, but that's not necessarily the fault of English (except in some cases, e.g. Irish or Native American languages). Rather, existing regional languages crowd out minority ones.
On Progress – The known unknown knowns we lost
I agree with your view on UML, but now I'm curious what you consider documents to be for.
Trucks are popular in the US. Not sure where you're from but the F-150 is the most popular truck in the US. Therefore, making it available in an electric model makes a lot of sense.

Most people don't need an F-150 with a combustion engine, but that doesn't stop them from getting it. In much the same way that they won't need a 3 ton electric truck, it won't stop them from getting it.
Incentive structures are important, but not the entire story. The article makes no attempt to examine where tuition revenue is actually being spent. Without that piece, I don't find their argument particularly convincing.

The article asserts:

> Close to 70% of college students attend using federal student loans, so schools would have no choice but to adjust their tuitions to match [the maximum federal loan], or risk losing a large chunk of revenue.

But as the article points out, the vast majority of schools are non-profits. Unlike corporations, they should not be attempting to maximize revenue.

I could be wrong, but I do not think most college administrators are looking to extract as much money for their students as possible. They want to put their students on a path to success, which implies not leaving them with crippling levels of debt.

Unfortunately, colleges sometimes don't have a choice, because they have bills to pay and are not swimming in piles of cash. Which leaves my primary question—if tuition has risen so much, where is that money going?

I have not yet seen a really good examination of this question.
are you guys going to get the vw van?
You can't see the forest through the trees right now, so picking a direction will be meaningless. Best way is to take an extended break a month or more and let the fog clear. The first week, just do basic things like get up eat breakfast, make your bed and take a walk. The next week start re-engaging with friends who you haven't spoken with in a while. Third week, do something fun. Fourth week start "thinking" what you'd like to do next - type of company - small, med, large - what you want to learn. Week after that work on your resume. Slow and steady, take care of yourself
I have a 16GB M1 laptop and my colleague has an 8GB M1 laptop of the same model. Guess which one of us has to be selective about number of browser tabs and other apps that can be open. I don’t mean to be glib here, but I honestly don’t know how 8GB is enough. Add Docker to the mix, and 16 starts feeling a bit cramped.
I don’t see how two different things being around 40B makes them connected.

I’m surprised this odd speculation is the top comment.
Sigh. As with many things, we don't really know what is and isn't caused by "climate change." Why for instance does CA now have so many fires but TX has fewer? Could it be climate change? Sure. Could it be the major differences CA enacted around forest management that TX didn't? Sure. But all you ever hear about is climate change.

It's hysteria and it covers up other real issues.
Ah good idea, thanks. Using an invert filter or brightness(0) to create a shadow image should be cheap enough performance-wise.
While Montreal’s goals are probably different, Quebec is not interested in a 21st century economy. Quebec is interested in a population that speaks French. Anything else is secondary. If the people can’t speak English, more the better as they’re unable to leave.
Few of the buyers actually need them, but they were going to buy the ICE version otherwise.
Great write up, but I would also be interested to learn what the total number of hours was that the author devoted to this case, including all the phone calls, email, research, preparation, etc.

His main takeaway was to not be afraid of the arbitration process, but unfortunately the time commitment itself does seem very significant, even in a relatively straightforward case like his.
Searching tweets works fine. I don't think Google officially has firehose access anymore, but whatever they're doing is pretty effective.
Plenty of other electric cars on the market now too - many of them decent competition.

Alkso Tesla hasn't shipped a truck. Rivian has shipped, Ford has now shipped. If and when the Cybertruck makes it to market, Ford and Rivian will finally see some competition.

Once GM gets on the electric pickup market, it's game over for the wonky Tesla unless they end up selling exclusively to the types who don't actually do truck stuff (the G-Wagon crowd).