skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? Isn't the output of the linker roughly the same size as the sum of the inputs?
Porting Quake to an iPod Classic Is No Easy Task
>I would also not want to hire/work with anyone who's worked for facebook or google in the past 5 years

These companies have a plethora of things to work on and you have the ability to positively impact most of the planet (billions of people). You are oversimplifing things if you think they are all evil people who would be bad to work with.
“T.A.Z.” seems to take its cues from the Situationist Manifesto and its prose style from Allen Ginsberg. A sample: "Weird dancing in all-night computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earthworks as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize houses but instead of stealing, leave Poetic-Terrorist objects."

This reminds me more of the Yippes[1], honestly, who famously nominated a pig for President, tried to levitate the Pentagon, and threw dollar bills in to the trading pits of Wall St... they were an artifact of the 60s and 70s... a couple of decades before TAZ was written.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_International_Party
> I also like when someone reminds me they're blocked by an issue.

As a user, this feels weird to me. If I’m actually blocked by a bug you’ll receive a PR, not a +1. If I have the leisure to +1 I’m clearly not blocked enough for you to consider it pressing.
Smaller reactors produce more low active nuclear waste per energy produced. They are also necessarily less efficient due to smaller size.

But the increase of low active waste is not huge challenge for the wast management is not true IMHO.

High active waste problem is the issue.
It's not human nature. It's just a tradition. And a tradition is just a story (maybe even a lie) we've been taught, and which we tell ourselves. Stories are easily changed - like slavery or patriarchy, for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7JE8j5Ncmw
The idea is that you choose the GUI toolkit that best suits your requirements, of course.
pseudoscience.
> It started to become gross, and nobody I worked with shared any views or skepticism that I had. They all pretty much treated it like a religion across the board.

When a description such as that starts to sound like a 1:1 Venn diagram overlap with multi level marketing, yeah, it's time to bail.
Tor Browser – Volunteer as an alpha tester
“Trivial” is the wrong word, but it’s fairly known/common to write an embedded interpreter. The line between interpreting and just plain programming is very blurry in a lisp.
Nit: That's true for taxation, but counted for social insurance/pension fee. Latter is big for lower income workers.
Maybe, but then the heating itself would be the problem, not the mining on top of that.
Show HN: Assert: testing and assertion library on top of Go generics
> Indeed, nVidia open sourced the kernel portion of their drivers a few weeks ago.

It's my understanding that this was more like an added shim layer in the kernel, and that it just communicates to the (still proprietary) code now in firmware. In other words the blob moved, but it's still there, just shimmed. Maybe somebody with more knowledge of this codebase can weigh in?

Certainly this pattern of responding to pressure to open source code by shimming the blob is quite common. It's very common in network gear that runs Linux, for example.
I have the same question, it would seem a quick win to have optimized house colors for the current temperatures. Many hot countries do it right, but especially northern architecture hasn’t adapted as well. Also, too much unshadowed windows. There’s a lot to win with well thought architecture.
> Also, not all code points have a single-codepoint uppercase version. The eszett (ß) capitalizes to “SS”. There’s also the “capital” eszett ẞ, but its usage seems to vary and I’m not exactly sure how it interacts here.

Don't use capital ß. While it may be found in a few places on the Web in posts of enthusiasts, it's not used in real life. (While it's based on an old proposal, it has been introduced only recently and it's supported only by recent OSes. At the same time – or rather, even before this –, orthographic reforms have replaced the lower-case variant by "ss" for most use cases. So it's anachronistically lost in retro-futurism, but bare of any retro-futurism charms.)

Fun fact: "eszett" is a denomination specific to Germany, in Austria it's "scharfes s" ("sharp s", or rather, acute s), and the Swiss got rid of it altogether in the first half of the 20th century (1938), generally replacing it by "ss".
Thanks! Appreciate the insight
> It's best to conform to the contribution process described by the maintainer to avoid wasting their time as much as possible.

