skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know of five ways:

1. As an undergraduate, join a research group that needs to run simulations on a supercomputer.

2. As a grad student, join a research group that works with supercomputers.

3. As a software engineer or IT person, join a research group at a university. They need people too, but fair warning: the pay is...subpar.

4. Join a national laboratory in some capacity. This route necessitates working for your country's government or military, which may or may not be palatable to you depending on how you feel about your gov't/military.

5. Join a giant multinational company that has supercomputers and uses them. Exxon is a good example. They have massive supercomputing power.

Unless you're an undergrad, I'm afraid all the ways I know of suck in some way or another. I did 1 & 3. As for the rest, I think 2 would make the most sense if you have BS, because you can go get a masters in a year or so while getting the experience.
Another way to solve it is by switching to a bloclchain based registry like IPFS or nameCoin.
How did your charity function when Facebook "accidently" removed all AU-based pages during their fight with the Australian Government?
Technically it also blurs images that have an alt text, for good measure, but the main feature is indeed the text transformation. But yeah, primary use case is e.g. sharing with colleagues, not protecting against nation-state actors.
>First, if you choose to work for a non-profit, you should expect a huge pay cut.

It may be the culture in some ecosystems but it's entirely false. A nonprofit can pay competitively with organizations of its size. I've worked at nonprofits and I've seen this line towed far too many times as an excuse to lower labor costs for people producing value for the organization. If your nonprofit is service oriented in anyway and requires people, appropriately investing in those people through their compensation and WLB is an appropriate investment.

In theory, a nonprofit should be able to outperform and outpay a for-profit entity of the same size, largely because there shouldn't be an expectation of the organization to cut a big slice out to investors but instead to invest back into itself. This could mean increased hiring, grabbing top talent, investing back in a cause and so on.
21e8 replaces pagerank
https://youtu.be/6HYdTtIoyts
A Great Leap in Quantum Communication
I give people the benefit of doubt until I see a contradiction. So far, he's been genuine over the 8 years that I've been following him and his ventures.
found a fellow JMG fan.
I've seen a general blurring of the lines between these roles. But a common theme is that if you have a dedicated "role" for something, they will prefer tools which cater to their "role". This is both a good thing for companies who benefit from further optimization within that "role", and a bad thing for companies who do not.

Kubernetes is a powerful tool for "DevOps" roles. It provides an immense array of configuration, and largely replaces many OpenStack, Xen, or VMWare type environments. You can build powerful internal workflows on it to colocate many services on one compute fleet while maintaining developer velocity - which can translate to large margin improvements for some firms. This comes at a cost that you are likely to need a Kubernetes team, and potentially a dev tooling team to make it all work. On a large compute environment, the latter costs don't effect the big picture.

Now on the other hand, more teams than you would expect are just fine on Heroku/AppEngine/AppRunner/Lambda. These teams tend to pay the cost of not having a dedicated dev tooling team through more expensive compute, and sub-optimal tooling. The benefit here though is that "more expensive compute" may mean a fraction of a salary in many environments, and "sub-optimal" tooling may mean a production grade SaaS offering that has a few rough edges you talk to the vendor about.

IME it's much cheaper/lower risk to choose the latter in the long-run. The apparent savings from option 1 eventually turn into tech debt as the shiny tools get old, and migrating to newer/cheaper compute options becomes more expensive. I once built a colo facility which resulted in a 4x reduction in monthly recurring expenses (including salaries) for the same compute footprint, 1 year into the lifetime of the facility the former cloud provider reduced prices by ~30%. Around 6 months into the facility the DataScience team suffered attrition, resulting in fewer compute needs. At the 1.5 year mark the team begged for a flip to SSDs as they were having latency issues (a point of initial contention with the team that SSDs should have been used in the first place). Over the 3 year expected lifespan of the facility there were about ~2.5 months of ramp up/migration work which impacted ROI.

Overall, in hindsight, I'd say at best we achieved a 1.5x reduction in compute expenses compared to the alternative of tooling improvements, cloud cost reductions, and compute optimization. I now seek the tool which provides the lowest friction abstraction as at the worst case I can simply migrate to something cheaper - investing in compute infra has a crazy level of depreciation.
A cloud service that can run containers directly, e.g. Amazon ACS, Google Cloud Run, etc.
his body mangled, it was replaced with the nearest donor. a finch
High Availability, Scalability, Deployments, etc are NOT the goal of Kubernetes, they are features that are not exclusive to Kubernetes, nor is Kubernetes necessarily better at them then others.

The goal of Kubernetes is to improve the portability of people by introducing abstraction layers at the infrastructure layer - These abstractions can seem overly complex, but they are essential to meet the needs of all users (developers, operators, cloud providers, etc)

Before kubernetes in order for a developer to deploy an application they would need to (send email, create terraform/cloudformation, run some commands, create ticket for loadbalancer team, etc) - these steps would rarely be same between companies or even between different teams in the same company.

