skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes definitely.

- Does the time spent writing feel worth it to you?

yes, but finding time to write is always hard, particularly when work or life responsibilities get in the way. However I find that the time I do have is very rewarding (and not just in a touchy feely way, as per below)

- Did it help to get noticed/ find jobs or other opportunities?

multiple podcast and conference talk invitations, 2 job opportunities that I actually wound up taking, and perhaps most importantly helping me make contacts within the industry that I could not have made on my own.

- Do you learn something new from it?

not sure what this question is specifically about, but yes i think writing is a "tool for thought" where you discover what you know through putting it down and trying to explain from first principles. However I also write after I discover something new and feel like sharing it, so it's not exactly learning "from" writing, but rather "writing after learning".

either way, it helps build my second brain (https://www.swyx.io/obsidian-brain) and is a key part of my competency at work, highly recommend.
I think they are referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
These were two distinct networks, the other network was run by the PTT : https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poste_pneumatique_de_Paris

It was kept in operation until 2004 for government services!
> Our intuitions about crimes against people (and humanity) are based on a set of assumptions about the parameters of personhood that are going to be completely destroyed if mind uploading turns out to be possible.

There are human 'proof of work' activities that unless you can literally transplant the muscle memory, there is no way to replicate them without putting in the time, and I am saying without that effect of muscle memory, anything you transmit is just an artifact of language and narrative, and therefore not material.

The advantages of augmented transhuman life aren't material, they're only symbolic in narrative. Imo, the example of a parliament trying and executing a formerly divinely appointed King was just the effect of the victory of a narrative and linguistic definition of self over a physical/spiritual orientation of self. It was just the rejection of theism. It wasn't world ending to be able to depose a king, it was just the conseqeunce of becoming unmoored from a relationship to something divine, and being left in the hall of mirrors that is ego and language.

The transhumanist ideology is predicated on the basic bullshit idea that our physical experience is a subset, and subordinate to knowledge and belief - and not that knowledge and belief are necessarily only artifacts of physical perception and expereince first. It seems like an irrelevant distinction until you iterate their idea of truth is just what you believe, and suddenly you have people declaring themselves cats. It's a hypnotic and zombifying ideology.

We can do thought experiments about whether an android or an AI is "real," if, and only if we redefine "real" and "life" by disqualifying the axiom that life is created by supernatural divine intent. Even if we agree it's rational to actively disbelieve in supernatural beings, this rationality also demands that we disqualify super-logical axioms that originate from outside of a logical system. Arguably, that logical system may have internal consistency - but it's also defined as necessarily inconsistent with the reality that exists outside of it. We've agreed to accept an inconsistency with reality, which lets us experiement with counterfactuals as a way to discover new things, and it is very collegial of us, but it's not fucking real.

All the transhumanist stuff I've read seems like a bunch of self referential nonsense designed to recruit people into alternative lifestyle communities. The more interesting question than whether an AI is alive or intelligent and what the ethical consequences of it for us may be is this: what can something we create know about us, and what do the boundaries of the limits of its knowledge provide evidence of for our own experience?

Even if an AI could subordinate us somehow, we still have its off switch, and if we don't, it's just other people who do. Transhumanism is entertaining, but it has crossed over into a kind of nihilist propaganda that I think deserves our scorn.
Is that not what Amazon Fresh is, or is supposed to be, in the US?

(disclaimer: work for DoorDash, but in an unrelated org)
Are you calling bazel a nonstandard single use pseudo language, but make a standard tool?

That's just an argument from tradition.

And you want sandboxing because that's what gets you good caching. The value of bazel is never having to run make clean because artifacts aren't correctly being built from cache. Having no distinction between clean and incremental builds is really nice.
I think I read somewhere that he never actually got to the sponsorship level he wanted for doing this full time
Metas and Minimums
> We shouldn't be relying on charity and self-sacrifice on the part of teachers.

I agree, but we have a whole lot of data that indicates that raising comp often has perverse effects.

A] There's a whole lot wrong with education resulting in bad outcomes. B] And the way we compensate teachers is terrible and unjust. I am not convinced that addressing B will have a huge effect on A.
Then the game of cat and mouse will continue in this fashion: facebook will generate unique URLs for each user (if they aren't planning to do so already)
"All rights reserved" is obsolete language (there's a long boring story behind that) without legal effect. The way copyright has worked internationally since the late 70s, you don't even need a copyright notice but not having one will limit your remedies (and make proving your case very difficult -- always use a copyright notice). Your work is copyrighted automatically when created. If no additional license is provided any copying not under Fair Use is illegal. Licenses like the many variations on Creative Commons allow for copying under the explicit terms of the license (minimally requiring attribution). Apache, MIT and the 3 generations of the GPL do the same for software. Enforceability, especially by authors not themselves wealthy or backed by a wealthy patron, is another matter. It's a rich man's game, and become even more so over time. If someone steals your car, you might get the authorities to step in. But if they steal your written creation, even though violation of copyright is a crime in many jurisdictions, you're on your own.
This previous discussion is extremely relevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814210

