skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's so wrong it's barely worth responding to.

It instantly narrows your identity down to an owner of a particular batch of hardware and will force you to have an OS owned by one of the big 3 tech companies installed (which will spy on you constantly) to function.
Source: I work in Critical Incident Response/IT Remediation

AWS is absolutely a monopoly just like Microsoft has a monopoly on Corporate/Enterprise OS's tied to Domains. From a solely cloud based provider - not the Equipment renters or Volume based licensing.

AWS is a monster - Their market share is well over 33% regardless of how many articles you google to link me. I am balls deep buddy. It is well over 33% (At least in the US)
> the time and mental energy wasted comparing prices could have better return on investment if used on other things like learning a new skill, meeting a friend, reading a book

Maybe. Actual cost savings are observable now, with very high probability. Maybe that book or skill is useless; in other words, there's a broad distribution on possible outcomes. Who actually measures this stuff to assess ROI? It's not obvious that most people get a good ROI out of university degree, or at least at the same levels as in the past. At best I've seen some average measures, but not bottom 10 percentile measures, you know, essentially guarantees that one's time and energy and money isn't wasted. It should be of significant concern that even a CS degree isn't an effective guarantee of a job offer that requires the knowledge gained from that CS degree. It's as if a lot of the actual skill an employer requires is learned outside school, which is insane and conflicts with the broad everyone-must-graduate-college narrative in the US and Canada.
If you extrapolate the charts, it looks like if they simply waited one more year the mental health benefits would be the same.

Moving to a less green area appears to be accompanied by an immediate drop in mental health, followed by a steady increase. The only difference from those charts when moving to the rural areas is that there is no immediate drop, which appears to account for all the difference. And the mental health benefits of rural areas appears to plateau, so it's completely possible that the move to the less green area will catch up in the mental health benefit aspect within the year.
"I will continue to openly demonstrate my willful ignorance" doesn't support your position well, and doesn't seem in line with the general tone of HackerNews, IMO.
Bill to ban digital assets as payment passed the first reading in Russian Duma
To add to this, Google itself just dropped the security updates for Pixel 3a (their own phone not OEM) after just 3 years of launch.

3 years of use from a piece of complex hardware that could keep going easily for 7/8 years.

This kind of narrow planned obsolescence should be an environmental crime.
> The money supply only affects inflation in that it increases demand for some things quicker than supply can meet demand.

My Econ 101 understanding is that if there is more money available to buyers but the amount of goods available stays the same, and if the goods have elastic prices, the prices will go up.
Hopefully a lot less than you spend behind the wheel getting anywhere.
if they are about to cut off my finger, I'm pretty sure I will just tell them my sudo password of my local machine. at that point they can modify all they want on my laptop.
>It is absolutely perfectly fine to be interested in dating a particular race. Because if you really break down what that statement actually means, it means that the person is attracted to certain physical characteristics that are more pronounced in that particular ethnicity

But is it politically correct to say certain characteristics are more pronounced in a particular ethnicity? Wouldn't you be branded as a nazi?
> slight nitpick

I'm aware that the cyclical universe is from the vedas; a lot of what passes for Buddhist metaphysics is pre-Buddhist. The Buddha didn't care much for metaphysical pronouncements; he was more a meditation teacher than a cosmologist.

So I didn't mean to claim that these ideas were Buddhist in origin; I just learned of them from Buddhists.
"longer" is comparatively easy: More staff scientists (moving from grant to grant within an institution but on open-ended contracts) and fewer postdocs. "Paying more" is harder, though one or more of reducing marginal grants and lowering the ceiling on institutional overhead on grants would seem a reasonable start.

I've recently finished four years as a postdoc (and now have a permanent academic job and am applying for grants). It's the precarity of it which is a bigger killer than just the crappy salary. Fighting huge numbers of applicants for the chance to uproot your life (again) and move around the country for a contract that may be as short as 9 months, with every move having a good chance of being the end of your career (which you've invested years in training for). It's a grim position to put people into.
It would make sense to just not allow men to swipe first at all, it was an obvious improvement when they only let the women start conversations. I think the issue is it will lower engagement.
The problem isn't that "finding nothing" isn't progress. The problem is that "finding nothing" is terrible progress-per-dollar.

If you're still having trouble with that concept, peer into the alternate universe where the LHC actually provided enough data to nail down the Theory of Everything. Now that would be some progress-per-dollar to celebrate.

There's a contingent of people who just don't want to think about "how much" progress something is making and want to live in a fantasy world where building a multi-billion dollar particle collider that finds nothing is exactly the same as a $50,000 experiment that finds nothing. I don't know that I'm terribly interested in trying to argue y'all out of that belief. But I can say with great confidence that no matter how good it may make you feel, if you go on to argue about how vital it is to spend another 5x times as much money to build another particle collider that we have no reason to believe will find anything new, you will continue to be marginalized and find your influence waning to apparently no effect.