It’s not their prerogative to waste my time, just as it’s not mine to waste theirs. If they’re not happy with a PR they’re welcome to reject it, ask me to fix it, or completely ignore it.

When they make a project public they’re explicitly condoning the fact they may get a PR (and nothing else).
Understanding Quantum Technologies 2021
A pretty cool blog with a PDF file containing 836 pages of explanation of Quantum Computing.
Windows developers tend to stuff directories full of DLLs if they need to ship dependencies, they're not statically linked per se.

Regardless, it's incredibly complicated to compare linking behaviour between Windows and Linux. Windows has tons of components built into the API (and which is maintained by Microsoft) which you'd need an external dependency for in Linux. Microsoft provides interfaces for things like XML processing, TLS connections, file system management, sound libraries, video libraries, rendering engines, scripting engines and more. If there's a vulnerability in WinHTTP, Microsoft will patch it; if you statically link curl, you'll have to fix it yourself.

Of course many open source developers will statically link binaries because that way they don't have to write platform specific code themselves, but they only need all those dependencies because your average distro is pretty bare bones if you strip it to its core components. If you write cod Linux, you're not even getting a GUI by your base platform, you'll have to provide your own bindings for either X11 or Wayland!

Most third party Windows software I run is some application code and maybe a few proprietary DLLs that the software authors bought. Sometimes those DLLs are even just reusable components from the vendor themselves. Only when I install cross compiled Linux software do I really see crazy stuff like a full copy of a Linux file system hidden somewhere in a Program Files folder (GTK+ really likes to do that) or a copy of a modified dotnet runtime (some Unity games).

The big exception to the rule, of course, is video games, but even those seem to include fewer and fewer external components.

Development becomes a lot easier when you can just assume that Microsoft will maintain and fix giant frameworks like the .NET Framework and the Visual C++ runtime (basically libc for Windows) for you. Microsoft even solved the problem of running multiple versions of their C runtime on the same machine through some tricky hard linking to get the right dependencies in the right place. As a result, most Windows executables I find in the wild are actually linked dynamically despite the lack of a library management system.
This is a report by Buzzfeed, not the US govt. Did you read the article?
Still requires manufacturers to implement correctly which I found my 2022 Subaru Android auto is locked in landscape so it's essentially half-screen... No way to fix
Apple store workers vote to form first US union
I know protection of children is usually a false pretense, but for those that really care, it makes much more sense to let parents fine tune their children's access to various internet properties.

For example, iOS has pretty good parental controls, where parents can limit time in certain apps, etc. It's just a much more scalable and flexible solution.

Sure, some laws for companies could make sense, e.g. forbid them to run ads tailored to children below a certain age. Or label their products appropriately.

But I think it's basically the same thing as "video violence" and any reasonable set of parents shouldn't have any trouble making sure that their eight year old isn't watching Saw 3 (or some other violent film) with her friends.
Mobile is almost all IOS and Android... and mostly but not all devs use Macs due to xcode.

The only places that Windows seems to persist are developer markets where tooling choices are limited to Windows (games, medical, embedded) or corporate standards dictate tooling.
TL;DR:

- if you want to build something yourself -> you need experienced ppl to do that

- if you dont have the right ppl -> you better pick a SaaS or PaaS, but your business will be at mercy of your provider

- there is a huge shortage of experienced skilled ppl
If you work on improving security on a big tech product are you "evil"? If you work on education programs for these companies, are you evil?

It is a big generalization to say everyone who works for these companies is contributing to it's evil. Most people are actually trying to make improvements for users.
The Situationists predated the Yippies. And considering Wilson's age, it is likely both to an extent. But as far as I can tell, the Yippies were influenced by the Situationists.
The irony here is that Sabine Hossenfelder falls into exactly the same patterns as the science media that she is criticizing. A punchy headline, with significant oversimplifications. For example, she makes it sound like science news is always aimed at scientists, and that they do not explain the science (I have several excellent counter examples). That doesn't mean there is not some very good points in there (e.g. put your dates at the top, cite your sources...)