I really like Keybase, I'm glad it's not been shut down yet but I'm not sure how it can continue existing like this for long.
I think it's pretty great, the founders are amazing too. It has very limited number of pods and most of the time booked in advance.
For sure, it is totally worth it. I don't see it as a personal branding, it is something you do for yourself.
Azure has a pretty terrible product and user experience, but what may be even worse is the support. I pretty often try to report bugs that I encounter, but they ignore those and point to unhelpful documents that I've already seen. Usually, if I have a real problem, I will have to find the solution myself. One of the last support requests I raised was assigned to someone who went on a week long vacation the next day. This is what happens when the purchasing decisions are divorced from those who actually use the product - no incentive to improve on the Microsoft side (for basically all their products).
They probably want to entice arm windows and chromeos support longer term
We'll eventually find out when the latest iteration of something like Stuxnet is found in the wild...if it still leaves enough of a trace to be found.
What does it matter if the deployment is "newsworthy" or not? "Newsworthy" doesn't mean "productive" nor does it mean "good for a startup trying to build revenue". I guess it might matter to attracting talent or investment? But productivity should still be more useful to a startup over novelty.

That said, .NET Core 1.x through .NET Core 3.x and .NET 5+ have great heterogeneous support. I've seen teams develop on Linux and deploy to a mix of "nano" containers on AWS and Azure. That "novelty" certainly exists in today's .NET.
The license file in the GitHub repository.
don't forget to enable hardware accelerated decoding.

i found it to be off by default in many installations.

press "i" during playback to see if it's being utilized. or simply compare CPU usage before and after (should be drastic). also radeontop and intel_gpu_top will help in debugging / getting it working.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/mpv#Hardware_video_accelera...
Show HN: Terraform module template with pre-configured CICD
I'm not American but I've been making a conscience effort to reduce the amount of news I read (at least general news).
I found the constant negativity, not from any one place, just utterly anxiety inducing and depressing.
At the same time it also feels semi addictive, perhaps FOMO, I don't know.

The constant 24hr mantra just has to be a recipe for psychological disaster. That isn't too say a victim of crime shouldn't have a voice. There is just too much for any one person to process, makes us feel more helpless.
I can't help but think at times of the film nightcrawler. I'm sure media is staffed by well meaning people but underneath it feels like in part like this baying for blood, for more chaos.

I still keep up to date with the basics, outside of very major stories I try to avoid the whole "follow this story" side.
As someone who grew up in public schools that were able to put students in accelerated cohorts, I appreciate that people are finding ways to do that against the current of news suggesting that such systems are being phased out.

To say that wealthy people can achieve systems is less exciting; if they couldn't, that would be a terrible leading indicator of bigger problems. I'm interested in stories of people making good use of scarce public resources, because that's what all local governments should be attempting, and I read too much about districts making pushes orthogonal or downright antithetical to goals of effective education.
Having used both... Azure pricing is like a used car dealership. Would you like groups with your active directory, that's an up charge. Every service has a tiered pricing model which may be cheaper but requires a ton of cognitive overhead.

Now Azure presents it self as a much more cohesive platform that was designed with thought and care in how it worked with all the other tools.

AWS feels like 700 two pizza teams designing a cloud all in their own black boxes.

If you are using Microsoft workloads, Azure all the way but I would be hard pressed to move otherwise.
I used to spend quite a bit of time blogging on Medium and it did actually help push me over the edge for a job at a small consulting firm since they felt I could help do with the marketing side of the business by being able to write successful posts. In my new job at a larger company though no one really cares about my writing.

In general, my opinion on blogging is it's a powerful tool allowing you to get better at writing which I think lends into lots of aspects of most jobs. At this point, I'm better at writing design docs or explaining complex topics to folks through writing.

One interesting aspect of writing on Medium is it showed me how writing about topics people are interested in can lead to lots of search volume and the ability to connect with people who you wouldn't normally talk to. I wanted to delve into that more and decided to start writing a new blog about credit cards and travel, Turn On Course - https://www.turnoncourse.com/, which I set up using an SEO driven template hosted on Vercel. It's fun to watch it grow through consistent effort and it's a topic I love to talk about in general.
I'm facing this exact problem. The guy that works on the weekend, is unfortunately the most senior engineer on our team (it's quite sad really. He has nothing to prove, a wife and kid, yet he works weekends with no reward).