But in the faint hope of maybe convincing you, consider that there is no infinite money fountain, and even if you just can't process that fact, there certainly aren't an infinite amount of physicists. What is so vital about another particle accelerator that we must dedicate thousands of professional careers to it despite the lack of solid reason to hope anything will come of it? Why not let them do something else? I submit it's all Availability Heuristic. You see and apprehend the particle accelerator, so it must be a good idea. You don't see the thousands upon thousands of other things you're trading away for it, so they don't factor in.

But given the current big fat zero rational reason to build another, it is very easy to build a model in which those other experiments will actually be the ones that make the difference somehow. Probably by some long, convoluted chain we can't imagine now; I doubt there's a bench experiment that we just haven't done that will nail down quantum gravity. But there's a lot of other interesting paths. Quantum computers, for instance, just by their nature, tend to probe the limits of quantum theory in a way nothing else can. Something very interesting could come out of that. Dark matter detectors could produce something. Someone might actually work a theory down into something that can be tested.
The only way to get an accurate estimate of expected latency is to measure it in all sorts of different scenarios. You can't measure something that doesn't exist. And relying on other peoples documentation for accurate latency estimates is asking for trouble. The one thing I've learned through profiling a lot of my code is that my intuitions about how long something will take are always wrong.
One can freely leave at any time, so I don't think this counts as slavery.
> what good is documentation without a final product?

Reference material for the features and techniques the product had/was going to have. I've earned years of my salary at a time by referencing documentation for vaporware -- things that never quite made it but that had worked out a ton of problems and documented them along the way.
>nobody is asking them to surrender all their IP

I agree with you, but that is how they'll see it. Some of the datasheets I've gotten for an NRND or EOL device are under NDA and still too spartan to write a driver without a lot of trail and error. Because this year's latest-and-greatest product is is 95% the same as the old perfectly-functional products they'll call trash.
Pleroma: Lightweight Fediverse Chat
Show HN: Web tool for rendering Kaleidoscopes based on PIXI.js and GLSL
For many people, though, “binary logs” is a bad word.
Since ~2017, the highwater mark of IPv6 availability is growing at about 10 percentage points every 2½ years. At that rate it will hit 100% in 15 years, although I expect the penetration will tick up a bit in ~5 years.
It's actually at the top of Reddit's r/AskHistorians recommended reading list[1]. And I in fact ended up choosing to read it instead of Guns, Germs and Steel after enough comments there suggested to me that it was more deeply based in academia.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/timi4/the_as...
> The results of the vote, which saw just under a 23% turnout, do not carry any legal weight...
The development of the OCaml-Rust interface is a bit organic. `ocaml-interop` aims to be a low-level but safe interface. At Inria we worked with the author to integrate ideas about using Rust's type system to safely work with a GC. We have more ideas to make it better; if someone wants to commit engineering time in this area they should feel encouraged to contact me.
Not sure if the reply will go through since its been flagged. Thanks for taking the time to explore the app. The UX is a priority of ours in terms of highest on the list of upcoming improvements. Happy you found it interesting!
If it's only technical, then bots can implement it too.

If it's not only technical (e.g: you must be a verified token provider), then it will stop Linux/BSD communities, just like it's today near impossible to open a community mail server.
>Most first world countries have a solution for this already.

Even second and third world countries have implemented this solution.
Gnome is Red Hat and Red Hat has a lot of influence over Linux as a whole.

Once a long time ago there was also the licensing concern with Qt.
Both of those questions are basically the same thing.

The usual workflow goes like this:

1. There's a ticket in Jira or Github. Depending on the team, either someone assigns it to you, or you choose to work on it.

2. You checkout the master branch in git locally, get it up to date with the current version.

3. You do `git checkout -B myName/ticket-7001` (or whatever format your team uses) to make a new git branch.

3. You write the code and tests for the new feature. Depending on the team or your own personal preferences, you may make lots of small commits, or one large one when you are done.

4. You push the branch up to the git server. Then on the git server, you create a pull request, using the branch name and requesting to merge it back to master. Then you give it a title with the feature name and description linking it back to the work ticket.

5. In a good organization, the git server will then run all tests, making sure they pass, and run a variety of linter checks, and code formatting checks. If any of these fail, you'll want to fix them.

6. You'll request that someone else on the team review the PR. This may take a day or two. Depending on the team and how critical the PR is, this may just be a "looks good to me" approval, or dozens of back and forth comments looking to simplify, and speed up, and otherwise improve the code. Eventually the reviewer will approve the PR.