As a side note, I hate how her channel has become something which exemplifies much of what I dislike about the now typical youtube channels: Top ten lists, grossly overstated titles, "give me your opinion in the comments", the awful generic CGI backgrounds ...

The other irony is that likely she does it for exactly the same reasons as why science media is often bad: economics.
This article provides one possible approach (and includes links to an example implementation): https://blog.jakubholy.net/2013/09/05/blue-green-deployment-...
Another reason why big corp encourages telework (while there are some ventures don't encourage) is because their office in Tokyo is very expensive. Anyway it's good thing.
> Or we can just have plants capture the CO2, give those plants to large ruminants which will feed those plants to the microbiota in their cecum, digest the microbiota and converting it into the kind of nutritious protein and fat that hominids have adapted to digest almost exclusively for millions of years.

The time involved, from capture by plants to a grown up mammal are very long. The space this very elegant self-replicating organic machines take is also enormous. You can cut the process in half and get proteins and carbs directly from plants, but we have known that for ages and, even with the future of our species at stake (no pun intended) we still haven’t changed our diets.
The benefits of using Rust come as a consequence of a team that learns and chooses Rust on its own. It is likely a more committed team, which would produced better code in any language.

Migrating a team of PHP, Javascript and Go programmers to Rust for no technical reason seems just hopeless.

It's putting the cart before the horse.
Yes. And it turns into, guess what, CO2. And heat.
There are other useful things to do with "stranded energy" though. In Northern Germany, they're now building hydrolysis plants to convert excess offshore wind energy into hydrogen. And if we're talking about natural gas wells, you already have a pipeline infrastructure in place, so it's not that far of a stretch to add a hydrogen pipeline to that.
Touring Europe cycling is amazing, I did Strasbourg to Montpelier on a Dutch bike, with short legs between Amsterdam to Nice. It was amazing, I had a good tent, sleeping bag, and a mattress. My trip was over 2,000km, including a climb to Ventoux (part of Tour De France in 2012 IIRC).

One thing that's not mentioned in the article is to use Couch Surfing and Warm Showers. Warm Showers especially is amazing, because it is an amazing cycling community and you can borrow anything from small stitching kits to a full-on welding kits to fix bicycles. Full of amazing things and people in almost all euro velo routes.

FlixBus will take bicycle on board on most buses (for 10 euros IIRC), and most trains will too on weekends and off-peak hours.

Overall, it was a fantastic experience and I can't recommend it enough.
If you wouldn't do the work without the paycheck from the evil corp, you are complicit into the evil doings.
> you have the ability to positively impact most of the planet (billions of people)

Hundreds of thousands of people work there, yet they haven't managed to achieve that positive impact.
Don't be entitled but at the same time nothing wrong with respectfully asking for support. User support is the whole point of maintainance. Replying to issues to add "weight" allows maintainers to prioritize fixes.
That sounds strange. Corporations hire enough lawyers to find every possible loophole in tax evasion.
Computing power is nothing without a high Delta-V rocket under your backside.
I hate cardio, I grumble constantly when my girlfriend drags me out on hikes, and to be honest half the time I'm on a bicycle, touring, I'm in agony. The seemingly infinite hills in 95 degree heat will make you question whose stupid idea this was over and over.

That said, there are these moments of bliss, finding yourself in nooks and crannies of the world that 90% of tourists never see, spending all day out in the sunshine, feeling the breeze, smelling the grass and the flowers, stopping to have daily picnics in random fields, next to lakes, overlooking beautiful mountain ranges... You're taking it slow, so you really take it all in. You're constantly ravenous so every meal you have is one of the greatest of your life. Maybe the exercise induced endorphins are boosting it all a bit too.