After kubernetes you write a Deployment spec, and knowing how to write a deployment spec is portable to the next job. Sure there are many tools that introduce opinionated workflows over the essentially verbose configuration of base Kubernetes objects, and yes your next job may not use them, but understanding the building blocks, still make it faster than if every new company / team did everything completely differently.

If you only have a single team/application with limited employee churn - then the benefits may not outweigh the increased complexity.
My thoughts went towards the coral reef, esp. with Australia in the headline.
Examining State Bills on Data Brokers
>Brooklyn's agesim is much worse than Silicon Valley

Is that a Brooklyn/hipster thing, or a NYC finance culture thing seeping into the tech world?
This is still happening with drugs that are currently illegal.
Take it from a complete stranger, COVID did change the, "should I go to schools or start working" calculus. Things have changed since you made your decision, so it might be time to reevaluate.

If I could assign you a task, it would be to seek, find, and interact with a group(s) of people you admire and respect. Being a little older and wiser now, you would absolutely crush it if you decided to go back to school.
Another Quick Story on Military Failure
And I might cynically offer it was "invented" to solve the problem of ex-googlers not having any useful immediately transferable skills as the Google internal tech stack had nothing in common with industry.
Vyvanse isn't meth. It's lisdexamphetamine, and it's significantly less neurotoxic than meth (yes, even at equivalent dosages). Methamphetamine is rarely prescribed for ADHD, but even when it is (Desoxyn), it's chemically different to meth you'd find on the street, because it's only the d-enantiomer, and thus has much less off-target effects outside of the CNS. Sometimes steet meth is also only the dextro form, but that's far from assured.

In any case, the idea that vyvanse shows that meth can easily be taken with small negative effects is wrong, because Vyvanse isn't meth, and meth is very rarely prescribed because it's worse for your health than other amphetamines, and even when it is prescribed it's typically far safer than steet meth.
Where can I learn more about all these models you mention?
Is there any "buy equity in X" in similar form that did not turn out to be a scam or unprofitable?

E.g. "cloud mining", "fractional share in high value collectible games" were all nonsense.

After all, maybe the ruthless SEC is there for something - even if I don't agree with all that "accredited investor" gatekeeping that prevents competent individuals form getting a tiniest slice of the VC windfall.
Tech experts urge Washington to resist crypto industry's influence
Yea, because the US population is aging rapidly past 60, when most cancers start to form.

Your premise could easily be explained by "the percentage of the American population over 60 has increased steadily."

See: https://www.statista.com/statistics/457822/share-of-old-age-...

So yea, more total cancers diagnosed, cause old people get cancer.
In general the biggest breakthrough in that space has been machine learning powered relevance scoring and NLP. PageRank worked by using high level metadata (links between pages). We now have methods that can incorporate metadata information and analysis of the content itself.
> Good leaders respect you if you have these skills

Most workers will have to deal with an adversarial manager. Most will need a union or some kind of collective bargaining.

Yes, you did mention collective bargaining. But collective bargaining is much more important than having leaders^H managers that respect you, or relying on your own individual gumption and confidence. Maybe they respect you but it’s often their job to keep you in your place.
And yet, the results are worse and worse.
It seems that self-hosted Firefox Sync is NOT currently supported:

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/55...

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/68...

It seems they are migrating the solution without having any instructions on how to self host it.
Not too late to change no? Let's have some fun
Maybe a font with just tofus would work... like a reverse Noto Sans. Ain't nobody gonna reverse that :)
Case study: GetFoyl landing redesigned for conversion. +140% increase
> Since I have already backed up my claims with links that these projects are still alive?

No you did not. You provided a link to a closed pilot project that started a month ago, technically not alive and no way for you to know if it is going great. A link to an announcement of starting a project in the future, so not alive and no way for you to know that it is going great. Finally you provided a link to a "project" that amounts to nothing more than a sponsorship deal.
The difference between amphetamine and methamphetamine is small enough that different factions in the World Wars chose different molecules. Meth probably was the worse choice, but not by much.

There are millions of legal amphetamine users, some of whom are prescribed meth.

This kind of conversation is pretty useless without considering the health outcomes for that group of people, since those consequences are overwhelmingly positive.
I can't speak for everyone, but Kubernetes lets my company do more with the same amount of manpower, so we use that manpower to do more stuff rather than reduce our SRE/sysadmin footprint.
There should be programs introduced to educate the drug addicted and homeless that if they cut out the bad habit, pick themselves up by their bootstraps, and work 7 full-time jobs and/or win the lottery, they too can own a home in Vancouver one day.
> but weekly one-on-ones obviously doesn't scale to every single child.