7. You or the reviewer will then merge in the PR. Some teams use squash commits, where the entire PR becomes a single commit at merge time.

Because of the lag waiting on other people to review your code, you'll often be working on multiple PRs at once.

Hope that helps! A lot of how this workflow works is very team specific. I don't know that I'd asked about it in an interview because it's very easy to learn on the job.
Are you talking from sleep or in the back seat of the car (both illegal)?! 10 seconds is long as hell - i have no clue what you are talking about.
I think this is a short sighted perspective. Basic research is important and has farther reaching impacts than a CRUD web app. Just because you don't see immediate impact doesn't mean it isn't there
On Android, this is (usually, vendors may vary) hold down `power`, then tap "Lockdown" on the screen. I do like the fact that on Apple you can do it without interacting with the screen.
My grandparents didn’t go hungry this year (after Russia’s invasion) because they had a cellar full of preserves. For them, it was part of a tradition of hunger, a “never waste food” mentality reinforced by WWII, and Holodomor prior, and WWI prior, and the experience of being serfs prior to that.
Is it fair to conclude that fossil fuel price shocks are good for the planet? If everyone experiences them early then we will all reduce our carbon footprint for life and slow global warming?
I just by default use private mode. Pretty sure in Safari that helps.
The compile time execution itself is just one piece of the puzzle, the other two being compile time reflection (which I think is actually the key piece) and the built in code generation.

Running functions alone is not that interesting, and neither really is generating code. You can do those (arguably better for some cases) with helper programs as a separate build step. But reflection is non-trivial to do externally, so that's the biggest value add, and using it with all three pieces let you close the loop.
> A "crash" in this case is any crash where the automated driving aids were in use less than 30 seconds prior to the crash.

It's 5 seconds, not 30 seconds. From Tesla safety report [1]:

> To ensure our statistics are conservative, we count any crash in which Autopilot was deactivated within 5 seconds before impact, and we count all crashes in which the incident alert indicated an airbag or other active restraint deployed.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
I am totally onboard with helping folks who are handicapped and addressing other issues of disadvantage or injustice. My point is that I don't think it would be useful to try to make the act of strawberry picking itself easier.
IPV6 becomes supercharged when you layer it with the original Bitcoin protocol. It integrates Cryptographic Generated Addresses in IPV6 which is an extension that has been around for awhile but never implemented.

Here is the founder and chair of the IPV6 forum giving a speech about it just a couple of weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE3Vsbo1NPs

Really cool engineering things are being worked on in the background.
I would second this sentiment. As a teen I loved the action of Privateer and RPGs but found some of the grind tedious. Later as an adult I found certain kinds of grind kind of fun, to a point. Reaching the pay off is key. Things that feel too out of reach or have pay-to-win shortcuts just completely deflate the reward and destroy my motivation.

Cheating in MP also ruined it for me. Now I mostly do SP and occasionally cheat there when it feels like the game is getting too grindy or unfair.
Microsoft's union truce could reshape tech's long war with labor
Calls to 'Stop the Deal' as US Military Contractor Moves to Buy NSO Group
Think a new IP address for every packet.
An additional millisecond to your public key exchange is probably not going to matter - key exchange is pretty infrequent anyway.
Maybe? As an experienced engineer, you should be able to use your experience to estimate the latency. Very few things are truly novel.
No, poor is poor. Please don't move or re-label goal posts.
What is its level of maturity on non x86 platforms such as ARM? It might be a nice alternative to C and especially C++ on small embedded boards, but then any smaller overhead would matter a lot more than on a PC.
Gamedev here. It's nice that the article recognizes the recent "mellow games" popularity. There's always been that current in gaming - in the 2010s "walking simulators" were popular (but with much more focus on story), in 2000s / late 1990s it was "game toys" like The Sims, or online MUDS and Second Life and so on.

People always wanted virtual places to just chill, and not have to be challenged all the time or have to struggle etc.

But also the article's focus on chores feels like a distraction. It's not that chores as such are exciting, it's more that you're messing around in a virtual world with often unexpected physics (job sims), or otherwise simplifying the complexity of real life (trucking sims etc). And lots of this popularity is also because, with Unity and Unreal, it has become very easy to make these kinds of physics-based 3D worlds with wacky physics, especially for tiny teams on small budgets - so lots and lots of people are making them.
>even to get a liberal arts school job requires you to do a postdoc first

That’s a great point that I neglected to consider. Regardless, the overall point still holds—the production rate of postdocs is much greater than the replacement rate of professors (at all institutions).
pov: you play hearts of iron 4
Man, I can't tell the hours I spent in Bike or Die...Awesome game.
"Nightmare" was how physicists themselves characterize the situation we are in, and have done for at least 15 years.