He's setting the benchmark higher and higher with everything he's doing. It adds zero value, yet he still does it. It leaves us other devs having to keep up for the sake of it.

Burn out here we come.
Oh, yes, that book was great. The helicopter one is pretty unique, and there was another one that is VERY simple to make, and you end up making a flying-ring, and that plane actually performed beautifully. It flew straight and fast; wasn't much for long slow glides, but it never failed to impress people - especially with it's simplicity of construction.
Someone who's into this kind of thing answer me this:

Say some "Music Man" type huckster comes to your town with a "Brain Uploader" device. He promises to upload your brain to the metaverse, but all the device does is train a deep learning simulation of the victim's personality shown on a screen, while administering progressively great electric shocks on the victim until he's dead.

This gives the town the illusion that the person's soul (or consciousness, or whatever) has migrated into the metaverse. How do you detect he's lying?
more compact chips will have a higher failure rate. Not a great idea for servers.
Tangent: It frustrates me that it's apparently impossible to implement cat(1) in a truly portable way.

The problem is supporting unbuffered I/O (`cat -u`). Standard C simply can't do it. setvbuf(3) allows you to change the buffering on an I/O stream, but then fread(3) only allows you to read exact-sized blocks of data. You can only get a short read on EOF or error. So there is no way to say "give me as much data as is available, up to X amount of bytes" and therefore no way to implement unbuffered cat(1) efficiently using only ISO C. You need POSIX for that.
I started my company back when news about .NET Core was first coming out (2016).

I've been bitten by Microsoft before (relied on tech they eventually killed), but decided it was worth it because of the modernization they had planned. Things such as AOT compilation, strong cross-platform support, lightweight runtime etc. was a giant productivity booster for me and my small team of 4 people.

Microsoft eventually backpaddled on a a few of their promises, but I still believe it was the right choice. I had doubts back then, but I would not hesitate today.
They do exist and are usually used for expensive items or pallets - https://www.uline.com/Grp_332/Damage-Indicators

For truckload pallets, you either contract with the shipper end-to-end or you require them to allocate blame. The term FOB comes in here - you want stuff "FOB destination" which means it's the sellers problem until you receive it (FOB origin means it is your problem once it leaves the seller's warehouse).

This is why truckload shipments always tell you to examine the pallet before the driver leaves.

For things shipped UPS, etc, they're often smaller and the shipper just eats damage, not worth filing claims.

Note that the stickers from Uline are to show you that the pallet has been jostled/hit even if it physically "looks good".
AWS support for Docker and Kubernetes is great, I'm curious why you say that.

Managed Kubernetes (EKS) is really good at this point, and coupled with the ALB Ingress Controller, it beats anything else I've tried in terms of monitoring, ingress routing, etc. One little bit that is missing from EKS is selecting the size of your control plane, because the default is too small for dynamically scaling clusters running thousands of pods - you need to go through support to increase it.

Docker is more a function of the OS you choose on your instances, and it work as well on Amazon Linux as in any other. In k8s, docker is no longer assumed to be the only CNI, so lots of changes are in flight to be able to change that.

FWIW, my team is spending $400k/month in AWS right now. Suffice it to say, we use it a lot. It's been generally good, though it's hard to figure out new things due to terrible docs. Docs are plentiful, but not well integrated with each other and not kept up to date.
I have the feeling most replies are US centric, assuming sticking with your carrier forever and travelling abroad max once a year.

If you are based in Europe but not the EU, thus not covered by the common telecommunication roaming laws, the 'couple of seconds of swapping tiny SIM cards' become a complete nuisance.

Locally I already use two carriers, one prepaid with my phone nr that is barely used and a data only (unlimited) plan for <100USD/yr. Crossing the border always require me to juggle three SIMs and not to lose any of them in the process. Just last week I missed my tram at the airport because this process.

I also already experienced two SIMs with technical issues needing replacement... this is a technology that should have been abolished / disincentivised by law years ago.

I understand your criticism concerning eSIM UX, these issues are however not due to the underlying technology but purely corporate choices.

The future is obviously getting rid of completely unnecessary SIM slots and the faster we iron out the toothing issues the better.

One of my major buying criteria for my next phone is eSIM support, currently ruling out XIAOMI.
the fact that I came here to comment this shows that I am part of a hive mind and am incapable of independent thought
Nvidia Canvas: AI for creating realistic landscape images
Thank you for clarifying!

>> It's widely recognized that image recognition models typically perform well also on such data. We don't need to quantify that exactly to conclude that many large (in terms of parameters) models generalize quite well to data neither in the training or the test set.

I disagree. That is exactly what we need to quantify with great care, precisely because if it were true, an explanation would be needed.