Anyway, some of the best memories of my life are those I made while bicycle touring.
Solar panels are placed on best places to receive solar emission, so the room also be hot, isn't it?
I think the wikiped article is citing the velocity you’d have purely under the gravitational pull. That calculation likely doesn’t include the additional velocity given from the magnetic pull of magnetaurs. Given that magnetism is a stronger force, I don’t think the claim is disproven by the citation on Wikipedia.
I have a similar gap in my CV.

I've found that the companies/people I most want to work for are genuinelyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=LightG interested in that gap rather than are suspicious about it.

I use how they respond to it as a minor filter for those I don't want to work with.
It depends more on the volume, the frequency of changes and the complexity of implementation. You can have a robust solution for a few bucks infra cost, if those parameters are small.
This is achtually the nichest of niches where mining bitcoin is not stealing from Society: the existing alternative resisting heating, would produce as much heat per watt as mining bitcoin would.

Sure, there's the question of using the hardware for this purpose, and possibly this dampens the transition to heat pumps, but it's the 'least immoral' mining situation I've heard of so far.
The article is simply glossing over the fact that a lot of "science news" is lies to make it sound like someone just invented the warp drive to sell stories. It's because the education system around us is so bad that if they mentioned half of these things (or heaven forbid basic stats) on the news people would either switch off or decry you as a modern day witch...
For some use cases though, the cloud is just amazingly cheap and fast. We are currently scaling our (computationally cheap) batch re-training jobs on AWS Lambda and it‘s quite incredible that you can train thousands of models in parallel with TBs of RAM. There is no on-premise alternative.
Thank you for saying it
Horizons is also available as a web interface (as another commenter mentioned), and if the orbital elements output (which is what you have there and is basically this data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_elements) is a bit opaque, you can also request it in Cartesian coordinates ("Vector table" under "Ephemeris type" in the web ui). Apparently it also has an email interface, which is neat.

The web UI is here: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/app.html#/

I once did a hobby project doing 2-body orbital simulations, and was able to use this data to set up a model of the solar system, and satellites orbiting the Earth. It's quite a fun dataset!
Some versions of Windows have been POSIX compliant, even without WSL, so you can't entirely rely on that. It's a very basic spec.
Taleb's piece is great, thanks for posting!
They were literally on a gold standard at the time. You absolutely can blame the gold standard for the Fed decision to raise interest rates to protect gold reserves.

The only decision the Fed could (and eventually did) take to allow the money supply to expand was removing the US from the gold standard.
And this is what happens when you refuse to pay your engraver
> LaMDA’s remarkable aptitude at Turing’s Imitation Game

LaMDA hasn't participated in such a game though (as far as I know). The rules of a Turing Test are inherently adversarial, which is completely different from Lemoine's performative improv routine or collaborative fanfiction project, whatever you want to call it.

The interrogator needs to be deliberately asking questions to catch out the test subject, and there needs to be a human test subject to compare their answers to. These are requirements of the test procedure specified in the Long Bet[1] between Ray Kurzweil and Mitchell Kapor, and an AI passing this would have a much greater claim to sentience than LaMDA does.

[1] https://longbets.org/1/
Both are small projects by small teams (though I don't know how small Redis team is now). They have insane performance characteristics with rather small footprints and a wealth of functionality.
I subscribed to Nature magazine, and I don't see that it ,,sucks so much''. The answer is simple: you get what you pay for.

Also there are lots of high quality youtube channels for any specific area of science...some of my favourites:

- Everyday Astronout (his interviews with Elon were awesome)

- CrisprTalk (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8TW2xKYRqbLvfGaT783WQA/videos)... a retired guy with lots of lab experience going through clinical trial results, investing in CRISPR stocks and bashing ARK invest's stock picks

- Modern Healthspan interview with Gregory Fahy (the channel has lots of other interesting videos, but I'm less interested in supplements and more about future research reversing aging).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_OTIP7kjo&list=PLkfzM7KJv6vY68Fvw1g7l9vN9NqhW7Fay
Totally agree about keeping things simple. When [it] hits the fan on Sunday afternoon, you can probably root-cause the issue fairly quickly and get things running again. And, you don't have to wait for that *one guy* who went on vacation Friday to come back a week later to show you how things were configured.
Note that bitcoin mining is independent of anyone else mining.