Look at the 2007 article linked in the article above:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.315.5819.1657

Jonathan Ellis is on the record there describing the scenario we find ourselves in now as "the real five-star disaster". (you can get the full article by putting the link into scholar.google.com). And I recall hearing and reading the "nightmare scenario" phrase before that 2007 article.
Why would someone, with any field of study, be a "scum of the earth" post doc

Access to coeds.
F# is great and it benefits from the .net ecosystem but at the same time the language sometimes feels like it is being held back now by not wanting to add new features that c# doesn't support, so its relation to .net is kind of both a blessing and a curse.

Previously it added a lot of stuff on its own like async, etc. which was cool but also resulted in compatibility issues when c# later added similar features.

Now the f# developers are very concerned with compatibility but it basically means that f# can't get new features until c# already has them. It's also limited by the runtime which is designed around c#.

For example, it doesn't support type classes because (among other reasons) that might end up being incompatible with future c# type-class like features several years down the line.

It's also hard to learn f# unless you already know some ocaml/haskell.

ocaml has failed to catch on that much so far but I think it does have potential, and adding multicore support/effects is pretty promising.

On the other hand the fragmentation with stuff like reason/rescript is pretty dumb.
I'm an avid player of these mundane "chore" games and I play them because they are fun.

I don't want to be a truck driver, but I want to play Euro Truck Simulator with a complete racing wheel setup. The way I see it, driving a truck across Europe while trying to follow all of the rules to minimize cost is not that much different mentally than driving a race car around a race track trying to minimize lap time. But it is less physically fatiguing.

Even though these games seem dumb (I get poked fun at a lot for playing them), most of the time, their game loops are tight enough that you feel the same fulfillment as if you were playing the latest Mario. They are always adding another challenge to the game with each level, so that by the end, you've developed a repertoire of skills that you can use to tackle a variety of complicated situations.
> In 1973, professor Sir James Lighthill was asked by the UK Parliament to evaluate the state of AI research in the United Kingdom. His report, now called the Lighthill report, criticized the utter failure of AI to achieve its "grandiose objectives." He concluded that nothing being done in AI couldn't be done in other sciences. He specifically mentioned the problem of "combinatorial explosion" or "intractability", which implied that many of AI's most successful algorithms would grind to a halt on real world problems and were only suitable for solving "toy" versions.[15]

> The report led to the complete dismantling of AI research in England.[15] AI research continued in only a few universities (Edinburgh, Essex and Sussex).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
Rituals around slaughter don’t make the slaughter humane. You know that and I know that. If an animal is being killed for you when you don’t need to kill it to survive, it’s unnecessary suffering and animal abuse. Plain and simple. Genuine survival situations are different, but that is so rare in the developed world.

Saying a prayer doesn’t change anything. You didn’t give the animal the best life you could. You gave it the best life until you decide you wanted to consume it for your pleasure. Not survival, pleasure.

And vegans are well aware that life consumes life. Vegans consume living things. They just don’t consume living things which are capable of terror or depression and suffering.

Say a prayer all you want, but harming an animal when you don’t need to is the act of abusing an animal for pleasure. I can say a prayer and be remorseful and thank a dog for its sacrifice after I put it in a dog fight and it got ripped apart, but that’s still animal abuse. It’s still wrong. And like eating animals in the developed world, it’s for pleasure.
A few months of headache is probably still very much worth it. Although they aren't the only ones. Anything related to mechanical engineering is often horribly outdated. Just recently saw a brand new device to separate waste. Allegedly one of the best in the world. The controller runs on some arcane and old version of Windows CE or something like that that is half a day before the extremely long support window from Microsoft for embedded systems.

I don't think there is any technical justification for this you could just as well have used a brand new Windows 98. But jokes aside, even if the OS is still officially supported, why not choose a newer platform when starting such projects... There would be enough time to evaluate an OS.
A tiny CLI to save AWS costs in development environments when you're asleep
And from a Jul 2021: "Half of the tech workforce wants to join a union" - https://www.protocol.com/workplace/workplace-survey-2021/tec...
In the US, the idea isn't that the password can be forgotten, but that passwords are protected speech, which can't be compelled. This legal theory hasn't been fully tested, though — I wouldn't depend on it unless it was upheld by the Supreme Court, but I'd expect this Court to give the police absolutely anything they want.
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It would be great to see the 273 crashes in detail categorized by what kind of edge case crash. I hope there were very few fatalities. I suspect majority humans transitioning to control is responsible which means that needs to be looked at - which shouldn't be the problem.

Also it doesn't seem that high of a number relative to how many crashes have occurred. Obviously the closer to zero the better since they have a high bar to instill confidence in self driving.
Oh, man! The wrench actually costs only $5.
Plausibly yes, but not as scientifically proven as you might think just from reading the book.