An appropriate course of treatment for each child with a diagnosable condition for which it is appropriate certainly does. Maybe weekly sessions 52 weeks a year, every year, for every child regardless of need doesn't, but why would you do that anyway?
Insanely productive workflow to keep track of user requests
Exactly. Unregistered ICOs are illegal in the US which is what happened after 2017. [0] More countries to follow banning them for sure.

[0] https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/general-reso...
> If Kubernetes does indeed provide the best solution to provide scalability and availability, one can argue that this would result in a decreased demand for dev ops engineers, as they "would just have to use Kubernetes".

I'd say it would result in either:

- the same scalability and availability with fewer DevOps engineers
- better scalability and availability with a similar number or more DevOps engineers

In my experience, it's almost always the second case that happens. For example, a service would be moved from a few (virtualized or physical) servers that can only be scaled manually, to a k8s cluster with either autoscaling or at least scaling by changing a configuration file.
European countries’ consumer groups have joined the fight against loot boxes
> Kubernetes doesn't save work, it adds work.
It saves, but for certain heavy scenarios like High Availability, autoscaling etc.
I hope, one day we can see Kubernetes simplified, that will fit 95% of SOHO users.
From your linked Wikipedia page:

"it is executed at query time, not at indexing time, with the associated hit on performance that accompanies query-time processing" - for a search engine that planned to take over the Web that might have been a dealbreaker.
Sounds like he was trying to deny ultimate (as opposed to any) responsibility, which seems fair enough given that the board was his boss and had the power to fire him
Clickbait title, and article.

There's a "some circumstances" in the original paper. Do we live in those circumstances? Who knows? The paper is entirely game-theoretic and does not supply numbers for the circumstances in which fact checking increases fake news, not do the authors speculate on whether we live in such a circumstance.

I may be wrong, but the "fake news" here isn't Facebook style propagandistic lies, or even Trump style anything he doesn't like is fake news. It's just politicians lying.

One has to wonder about Tabbarok's motivation in writing a gloss with this title.
The average income in my area is less than $35k / year. ~80% own homes.

I find it funny when people tell me "this is misguided" and they have no idea what they're talking about.

I've lived off <$35k / year for about a decade; really not that hard. You don't take trips, you limit purchases. It's the way most of America works.

Let me breakdown the math:

- $600 taxes / month (often get decent returns at year end, put that into emergency fund)
- $600 food / month
- $600 rent / month (1 - 2 bedroom)
- $200 gas / month
- $500 emergency fund / month
- $220 house fund / month

In 2 years, you'll have $5,000 saved for a house and $12,000 in an emergency fund (assuming nothing happened). That's for one person, and I assume you can either take public transit OR you already have a beat up car (you can often get those for free, I had a couple cars for <$1000 that worked fine)

If you're married (ideally, you would), you'll have $10,000 for a house and that's enough for the 5% down on a $200,000 property. Alternatively, you can drain some of the emergency fund (provided you have some) and you can put that down.

Now, with inflation and increasing gas prices; yeah these people are going to be screwed for the time being. That means, either multiple jobs, cutting rent costs, cutting the emergency costs, what have you.
Well, Perl actually would return 2 in that case because the + turns it’s arguments into numbers… ;-)

Yeah, I’m all for strong typing too.

Most specs aren’t as complex as the one I just threw up there. What I really like specs for is to tell me whether or not the function is meant to return a maybe tuple ({:ok, val} | {:error, “err”}) or if it will throw an error. Sometimes that’s not obvious from bigger functions, and it makes refactoring harder.

My ideal would be something like Typed Racket’s gradual typing, which would let you get static types around eg core modules that see a lot of use and where you use the types to check your assumptions but non-core modules can be untyped.
I'm not sure. Most of that is from information Matt Cutts used to share when he was the public face of Google's search quality team. Since he left in 2014, they've been very quiet about the space. If you search for things like "matt cutts panda", "matt cutts vince", and so on, you'll see some of what he used to share.
> "power within a niche"

In my country we have a website that has complete monopoly over sales of used items, services etc. I'm always amazed that Google is able to determine and put it in top 3 results for a wide majority of searches. "laptop mouse" brings up that site, but "kitchen sink" doesn’t, presumably because people don’t buy used sinks.
But does it make them less money?
How did they even get that patent? It's a well known 70s era bibliometric algorithm.
If they are not explicit and not explaining this even to the 1st recruiting filter... it means the only way it happens is if you get in the company, do 8 hours for a while, prove your worth, then switch to 4-6 hours. It's a silly dance and takes time.

I did see it once, and even then they just wink-wink approved 6 hours with a reduced pay but legally you were on the hook for 8 hours (at the reduced rate). Flexibility varies...
Note that the "superior sound" is also very probably pure imagination

> In fact, a 2012 double-blind study of 21 experienced violinists found that most of the subjects preferred playing the newer instruments; the Stradivarius ranked last in their preferences. Most of them couldn't tell the difference between the old and new instruments, with no significant correlation between an instrument's age and its monetary value.