I don't think this is correct, because not everyone has the same hashing power.

Yes the amount of blocks you would statistically generate per hour is dependent on your hash rate and the current difficulty.

However, other miners with higher hash power will mine blocks quicker than you, and therefore take the rewards for those blocks ahead of you.

The amount of rewards you get is dependent on your share of the total hashing power, which includes other miners, and not just your own hashing power relative to the difficulty level.

An artificially low difficulty level simply means that blocks are mined more quickly, so yes in a way miners are making more money per unit of time, but the rewards are distributed according to your percentage of the total hashing power.

This is even more explicit in mining pools, where you might never mine a block, but still get rewards simply by virtue of providing hashing power to the pool itself.
Can you explain in detail what tride means?
The idea you are presenting is very broad, and the explanation doesn't really help narrow it down to anything practical. How would you implement this in practice? How would such a "social construct" operate?

With that said I think that there's a need for digital clans nowadays, similar to multiplayer gaming clans, but for more "serious" games. Could this be it?
I understand a job's a job, but it's not as easy as you make it sound. Developers have ample opportunities and have the luxury of being able to make career decisions autonomously. Ofcourse I don't hate crypto developers, but it's not wrong to question their decisions.
In her video, she claims that linking to studies is the proper way to present news.

Then she quotes a study and doesn’t link to it in the video description. She doesn’t link to this post either.

I like the videos she makes explaining scientific concepts but her criticism videos tend to miss the mark with me.
Dang I don't want to even imagine the amount of bugs and how bad the codegen is compared to newer compilers.
I’d just say “don’t learn k8s yet.“ if you know it, it’s fine, but it’s complicated to get right, so delay if you haven’t made by that journey yet.
Ask HN: What to do with ~30 Raspberry Pi 3B+?
I have ~30 Raspberry Pi 3B+s, along with some Coral Edge TPU processors, power supplies, HDMI cables, some micro SD cards, and other peripherals. I would like to give them to a local group who would get some use out of them (e.g. a coder dojo or other youth education project) but this is proving to be harder than expected.

Any suggestions on alternate places I could donate them where they would actually get use? I was considering selling them as a job lot and donating the money to a local charity all else failing.

P.s. If anyone has an idea of a personal project I could throw together in the interim while they're just sitting here waiting for a new home, let me know too!
Zoom and Netflix are companies that actually produce valueable goods. Both companies have a lot of happy customers. There is a lower bound for the stock price roughly equal to the physical assets of the company. There's no such limit for crypto coins. It can go to 0. There's no reason to assume otherwise.
Haha, yeah, I wonder if they at least designated a ‘squad leader’ that was the designated ‘order giver’, or whether it was always a random nearby soldier.

I guess it doesn’t matter from a game perspective since I never noticed, but from a technical perspective it seems more elegant to me.
Get a state license in anything, and say you were unemployed for those resume gaps. Most license requirements are easy to fudge.
This feature is an antifeature which is doing harm by interfering with system functionality.
If you have a system with millions of files it is the poor performance introduced by this antipattern concept that breaks backups, copies or systems with huge codebases, I could go on. It's defective by design...

But as has been said, this isn't a problem Photoshop users hit so will never be addressed.

If you can't see an equivocal here you aren't understanding the problem and probably shouldn't be strongly commenting on it.

If I were being rude I'd just be rude. My comment is fair and the downvotes reflect how you need to learn more about this area before sharing comments of "green apples aren't red apples" when we're talking about oranges.
> Deforestation & water use aren’t a problem in the first world.

Yes. We pay the third world to do it for us. Lucky we live in different worlds, and what happens there doesn’t impact us, right?

> by improving energy generation

You are still not accounting for the surface used and the long multi-year process that’s growing a cow.