As I say above, and as far as I'm aware, nobody bothers to do this quantification and so any "widely recognised" idea that models generalise to unseen data is only hearsay.
There’s a difference between not stopping, and actively giving permission.

It’s like complaining you got robbed when you left your front door wide open with a giant neon sign saying come in and take what you want.
The Many Reasons ESG Is a Loser
Look up The End of the World with Josh Clark for a podcast providing more thorough treatment of concepts such as the Fermi Paradox, the Great Filter and the Kardashev Scale. Alternatively, research those subjects individually.

Scientific minds have been debating these ideas for over the past 50 years in ways that in my view differ significantly from the vast majority of theological discussions. The underpinnings are ultimately just physics.
I've used both and will gladly recommend AWS over Azure:

* Azure APIs, tools and services get deprecated often. As soon as 3rd party docs get good and the bad bugs get fixed it will get deprecated. AWS has its share of v2 APIs, but most of the fundamental services are the same for more than 10 years. The new services build on top of the old ones, instead of replacing them.

* MS reps will endlessly spam you and every colleague in your org to adopt their latest preview features (gasp! You are not using ML and AKS??); But if you end up trying them you will find that they are half baked and if you get any sort of incident they will ask you to rewrite your app to accommodate them, rather than fixing their own bugs/state.

* AWS has great 1st party documentation, and the stability means great 3rd party documentation gets created as well. Azure gets astroturfed "community" docs written by Microsoft employees. Community means that support and official pages link to them, yet Microsoft has no obligation to keep them up to date or take any responsibility of their contents.

* I admit I like Azure resource groups (a logical container of resources in an account, required for every resource and simpler than the AWS equivalent). However I don't really miss them when I follow best practices (billing alerts, separate accounts for environments, IAC, tags).
I took Tufte's course. London Metro maps is good also. He points out the map is significantly different than reality, but makes the complex seem simple.
It seems that the criminal complaint is related to money laundering (ie concealing the true source and/or beneficial owner of the funds) rather than tax evasion. If that is the case, then tax compliance is expected (as the point of money laundering is to produce a clean post-tax cash flow).

I have no opinion as to the legitimacy of the criminal accusations, but having correctly paid tax liabilities would not be a defence.
Would you consider funding a denialism campaing to stop action against climate change for decades a crime against humanity? Has been done anything against them? Murder is worse than abuse.
I think virtual learning could be at least as good as in-person for a lot of subjects but the world, and the US especially, didn't prepare anyone for it and didn't provide any resources to do it during the pandemic so I'm not surprised that the outcomes were terrible. They basically needed teachers who had never even done remote learning before to pivot on a dime, with no additional money, training, or resources, and then teach kids who had also never done the same and with no resources or training.

We, in the US, did nothing to try and prepare people for a situation like that. On top of that, you have a whole segment of parents who don't care about whether or not kids were actually learning but just whether or not schools were open. The number of stats that I've seen that compare days that schools were opened (especially in red states compared to blue states) is horrifying. If the metric we're using to determine whether education was successful is whether the doors were open, then we're focusing on the wrong things. On top of that, they act like the schools open in person had better outcomes simply because they were in-person while ignoring the lack of preparation and any other factors.

The whole state of education in the US is sad.
Peltier coolers [1] do exist for specialist applications but they are
not at all effective. You can even buy them on Amazon. If the goal is
to iron out a spike to stop your semiconductor from going into thermal
runaway (instead of generating net energy as is the knee-jerk of some
unimaginative down-voters here) then it's a possible saviour.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/science/Seebeck-effect

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Peltier-Cooler/s?k=Peltier+Cooler
It also ignore the absolute elephant in the room - what does it mean to settle a payment in near real time and protect for fraud? (like how CC's work)

Payments its just "Stevey's Google Platforms Rant" but slanted towards payments:

Like anything else big and important in life, Accessibility has an evil twin who, jilted by the unbalanced affection displayed by their parents in their youth, has grown into an equally powerful Arch-Nemesis (yes, there's more than one nemesis to accessibility) named Security. And boy howdy are the two ever at odds.

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
In general I'm seeing folks move from managed services to Kubernetes.

The common sentiment is that AWS managed services are complex anyway (except for very simple use cases), so you might as well go to K8s and get more flexibility and potentially reduced costs.
And it still doesn't do what I need it to... Guess I'll just write my own! :)
That game was amazing, one of the best horror games I ever played and leaves you thinking when finished. Highly recommend.
van eck phreaking has been used successfully against electronic ballot machines.[0]

apparently it was demonstrated practically during the Korean War; but I can't find anything much about that.

[0]: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/22/027229/Brazilian-Bre...