FTA
> One thing that's worth noting is my job has changed in this time to something that doesn't interest me as much.

Two things to do, not necessarily in that order:
1. Take a break from work and hobby software projects. Distance yourself a bit from all of it - tech world is not going anywhere.
2. Find another project/company that does what interests you. It will do wonders for your motivation.

I went through it - got stuck in some shitty company on a legacy project, just because of the money. I died inside slowly every day. Took two months off and went on, now I am working with new tech and love it again.
If your company has that many users why not self-host some open source solution like KeePassXC. The cost for having your IT employees host and manage it is probably less than the cost of a commercial product, even after negotiating a special contract with them.

Of course, the UX of the free solution will never compete with the commercial solutions. If you want that, you have to pay.
To be fair, they don't seem to teach the next generation about search operators.

I've found just using quotes, OR/AND, and some other basic stuff can often get me what I need.

The place where Google does well is that they're a monopoly, so things like image search that require a lot of resources, they are better at, especially paired with their geographic location. (USA! USA! USA!)

Edit: I hit enter and the post went out while drafting.
During COVID it was, which is what OP was referencing.

My partner received the equivalent of $75k/year on unemployment to do nothing. Using the standard rule of thumb, that is equivalent to owning ~$1.9M in liquid assets, which definitely puts you in the 1%. They didn't even look for a job until early this year.
Thanks, now my mind is going through a what-if where Clippy is educating us about natural all-year beer cooling techniques!
I wish there was more data on the "from scratch" bit. I just cannot believe that companies are willing to let experienced devs who know your system and have proven that they can ship just walk out the door with all that value simply because you won't pay them more. It is a ubiquitous problem and my bosses have shared this view. My current firm is the only place that has proactively increased compensation, and guess what, the other ICs I started with six years ago are still with the team.
Cool. Now let's get the Library of Congress or NARA -- which are natural homes for this kind of thing -- to implement the public option free of profit-driven cruft.
> How do you know such things?

Elsewhere here, you said you've watched his interviews and yet you missed him mention, more than the dozen times over the past few years, how he split his times between his companies?

> Please do inform us then.

I've pointed you to where you can find that out yourself. If you actually care to learn something, you'll spend the time. But if you're content with your preconceptions and the media's take on Elon, whatever I say here will fall on deaf ears.
> There's a feature where you can even share the login to a site on it, but they can't view the password - only lastpass can fill it up.

Prime example of Lastpass security theater - what exact problem did they think this feature solved?
Sure, it’s policy. I’ve never had an issue
> due to the amount of specialization

I see high amount of specialization but only after onboarding and not asked of potential candidates.

All we ask are capable software engineers, who we then train to be very specialized in what we do.
Sorry I meant Desoxyn.

> it's chemically different to meth you'd find on the street

Well yeah, but the MDMA on the street isn't really pure MDMA either.
I'd love to see image generation specialized on the wikiHow style as a data set, and then set loose on all articles lacking images with no moderation
Concur. I've seen more than one company self-destruct, because they weren't able to address crucial people problems. This was caused by their management prioritizing their own comfort at all times...

Said people problems were there classics : unwillingess to retain key people ; salary inversion ; hanging on to toxic people ; etc.
Transcripts from QuantumLink (1985-1987)
Research software engineer here.

This is probably not going to happen unless my employer decides to pay something competitive with industry. I'm here because I want to be. There is an opportunity cost here and not many people are willing to pay it.
> If law enforcement has a method to investigate your behavior, its not private.

That doesn't seem to reflect how the world has worked up until now.

There are plenty of things that are private except with a legal warrant. There's an entire legal history of wiretap laws and circumstances under which law enforcement can open mail I'd invite you to look at.
I never thought about "brand power" being a metric but that definitely makes sense. I'd be very curious to see what search results would look like if that weight was inverted (more "brand power" the lower the rank). I don't think it would be _better_ but it might make exploring lesser known bits of the internet more accessible.
yup, I still use one too. it's great, way better than google maps. But I'm guessing it's a hard pitch to get people to even try a dedicated device for something they already have in their pocket, for free.
Reconciling continuous models of the learning curve with abrupt strategy shifts
This is really nice! May I suggest an option to "deobfuscate" certain parts of the web page? For example, after you obfuscate the page with alt+shift+O, then you could click on some parts of the page to de-obfuscate them. Sometimes you want to hide only certain parts of the page while keeping others untouched (page headers/footers, titles, etc.).
That sounds a lot like the original Google App Engine. They'd provide a lot of power, but you had to restrict yourself to its design choices to use it. Then it could 100% manage your deployment.

I don't see people wanting to give up control to get a platform like that any time soon.